Product Spotlight

We are a few weeks into the school year and students across the country are being challenged by the intellectual demands and hands-on experiences of the personalized classroom.  For many students, this means learning for part of the day through digital content.  Often, in today’s personalized classrooms, several content providers are used in parallel.  Depending on students’ needs digital lessons can help in many ways.  For example, digital content can be used to reinforce direct instruction, build background knowledge for a project or re-teach a concept in a different way.

No matter how it is used, monitoring students’ progress on multiple content providers can be time consuming and confusing.  That’s why Education Elements has developed an easy-to-use report that gives you visibility across all of your providers.  In a single report, you can see how classes and individuals are performing across their digital activities and providers.  With just a few clicks, you can even create custom groups for more focused data analysis.  Stay tuned for more updates and innovations to Highlight! 

Partner Spotlight

Imagine Learning harnesses the power of technology to provide kids with focused language and literacy software. Engaging, innovative instruction boosts student achievement for English language learners, struggling readers, students with disabilities, and early childhood students. Imagine Learning takes the best research-based teaching practices combined with the latest in technology and delivers effective curriculum for accelerated student learning. Students receive systematic and explicit instruction in the five essential components of reading distinguished by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

It’s not just the instructional quality of Imagine learning that makes the difference, but the way it is applied to each child individually. The program is differentiated based on student-specific needs. An initial placement test determines a developmentally appropriate starting point for each student, and as students work through the software, their experience is tailored and enhanced by scaffolded support, immediate instructive feedback, and strategic first-language translation.

Teachers are supported by an interactive data portfolio that provides them with valuable data leading to effective, targeted student intervention. The Action Areas tool pinpoints which skills students are struggling with and provides focused intervention printouts and activities. Teachers can use these resources to teach children one-on-one or in small group settings. In addition, the new Growth Reporting tool offers a historical view of student growth compared to similar students and a desired progression outline. And third-party Scantron® assessments provide reliable growth measures to evaluate student performance and inform instruction.

For more information, please visit our website at www.imaginelearning.com.

Articles We Read

Check out a few articles we have gotten excited about over the past month:

Mind Shift: When Students Get Creative with Tech Tools, Teachers Focus on Skills

Edudemic:  5 Tips for Keeping Students on Task While Using Technology

Teach Thought:  Digital Learning is Just Different

Events We're Attending

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League of Innovative Schools
Washington, DC - Oct 5-7 

EE Personalized Learning Tour 
Boise and Moscow, ID - October 9-10 

State Superintendent's of Alabama Fall Conference 
Florence, AL - Oct 12-14 

Georgia State Superintendent's Association Fall Bootstrap Conference 
Athens, GA - Oct 22-24 

Council of Great City Schools Annual Fall Conference
Milwaukee, WI - Oct 22-26 

NJSBA Workshop 2014
Atlantic City, NJ - Oct 28-30 

iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium
Palm Springs, CA - Nov 4-7 

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