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One of the greatest challenges facing school districts today is keeping high school students both in school and on track for graduation. Nationally only some 70% of students graduate on time with a regular diploma; students who grow up in poverty or not speaking English graduate at much lower rates.
As we all know, a student who is most likely to fail or drop out gets behind well before high school. The predictors often surface prior to middle school in course grades and high stakes assessment results. Use of Classworks, particularly with its unique ability to read assessment data and place students in the courseware based on identified knowledge deficiencies, helps address the needs of likely dropout candidates before they ever enter high school.
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| New Georgia Update |
| The Georgia Import has been updated for CRCT and GHSGT so you can successfully import your 2008 results for summer school! |
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Classworks Summer Tour
Mississippi Rising
06/02/2008 to 06/05/2008 Biloxi, MS
SSA Summer
06/08/2008 to 06/11/2008 Orange Beach, AL
UAESP
06/09/2008 to 06/11/2008 Midway, UT
SCASA
06/15/2008 to 06/17/2008 Myrtle Beach, SC
Arkansas ASCD
06/16/2008 to 06/18/2008 Hot Springs, AR
TASSA
06/23/2008 to 06/24/2008 Nashville, TN
Summer Leadership Annual Conference
06/29/2008 to 07/02/2008 Asheville, NC
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| Technical Support |
Check our website for new State Alignment updates and additional downloads! |
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Let Us Know
What You Think
We are constantly looking for new ways Classworks can help meet the needs of students, teachers and administrators. As users, you know Classworks best. What improvements would you suggest? Send us an email at feedback@classworks.com explaining what you'd like to see in Classworks.
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Volume 6, No. 5 Spring 2008 |
Win With Classworks! Winners Announced
When we asked you for stories about how you used Classworks in your school, we never dreamed that the responses would be so overwhelming. All around the country you are doing amazing things for your students!
From poetry to punditry - the submissions we received and the stories you told made us smile, touched our hearts, and reminded us of the accomplishments teachers and students experience every single day.
And the winners are:
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Response to Intervention
When the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was reauthorized in 2004, along with it came a new term and concept in educational reform, Response to Intervention (RtI). RtI provides a new approach for identifying students with learning deficiencies rather than the traditional "waiting to fail" model. This process guides the interventions that begin as soon as any student begins to fall behind in the classroom.
Instructional technology has the potential to help teachers do all this and more...
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Classworks announces the Release of 5.8.1
The release on April 18, 2008, included several content updates along with some very exciting and NEW Import features! We are also proud to announce a partnership with NComputing. This is BIG news for many schools! Classworks 5.8.1 is the first Classworks release to be NComputing compatible.
What else to expect with 5.8.1? Click the link below to find out!
Classworks 5.8.1 is now available for download to all customers with current active support contracts.
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Classworks Customers Garner High Honors Please join us in congratulating Classworks educators and schools that have been recognized at the state and national level; garnering such honors and awards as:
- National Principal of the Year
- National Assistant Principal of the Year
- National Teacher of the Year
- State Principals of the Year
- National Title I Distinguished Schools
- No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Schools
- eSchool News' Tech-Savvy Superintendents
It is our honor to work with so many innovative, talented and devoted educators, and to see your accomplishments recognized.
To see a complete list of winners and their schools...
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Kindergarten Lessons with Real World Application
Sharing is Good: Classworks/NComputing Partnership extends individualized learning for students, without extending district pocketbooks
Educators are in the middle of a seemingly unsolvable equation: how to meet the needs of 30 different students simultaneously without spending all of their money on hardware before they even have a chance to choose the right instructional software. Classworks is recognized as one of the only proven methods to truly help individualize instruction for students simultaneously. At the same time, PC prices have leveled off and taxpayers want to pay less to fund education.
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Classworks End of Year Procedures
As the school year is coming to a close, it is important to remember to complete Classworks' end-of-year procedures to prepare Classworks for the 2008-09 school year.
This process involves backing up the data file and then deleting student results, un-enrolling students from their classes, promoting students one grade level, and removing students and teachers who will no longer be enrolled at the school. Please contact your educational consultant for recommendations regarding when to close out your Classworks install for the year and to discuss which End of Year option works best for your location.
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