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Transitioning to the Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Assessments calls for vision, planning, and increased instructional capacity. Scholastic Achievement Partners is here to help. Read more about our Service Offerings and how to start on the right foot with a Needs Assessment.
With so much to do, do you know what to tackle next? If not, you are not alone. Our conversations with top administrators nationwide shed light onto what is keeping educators up at night.
We provide collaborative planning assistance in four main areas:
Next Network is an extensive suite of onlinetools and resources designed to support
changing instruction in preparation for Common
Core State Standards and more rigorous
assessments.
Scholastic Achievement Partners keenly understands that the transition to the Common Core State Standards will require educators to teach with an expanded repertoire of skills. A cohesive professional development plan that builds a solid understanding of the "big ideas" of the Common Core is key. The following full-day courses, developed by SAP's team of Common Core experts, provides this foundation.
Transition to the Common Core can be a complex journey, and a broad understanding of the rationale for change and the key components of the Common Core is critically important. Our introduction to the Common Core State Standards can help build a strong foundation.
Introductory Course: Driving Student Achievement with the Common Core
This full-day training, which focuses on the key shifts in instruction required to implement the Common Core, helps K-12 leaders, key transition staff, lead teachers, and curriculum directors develop a plan to prepare teachers for a successful transition that supports all students.
The Common Core State Standards have placed a greater focus on teaching literacy as a shared responsibility with specific standards in the Reading and Writing strands for Grades 6–12. Our literacy across the curriculum offerings for Grades 6–12 will provide strategies for building literacy skills and supporting students in the content-area classroom.
Course 1: Content-Area Literacy: Engaging Students With Complex Text
This full-day training provides content-area teachers in Grades 6-12 with strategies for helping students access and comprehend a range of complex informational texts, and crafting text-dependent questions to build literacy across disciplines.
Course 2: Academic Language: Building a Bridge to Text-Based Writing
This full-day training enables content-area teachers in Grades 6-12 to use frames to structure academic language, guide students to engage in text-based writing, and explicitly teach vocabulary to help students meet increased demands for college and career readiness.
Course 3: Rigor and Research: Building Writing Proficiency in the Content Areas
This full-day training provides content-area teachers in Grades 6-12 with strategies to help students deconstruct key text types, structure argumentative discourse, conduct short research projects, and build a bridge to evidence-based writing.
The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts place an emphasis on key concepts like text complexity and evidence-based writing. The following courses build a solid foundation for teachers in these areas.
Course 1: Putting Text First: A Focus on Complexity, Range, and Quality
This full-day training provides ELA teachers (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, & 9-12) with strategies for selecting a range of complex texts, crafting text-dependent questions to guide deep analysis, and helping students build a bridge to comprehending grade-level texts.
Course 2: Building Vocabulary: A Focus on Academic and Domain-Specific Words
This full-day training provides ELA teachers (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, & 9-12) with strategies to map word families, categorize vocabulary, and use frames to structure language; and presents strategies for selecting and explicitly teaching words to bridge all students to high vocabulary demands.
Course 3: Writing Arguments and Conducting Research: A Focus on Using Evidence
This full-day training provides ELA teachers (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, & 9-12) with strategies to help students deconstruct key text types, structure argumentative discourse, conduct short research projects, and build a bridge to evidence-based writing.
The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics call for all students to achieve mathematical proficiency. Proficiency includes conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, strategic competence, adaptive reasoning, and productive disposition. Fulfilling these standards will mean shifting both what is taught and how teachers deliver mathematics. Our trainings provide educators with the strategies to ensure students are learning and understanding the critical concepts and skills for success on next generation assessments.
Course 1: Making Sense of Math: A Focus on Reasoning and Discourse
This full-day training helps mathematics teachers (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, & 9-12) understand why and how students should expect mathematics to make sense and provides strategies to engage students in worthwhile mathematics tasks and discourse about mathematical thinking.
Course 2: Mathematical Thinking: A Focus on Representations and Procedural Fluency
This full-day training helps mathematics teachers (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, & 9-12) understand procedural fluency and how mathematical representations expand mathematical thinking; and includes strategies to support students in representing ideas visually, symbolically, and verbally.
Course 3: Problem Solving: A Focus on Developing Students’ Disposition, Competence, and Confidence
This full-day training enables mathematics teachers (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, & 9-12) to help students build perseverance in problem-solving and apply mathematics to everyday situations; and includes strategies to structure lessons that build a bridge for all students to solve problems.
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With proven, technology-based literacy programs for students at all levels of proficiency, Scholastic is uniquely positioned to help schools and districts successfully implement the Common Core State Standards and ensure all students are on a path towards College and Career Readiness. Comprehensive professional development is seamlessly aligned to program instruction. Read More
A breakthrough foundational reading program for your most challenged students in Grades 3–12+. System 44 builds the necessary foundation for success.
A comprehensive system of curriculum, instruction, and assessment, proven to raise reading achievement for struggling readers in Grades 4–12, READ 180 is the most effective bridge to the Common Core State Standards.
New for 2012-2013! Eight Common Core Seminars that demonstrate how teachers and leaders can use this powerful program to accelerate their students toward college and career readiness. Learn More.
A comprehensive English Language Arts program for Grades 6-9 designed to ensure all students are college and career ready. Expert 21 is the only English Language Arts program built from the ground up around the Common Core State Standards.
The Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) is a computer-adaptive assessment that measures reading comprehension using the Lexile Framework® for Reading. It is a fast, accurate tool for screening, placement and progress monitoring.
The Scholastic Phonics Inventory (SPI) is a secondary screener designed for students at the low end of the Lexile® range to determine which students will benefit from the most intensive level of foundational reading intervention.
Building upon previous work done by the National Math Panel, the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics streamline the number of standards, but increases the level of rigor at every grade level. Scholastic math programs target the highest leveraged concepts and skills, giving students a foundation for success across the curriculum. Read More
FASTT Math uses the research-validated FASTT system (Fluency and Automaticity through Systematic Teaching with Technology) to help all students develop fluency with basic math facts.
Fraction Nation is the adaptive software designed to help students achieve fluency and flexibility with fractions and decimals—all in 15-minute sessions.
Written and developed by Marilyn Burns, Do The Math was designed to build conceptual understanding of whole numbers and fractions.
This adaptive software program teaches students to look beneath the surface information in word problems and recognize the underlying mathematical situations, a skill that is readily transferable to new problems and contexts.
Scholastic Math Inventory (SMI) is a research-based, computer-adaptive assessment that provides a direct measure of math achievement on the Quantile Framework® for Mathematics. SMI provides educators with actionable data that describes a student's readiness for instruction.
Math Solutions is the country's most respected math professional development organization. Founded by Marilyn Burns over twenty years ago, Math Solutions has set the standard for excellence in math professional development. Our cadre of highly trained instructors can help build and deepen teacher's math content knowledge, focusing on the critical elements of the Common Core State Standards, helping teachers build confidence and competence.
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 | Introductory Course: Driving Student Achievement with the Common Core |  | Course 1: Putting Text First: A Focus on Complexity, Range, and Quality | | Course 2: Building Vocabulary: A Focus on Academic and Domain-Specific Words | | Course 3: Writing Arguments and Conducting Research: A Focus on Using Evidence |
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 | Introductory Course: Driving Student Achievement with the Common Core |  | Course 1: Content-Area Literacy: Engaging Students With Complex Text | | Course 2: Academic Language: Building a Bridge to Text-Based Writing | | Course 3: Rigor and Research: Building Writing Proficiency in the Content Areas |
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 | Introductory Course: Driving Student Achievement with the Common Core |  | Course 1: Mathematical Thinking: A Focus on Representations and Procedural Fluency | | Course 2: Problem Solving: A Focus on Developing Students‚ Disposition, Competence, and Confidence | | Course 3: Making Sense of Math: A Focus on Reasoning and Discourse |
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 | Introductory Course: Driving Student Achievement with the Common Core Consulting Services: Needs Assessment and Strategic Planning Curriculum Mapping Support |  | Webinar 1: An Overview of Complex Text, Academic Vocabulary, and Evidence-Based Writing | | Webinar 2: An Overview of Critical Shifts in Mathematics Instruction | | ||
