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CompassLearning Odyssey delivers online tools and resources for credit and grade recovery, giving all students the opportunity to reinforce the concepts and skills they need to fulfill course requirements. Best of all, Odyssey is available online anytime, anywhere — perfect for students’ busy schedules.

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Reading and language art skills are essential for every child. CompassLearning® offers a variety of solutions that support each student’s learning style and level of achievement. From phonemic awareness and letter identification in kindergarten to analyzing symbolism and metaphor in high school, CompassLearning Odyssey® can accompany students through their entire K–12 education.

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Duval County Public Schools’ 2008 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) results in mathematics demonstrate improvement from 2007 across all Odyssey Math users grades 6 to 10. From 2007 to 2008, the percentage of Odyssey Math users in grades 6 to 10 scoring at or above grade level1 on the FCAT in mathematics increased, ranging from 6% to 27%.

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Solid mathematics skills are essential for every child. CompassLearning® offers technology solutions that support each student’s learning style and level of achievement. From shapes and patterns in kindergarten to algebraic equations and trigonometry in high school, CompassLearning Odyssey can accompany students through their entire K–12 education.

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Each day, K–12 educators across the nation are faced with a similar challenge: managing and monitoring the progress of students at different skill levels in their classrooms. Add to that the need to pinpoint skill deficiencies and adjust instruction appropriately, and teachers are quickly overwhelmed by the time — and the complexity — of meeting the individual needs of such a diverse group of learners.

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Response to Intervention, or RtI, is a framework that educators use to help students achieve their full potential. The specifics of an RtI framework can vary between schools and districts depending on a number of factors, including student population, grade levels, available personnel, and resource availability.

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Each day, K–12 educators across the nation face a similar challenge: managing and monitoring the progress of students at different skill levels in their classrooms. It is difficult to pinpoint skill deficiencies and adjust instruction appropriately, and teachers are continually challenged to meet the individual needs of diverse groups of learners.

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Administrators, teachers, and students benefit from the engaging curriculum, comprehensive assessments, and timely reporting that are the core of the Odyssey secondary solutions.

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CompassLearning® Odyssey College Readiness identifies gaps in student learning and addresses them quickly with rigorous instruction that leads to subject mastery.

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CompassLearning Odyssey® delivers student achievement solutions that combine cutting-edge technology with current educational research and management tools. The result: award-winning software that excites and engages students and educators alike.

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CompassLearning® has partnered with eScience Labs to bring you hands-on, self-contained science kits that complement Odyssey® High School Physical Science, Biology, Physics, and Chemistry curricula. These labs enable students to use the skills they learn in Odyssey and reinforce key scientific concepts.

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Deer Creek Public Schools launched the CompassLearning Odyssey® online core curriculum district-wide in late 2008 to meet the diverse needs of the district’s students. Through personalized learning opportunities and response to intervention efforts, CompassLearning gave Deer Creek educators the flexibility and functionality needed to support students working together in whole-class settings while simultaneously helping students advance their individual academic skills at school and at home.

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Mitigate the "summer slide" with a successful summer school implementation. Save money, reach the kids who need it most, and make the most of staff time with a well-planned program that takes advantage of 21st century technology.

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An unconventional school model is nurturing a love of learning in students in Gainesville, Georgia. Without books, a cafeteria, and many of the staff members present in traditional schools, middle school students at the Da Vinci Academy are feeling empowered to learn and excelling academically.

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Same as before. Please do not use this for buildout.

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Educational leadership is crucial to the success of students. Building great leaders requires more than just the dedication of individual districts, however. In order to achieve noble, far-reaching national goals for our kids, we must reach beyond what we perceive as the limits of our reach, through intense collaboration.

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Educators Seeking E-Learning Solutions Key Findings from Survey of Teachers and Administrators Attending Annual ASCD Conference in San Antonio from March 6-8, 2010

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This article briefly defines the instructional and organizational features of differentiating instruction. An overview is included that describes five practical, evidence-based steps for managing classrooms, behaviors, and student participation to enhance opportunities for differentiating instruction and practice.

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Seneca Valley School District showed improvement on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) from 2006–07 to 2007–08 in both math and reading.

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In 2006–2007, more than 30% of all schools either did not meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) or were required to restructure under a School Improvement Plan.* Now is the time to effect real and measureable change with CompassLearning® Odyssey, an online curriculum solution that can help you successfully address school improvement and change the path for your students and your school.

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Odyssey Reading/Language Arts is presented in a comprehensive curriculum that connects listening, speaking, reading, and writing and is built on these five essential components : Phonemic awareness, Vocabulary, Phonics, Comprehension and Fluency. By applying skills in a language-rich environment, young readers and writers expand their knowledge and develop a love of the subjects they read about.

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Schools and districts nationwide face the same challenge: how to invest their limited budgets in a sustainable solution that provides the greatest value in terms of student academic success. CompassLearning® Odyssey can help you improve student achievement while creating accountability for districts, schools, and teachers — all without incurring repeated subscription costs.

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Because language is the key to learning, students whose first language is not English face many challenges in the classroom. ELL students must contend with concepts and vocabulary not used in everyday conversation or incorporated into other content areas. Odyssey Matemáticas is a browser-based mathematics curriculum designed to help learners whose first language is Spanish develop a working understanding of mathematics processes and procedures and develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.

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You invested in Odyssey® to help increase student achievement and success and to help your educators differentiate instruction for all students. We are honored to partner with you in bringing engaging and effective educational solutions to your classroom. Now we want to partner with you in publishing and sharing the results of your careful planning and hard work.

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In August 2009, CompassLearning® Odyssey Math earned the highest possible rating from the Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse. The rating is the result of a study that found that fifth grade students who used Odyssey® Math in addition to regular coursework scored an average of 103 points higher on the mathematics portion of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) than students who did not use Odyssey Math.

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It’s a problem that reaches into all sectors of the state’s education system. According to Dwight Jones, the state’s commissioner of education, the fact that lower-income and minority students score lower on assessments, graduate at lower rates and procure lower-paying jobs than their more affluent counterparts is one of the state’s most significant challenges.

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The board heard from WCCS summer school coordinator Lori Heuer, who reported on WCCS’s two-prong approach to summer programming. A portion of the summer school programming was offered in-home by computer programming from CompassLearning.

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This report summarizes evaluative data collected by Learning Point Associates on behalf of Romulus Community Schools, to meet state requirements of the Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) Program.

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Boone County believed CompassLearning® had the technology and standards-based curriculum and assessment to support the district's efforts to improve student achievement in the core subjects of math and reading.

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Each year the dedicated staff of Daniel Boone Area School District is faced with challenges, but when a dropout analysis indicated a significant number of at-risk students, the staff decided to take preventive action.

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New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (ASK) performance data from 2004 (3rd grade) and 2005 (4th grade) in language arts literacy (e.g., reading and writing) and mathematics for students in seven schools in the district was analyzed and compared to the CompassLearning software implementation at each school.

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Three thousand high school students drop out of school every day. The statistics are perilous. Teachers lack the abilities and tools to motivate students to become better readers and become more engaged in their content-area classes.

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Response to Intervention, or RtI, is one of the most recent—and most promising—reform movements in education today. Focused on improving the quality of teaching and learning in the general education classroom, RtI serves a dual purpose: (1) to develop more valid ways of identifying students with reading and learning disabilities, and (2) to provide early intervention for students at risk of reading failure.

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Few topics generate more excitement — or more diverse opinions at polar ends of the educational spectrum — than that of 21st century skill development.

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This report summarizes evaluative data collected by Learning Point Associates on behalf of the Romulus (Michigan) Community School District to meet state requirements of the Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) program.

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St. Charles Community Schools uses CompassLearning Odyssey to help attain maximum student achievement, which is the primary aim of the school district.

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Tulsa Independent School District is the largest school district in the state of Oklahoma. The district was challenged with the remediation of third-grade students who did not meet the required 2006 reading/language arts state standards.

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NWEA’s MAP test is a technology-based, adaptive assessment program that enables teachers to pinpoint the skills and concepts that students have mastered, as well as those requiring additional instruction and practice. Once students have taken the MAP assessment, their results can be imported to the Odyssey management system, which automatically creates a standards-aligned learning path for each student, consisting of activities that address the concepts they need to work on the most.

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EETT seeks to improve students’ academic achievement through the use of technology in schools, to ensure that all students are technologically literate by the end of eighth grade, and to integrate technology with teacher training and curriculum development to establish successful research-based, instructional methods.

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With personalized K–12 curricula, comprehensive professional development services, and 24/7 availability, we can help you design an extended curriculum that will energize, engage, and motivate students.

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With the passage of IDEA in 2004, Congress took proactive steps to improve the quality of general and special education with two new concepts designed to support state and local efforts to prevent inappropriate referrals to special education — Response to Intervention and Early Intervening Services. In this model, diagnostic assessment pinpoints the individual strengths and weaknesses of students so that teachers can provide immediate, targeted, and intensive support for struggling students. A common-sense approach to instructional decision-making, this model begins with improving the quality of instruction in the general education classroom.

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Schools and districts today are focused on investing in solutions that provide the greatest value in terms of student academic success. This includes improving student achievement, creating accountability, and emphasizing teacher development. CompassLearning® solutions enable you to make the most of your funding opportunities and avoid recurring costs.

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Title I helps disadvantaged children reach high academic standards. It reaches out to all socioeconomic constituencies to provide equal access to high-quality education for all students. CompassLearning offers several qualifying products and services.