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DULUTH, GA - May 26, 2009 - Web version of the award-winning software gives K-12 schools a more advanced technology approach, expanded flexibility, and enhanced management functionality to improve teaching and learning.
Curriculum Advantage, Inc. today announces the latest version of the award-winning Classworks® instructional software for grades K-12 — Classworks Web Edition. The new Classworks Web Edition gives educators the 21st century tools they need to effectively deliver research-proven content to students and raise achievement at all levels. Classworks provides individualized instruction in math, reading, language arts and science to bring at-risk students to grade level proficiency, accelerate learning for mainstream students, and help English learners build fluency.
With Classworks Web Edition, teachers can easily deliver differentiated instruction for crowded classrooms, multi-tiered interventions and progress monitoring for Response to Intervention (RtI), and just-in-time tutoring for dropout prevention. The new enhancements, which are based on extensive input from customers, provide educators with greater flexibility in the way they manage instruction, and assess and report on student performance.
Indeed, administrators at Groveland Elementary School, one of the pilot sites for Classworks Web Edition, stated that their input and recommendations were solicited throughout the beta process. “We were thoroughly impressed at Curriculum Advantage’s diligence in making sure that Classworks Web Edition be everything it absolutely could be, and that included regular conversations about what we liked or where we saw room for improvement,” said Eva Sedgwick, technology contact at the 830 student school located in Lake County, Fla. “We’ve been using Classworks quite successfully for nearly 10 years, so we didn’t think there were too many ways it could have been improved upon. But based on what we saw we are very excited to start using it in the fall.”
“Classworks Web Edition brings an innovative, cost-effective curriculum solution to schools at a time when they need it most,” said Melissa Sinunu, chief operations officer for Curriculum Advantage. “Teachers, in particular, have guided these changes, which improve schools’ capacity to deliver customized content to every child. Plus, the Web Edition extends schools’ return on investment by providing more instructional activities for students in multiple teaching modalities, added flexibility for teachers in delivering and managing instruction, and reduced hardware and maintenance requirements.”
Expanded Content
Classworks Web Edition includes 6,000 new activities in math, reading, language arts and elementary science. Each activity is tagged by learning style so teachers can select what modality works best for each student. Classworks’ activities are aligned to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) frameworks and can be assigned by strand, skill or objective to easily align the activities with district curriculum objectives or to address specific student needs.
Redesigned Management System
With the new Web Edition, Classworks’ management system has been completely redesigned to allow teachers and administrators to plan and assign instruction, and assess and evaluate student progress anytime and anywhere. Classworks Web Edition features a new search engine to help teachers quickly and easily find activities — by publisher, keyword, state standard, district pacing guide, learning style or grade level — and deliver relevant content to every child. It also includes new assessments and advanced reporting capabilities, including RtI reporting, to provide the data needed to improve instruction and deliver timely interventions.
“The new manager in Classworks Web Edition makes differentiation so much easier. I love the way it sends alerts so that I immediately know when my students are not succeeding. I can quickly assign remediation or re-assign instruction from the alerts,” said Lori Martin, a teacher at Commerce Middle School in Georgia, another of the 16 schools that piloted Web Edition from February to May this year.
About Curriculum Advantage
Curriculum Advantage Inc. (www.curriculumadvantage.com) is based in Duluth, Ga. Curriculum Advantage’s flagship product is Classworks, a network-based system of K-12 reading and mathematics curriculum and learning tools that currently comprise over 5,000 hours of curriculum. Its activities are correlated to national and state learning standards and state tests, and include prescriptive and summative assessment, remediation and reporting tools. Classworks Language Learner Series, another part of the program, addresses English as Second Language learning with content that focuses on auditory, visual and tactile/kinesthetic components.
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