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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We’re not giving up on you! Witnessing the moment that a light bulb goes on for a struggling student can be awe-inspiring. It’s even more rewarding when that student finds a renewed passion for learning and an excitement for a subject like math. That’s exactly what happened for the middle school and high school students…
A surprising powerhouse In 2012 while working with Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools (NIS) Center of Excellence in Astana, Kazakhstan, as an educational consultant, I started to do reports and work on research, specifically, “Best Practices” methodologies. NIS wanted Kazakhstan to become a leader in education in Asia and the world. My colleagues and I started to…
The Well-Crafted, Well-Taught Lesson gets even better! So what’s new? Explicit Direct Instruction: The Power of the Well-Crafted, Well-Taught Lesson was published in 2009, and since then authors John Hollingsworth and Dr. Silvia Ybarra have forged a path through the Common Core State Standards, visited hundreds more classrooms, and fine-tuned their EDI strategies. Now they are…