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Students Using Lexia Core5 Reading Outperformed Their Peers On the Smarter Balanced English Language Arts/Literacy Assessment

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The schools were highlighted in a recently released report which compared the students’ performance on the Smarter Balanced English Language Arts/Literacy (SBAC ELA) assessment. Our study evaluated Core5’s impact on more than one million California elementary students’ ELA achievement during the 2022-23 school year.

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How our district turned a sea of data into a compass for change

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Specifically, this has allowed us to improve in closing the achievement gap for students with disabilities over the last several years and to provide our teachers with more tailored professional learning for support. This has brought tremendous gains in student achievement. The inundation of disjointed data hit me particularly hard.

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What I learned building an AI tool for my own kids (and millions more worldwide)

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Throw out the traditional app playbook When my family and I moved from Siberia to California in 2014, my daughter Sofia had to adjust to a whole new language at preschool. Watching her struggle, I realized language-learning tools just werent designed for kids.

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The dangers of attempting to ‘Instant Pot’ educational progress

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That means students this year did not need to achieve the same mastery of knowledge and skills as kids in previous years. Minnesota, Florida, and North Carolina are rolling back high school math or English requirements. It also will lead to more students at all levels of educational achievement needing remedial help.

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Emergent Bilingual Students Find Their Voice With Real-Time Translation

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As classrooms across the country become more linguistically diverse, educators face a growing challenge: ensuring that every student, regardless of English proficiency, can access learning, participate fully and feel included. Today, emergent bilingual (EB) students, also known as English learners, account for 10.6 percent of U.S.

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Family engagement is critical to COVID academic recovery

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Barriers to engagement that districts must consider including English language proficiency of their community, lack of transportation, childcare constraints, and conflicting work schedules. ” What is your biggest post-COVID concern?

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Second Step Demonstrates How Social-Emotional Learning Drives Academic Success

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The company recently completed a major evidence study across 242 sites and 25,000 students, showing significant improvements in English language arts, reduced disciplinary issues, better school culture, and 2.5 fewer absent days per student.

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