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Mar 16

Leveling at ChalkTalk

Building the ChalkTalk Team A year and a half ago, ChalkTalk was made up of 5 people. Today ChalkTalk is made up of 50 amazing people. ChalkTalk helps educators connect deeply with their students-we power ELA and math instruction at some of the largest districts and individual schools across the nation, from New York…

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Leveling at ChalkTalk
Leveling at ChalkTalk

Feb 21

Teacher to Tech: Tips for Teachers Moving Into the Edtech Field

| Author: Mackenzie Winkel (HR Manager, ChalkTalk) & Mohannad Arbaji (CEO, ChalkTalk) For teachers out there looking to transition into EdTech: e recently interviewed a former teacher for a position here at ChalkTalk (a role we were asking for 3+ years of EdTech experience for). …

Edtech

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Teacher to Tech: Tips for Teachers Moving Into the Edtech Field
Teacher to Tech: Tips for Teachers Moving Into the Edtech Field

Nov 24, 2020

Here’s to the Teachers

Through both my own education and by what I have observed as we developed and launched ChalkTalk, I’ve always known that teachers are the unsung heroes of our world. The last eight months spent adapting to the realities of COVID-19 have only confirmed that. Teachers have had to exert even…

Distance Learning

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Here’s to the Teachers
Here’s to the Teachers

May 8, 2020

Andrew Cuomo & “Reimagining Education” in New York

Choosing Education as My Life’s Mission My father grew up in a refugee camp wearing underwear my grandmother sewed together from UN donation rice bags and using street lamps to study at night. Through education and scholarships, he became a physician and ultimately worked his way up to become the Secretary-General of Healthcare of Jordan. I…

Distance Learning

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Andrew Cuomo & “Reimagining Education” in New York — Blog Post
Andrew Cuomo & “Reimagining Education” in New York — Blog Post

Mar 24, 2020

ChalkTalk’s Response to COVID-19 and the New Distance Learning Reality

As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to swiftly evolve and reshape almost every aspect of our lives; schools, teachers, students, and parents are all facing enormous impacts. Here’s how I see things changing in the coming days, weeks, and months ahead, and how ChalkTalk is planning to respond: Stage I…

Covid 19

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ChalkTalk’s Response to COVID-19 and the New Distance Learning Reality
ChalkTalk’s Response to COVID-19 and the New Distance Learning Reality

Feb 20, 2020

Managing Instructional Time to Achieve Measurable Impacts

With so many demands on classroom time, preparing students for standardized testing is not the most rewarding way for teachers — or students — to spend limited instructional hours. …

Education Technology

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Managing Instructional Time to Achieve Measurable Impacts
Managing Instructional Time to Achieve Measurable Impacts

Feb 6, 2020

Helping Your Students Do Better on Their Tests or Teaching Them for Understanding: When to Make a Pedagogical Compromise?

“The reason I got into teaching? To help students maximize test scores,” said no teacher or administrator ever. Sharing a love of learning and helping kids unlock their innate potential is a much more likely answer to that question, of course. So when is it okay to make a pedagogical…

Standardized Tests

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Helping Your Students Do Better on Their Tests or Teaching Them for Understanding — When to Make a…
Helping Your Students Do Better on Their Tests or Teaching Them for Understanding — When to Make a…

Jan 17, 2020

Understanding the Emerging State-By-State Role of the SAT and ACT

Since its beginnings in 1926, the SAT spent most of its life as a daunting test of knowledge for college-bound students. Preparation for the SAT (and its competitor, the ACT) revolved around memorizing arcane vocabulary words and stressing out over trickily-worded math questions. Depending upon the selectivity of the universities…

Edtech

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Understanding the state-by-state role of the SAT and ACT
Understanding the state-by-state role of the SAT and ACT

Nov 20, 2019

Heterogeneous or homogeneous groupings for collaborative learning? The ChalkTalk Method

The ChalkTalk Method has three key moving parts: whole group instruction, collaborative learning, then individual practice. Collaborative learning may well be the classic middle child that can be lost in the shuffle between the lecture and the individual student work. However, like middle children, this intermediary step is critical to…

Education

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Heterogeneous or homogeneous groupings for collaborative learning? The ChalkTalk Method
Heterogeneous or homogeneous groupings for collaborative learning? The ChalkTalk Method

Oct 29, 2019

The Second Wave of Personalized Learning & the Future of EdTech

The First Wave of Personalized Learning “No two students are alike so no two students should be learning the same thing or way.” That’s the key statement underpinning the $180 million raised by the NY-based Knewton since its founding in 2008. Knewton founder Jose Ferriera described his company’s concept in a 2015 story at NPR, “We…

Education

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The Second Wave of Personalized Learning and Future of EdTech
The Second Wave of Personalized Learning and Future of EdTech
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ChalkTalk Founder & CEO

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