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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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ACT's picture of college and career readiness (CCR) is at once promising and reason for concern. While CCR has been trending slightly upward, it continues to be a challenge for certain ethnic and racial groups. How can educators do more to cultivate equity, as well as excellence, as they prepare students for higher education and skilled careers?

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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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Implementing a district-wide technology solution is a challenge in any district, so in 2004, when Rochester’s Department of Instructional Technology decided to explore the prospect of a technology implementation for its 39 elementary schools, they knew there were a lot of variables to consider.

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District officials, school administrators, and teachers were interested in delivering the math curriculum through a centralized district server for their elementary

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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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The benefits of blended learning in the current academic atmosphere are encouraging many districts to adopt online solutions. For a successful blended learning implementation, planning is crucial. Learn about the challenges of incorporating online curricula and how the right online solution can help an important investment yield the best possible results.

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For decades, students at Bonsall, California's Vivian Banks Charter School on the Pala reservation slid through courses lacking academic rigor, convinced they could do no better. Theirs is a story of dramatic improvement in the space of just one school year. See how the school's turnaround efforts resulted in it meeting the California Academic Performance Index target for the first time, corrected student behavior issues, reduced teacher turnover, and engaged students in learning.

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Each summer, Confratute sees the convergence of educators from across the globe. Learn more about some of this year's attendees, their excitement about the conference, and their expectations for what they'll take back to their schools from the acclaimed intensive on enrichment, differentiation, and creativity.

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Beaufort County School District needed a unified approach to increase the success of its diverse student population. Using approaches that extended learning past traditional school hours into the summer and off hours in the academic year, and with the committed partnership of its students' parents, the district saw impressive results from its efforts, with minimal resources required.

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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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Formative testing is invaluable in improving student performance. However, data from formative exams becomes less meaningful the older it is. In order to get the most out of formative test results, some educators are turning to technology, with which they can quickly use test data to provide deeply personalized learning experiences for students and facilitate differentiation in the classroom.

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A new kind of public middle school opened just four years ago in the heart of Queens, New York. Departing from the standard middle school curriculum, its founder chose the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM), with technology supporting student-centered, project-based learning. The top school in the borough, with graduates attending exclusive specialty high schools, BELL Academy is a testament to SEM's success.

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An organization dedicated to reforming secondary STEM education in its home state, the Texas High School Project has become a driving force for change — and hope — for underprivileged and at-risk students and their communities across the nation. Through strong relationships with higher education and industry partners, the group helps educators add engagement and relevance to STEM for students in grades 6–12.

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After just weeks of online curriculum use, Montgomery Township School district in New Jersey educators saw marked improvement in proficiency on the state's standardized examination. Accustomed to students meeting high expectations, teachers and administrators were amazed by the results and plan to expand use of the curriculum.

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Using sophisticated differentiation technology, Queens, New York's Science, Technology, Enrichment and Math (S.T.E.M.) Academy at the Judge Charles Vallone Elementary School is engaging students in project-based learning that connects all curricular areas.

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The potential of technology to alter the status quo for the better has been a source of both inspiration and trepidation through generations. Historical perspective can help alleviate uncertainty about the teacher's place in the technologically enabled classroom. Expertise in the latest educational innovations enables teachers to increase their value, because it enables them to adopt advanced teaching techniques such as differentiation of instruction.

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Extraordinary innovation earned fourth-grade teacher Pamela Stahlak a CompassLearning Innovation Grant Award. Discover how Pamela combined a powerful curriculum with team-building techniques, impressive motivation, and parental participation to propel her students past significant challenges.

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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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CompassLearning Impact Teacher Academy™ is more than just professional development. It is an engaging blend of workshops, leadership planning, real-world instructional coaching, and always-on technology that make a positive and sustainable impact on student achievement. It was developed in response to what school and district administrators and teachers told us they want in a professional learning environment: engaging, relevant, timely, flexible programs that deliver measurable results.

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In Manhattan, one school is making whole-group instruction a game for fifth-graders, enabled by student-response systems and CompassLearning Odyssey. This boisterous, engaging class experience is delighting both students and educators.

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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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In early December, CompassLearning announced its purchase of Renzulli Learning. In light of more than 75 years of combined experience in education, including differentiation techniques with proven results, the joining of these two education innovators means a promising future for students.

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With the acquisition of Renzulli Learning in December 2010, CompassLearning welcomed some of the world's finest minds in personalized education to its family. Learn how technology powers intensely personalized learning from Renzulli Learning co-founders Joseph Renzulli and Sally M. Reis.

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In the 21st century, the global community is shrinking, bringing diverse cultures ever closer to one another. World language mastery enriches student understanding of neighboring cultures, enhances cognitive abilities, and can put a greater variety of employment possibilities within reach. Yet American students' opportunities to learn world languages are disappearing. How can educators turn the tide in a world where world language proficiency can affect attitudes, finance, and political stability?

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The problem of underachievement is a difficult one to remedy, since there are many complex reasons why bright students do not perform to expectations. Reversing the trend successfully can involve more than one method and requires dedication and understanding from educators.

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Are you concerned about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) proficiency in your schools? A good first stop on your journey to improving STEM performance is evaluating literacy proficiency. Learn more about the critical role literacy plays in helping students master complex STEM concepts, and see why merely "learning to read" is not enough for today's students.

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This July, Confratute, a summer institute on enrichment learning and teaching, comes once again to the University of Connecticut at Storrs. The effects of Confratute, now in its 34th year, are apparent worldwide, where teacher and student success abound following implementation of techniques presented at the conference.

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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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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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During the first in a series of new monthly reports to the Seneca Valley school board, Assistant Superintendent Jeffrey Fuller spent time Monday explaining the district’s Model for Academic Excellence, the basis by which all academic decisions are made by administrators.

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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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Impact of CompassLearning Odyssey Reading/Language Arts & Mathematics on NWEA RIT Scores and Lexile Range.

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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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When administrators at Pittsburgh Public School District began considering how they would implement technology in their classrooms, they knew that the people behind the products they chose would be as important as the products themselves.

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It was the late 1990s when administrators in Big Spring School District in south-central Pennsylvania saw that the future of successful learning lay in technology.

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Dorchester School District Two in Summerville, South Carolina, is a big district. Comprised of 11 elementary schools and 6 middle schools — the largest of which educates more than 1,000 students — the district faces an extra challenge when implementing new programs.

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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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The stimulus bill is intended to help schools invest 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 stimulus funds and avoid recurring costs.

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In 2005, only 70.6% of American high school seniors received their diplomas. Odyssey® secondary solutions from CompassLearning® can help students recover credits, leading to increased graduation rates. Odyssey assessments target each student’s critical skill gaps and automatically prescribe personalized and effective lessons that are fully aligned to state education standards.

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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.