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Congratulations on being selected as a Race to the Top winner. Scholastic is honored to partner with you to turn this ambitious vision into reality.
Undoubtedly, you are mindful of both the historic opportunity and the heavy responsibility of ensuring that federal Race to the Top funding results in significant increases in student achievement, teacher effectiveness, and leadership capacity.

Scholastic shares your vision and is uniquely positioned to help prepare the next generation of students for college and career in the 21st century.

We have proven solutions aligned to all four Assurances and capacity to help with drafting your scope of work. Here is an at-a-glance summary of how we align.

Assurance
Scholastic Solutions
High-Quality Standards and Assessments
  • Expert 21. Core English Language Arts curriculum for middle school built around the Common Core State Standards.
  • READ 180 and System 44. Reading intervention that provides a bridge to the Common Core for struggling readers.
  • Guided Reading Programs. Research-based collections of leveled books and guided reading materials to help all children become independent readers.
  • Common Core Transition Planning. A service for leaders delivered in conjunction with our partners, the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE), maps out a plan to transition to the new standards and prepare for the new assessments expected in 2014.
  • Common Core State Standards Workshops. Training for administrators and teachers addresses what the standards should look like when implemented in the classroom and how to increase reading achievement with strategies and resources that improve students' ability to comprehend literary and informational texts of increasing complexity.
Great Teachers and Leaders
  • Scholastic Classroom & Library Group Professional Development Services addresses pressing topics for administrators, coaches, and teachers such as differentiated instruction, adolescent literacy, family and community engagement, and Common Core State Standards. Scholastic literacy experts will also help you target the specific needs of your staff with the right combination of delivery formats—onsite, online, or in-class.
  • Scholastic Achievement Partners is a joint venture between Scholastic, the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) and Math Solutions, the country’s premier provider of professional development in math. Together, we can offer:
     
    • Comprehensive Leadership Development: Focused on building a culture of high achievement, we can partner with you on strategic planning, executive coaching, and building stakeholder buy-in for your vision.
    • Comprehensive Professional Development in Literacy and Math: Whether implementing a Scholastic literacy program or working with content area teachers, Scholastic can help all your teachers become effective reading teachers. If your focus is math, we’ve partnered with Math Solutions, the country’s most respected math professional development organization to help you raise the level of preparedness for math district-wide.
Turning Around Low-Performing Schools
If you need to affect change that is scalable and sustainable, we can:
  • Provide Teaching Resources that help all teachers build better readers.
  • Address curriculum gaps and the needs of all learners with literacy programs such as Scholastic Guided Reading, ID voice:vision:identity, Phyllis Hunter Classroom Libraries, and more.
  • Build a plan for Family and Community Engagement that fosters mentoring and achievement for all students.
  • Audit your classroom libraries and provide data to suggest where you can address gaps in equity and fill pressing needs.
  • Assign experienced turnaround specialists from the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) to work with you to build and execute a plan for whole-school reform.
  • Provide tiered, technology-based programs in Literacy that serve students at all levels of proficiency in Grades 3–12:
     
    • Expert 21: Tier I
    • READ 180: Tier II
    • System 44: Tier III
  • Help plan and implement ongoing, school-wide Professional Development, that is tightly aligned to your vision and the curriculum, to address the needs of all teachers and leaders. We can also help monitor compliance against district goals.
Statewide Data Systems
Our robust, technology-based assessment suite includes:
  • Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI), a Lexile®-based tool for universal screening, placement and progress monitoring.
  • Scholastic Phonics Inventory (SPI), a universal screener to diagnose appropriate intervention needs for your most challenged older readers.
  • Scholastic Math Inventory (SMI), the new Quantile™-based assessment for math readiness.
All three of these state-of-the-art assessments can feed into your statewide data systems.

For 90 years, Scholastic has worked with schools and districts to raise achievement. We would welcome the opportunity to partner with you now to implement scalable, sustainable change. Please call us at 1-800-387-1437 ext 800 to discuss how we can help.