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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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From school year to summer: Why reliable edtech matters to boost literacy

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That early access to knowledge helped shape who I am today, and I carry that legacy into my work leading library services and digital learning for more than 30,500 students in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. She insisted on having the latest World Book Encyclopedia set every year, instilling in me a love of reading and inquiry.

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Beyond formulas: Embracing complexity in writing instruction

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High-stakes standardized assessment has led to a focus on compliance, production, and quality control, which has encouraged the use of formulas to simplify and standardize writing instruction, the student writing produced, and the process of evaluation of student work. The English Journal, 77 (6), 57-58. A., & Fox, R. Rittel, H.

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Ignite Reading Again Approved as 1:1 High-Dosage Early Literacy Tutoring Provider in Massachusetts

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In its approval process, DESE evaluated Ignite Reading’s services to Massachusetts districts over the past three school years and approved the literacy company to again provide school districts and charter schools with tutoring that is focused on building foundational skills — including phonological awareness, phonics knowledge and decoding skills (..)

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An AI Wish List From Teachers: What They Actually Want It to Do

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The AI provided the creative spark, but Farmer brings the pedagogical expertise and knowledge of her specific students to make it work. But teachers are asking for more sophisticated integration with pedagogical knowledge. “It came up with a great idea for a game,” says Farmer, who teaches at Francis Wyman Elementary in Massachusetts.

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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant

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million English learners in K-12 public schools in the fall of 2021, up from 4.6 Evaluate Vendors With 17 percent of its 12,700 students classified as English language learners as well as a significant refugee population, Jenks Public Schools in Oklahoma used the CITES framework to develop a robust vendor-evaluation process. “We

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How Gamification Uncovers Nuance In The Learning Process

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Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)