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Madison Michell

Madison Michell has been a member of the Edmentum team since 2014 and currently serves as a Marketing Manager. As a former Kindergarten and 3rd grade teacher during her time as a Teach For America corps member, she believes education truly has the power to transform lives. She is passionate about connecting educators with online programs, best practices, and research that improve teaching and learning for today's students.

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Calvert Learning Back-to-School Planning Guide

[Parent Tips] Making Sense of Reading Levels

You've probably been given metrics on your child's reading level, but what do all of the letters and numbers actually mean? We'll navigate through a few of the most common leveling systems and take a look at why these matter to you as a parent.

10 Steps to Creating Personalized Learning Plans for Students

Creating unique student profiles, known as personalized learning plans or PLPs, for each of your students has obvious benefits.

Acceleration vs. Remediation vs. Intervention: What’s the Difference?

Intervention and remediation (also commonly referred to as reteaching) have the same fundamental goal: supporting struggling students with focused learning opportunities to achieve academic success. But still, the differences between these two flavors of instruction are critical to determining what sort of environment, time, and approach might be required to best serve your students. We’ll take a closer look at defining these terms and provide guidance on when and where they might fit into your instructional day.

Exact Path Back-to-School Planning Guide

Whether you’re kickstarting a new implementation or reigniting an existing program for the new school year, we want to make sure that you have what you need to get off on the right foot. We’ve assembled our top resources to help you set up things for the new school year, explore all of the features your program has to offer, and learn best practices from successful implementations.

Courseware Back-to-School Planning Guide

Whether you’re kick-starting a new implementation of Courseware, Edmentum’s standards-aligned digital curricula, or picking up right where you left off last school year, we want to make sure that you have resources available to get this new school year started off right.

4 Things You Should Know to Support Struggling Middle and High School Learners

After reflecting on many conversations with Edmentum customers who use Exact Path, our K–12 assessment-driven, individualized learning program, we’ve compiled four of those best practices and considerations that you should know to help support your struggling middle and high school students.

Tiered Intervention: Supporting Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 Students with Proven Programs

Across the country, educators are committed to providing early intervention to address deficits in student learning before they ever have a chance to widen. Whether your school or district subscribes to one of the more common response to intervention (RTI) or multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) models or finds one of the many other flavors of intervention to be the right fit, there are some common factors to consider that will ensure a successful program. Now, it’s more important than ever to be well equipped with proven program options to help meet the level of support each tier requires.