Back to School 2023:
Going Beyond to Accelerate Student Growth

When we say we're Going Beyond for Back to School 2023, it means providing you with powerful, new tools and resources, so you can accomplish more without doing more. It means giving your students more equitable access, greater voice and choice, a wider selection of culturally relevant content, and a clear path to growth and success.

The redesigned student My Lessons page will help students take greater ownership of their own learning. This valuable new page will allow them to view due dates, progress on lessons, scores and grades, details like whether a lesson was teacher-assigned or optional, and more.

The Content Team is working hard to deliver compelling content that will keep students engaged, including:

• New fiction stories for second and third graders to help them transition to Achieve3000 Literacy
• New NGSS and TEKS aligned science content for students in grades 6-12
• New Creating Connections collection for science
• New Music Video collection
• New iCivics content series that includes engaging videos
• Expanded teacher resources to support connections to the science of reading, WIDA, and Universal Design for Learning

We're expanding the popularWordStudio collection to support your elementary students. These engaging, differentiated, lessons build foundational literacy skills for students who need additional instruction. Features include fun videos, guided and extended practice opportunities, and rich educator supports.

For Back to School 2023, school and district administrators will be able to monitor and lead student growth in real-time in their own Data Center. The new dashboard for administrators will include:

• Key measures of student performance and growth
• School-wide, class-wide, and student-specific insights
• Measures about student performance and growth trends
• Printable performance and usage reports

ALEKS updates include new customization options, standards alignments, insights into time considerations, and improved reporting to ensure maximum student growth.

Teachers can create their own questions to include in ALEKS assignments to address precise skills or standards, assign higher DoK or thought questions, and deliver common exams. Questions can be multiple choice, matching, numeric entry, or free response format and are auto-graded and included in the Assignment Report item analysis for at-a-glance performance monitoring.

Educators can ensure that students make progress toward standards proficiency with automatic standards-aligned courses for all 50 states and expanded standards reporting.

• Available for most ALEKS courses including LV3-5, Middle School Course 1-3, Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, and Integrated Math 1-3.
• When creating a class, ALEKS will custom-align content to your states’ standards – no content editor or extra steps required.
• Plus, the Standards report for all courses has been updated with new visuals and views to support standards-based teaching and grading, and the option to include students’ learning data from ALEKS homework, tests, and quizzes.

New text sets include 60+ text collections of connected literature, skill instruction, and thematic connections. These compelling, contemporary, nonfiction and literature collections complement texts from the core curriculum.

Smarty Ants will have a new assessment and reporting tools as well as connections to parents to ensure that our youngest learners can accelerate growth right from the start.

A new placement test gets the school year off to a great start. Students can embark on their personalized learning paths as soon as they complete the test. This assessment will provide an opportunity for students to be measured and placed at the beginning of each school year.

Smarty Ants Español teachers will now have recommendations on how much time a student needs to spend in the program each week to reach their assigned goals, as well as an overview of how students are progressing towards those goals.