Thursday, September 24, 2015

Progress Monitoring Ending October 9


Form 1 of the Progress Monitoring Assessment is available now to your students in grades K-8 in Math and Reading, and grades 3-8 in Science. The PMA provides four parallel assessments throughout the school year, helping to periodically diagnose students' skill gaps, provide differentiated intervention, continuously monitor progress and modify classroom instruction accordingly. Most students have probably competed their PMA.
Here is a list of the PMA windows for this school year:
  • Form 1: 09/01/15 - 10/9/15 
  • Form 2: 11/2/15 - 12/5/15
  • Form 3: 1/11/16 - 02/5/16
  • Form 4: 2/17/16 - 4/1/16
Upon your students' completion of each PMA:
  • Stride automatically assigns differentiated online curriculum and intervention to remediate specific skills as needed. 
  • Customized Printable Lesson is automatically generated for each student performing below mastery with printable skills practice worksheets targeting areas of weakness.
  • Real-time data reporting is available in easy to understand, visual progress reports at the class, school and district levels. The PMA reports show percentage of students performing below, at or above mastery or proficiency, and map improvement from one assessment to the next. Reports include detail on specific skills and standards mastered or not mastered by individual students. Visit the Reports tab in the Admin and Teacher Control panels to access these reports. 

Implementation trainings are a success across the state! 

After receiving training on Stride, teachers at Ohatchee Elementary School in Ohatchee, AL successfully began using the program in their classrooms that same day! 
Second graders are already having fun logging on to Stride and look forward to using the program at home on their laptops and tablets.

Stride prepares students for ACT Aspire! 

"The high level of critical thinking questions found in Stride pushed my students to get ready for the Aspire!"
- Jane Hayes, 4th grade teacher at Nathaniel H. Stephens Elementary School in Alexander City

Alabama Contest Corner


Recognizing Stride "Jean"iuses, White Plains Elementary in Anniston, AL posts the top three high scores for each grade in Stride weekly outside the computer lab for all to see. 

Munford Elementary School in Munford, AL hosted a Stride Summer Contest recognizing the boy and girl student from each grade with the most star points. The winners received pizza with the Principal! .
Want your school to be featured in next month's e-newsletter?
Contact: Cate Powell
Customer Experience Specialist
cpowell@LTSed.com

Monday, September 21, 2015

CAUTION, iOS Users: DO NOT Upgrade to iOS 9.0 at this time.

Just received this information...


CAUTION, iOS Users: DO NOT Upgrade to iOS 9.0 at this time.

Our technology team has discovered that upgrading to iOS 9.0 on iPad at this time may result in a loss of audio events within certain Stride games.
To ensure complete compatibility with Stride Academy on iPad, please refrain from upgrading to iOS 9.0 for the time being. Our team is working diligently to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. We will advise all Stride users when you may safely upgrade to iOS 9.0.
Please note that currently, Stride Academy is 100% compatible with iOS version 8.4.1 and earlier. If you have already upgraded to iOS 9, you can downgrade to iOS 8 by following these instructions.
You may lose audio for certain Stride Academy games on your iPad if you upgrade to iOS 9.0 at this time. Please wait for notification from us when it is safe to upgrade your device.

Be sure to share this important alert with students and parents accessing Stride Academy on their iPads from home. We apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.

Sincerely,

The Stride Academy Team