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STEM: Stamina and the competitive skill

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STEM: Stamina and the competitive skill

January 19, 2017
Categories: Math, Reading

Is STEM—the focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—a concept or a curriculum? Is it a reaction or a reinvention? Is it four distinct disciplines (S, T, E, M) or one (S+T+E+M)? Let’s open with a bit of background on [...]

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The law of the vital few

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The law of the vital few

January 12, 2017
Categories: Math, Professional Development, Reading | Products: Star 360

Teachers regularly report that they have more skills to teach students than the time necessary to teach them. Therefore, teaching often requires making tough choices about which skills to focus on and which to minimize or skip entirely. How do [...]

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Success Story: Finding and showcasing the greatness in every student

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Success Story: Finding and showcasing the greatness in every student

January 5, 2017
Categories: Math, Reading | Products: Star 360

She seemed destined to be just another at-risk statistic, on a path to increasingly destructive behavior born of a troubled home life, poverty, abuse, and neglect. But along the way, one caring church family and a devoted elementary art teacher [...]

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3 big predictions for K12 education in 2017

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3 big predictions for K12 education in 2017

December 29, 2016
Categories: Assessment, Math, Professional Development, Reading

What will change in 2017? What will stay the same? Where is education heading? As 2016 comes to an end, we’ve put our heads together and made three big predictions for K12 education in 2017.  Personalized learning and more flexibility [...]

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The top books Renaissance quiz writers read in 2016

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The top books Renaissance quiz writers read in 2016

December 22, 2016
Categories: Reading

Ever wonder who writes the reading comprehension quizzes in Renaissance Accelerated Reader® and Renaissance Accelerated Reader 360®? With more than 180,000 quizzes available and new books published every day, we have an amazing team that reads new books each week [...]

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How to jump-start struggling readers

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How to jump-start struggling readers

December 15, 2016
Categories: Reading

Imagine reading a sentence, but not understanding its context. You can read each individual word fine, but the sentence itself doesn’t make sense. Imagine praying, crossing your fingers, and hoping that your teacher doesn’t call on you to read aloud [...]

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Learning to sail: Engaging reluctant readers

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Learning to sail: Engaging reluctant readers

December 8, 2016
Categories: Reading

What was the last thing you read? Did you read for pleasure, to gain information, or to complete a task? Did you read to calm yourself, escape the day, or get energized? For many, the answers are as swift as [...]

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The significance of CASE’s endorsement

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The significance of CASE’s endorsement

December 1, 2016
Categories: Math, Reading | Products: Accelerated Reader

Several years ago, I became responsible for coordinating almost all the holiday shopping in my family. To this day, I’m not sure how or why that happened, but I do my best. Hunting online and in stores for the perfect [...]

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How can we make sense of personalized learning?

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How can we make sense of personalized learning?

November 23, 2016
Categories: Assessment, Math, Reading

The challenge of a common definition Though conversations about personalization and/or individualization abound, there remains shockingly little agreement on a definition. Many conversations take on a “kitchen sink” dynamic in which other approaches (e.g., mastery learning, universal design) are simultaneously [...]

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The endless search for that next great read

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The endless search for that next great read

November 17, 2016
Categories: Reading

If you are like me, after you finish reading one book, you simply cannot get to the next one fast enough. As a mother of young children, I read for a sliver of time each night between when my children [...]

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