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Nov 20, 2018

Three Ways Educators are Using Study Island Printable Worksheets to Support Student Achievement

Study Island offers printable worksheets for every subject and topic, allowing teachers to use the question banks to provide a pen-to-paper, physical assignment for their learners. I’ve seen schools use these in a variety of innovative ways.

Lindsey Witt

Nov 12, 2018

Formative Assessment Tips for Any Grade Level

It is incredibly difficult to teach effectively without formative assessment. Students come to class with different abilities and backgrounds, and they learn at different rates. You need to know where they stand in relation to your pacing and curriculum goals at all times. Luckily, formative assessments don’t need to be time-consuming or difficult to accomplish. All it takes is adding a few of these ideas to your toolkit and committing to their use.

Scott Sterling

Nov 07, 2018

[Study Island Feature Focus] A Common Yardstick: The Case for Common Assessments

Study Island's Test Builder feature is an excellent tool to reduce the amount of time and work associated with creating and administering high-quality common assessments. Using Study Island, teacher teams can take a task that once required several hours and many different resources and complete it much more quickly and easily.

Karen Burkhart

Oct 30, 2018

[Resource] 9 Things You’ll Accomplish from Our Assessment for Learning Workbook

We’ve created a workbook to help you distinguish between various assessment types, build goals, identify best practices around your assessments, and analyze your data in an effort to make lasting instructional decisions over the school year.

Brita Hammer

Oct 25, 2018

[Administrator Tips] Using Study Island’s Built Tests to Guide Learning in Minnesota

During my years as a teaching and learning director in Minnesota, I loved the fall. A month into the school year, schools were abuzz with learning, and fall activities were in full swing.

Peter Grimm

Oct 24, 2018

An Educator’s Guide to Standards-Based Grading

Standards-based grading is a grading system in which the grade a student earns is a direct reflection of that student’s level of mastery of the standards covered. All other factors are removed from the calculation of the grade, or they are pulled out and used to calculate a separate effort or behavior grade.

Regina Waddell

Oct 17, 2018

Personalized Learning in Action: How One 5th Grade Math Teacher Makes It Work

Through planning and trial and error and with the help of online tools, Ms. Paquette has created a personalized learning environment to help her students achieve success. In this article, we’ll share what a typical day looks like in Ms. Paquette’s classroom and then break down some of the components that really make her classroom work.

Alexis Brakebill

Aug 31, 2018

10 Tips for the First Day of School

With some planning, common sense, and communication, you can make the first day of school the best it can be—a springboard to a successful and rewarding school year. Here’s how to make that happen.

Scott Sterling