Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Almost a decade after Lynzi Ziegenhagen began work on tools to help K-12 schools with data analysis and visualization, she faced an important decision. based provider of instructional software and formative assessment tools that is on a buying spree. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2025

By combining new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new ways of interacting, we design engaging, next-generation K-12 learning solutions that give all students the best opportunity to succeed.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. That’s in part because of a huge batch of new tools and updated features that incorporate ChatGPT, which companies have released in recent weeks.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A trusted Savvas partner since 2019, Cognizant has entered into a multi-year agreement with the company to help provide a comprehensive suite of advanced IT services designed to optimize its back-office operations.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Often, these pitches entail free or discounted software for products ranging from instructional materials to virtual conferencing tools. This is not the time for me to be researching and exploring tools,” said Stacey Roshan, a math teacher and director of innovation and educational technology at the Bullis School in Maryland. “I

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2022

January 27, 2022— The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) recently named Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Assessment as an approved universal literacy and dyslexia screener for the 2022–2023 school year. i-Ready makes the promise of differentiated instruction a practical reality for Grades K–12 teachers and students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2023

The Ohio Department of Education (ODE) recently named Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Assessment as an approved Comparable Assessment to Ohio’s K–3 Diagnostic Assessment for the Third Grade Reading Guarantee with Dyslexia Screening (K–3 Diagnostic/Dyslexia Screener) and Tier 1 Dyslexia Screening Measure (Dyslexia Screener).

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2022

To help accelerate teaching and learning this coming school year, Curriculum Associates has updated its award-winning i-Ready Personalized Instruction and Assessment program with new reports, lessons, accessibility features, and more. New Tools for Scaffolding Comprehension have also been added. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass. —

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

How might state assessments be unfairly disadvantaging English learners? Create high-quality curriculum and assessments for English learners in STEM Curriculum developers, teachers and researchers should work together to develop instructional materials and resources that take into account the range of English learners’ needs.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

By combining new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new ways of interacting, we design engaging, next-generation K-12 learning solutions that give all students the best opportunity to succeed.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

What is formative assessment? What makes a good formative assessment? How should I use formative assessment results? How do I know what type of formative assessment to use? What are the benefits of using an edtech tool for formative assessment? What is formative assessment? They are actionable.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) recently named Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Assessment for Reading as an approved universal screener for early literacy. i-Ready makes the promise of differentiated instruction a practical reality for teachers and students. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.— More about i-Ready.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2023

Additionally, Hattie will now serve as a technical advisor for i-Ready Assessment, bringing over 30 years of research on what works best to improve learning. Professor Hattie’s Visible Learning research and our i-Ready Assessment program are a natural complement to one another.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

September 23, 2021— To further support Spanish-speaking students in dual-language or transitional-bilingual programs, Curriculum Associates recently added new lessons and assessments to its award-winning i-Ready program. Based on students’ results from this assessment, teachers are provided with high-quality instructional resources.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 13, 2023

” question about the way generative AI might change the ways that learners interact with instructional materials like textbooks. Could a tool like that play a role in improving student success? Last week I asked a “What if?” This week I’d like to ask another.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2023

.— The Arkansas Department of Education’s Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) recently named Curriculum Associates’ Magnetic Reading Foundations to its list of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) for foundational skills in English language arts.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) recently released a Guide to Quality Instructional Materials to support the move from print to digital materials. Once teachers understand how to put online courses together, there are a variety of tools to assist in finding OER resources. Accessing OER.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

The best-flipped classroom tools can transform and remodel classroom teaching, allowing in-depth learning and personalized attention that can help learners improve their grades. The right learning platform apps and tools can produce engaging content ranging from science videos to English lessons. Screencast Software Tools For Teachers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Newsela , founded in 2013, is best known for its leveled reading tool that lets students read content licensed from publishing partners at different Lexile levels. Complementing these materials on the instructional content platform are lesson plans and assessments aligned to state learning standards organized by subject and grade.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2021

Award-winning Diagnostic, which is already widely used across the state, provides educators with actionable criterion-referenced and normative data to deliver impactful student instruction. The Board recommended i-Ready as the competency-based assessment for schools to use because it has the largest footprint in the state.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Georgia Department of Education (GA DOE) recently added the Classworks Reading Universal Screener assessment to two state-approved lists. The Classworks screener is now approved by the state as a Universal Reading Screener and a Qualified Dyslexia Screening Tool for Grades K–3.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2020

Beginning the year with an assessment like the i-Ready Diagnostic is critical to this effort. While assessing at home is challenging regardless of the test or provider, many schools successfully tested remotely this past spring. Teachers can access a checklist and calendar tool for planning key assessing at home activities.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2016

Imagine a classroom where students are collaboratively using digital tools to measure the height of a mountain in order to coordinate a rescue operation aimed at saving a fictional group of climbers trapped at the summit. Ensure the sustainability of digital learning initiatives.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Her private school in Toronto, Ontario, had made the transition admirably well, she thought, but she wondered what online tools existed to supplement her studies, and how she’d find the best options. Learning tools can take many forms, like websites and apps, virtual tutorials and programs, and online games and videos.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The LDOE website now lists the evidence-based, educational technology program among the most intensive intervention tools for grades three through five. A committee of Louisiana educators reviews the materials. With robust offerings for differentiated instruction, personalized learning, assessment, and professional learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Some states, such as Nevada, also restrict the use of state supplemental academic intervention funds to programs that meet federal research standards and are elevating the importance of evidence-based and high-quality instructional materials. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2022

Founded in 1969, Curriculum Associates, LLC designs research-based print and online instructional materials, screens and assessments, and data management tools. To learn about the 2022 Extraordinary Educators, visit CurriculumAssociates.com/Extraordinary-Educators/Classes. About Curriculum Associates.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Her desire to incentivize and reward students for their reading diligence was born out of a deep concern for some alarming English Language Arts (ELA) numbers: In 2018, when she became the principal, the lowest-performing 25% of her 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders reached only 46% of their expected yearly growth based on statewide assessments. “I

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company is excited to announce new and enhanced math and reading solutions that engage and inspire students to learn, while giving educators the evidence-based instructional resources they need to accelerate learning and help all students achieve. “At We couldn’t do that before.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Others went deep, with curriculum, intervention and assessment stacks. All of these players, new and old, are operating in a stable yet fragmented market, finding product-market fit in school systems’ existing market segments: core, supplemental, and assessment. (I Assessment (including state tests) is another $1.2

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2023

The GaDOE recently named Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Assessment as a Qualified Dyslexia Screening Tool for Grades K–3. It is so important that teachers have effective tools to identify students who may be at risk for dyslexia,” said Elizabeth Bassford, vice president of content and implementation at Curriculum Associates.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2021

To provide just-in-time information on students’ mastery of the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) and instructional recommendations to address specific learning loss, Curriculum Associates has created i-Ready Standards Mastery for Virginia. It gives quick, instant feedback, and the item analysis is very nice.”.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 23, 2020

But in the spirit of “pragmatism before zeal,” I argue in my comments specifically against three unintended consequences of open requirements as they pertain to LMSs, efficacy research, and assessment security / adoptability. simulations), and adaptive support and assessment tools.”.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g. State Funding States vary drastically in the funds they make available for K-12 technology. software and electronic textbooks, as is the case in New Mexico ) to physical devices (e.g.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

All of this happened because I stepped back—and because the instructional materials gave my students opportunities to find meaningful connections to their lives. Related : How to find, curate, and assess OER 5 steps to implement OER in your LMS.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

More recent efforts include a technology-focused teacher training course at the University of Michigan, and the EdTech Genome Project , a collaboration of 100-plus education organizations to better understand when and why certain tools succeed or fail in the classroom. She was tasked with helping Newsela understand if its product works.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Kiddom , a startup based in San Francisco, will offer core curriculum materials from the nonprofit publisher on its curriculum management system. The reality, she adds, is that every district prefers to use different tools—digital or otherwise. The technologies are often purchased separately as well.

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