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New Inclusion Content Supports All Special Ed Students
— Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Already an educational leader providing best practice technology solutions for teachers, school districts, parents, and healthcare providers working with students on the autism spectrum, Rethink new inclusion content now addresses the needs of all special education students working in or preparing to enter general education classrooms. Read More »
Vernier’s Summer Institutes Help Educators Integrate Data-Collection Technology
Vernier Software & Technology — Wednesday, April 24, 2013
This summer, Vernier Software & Technology will offer 25 full-day, hands-on training institutes to help science teachers nationwide integrate data-collection technology into their science curriculum. During the institutes, teachers will work alongside a training specialist and use Vernier’s award-winning hardware and software technology to explore classroom-ready labs and activities. Read More »
Silverback Learning Partners with LinkIt!
Silverback Learning Solutions, LinkIt! — Wednesday, April 24, 2013
This new partnership offers powerful longitudinal data reporting on all state and district summative and classroom formative testing through Mileposts, combined with an intuitive user experience to quickly and easily create assessments and manage capabilities linked to standards and deliverable to a wide variety of end-user interfaces through the LinkIt! assessment system. Read More »
Social Express and Wonkidos Partner on Social Skills Learning
The Language Express, Inc., Brighter Futures for Beautiful Minds — Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The Social Express® and Wonkidos are joining forces to offer animated social and life skills for students of all ages. In the new partnership, The Social Express and Brighter Futures for Beautiful Minds, creator of Wonkido Animated Social Skills, will join marketing efforts to offer animated social skills benefiting children from ages 3 through adulthood. Read More »
Teaching Tolerance Free Posters Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Southern Poverty Law Center — Tuesday, April 23, 2013
To commemorate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May, the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance project will offer teachers a free set of eight educational posters about Asian Pacific American history. The posters, produced by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), offer a broad look at Asian Pacific American history – from the first Asian immigrants to the influx of highly skilled workers many decades later. Read More »
Voyager Learning Announces LANGUAGE! Live Literacy Intervention Curriculum
Cambium Learning Group, Inc. — Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Voyager Learning, a business unit of Cambium Learning Group, Inc. announceD the release of the all-new blended LANGUAGE!® Live literacy intervention curriculum for grades 4-12. As the next iteration of LANGUAGE! Comprehensive Literacy Curriculum, LANGUAGE! Live is based on nearly two decades of classroom implementation and is proven to accelerate the literacy growth of nonreaders, struggling readers, and English language learners. Read More »
CO DOE Approves Lexia Reading Core5
Lexia Learning — Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The Colorado Department of Education has named Lexia Reading Core5™ as an approved instructional program, eligible for inclusion in grant applications under the Colorado READ Act. As the first technology-based reading program developed specifically to meet the Common Core State Standards, Lexia Reading Core5 provides structured, sequential, and scaffolded instruction in the five areas of reading for students of all abilities in grades pre-K-5. Read More »
Arkansas Governor Signs Law Supporting the Whole Child
ASCD — Monday, April 22, 2013
Governor of Arkansas, Michael Beebe, has signed a new bill into law that promotes a well-rounded whole child approach to educating the state’s children. An "Act to Establish the Whole Child - Whole Community Recognition Program; and for Other Purposes” (Senate Bill 1051) outlines a plan for the Arkansas education system that ensures Arkansas students receive a whole child education. Read More »
Alaska BOE Approves Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model
Learning Sciences Marzano Center — Monday, April 22, 2013
The Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model is one of three evaluation systems recently approved by the Alaska State Board of Education & Early Development. The Board announced that it has adopted new regulations regarding school districts’ evaluations of teachers, administrators, and special service providers. Read More »
ETS Developing Assessment for MO Teacher Candidates
Educational Testing Service — Monday, April 22, 2013
In an effort to assess the instructional capability of its teacher candidates prior to receiving a license, Missouri has chosen Educational Testing Service (ETS) to develop a customized, performance-based assessment as part of the state's Missouri Educator Gateway Assessments. Under the three-year contract, ETS will work with Missouri educators in developing, administering, and scoring the new Missouri Standards-Based Performance Assessments... Read More »
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