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i-Ready® Now Includes High School Diagnostic and Progress Monitoring
Curriculum Associates, LLC — Tuesday, May 07, 2013
This August, i-Ready® Diagnostic & Instruction will include monthly Progress Monitoring assessments for grades K-8 and will expand diagnostic assessments through grade 12. These additions will increase the functionality of i-Ready Diagnostic & Instruction, an award-winning online program that helps educators identify students' strengths and weaknesses and tailors instruction accordingly. Read More »
New Common Core Math Resource from Mentoring Minds
Mentoring Minds — Monday, May 06, 2013
Mentoring Minds unveiled a Common Core math learning resource designed to assist teachers around the nation as they implement the rigorous new learning goals. Built by education professionals with decades of experience in the classroom, Mentoring Minds' "Motivation Math" helps teachers tailor instruction according to student needs and to incorporate critical thinking and problem solving activities... Read More »
New WestEd Study Confirms Significant Test Score Gains in 45 LA Schools Using ST Math
MIND Research Institute — Monday, May 06, 2013
A new study shows Los Angeles Unified School District is getting results. An independent study by WestEd released today shows that the non-profit MIND Research Institute’s ST Math® instructional software has made a statistically significant impact on student math performance across 45 LAUSD elementary schools. Read More »
Orono School District Chooses Mackin for Curriculum Resources
Mackin Educational Resources — Monday, May 06, 2013
Orono School District embarked on a journey to develop, build, and outfit a new language arts curriculum for grades Kindergarten through five. Once the curriculum framework was in place, the district turned to Mackin for the needed curriculum materials. The Classroom Services professionals set to work identifying print and digital resources to fit the guidelines and units of study for each grade level. Read More »
PublicSchoolWORKS' New Crisis Response Program
PublicSchoolWORKS — Monday, May 06, 2013
To meet the essential need for greater school safety, PublicSchoolWORKS, the signature safety solution for schools, is offering the new Crisis Response Program, a fully automated system to manage the training, safety tasks, interagency support and resources needed for a complete solution to crisis preparation, as well as customization to ensure that schools and local agencies are prepared to act in the event of a crisis. Read More »
Skyward Enhances Gradebook To Support Standards-Based Academic Evaluation
Skyward — Saturday, May 04, 2013
To augment the assessment process, Skyward announces an enhancement to their Gradebook, a module of its Student Management Suite, which gives educators the ability to measure student achievement on national and state curriculum standards. The Skyward Gradebook now enables educators to connect academic standards to individual questions within online assessments... Read More »
CTB/McGraw-Hill Completes OECD Test Pilot Study
CTB/McGraw-Hill — Saturday, May 04, 2013
CTB/McGraw-Hill announced the completion of a pilot and research study based on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that provides a unique and insightful view of student performance in reading, science and mathematics relative to previously established international standards.The pilot was designed to allow schools to benchmark the performance of their 15-year-old students against the PISA framework. Read More »
Discovery Communications Announces New STEM Initiative
Discovery Communications — Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Discovery Communications today announced "Connect the Dots," a new multimedia, national STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education initiative designed to provide pathways for kids to achieve today and lead tomorrow by inspiring interest in STEM subjects and careers within industries looking for highly skilled workers. Read More »
Net Texts Offers a Wealth of Free, Curated OER
— Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Net Texts is a free, web-based system that provides teachers access to a vast library of high quality OER content, which they can then combine with their own resources to create and publish lessons directly to students’ iPads, Android tablets, or computers.Teachers using the Net Texts system for education content management and delivery find they are able to make classroom learning more current and exciting... Read More »
MimioScience Software Meet Next Generation Science Standards
Mimio — Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Mimio is helping science educators adjust their curricula to the Next Generation Science Standards' (NGSS) new, rigorous demands with MimioScience™ interactive lessons for students in grades 3-8. The lessons are aligned to the final version of the recently released NGSS which were built upon a vision for science education established by the Framework for K-12 Science Education and published by the National Academies' National Research Council in 2011. Read More »
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