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Grammaropolis Now Available to School Nationwide
Grammaropolis — Thursday, January 24, 2013
Grammaropolis, which has been hailed as the "Schoolhouse Rock of the 21st Century" is thrilled to announce that its animated grammar solution is now fully available to school districts nationwide. Developed by educators, for educators, Grammaropolis uses parts of speech as animated characters-starring in songs, books, and videos-whose personalities are based on the roles they play in the sentence. Read More »
District Uses PublicSchoolWORKS To Deliver and Track Staff Compliance Training
PublicSchoolWORKS — Thursday, January 24, 2013
With 4,000 staff members to train, the Rockwood School District in Eureka, MO needed an easier way to ensure that all staff members were completing their six annual, and mandatory, compliance trainings. To help streamline this process, the district implemented the online training module offered by PublicSchoolWORKS, ... Read More »
LEGO® Education StoryStarter Lets Students Build Their Own Stories
LEGO Education — Wednesday, January 23, 2013
LEGO® Education announced its first language arts product – LEGO Education StoryStarter. Students can use LEGO Education StoryStarter to literally build their own stories. Through a structured and guided building process, students explore the components of story structure, different story genres and writing. Read More »
Game-Based Learning Research iNFORMS Ballard & Tighe's New Videogame
Ballard & Tighe, Publishers — Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Ballard & Tighe, Publishers is providing an educational game that is relevant and engaging to students. Its newest offering, Word Raider: Escape, is a modern day video game aimed at helping elementary students learn academic vocabulary in an innovative way. Read More »
Learning.com Welcomes SAS® Curriculum Pathways® to Digital Content Library
Learning.com, SAS — Tuesday, January 22, 2013
SAS Curriculum Pathways is the newest product to join the growing digital content library at Learning.com, the celebrated source for connecting educators and students to the right digital content. With more than 60 providers and 300,000 digital learning objects supporting project-based learning and digital readiness, Learning.com is a suitable host for interactive tools and lessons from SAS Curriculum Pathways. Read More »
ODYSSEYWARE's Writer Differentiates Writing Instruction
ODYSSEYWARE — Monday, January 21, 2013
ODYSSEYWARE has recently released ODYSSEYWARE Writer, a new instructional aid for teachers and students to create focused and differentiated writing instruction. Writer is a web-based diagnostic, skill building, and instructional tool aligned with Common Core English Language Arts Writing Standards and scoring rubrics. Read More »
Mackin Expands New School Services Department
Mackin Educational Resources — Thursday, January 17, 2013
Mackin Educational Resources has expanded its New School Services & Special Projects Department with the addition of new staff. Formerly known as Opening Day Collections, the department recently underwent a name change and personnel expansion to better reflect its mission and services. Read More »
New Non-fiction Book Series Aligns wih CCSS
Carson-Dellosa Publishing, LLC — Thursday, January 17, 2013
Spectrum Readers, from Carson-Dellosa Publishing, available in three reading levels, features 24 different books with high-interest topics, dramatic photographs and amazing facts to engage young readers who are starting to explore reading on their own. The fact-based approach also makes the books valuable resources for information. Read More »
PARCC Releases Draft Accommodations Policies for Public Comment
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — Wednesday, January 16, 2013
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers released two draft accommodations policies for public comment, the reading access accommodation and the calculator use accommodation. Read More »
Pearson’s Measure of Text Complexity Makes WriteToLearn More Powerful Tool
Pearson — Wednesday, January 16, 2013
WriteToLearn now includes Pearson’s text complexity measure, the Reading Maturity Metric (RMM), offering 30 percent improvement over previous readability formulas. RMM has been added to the nearly 1,000 informational reading passages, along with Common Core State Standards’ text complexity grade bands. Read More »
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