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The Leadership and Learning Center Partners with Cognition Education
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt — Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The Leadership and Learning Center announced the expansion of its suite of professional development services to include three seminars as well as on-site implementation support focused on the research included in Visible Learning Plus and Visible Learning Plus for Teachers by world renown author and researcher, John Hattie. Read More »
Classroom, Inc. Celebrates Summer Learning Success
Classroom, Inc. — Tuesday, December 13, 2011
A major new study shows that summer students enrolled in programs offered by Classroom, Inc. actually made significant gains in reading and math. On average, students gained three months in reading and seven months in math after just four to five weeks of using Classroom, Inc. Read More »
Research Shows PBS TeacherLine Helps Educators Increase Reading Achievement
PBS TeacherLine — Tuesday, December 13, 2011
A two-year study conducted by Hezel Associates, LLC, indicates student reading achievement increased after their teachers completed a PBS TeacherLine® online professional development course. Students’ academic gains were higher in the treatment group than in the control group. The study examined the effects of the PBS TeacherLine Teaching Reading Fluency course on teacher and student learning. Read More »
Start-to-Finish Accessible Book Collection
Don Johnston Incorporated — Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Don Johnston Incorporated just released a new package of Start-to-Finish accessible computer books and teaching materials for special education classrooms. The collection includes ten computer “chapter” books on CD—one for each month of the school year, designed to provide an engaging multi-sensory (visual and audio) reading experience for students who read below grade level.... Read More »
Success Soars with Online PD From School Improvement Network
School Improvement Network — Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Governments and school districts are scurrying to right the ship and improve teacher performance. As they look inward, leaders in education are recalling a simple fact lost somewhere in all of the noise—that the best teachers, and workers in any field for that matter, are the ones who never stop learning. Increasingly, schools are turning to sound, accessible professional development to help solve their educational problems. Read More »
CTB/McGraw-Hill Helps States Transition to CCSS with New CoreLink™ Services and Assessments
CTB/McGraw-Hill — Tuesday, December 13, 2011
CTB/McGraw-Hill announced the launch of CoreLink™ Services, the first research-based test item bank and set of services designed to help states progressively and successfully transition to the Common Core State Standards. CoreLink Services offers states measurable feedback on student performance toward the new standards... Read More »
Business and Education Leaders Unite To Better Prepare Students for College and Careers
114th Partnership — Wednesday, December 07, 2011
The 114th Partnership — based on a proven business/education model used by a top performing school system — will teach communities how to better leverage the strategies from business, the resources from foundations, and the skills and passion from educators to better prepare and inspire students to thrive in college and careers. Read More »
Shmoop Announces the Birth of AP Biology
Shmoop — Monday, December 05, 2011
Shmoop, a not-boring-like-your-parents’-textbooks publisher of digital curriculum and test prep, announces the launch of Shmoop AP Biology at http://www.shmoop.com/ap-biology/. Shmoop hovers a microscope over the origin and function of life without having to dissect innocent, albeit naïve, frogs. Read More »
Growing Number of Utah Schools Customize Student Learning Using Lexia Reading
Lexia Learning — Sunday, December 04, 2011
To boost the performance of struggling readers and improve reading proficiency for all students, a growing number of schools and districts in Utah have turned to the Lexia Reading® software program. Schools in the Granite, Jordan and Washington Districts as well as the Family Literacy Centers in Lehi are among the expanding number of users. Read More »
Sopris Releases New Predictive Measures of Mathematical Proficiency
Cambium Learning Group, Inc. — Saturday, December 03, 2011
Sopris announced the launch of Assessing Student Proficiency in Early Number Sense, or ASPENS. ASPENS is a series of one-to-two-minute timed predictive measures administered for the purposes of universal screening and progress monitoring student mathematical proficiency. Read More »
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