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Fuel Education and LTS Education Systems Partner to Deliver Personalized, Game-Based Digital Learning Solution to Schools and Districts

HERNDON, Va., April 27, 2016—Personalized learning solutions provider Fuel Education™ (FuelEd™) today announced that it has formed an exclusive partnership with LTS Education Systems^â (LTS), a provider of proven adaptive, game-based learning solutions for students in pre-K–11th grade. The partnership enables FuelEd to deliver schools and districts more robust supplemental options for skills practice, assessment, and test readiness across all core subjects in a highly engaging format that motivates students and inspires persistence.

Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready® Diagnostic Receives Near-Perfect Rating from the National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII)

Online reading and mathematics assessment for grades K–12 meets high psychometric and progress monitoring standards

NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., April 21, 2016—Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready® Diagnostic for reading and mathematics recently received a near-perfect rating in the Academic Progress Monitoring Tool category by the National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII) of the American Institutes for Research. The rating, which is based on psychometric and progress monitoring standards, signifies the validity and reliability of the online assessments for grades K–12.

San Juan Unified School District Partners with PublicSchoolWORKS to Increase School Safety Accountability

EmployeeSafe’s online staff training system increases accountability and efficiency of mandated staff training

Cincinnati, OH (April 20, 2016) — Scheduling on-site training sessions and managing staff training with a paper-based process was neither time- nor cost-efficient for San Juan Unified School District (USD) because of the vast area the district covers. San Juan USD employs approximately 5,000 educators at 65 sites spanning five cities in Sacramento County. This school year, San Juan USD implemented PublicSchoolWORKS’ EmployeeSafe Suite to move the deployment and management of staff training, staff accident reporting, compliance tasks and other safety and risk management processes online.

Apperson Forms New Partnerships to Expand Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Support to After School Programs

Evo Social & Emotional assessments help target needs and validate interventions

Charlotte N.C. – April 20, 2016 – Assessment leader Apperson has partnered with three organizations to support their social and emotional learning (SEL) programs, both during and after school.

FutureReady Columbus; the United Way of Greater Cincinnati; and the Sports & Arts in Schools Foundation in New York City are now using Apperson’s Evo Social & Emotional online assessment platform to screen students for social and emotional learning competencies.

THE TIMMY AWARDS NAME CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES BEST TECHNOLOGY WORKPLACE FOR LARGE COMPANIES

NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., April 18, 2016 – The 2016 Timmy Awards, which recognize the best places for technology professionals to work, have named Curriculum Associates winner of the Best Technology Work Culture for Large Companies award. Finalists in this category include Agero, Athenahealth, Carbon Black and Datto. The Timmy Awards honor companies and individuals across local communities that have worked hard to create excellent workplaces for technology professionals.

Boys & Girls Clubs to Share Benefits of SEL in Out of School Settings During April 21, 2016 Webinar

Free webinar by Apperson offers insight for after school providers on making data-driven programming improvements

Charlotte N.C. – April 14, 2016 – Assessment leader Apperson will host a free webinar at 3 p.m. EST, April 21, 2016 with William M. Bresser, director of operations for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati, to discuss how after school organizations can drive organizational and programming improvements by looking at social & emotional learning data.

Tacoma Public Schools Selects Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready® as its New Student Assessment for Grades K-10

Tacoma Public Schools gives Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready nearly a perfect score for its student assessment program

NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., April 14, 2016—After a rigorous evaluation, Tacoma Public Schools in Washington State chose Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Diagnostic as its new student assessment system for grades K-10. The three-month-long review process involved a written submission and formal presentation that was evaluated by members of the Tacoma District Student Assessment System team. Several companies were considered, however the team gave Curriculum Associates the highest score, 94.68 out of 100 possible points.

Fuel Education’s PEAK Named a Finalist in 2016 SIIA CODiE Awards

Open technology platform for grades K–12 recognized in the Best Cross-Curricular Solution category

Herndon, Virginia, April 13, 2016 – Fuel Education™ (FuelEd™) was named a finalist for its open technology platform PEAK™ in the 2016 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards, the premier awards for the software and information industries. PEAK is a finalist in the Best Cross-Curricular Solution category, which recognizes the best software tools for students, educators, or administrators that can be used in multiple curriculum areas in the PK-12 or postsecondary market.

Math Teaching Needs to be More Visual: New Brain Research Says

Leading Stanford University researchers dispel the common belief that students should not use their fingers to learn mathematics

Stanford, CA, April 11, 2016 – New evidence on how the brain functions when we think about mathematics could change the way mathematics is taught in K-12 and higher education classrooms. As described in the new paper released today, “SEEING AS UNDERSTANDING: The Importance of Visual Mathematics for our Brain and Learning,” supporting the use of visual mathematics and developing finger discrimination in students is vital for brain development and future mathematics success.

Projects Highlighting LifeStraw®-Inspired Devices and Adhesive-Free Bridges Win the Vernier 2016 Engineering Contest

STEM teachers awarded $5,500 each in cash and technology prizes for creative use of Vernier sensors in engineering education

BEAVERTON, Oregon, April 7, 2016 – A high school teacher who combines chemistry with engineering and a college professor who runs a student engineering-design competition are the two Vernier Software & Technology 2016 Engineering Contest winners. Vernier, the leading worldwide innovator of real-time sensor data collection and graphing and analysis tools for science and engineering education, selected Carol Hsu of Clark College in Vancouver, WA and Linda Rost of Baker High School in Baker, MT for their innovative uses of Vernier sensors to teach engineering concepts.