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Monthly Archives: February 2016

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Against All Odds: How EDI Helped Heber School Surpass 800 API

TestimonialsBy DataWORKS CurriculumFebruary 23, 2016Leave a comment

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…

How EDI and Checking for Understanding Transformed One Rural School

TestimonialsBy DataWORKS CurriculumFebruary 22, 2016Leave a comment

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…

North Park School

DataWORKS’ Schoolwide Reform Brings Dramatic Results!

TestimonialsBy DataWORKS CurriculumFebruary 22, 2016Leave a comment

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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Six Components of an Effective Literacy Program

Classroom Strategy, Research ReviewBy Erin JonesFebruary 19, 2016Leave a comment

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,…

Cursive as a Foreign Language

Ask DataWORKSBy Chris JonesFebruary 12, 2016Leave a comment

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 In it, one of the rationales cited was so that students could read historical documents and, as our company’s resident expert in history, that got me thinking about what…

DataWORKS Down Under

Featured, TestimonialsBy DataWORKS CurriculumFebruary 11, 2016Leave a comment

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…

Subscribe to Educeri.com!

Ask DataWORKS, FeaturedBy DataWORKS CurriculumFebruary 5, 2016Leave a comment

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…

Literacy: Part 3 – Informational Text

Classroom StrategyBy Mike NeerFebruary 3, 2016Leave a comment

The teacher asked students to write a paragraph about video games. Adam wrote: Link is a clever guy who has to rescue Princess Zelda from the villain Ganon. Along the way, he learns to use the Triforce. Anthony wrote: To play the game, you have to be good at using a controller. With the right…

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