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Irving ISD Selects WIN Learning's Personalized Career Readiness System
WIN Learning — Tuesday, March 19, 2013
To effectively prepare its students for life after high school by teaching them the skills and knowledge that are essential to college and workforce readiness, Irving Independent School District (ISD) in Texas will implement WIN Learning's Personalized Career Readiness System. Read More »
Promethean Study Links Learning Gains with Effective Integration of Technology in Daily Lessons
Promethean — Tuesday, March 19, 2013
A new body of research finds that technology-enhanced collaborative approaches to learning lift student achievement by 16 percentile points. For this latest report, researchers focused on the impact of Promethean’s interactive technology, specifically ActivExpression student response devices. Results confirm that students with academic standing in the 50th percentile can expect to move to the top third of the class with the use of Promethean’s suite of interactive technology. Read More »
Shmoop Adds 26 Videos to Teacher Resource Offering
Shmoop — Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Shmoop, a publisher of digital curriculum and test prep, recognizes that video can be a powerful tool in learning. The company wants to help teachers connect with their students in every way possible. For that reason, Shmoop has recently added a boatload of new Video Activities to its Teacher Guides that teachers can use to supplement their teaching methods. Read More »
New CCSS Reading Resource from Mentoring Minds
Mentoring Minds — Monday, March 18, 2013
Mentoring Minds announced today "Motivation Reading”, a resource that integrates critical and creative thinking, engages students in rigorous and relevant learning experiences and builds higher levels of reading ability. This new edition of "Motivation Reading," was built from the ground up to align to the Common Core. Read More »
School Specialty and CCI Launch Early Reading Program
School Specialty, Inc., Curriculum Concepts International, LLC — Monday, March 18, 2013
School Specialty, Inc has partnered with Curriculum Concepts International, LLC, (CCI) to introduce Everyday Learning Fun, an early reading and prevention program. Everyday Learning Fun is a systematic, comprehensive program that teaches preK-2 students core reading skills shown to be critical for students' success across subject areas, throughout grade levels and beyond academics. Read More »
Truenorthlogic, UPD Consulting Ensure Successful Education Reform
Truenorthlogic, UPD Consulting — Monday, March 18, 2013
Truenorthlogic and UPD Consulting (UPD), a Baltimore-based public sector management consulting firm, were recently selected by Chicago Public Schools, Austin Independent School District and Cleveland Metropolitan School District to support the districts' educator effectiveness strategies. Read More »
FL ADSS Launches PD Partnership with ASCD
ASCD, Florida Association of District School Superintendents — Sunday, March 17, 2013
The Florida Association of District School Superintendents (FADSS) announced a new partnership to provide FADSS members statewide customized professional development that will build participants' capacity for successfully leading, supporting, and monitoring the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in their districts. Read More »
Benesse America Launches StraightAce English
Benesse America Inc — Saturday, March 16, 2013
StraightAce Learning, a powerful system of study aids for middle school students, announces the launch of StraightAce English: Grammar and Vocabulary, a language arts tool created to make learning manageable and improve grades through engaging study. Completely aligned with Common Core State Standards, the system is available on personal computers and mobile devices, Read More »
Mimio Launches MimioScience Software
Mimio — Saturday, March 16, 2013
Mimio announced the launch of MimioScience™ interactive lessons. The state-of-the-art software, one of the first to address the impending Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), comprises an extensive series of 75 interactive whiteboard units that provide more than 225 high-quality lessons for students in grades 3-8. Read More »
New App for Elementary Mathematics
Clarity Innovations — Saturday, March 16, 2013
Number Pieces, a new elementary education math app released from The Math Learning Center and Clarity Innovations helps students develop a deeper understanding of place value while building their computational skills with multi-digit numbers. Young learners manipulate virtual base 10 pieces to represent multi-digit numbers, regroup, add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Read More »
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