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At the foundation of aimsweb is general outcome measurement, a form of curriculum-based measurement (CBM), used for universal screening and progress monitoring. This form of brief assessment measures overall performance of key foundational skills at each grade level. It draws upon over thirty years of scientific research that demonstrates both its versatility to accurately predict reading and math achievement as well as its sensitivity to growth. The aimsweb system is perfectly suited to manage RTI programs through a tiered assessment and instruction framework—allowing educators to screen all students using valid and reliable assessments, monitor the effects of their interventions, and make important data-driven decisions. The aimsweb Tiered Assessment Framework provides web-based data management, charting, and reporting. With continuous student performance data, teachers and administrators can guide the teaching and learning process and provide relevant reports to parents.

Assessment Training Institute: Classroom Assessment for Student Learning

Pearson's Assessment Training Institute (ATI) was founded by Rick Stiggins to help teachers improve student achievement by integrating student-involved classroom assessment into day-to-day instruction. Teachers act on more than test data; they also act on information gathered daily in the classroom. That information needs to be accurate, and they need to know how to use it well. To attain the achievement gains promised by the research on formative assessment, the ultimate user of assessment information must be the student. ATI's research-based approach uniquely emphasizes the role of the student in the assessment process. The ATI learning team model of professional development is flexible, job-embedded, on-site, and cost-effective. Hands-on practice allows teachers and administrators to learn how to make assessment an integral part of teaching and of their students' learning experience.

Change of Practice Services: Data Culture Program

Pearson’s Change of Practice Services programs are long-term and systematic. We’ll complete a thorough needs assessment, monitor progress, work face-to-face, and offer flexible learning opportunities, modeling, and mentorship to help you and your staff make progress. This program begins with the understanding that technology and data are transforming school culture. What does an effective data-driven school system look like? How do you use data to make smart decisions about instruction, policy, and effectiveness? In these sessions, we focus on using data to guide decisions in your school and district. Work with advisors to develop action plans, analyze data, and course-correct as needed. Look at short-term and long-term plans for continuous improvement. Topics include: data literacy, analysis of student data, triangulation, and effective instructional strategies.

Schoolnet Data Coach Certification Program

Schoolnet's Data Coach Certification Program was developed to make data-driven decision-making and instruction an integral, essential, and highly effective part of daily life for administrators, principals, and teachers alike. In fact, many educators' data and assessment literacy is limited—understandably so given the limited expectations for data utilization in the past and the lack of formal training in either assessment or data analysis and utilization. It has become increasingly clear that the common practices of school improvement planning are inadequate to drive or sustain significant improvements in student performance. The Data Coach program is a carefully structured process designed to foster a systemic approach to collaborative planning informed by data, at both the administrator and school levels.

WriteToLearn™

WriteToLearn is a fully automated online literacy tool for building writing skills and developing reading comprehension for students in Grades 4-12. This innovative program provides engaging, cross-curriculum writing activities that students use to draft automatically scored responses. Students receive immediate, detailed feedback on their writing and have the ability to revise and resubmit drafts as they work to improve their writing skills. WriteToLearn also provides students with reading passages to summarize and then evaluates their written responses for reading comprehension. Reading, writing, and vocabulary exercises come together in one online writing evaluation program to engage students in the writing cycle.

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Change of Practice Services: Coaching Institute

Pearson’s Change of Practice Services programs are long-term and systematic. We’ll complete a thorough needs assessment, monitor progress, work face-to-face, and offer flexible learning opportunities, modeling, and mentorship to help you and your staff make progress. In this institute, participants learn the art of “coaching for change.” The Coaching Institute offers intensive professional development to instructional coaches and lead teachers. Focus areas include: introduction to instructional coaching, lesson preparation and delivery, and learning strategies and scaffolding. Participants will explore school culture, motivation, and sustaining an active learning environment.

Change of Practice Services: Leadership Institute

Pearson’s Change of Practice Services programs are long-term and systematic. We’ll complete a thorough needs assessment, monitor progress, work face-to-face, and offer flexible learning opportunities, modeling, and mentorship to help you and your staff make progress. The Leadership Institute provides high-quality, research-based training for district and school leaders. Participants will gain insight and strategies for developing a 21st century learning culture. Topics include: Leading Change, Leading for Teaching and Learning, Using Data, and Engaging Families and Communities. Add-on services extend the training with online self-paced modules featuring experts such as Michael Fullan and Lyle Kirtman.

LeaderSet™

LeaderSet is a systematic approach to principal leadership development. This dynamic research-based school leadership evaluation and development system helps leaders transform their schools by changing evaluation, observation, and coaching practices. Effective principal-led school practices from New Leaders’ decade-long field work contribute to the foundation of LeaderSet. They support the professional development courses and the evaluation and certification process within the LeaderSet system. LeaderSet supports effective principal evaluation and feedback, provides aligned growth opportunities for principals, and addresses the skills and criteria necessary for district leaders to evaluate the instructional leaders they manage.

Learning Teams

Derived from nearly four decades of research and replication studies in poor and working class communities, Pearson Learning Teams is a well-defined and fully articulated school improvement model with an explicit framework to guide teacher collaboration efforts and build leadership capacity of administrators and teacher leaders. Learning Teams protocols uniquely facilitate the systematic and continuous study of teaching and help teachers develop specific instructional solutions based on evidence from the classroom. When implemented well, Learning Teams leads to improvements in overall school culture, including wider distribution of leadership, more effective team meetings, higher expectations, and positive attributions for student outcomes.

Schoolnet Educator Development Suite

The Schoolnet Educator Development Suite (EDS) features data-driven tools to provide educators at all levels of your organization with the means to grow professionally and improve teaching practice. The software connects multiple measures of educator practice with student performance and then uses this data to recommend tasks and resources that foster professional growth. Schoolnet Professional Development Management tools empower administrators with the data needed to drive key decision making around PD resource allocation and PD effectiveness and empower teachers to create and manage their own standards-based personal goals that align with the goals of the school or district. Moreover, Schoolnet ensures return on investment with real-time management tools that demonstrate whether district PD initiatives are building skills and creating lasting change.

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Cogmed®

Working memory—a critical brain function—has gained broad acceptance as a primary indicator of academic, professional, and personal performance. And after nearly a decade of research and clinical success, the concept of training working memory to increase focus and cognitive reasoning is being recognized as a major development in neuroscience. Cogmed Working Memory Training is a computer-based solution for attention problems caused by poor working memory. Backed by over 45 studies which demonstrate its effectiveness in improving working memory and attentional behavior, Cogmed helps students improve both concentration and quality of time-on-task.

iLit™

iLit, a tablet-based reading intervention for students in Grades 4-10, has everything your students need to gain two years of reading growth in a single year. The program uses assessment to build and focus instruction, helping teachers ensure that the right instruction goes to the right student. To reach this goal, iLit integrates a full suite of diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments with high-interest curriculum, text-based supports, and dynamic teacher modeling. These features make rigorous texts accessible and independent reading attainable for struggling readers, English Learners, and students with special needs. Teachers and administrators using iLit are armed with actionable data that informs and adapts instruction. iLit is based on an instructional model that has been in use in districts across the country for more than a decade and has consistently produced major gains in students’ reading growth.

Math Navigator™

Math Navigator is a comprehensive mathematics intervention program for Grades 1-8+. Targeted intervention modules get at the root causes or misconceptions that so often prevent student progress. Coupled with a powerful Assessment and Reporting Online (ARO) System, Math Navigator helps you determine students’ needs and provide personalized instructional support. Modules focus on addressing the misconceptions that prevent students from mastering key foundational concepts critical to achieving deeper mathematical understandings.

Review360^®

Review360 is a comprehensive web-based system that integrates the three major components of an effective behavior program—progress monitoring, universal screening, and professional development. In Review360, these components are precisely configured to provide targeted behavioral improvement solutions. Review360 employs a problem-solving model to identify problem behaviors and then implements a range of interventions that are systematically used with students based on their specific issues and demonstrated level of need. The system provides online PD, universal screening, progress monitoring, intervention strategies for tiers 2 and 3, functional behavior assessment, incident tracking and management, and implementation support materials.

SuccessMaker^® Reading and Math

SuccessMaker provides a digitally-driven reading and math learning experience that is singularly focused on the needs of each individual student for instruction. For nearly 40 years, SuccessMaker has been helping educators at every level tackle their toughest challenges so that every student can experience success on a personal level. SuccessMaker was built with a single goal in mind—to identify and address individual learning needs quickly and efficiently without sacrificing engagement for the learner or creating more work for the teacher. SuccessMaker ends the guesswork by evaluating specifically where and why learners struggle and providing instruction at the right spot for each learner—even if it’s above or below grade level. The program also provides educators access to school, class, and student performance data needed to support the instructional decision-making process.