2013 Back to School Preview

Presenter: Susan Gertler

Duration: 55 minutes

For more than 13 years Achieve3000, the leader in differentiated instruction, has been helping students achieve college and career readiness, dramatically accelerating reading gains and meeting the key requirements of Common Core—even before the standards were drafted. This year, Achieve3000 has created an even more powerful formula for college and career readiness. This webinar will provide a preview of several new program enhancements, from differentiated social studies and science offerings to our new Leadership Edition that provides school leadership with continuous real-time data on student performance.

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Achieve3000: The Perfect Fit for Your RtII Needs

Presenter: Christine Fiorini

Duration: 55 minutes

Achieve3000 is the only RtII solution that tailors the same content to each student’s Lexile level while infusing instructional rigor to ensure rapid progress for every struggling reader. Please join us to learn about:

• Universal screening using Achieve3000 LevelSet

• On-going progress monitoring and reporting

• High-quality and high-interest assignments tailored to benefit all students

• Evidence-based, direct instruction resources addressing holes in student learning

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Prep for the Test: Achieving High-Stakes Success

Presenter: Ruhi Khan

Duration: 39 minutes

Discover how Achieve3000’s differentiated instructional solutions help you balance rigorous instructional time requirements with the need to incorporate test prep skills into your daily routine. While working on these critical test prep strategies, students will simultaneously develop essential reading strategies and accelerate reading levels, contributing to positive impacts on your state tests.  

In this webinar we’ll review:

• Focused data strategies for instructional decisions
• Approaches to infusing rigor into lessons
• How Achieve3000 exposes students to grade-level text complexity
• Ways for students to practice varying question types, including ones for PARCC and
   Smarter Balanced

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Text Complexity, the Common Core, and the Lexile Framework for Reading

Presenter: Jason Turner

Duration: 45 minutes

Learn the importance of a vertical scale in measuring reading growth toward college and career readiness, specifically the Lexile Framework for Reading as a way to track growth and differentiate reading instruction.

Given the demands of the Common Core, we will also discuss how to improve student reading levels through the increased use of information texts, increased levels of text complexity and more time spent reading targeted text.

We will also look at how Achieve3000, in a longtime partnership with MetaMetrics, developed products that use these important metrics and align with the Common Core.

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The Common Core: From Standards to Practice

Presenter: Carol Jago

Duration: 40 minutes

Focusing on key instructional shifts, Carol Jago will offer insight into the Common Core State Standards and assistance with aligning instruction to standards. Carol Jago has taught English in middle and high school for 32 years and directs the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA. She is a past president of the National Council of Teachers of English. Carol served as AP Literature content advisor for the College Board and now serves as chair of the English Academic Advisory committee. She has published six books with Heinemann including With Rigor for All and Papers, Papers, Papers. She has also published four books on contemporary multicultural authors for NCTE's High School Literature series. Carol was an education columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and her essays have appeared in English Journal, Language Arts, NEA Today, as well as in other newspapers across the United States. She edits the journal of the California Association of Teachers of English, California English, and served on the planning committee for the 2009 NAEP Reading Framework and the 2011 NAEP Writing Framework. For more information visit www.caroljago.com.

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The Challenge of Preparing Students to be College and Career Ready

Presenter: Kevin Baird

Duration: 50 minutes

This webinar presentation addresses the key challenges educators face when preparing students for college and career. Your presenter, Kevin Baird, will explore:

  • Actions you can take today to ensure your students have the critical skills necessary for success in college and the workforce.
  • Challenges such as how college and career readiness has less to do with today's knowledge and more to do with challenges such as problem solving skills.
  • A decade from now today’s knowledge will not matter as much as the ability to look at a problem, understand it, take it apart and use evidence to creatively solve it.

Expect to come away with a deepened understanding of the instructional implications of teaching---and reaching---college and career readiness.

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Focus on Assessments: Common Core Standards Update

Presenter: Kevin Baird

Duration: 55 minutes

1. Up-to-date information on assessment consortia release and content.

2. Best practices for Common Core- and College and Career-aligned assessment in the classroom.

3. Direction on using existing assessment data to inform Common Core and College and Career-aligned instruction.

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The Use of Evidence: The Role of Argument in the Common Core ELA Standards

Presenter: Kevin Baird

Duration: 55 minutes

The Use of Evidence: The Role of Argument in the Common Core ELA Standards

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Preparing for Common Core Standards: English Language Arts

Presenter: Kevin Baird

Duration: 44 minutes

As each of us prepare for the new Common Core State Standards, there are urgent, specific actions that can be taken to ensure your students' academic success. This webinar addresses:

  • Five critical, specific steps you can begin today in preparation to meet the demands of CCSS
  • Changes in requirement for text and text difficulty
  • How to increase rigor in ELA instruction
  • Implications for RTI, ELL students and differentiated instruction

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Get ready to use Achieve3000®'s Special Editions

Presenter: Penny Reinart

Duration: 63 minutes

Achieve's Special Editions take differentiated instruction to new heights and work seamlessly with Achieve3000 implementations. This webinar will demonstrate the unique features built into these advanced solutions and the dramatic results you can expect.

The Special Editions help you prepare students for college and the workforce, the rigors of the new Common Core State Standards, and ensure they all have access to the scaffolds needed for grade-appropriate content

  • Language Edition (for English Language Learners)
  • Intervention Edition (for struggling readers and students with special needs)
  • Enrichment Edition (for gifted or advanced learners)

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