Educeri, the new online lesson subscription service recently launched by DataWORKS Educational Research, is giving away 100,000 free subscriptions. Free 3-month subscriptions will be available to teachers and school districts who contact DataWORKS and request a trial. Being called the “Netflix” for educators, Educeri provides easy-to-use online lessons that save teachers time and…
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The Problem with ELD Instruction Imagine being dropped in the middle of a foreign country where you don’t know the language. Now, imagine that you have been placed into a high school English class and the assignment is to analyze the metaphors in chapter 4 of The Grapes of Wrath. Except you don’t understand the…
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The final type of cognitive strategy that we will discuss in this series of blog posts is metacognitive strategies. As we’ve seen, cognitive strategies are the basic mental techniques we use to think, study, and learn (such as chunking, rehearsal, elaboration, and organization). Taking it to the next level, metacognitive strategies involve “thinking about thinking.” …
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This aerial picture of the students and staff at Heber School was taken when the school reached an 802 on the Academic Performance Index (API). Heber School has achieved a milestone that some thought was impossible to achieve. Heber School’s 2013 API is 839. For over one hundred years, Heber School was the only…
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Woodlake Valley Middle School Gains 67 API Points and 115 ELL sub-group API points through Partnership with DataWORKS Educational Research Woodlake Valley Middle School defies odds by closing the achievement gaps in AMAO 1, AMAO II, and AMAO III in 2012 -2013 Crediting its staff and a partnership with DataWORKS Educational Research, Woodlake Valley Middle…
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Read on to learn how DataWORKS used Explicit Direct Instruction, English Learner Strategies, and Classroom Coaching to help one school improve their API score more than 300 points in five years. North Park Middle School in EL Rancho Unified is eyeing an 800 API. They know they can do it, but it didn’t seem that…
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What makes an effective literacy program? As an adult, you already know how to read and write. You were given skills and tools in school to master reading and writing. These skills and tools came from a literacy program. A literacy program contains all the components necessary for you to master reading and writing. However,…
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Cursive is dead. Long live cursive. Just over a year ago, we published an article asking if cursive handwriting is still relevant in today’s educational system. In it, one of the rationales cited was so that students could read historical documents and, as our company’s resident expert in history, that got me thinking about what…
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At the end of January, six DataWORKS consultants went “Down Under” again to train teachers and administrators across Australia. The training focused on Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) and the roll out of the Foundation – Year 6 Australian English curriculum created by DataWORKS in 2015. DataWORKS’ partnership with Good to Great Schools Australia had us first…
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Educeri is Here We are proud to report that our new service, Educeri, is officially up and running! What is Educeri, you ask? Educeri (ed-ju-sair-ee) is a subscription-based lesson service that gives users unlimited access to hundreds of digital K-12 resources from any device. Through Educeri, we are committed to providing lessons – awesome ones…
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