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New Federal Grant Funds Billions for Blended Learning- Are you aligned?

September 13, 2016, 1:17 pm
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With Achieve3000, both educators and students engage in a truly blended learning experience – one that leverages innovative technology to extend teachers’ reach and empower students to spend more time on task for content-area literacy.

The new education law entitled “Every Student Succeeds” includes new, yearly grant monies totaling billions of dollars for blended learning.  For the first time, the US Department of Education has defined “blended learning”, and put money behind the initiative.  In this detailed session, Kevin Baird (Chairman, non-profit Center for College & Career Readiness) leads us through the critical alignment activities for schools to ensure an effective blended learning approach which aligns to billions in new federal funding.

Date: Monday, October 17, 2016
Time: 2 PM ET
Presenter: Kevin E. Baird
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Visible Learning in Literacy

September 12, 2016, 11:51 am
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“All students deserve a great teacher, not by chance, but by design.” John Hattie’s research – over 800 meta-studies on learning and achievement, involving more than 800 million students – has transformed education. Join Dr. Nancy Frey, Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and co-author of the new book Visible Learning for Literacy, as she delves into how Hattie’s findings apply to literacy instruction and how educators can implement the practices that work best to accelerate student learning. Topics will include the surface, deep, and transfer phases of learning; the activities and routines that are most effective at different phases of learning; and eight key mind frames for teachers and how they apply to curriculum planning. Educators will come away with a deeper understanding of how they can use effect size to determine – and maximize – their impact on student learning.

Date: Monday, November 14, 2016
Time: 3 PM ET
Presenter: Dr. Nancy Frey
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Achieve Summer 40-Activity Challenge Contest Winners

September 19, 2016, 10:43 am
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We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the AchieveSummer 40-Activity Challenge! This summer, thousands of students from across the country were challenged to complete 40 Activities with a first-try score of 75% or above to get entered into a raffle to win an iPad mini™.

Why 40? Research has consistently proven that when students complete 40 Activities with a first-try score of 75% or above with Achieve3000 lessons, they experience nearly 2.5x the expected reading growth. That’s why we sponsored this challenge – to encourage reading growth during the summer months.

Who won? Here’s the list!

  • Olivia H., Washburn High School, Washburn School District, WI
  • Anissa C., George Washington Elementary School, CPS Network 13, IL
  • Ezekiel B., Ethan Shive Elementary, Rowan-Salisbury School System, NC
  • Seolbin H., Moanalua Middle School, Aiea-Moanalua-Radford Area, HI
  • Samantha S., Florida School for the Deaf & Blind, Florida Department of Education, FL
  • Stephany B., Health Sciences High and Middle College, San Diego Unified School District, CA

Winners will be contacted. Thanks to all of the wonderful students who participated in this year’s challenge!

If you have questions about the contest, please email contests@achieve3000.com.

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Read to Succeed Contest

October 6, 2016, 5:50 am
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Back by popular demand, Achieve3000 is excited to announce another contest for KidBiz3000, TeenBiz3000, and Empower3000 students!

From October 31 through December 2, we’ll be awarding Read to Succeed points to your class. The class in each school that has the most points, wins!

Class Prize

The winning class will win a $30 virtual gift card to spend on a class celebration of their choice.

How to Earn Read to Succeed Points

From October 31 through December 2, every time a student in your class does a multiple choice activity, your class earns one point. For every score of 75 percent, your class earns two points. And for every score of 88 percent or higher, your class earns three points!

The winning class is the qualifying class of five or more students with the most points on average, per student, in each registered school.

Note: To be eligible to win, 75 percent of your class must complete at least eight multiple choice activities during the contest period.

Registration

If you haven’t already, log into your Teacher Edition and register between October 10-October 30 in order to participate. To register, sign into your Teacher Edition and scroll to the CELEBRATION AND SUCCESS section. In the Read to Succeed Contest panel,  click the More button to register. (Note that once a single teacher in your building has registered, your entire school will be registered for the contest.)

Student Flyers

Post these student flyers in your school to get kids excited about participating!

Official Rules

Once your school has registered for the contest, get 75 percent of your students to complete at least eight multiple-choice activities from Monday, October 31 through Friday, December 2. To encourage your students to put forth their very best effort, we’re giving out extra points for high scores. Every time a student does an activity, your class earns a point. For every score of 75 percent, the class earns two points. And for every score of 88 percent or higher, the class earns three points!

The winning class is the qualifying class of five or more students with the most points on average per student, in each registered school. If there is a tie, a winner is randomly selected.

At the end of the contest, we’ll look at all of the classes in the school where 75 percent of students have completed eight activities during the contest. The class with the most points (on average, per student) wins a $30 gift card to spend on a celebration of their choice. Remember, all you have to do to qualify for the contest is get 75 percent of your students to complete at least eight activities from Monday, October 31 through Friday, December 2. We’ll keep track of their progress and notify you when your class has qualified.
There is only one winner per school. Once the contest has ended, the teacher of the winning class will see an email in the Teacher’s Edition with details on how to redeem an e-gift card for the class so that students can celebrate right away! Feel free to call 877-235-2525, or visit our support site if you have any questions about the contest.
If your students belong to more than one class, be sure they are selecting the correct class when they log in. Work will be credited to the class selected upon login. This contest is open to residents of the United States only.

 

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LevelSet 2016 Contest Winners

October 7, 2016, 1:53 pm
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Congratulations to all of the teachers and students who participated in the 2016 LevelSet® Contest. We’re excited to announce the winners of the contest!

The goal of this contest was to get a minimum of 75 percent of a classroom’s Achieve3000 students to complete their LevelSet online reading assessments within the contest time frame.

Teachers whose classes met this requirement were entered into a national drawing to win a $50 Amazon gift card for their classroom, or an Achieve3000 travel mug.

Grand Prize Winners

These 10 lucky teachers received a $50 Amazon gift card for their classrooms!

View Grand Prize Winners

Second-Place Winners

These 25 lucky teachers received an Achieve3000 travel mug.

View Second-Place Winners
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Data-Driven Success with Achieve3000

October 14, 2016, 1:23 pm
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With Achieve3000, actionable data is never more than a click away! Join this interactive webinar to learn how you can use Achieve3000 data to inform instruction, target skill gaps, and accelerate student growth!
• Learn more about the Key Insights panel on your new Teacher’s Edition homepage
• Analyze and interpret your Achieve3000 data to drive instructional decisions
• Leverage Achieve3000’s reports to support your school or district goals
• Develop a regular routine for monitoring student performance
• Use data to ensure a successful Achieve3000 implementation

Choose a date that is convenient for you!

November 1, 5:00 PM ET

November 7, 6:00 PM ET

November 16, 4:00 PM ET

November 21, 5:30 PM ET

November 30, 6:30 PM ET

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The Leadership Edition: Monitor, Intervene, Advance

October 14, 2016, 2:22 pm
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Go Blended: 5 Tips for Getting Blended Learning Right

September 12, 2016, 11:51 am
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In this research-driven webinar, Julia Freeland Fisher, Director of Education at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, shares key findings from her organization’s years of blended learning research, as well as lessons learned from the hundreds of school systems that the Institute has studied. She will cover both essential considerations for systems just getting stated with blended learning, plus effective professional development and evaluation techniques for schools further along in implementing blended models. Participants will also get the chance to explore the Christensen Institute’s Blended Learning Universe, the largest national database of blended learning schools. The database features comprehensive and searchable profiles of schools around the country that are pursuing a variety of models aimed at transforming instruction away from our monolithic factory model to a student-centered one.

Date: Thursday, October 20, 2016
Time: 3 PM ET
Presenter: Julia Freeland Fisher

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New Federal Grant Funds Billions for Blended Learning- Are you aligned?

September 13, 2016, 1:17 pm
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With Achieve3000, both educators and students engage in a truly blended learning experience – one that leverages innovative technology to extend teachers’ reach and empower students to spend more time on task for content-area literacy.

The new education law entitled “Every Student Succeeds” includes new, yearly grant monies totaling billions of dollars for blended learning.  For the first time, the US Department of Education has defined “blended learning”, and put money behind the initiative.  In this detailed session, Kevin Baird (Chairman, non-profit Center for College & Career Readiness) leads us through the critical alignment activities for schools to ensure an effective blended learning approach which aligns to billions in new federal funding.
Presenter: Kevin E. Baird
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Strategic Technology: Blended Learning & Student Success

November 4, 2016, 6:20 am
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How can you leverage technology to deliver truly blended learning that supports the success of all students? Join this interactive session with Alex Gonzalez, technology coordinator at Health Sciences High & Middle College in San Diego, California, to learn how he helped pioneer an approach to best practices for blended learning. Alex will share his most successful strategies for:

 

  • Empowering differentiated instruction anytime, anywhere, and on any device – offline or online – to accelerate student learning
  • Implementing blended learning models that extend teacher capacity and integrate literacy instruction across the curriculum
  • Embedding assessments within the instructional routine for continuous progress monitoring that supports student achievement
  • Making data actionable for all educators – informing teachers’ instruction and helping administrators evaluate program efficacy
  • Aligning data reporting with district goals to ensure critical milestones are being met and students are on track for success

 

Participants will come away with practical and proven strategies they can implement today for immediate impact, as well as long-term approaches for ensuring student success throughout the entire school year. All school and district leaders (grades PreK-12+) interested using technology to improve learning

Date: Monday, December 5, 2016
Time: 5 PM ET
Presenter: Alex Gonzalez
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Engage Students with Welcome Videos

June 23, 2016, 7:46 pm
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Use these motivational videos to remind your students how important it is to work on their literacy. These welcome videos show students how – when they put forth their best effort throughout Achieve3000’s 5-Step Routine – they are making important, significant progress for a successful future. Motivate your students to work towards the job of their dreams where they can see measurable progress each day!

Select the video appropriate for the product your students are using: KidBiz3000™, TeenBiz3ooo™, or Empower3000™.
Welcome Videos in English
Welcome Videos in Spanish
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Smarty Ants Back to School 2016 Webinar

August 15, 2016, 8:23 am
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Join us to learn about exciting new features for Smarty Ants® for PreK-1, including professional learning on demand, improved ways to set academic goals, enhanced teacher access, and more.

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Rigorous Reading: Building Strength and Stamina

August 23, 2016, 8:51 pm
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Performance on any high-stakes measure of reading — whether it be a state-level summative assessment, a college entrance examination, or instructions for rescuing a computer hard drive — requires both reading strength and reading stamina. For students, these skills don’t just appear suddenly. Rather, they are attributes that have to be built and reinforced over time.
Dr. Douglas Fisher will lead an exploration of the types of learning that ensure students become better readers who persevere through complex (strength) or long (stamina) texts while thinking critically about what the author is saying.

Presenter: Dr. Douglas Fisher
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Visible Learning in Literacy

September 12, 2016, 11:51 am
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“All students deserve a great teacher, not by chance, but by design.” John Hattie’s research – over 800 meta-studies on learning and achievement, involving more than 800 million students – has transformed education. Join Dr. Nancy Frey, Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and co-author of the new book Visible Learning for Literacy, as she delves into how Hattie’s findings apply to literacy instruction and how educators can implement the practices that work best to accelerate student learning. Topics will include the surface, deep, and transfer phases of learning; the activities and routines that are most effective at different phases of learning; and eight key mind frames for teachers and how they apply to curriculum planning. Educators will come away with a deeper understanding of how they can use effect size to determine – and maximize – their impact on student learning.

Presenter: Dr. Nancy Frey
Webinar Recording

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Read to Succeed Fall 2016 Contest Winners

December 6, 2016, 9:37 am
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The contest is now complete. Winners were announced Monday, December 5 through a pop-up in your Teacher’s Edition, and teachers of winning classes have received an email within their Teacher’s Edition mailbox with details on how to redeem their gift card with a reward code provided to them.

Contact contests@achieve3000.com with any questions on winners or gift cards.

You can also check out these FAQs on how to redeem your gift card using the reward code. 

Congratulations to our winners and all students who participated!

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Make the Break Winter Holiday Contest

December 11, 2016, 9:41 pm
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When students use the Achieve3000® program over the holiday break, they can make the break and win! Achieve3000 will be on the lookout for kids who complete at least four lessons on KidBiz3000®, TeenBiz3000® or Empower3000® between December 21, 2016 through January 4, 2017, and will enter them in state-wide drawings for a chance to win Beats by Dr. Dre® Tour2 In-Ear Headphones.

50+ Lucky Prize Winners!

A winner will be chosen from each state and select international locations, and that means Achieve3000 will be holding 50+ drawings for kids who meet the 4-activity goal during their holiday break. With so many prizes, your students have a really good chance of winning!

How to Win

  • Students complete four lessons between December 21, 2016 – January 4, 2017 with an activity score of 75 percent or above. Student names will be automatically entered into your state’s drawing.
  • If your student completes 10 lessons or more with an activity score of 75 percent or above during the contest time frame, your student’s name will be entered twice!
  • After the contest ends, drawings will be held, and a winner chosen from each state. Winners will be contacted so they can claim their Beats Tour2 In-Ear Headphones.

Student Flyers

Post these student flyers in your school to get kids excited about participating!

Official Rules

Students complete four lessons between December 21, 2016 – January 4, 2017 with an activity score of 75 percent or above. Student names will be automatically entered into your state’s drawing.

If your student completes 10 lessons or more with an activity score of 75 percent or above during the contest timeframe, your student’s name will be entered twice!

PLEASE NOTE: Students need to complete four or more unique lessons. Available lessons can be accessed through the My Lessons tab or the Search tool. Students need to complete work independently.

After the contest ends, drawings will be held, and a winner chosen from each state. Winners will be contacted so they can claim their Beats Tour2 In-Ear Headphones.
International prize may vary.

 

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How to Reach the Hard to Teach: Excellent Instruction for Those Who Need It Most

December 19, 2016, 12:57 pm
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For every teacher, it’s different, but you know who they are for you – the students who are “hard to teach.” Maybe they’re reading far below grade level. Maybe they’re English learners. Maybe they have diagnosed learning disabilities or behavioral issues. Maybe they’re underachieving for reasons that are unknown. They have been overlooked, underserved, or frustrated, and they’re not learning as they should. Until now. Until you.

In this webinar, Doug Fisher will present a thoughtful and practical approach to achieving breakthrough success with linguistically and culturally diverse students who struggle in school. Combining elements of the SIOP® Model and the FIT Teaching® approach, Doug will share how he and his fellow authors Jana Echevarría and Nancy Frey have taken stock of what we know about excellent instruction and distilled it into five guiding principles. Based on their book, How to Reach the Hard to Teach: Excellent Instruction for Those Who Need It Most,

Date: Thursday, January 5, 2017
Time: 4 p.m. EST
Presenter: Doug Fisher
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Back to School 2016 Webinar for New Administrators

December 28, 2016, 11:51 am
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Achieve3000 continues to invest in your success with exciting new updates! From targeted new solutions for English learner, intervention, and foundational literacy programs to robust reporting and data tools for teachers and administrators, Achieve3000 is committed to finding innovative new ways to help every educator extend their reach – and empower every student to reach their dreams.

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Back to School 2016 Webinar for Returning Administrators

December 28, 2016, 11:54 am
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Achieve3000 continues to invest in your success with exciting new updates! From targeted new solutions for English learner, intervention, and foundational literacy programs to robust reporting and data tools for teachers and administrators, Achieve3000 is committed to finding innovative new ways to help every educator extend their reach – and empower every student to reach their dreams.

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Back to School 2016 Webinar for Returning Teachers

December 28, 2016, 11:58 am
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Achieve3000 continues to invest in your success with exciting new updates! From targeted new solutions for English learner, intervention, and foundational literacy programs to robust reporting and data tools for teachers and administrators, Achieve3000 is committed to finding innovative new ways to help every educator extend their reach – and empower every student to reach their dreams.

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