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What is SuccessMaker?
SuccessMaker is an award-winning educational software program that delivers instruction in English/language arts and mathematics for learners in grades K–8 to supplement classroom instruction. The SuccessMaker program:
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Provides Adaptive Motion in every course that differentiates and personalizes instruction as a personal tutor would for students functioning in grade levels K–8 and enrolled in grades K–12.
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Correlates to state and Common Core State Standards for both mathematics and language arts in grades K–8.
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Offers strategic course selection that allows teachers to customize courses by skills or standards, based on their instructional strategy to:
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Personalize targeted intervention with courses that let students’ needs and abilities be the main driver of instruction to fill gaps and bring them up to grade level with Foundations (default) courses. As students move through the Foundations (default) courses, they can work below, on, or above grade level based on their unique needs. When they struggle, the program automatically launches scaffolding strategies that may call up prerequisite instruction for critical concepts from earlier grade levels as needed.
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Focus on exposure to and practice with on-grade-level content using College and Career Readiness courses that only present instruction aligned to a grade level and move students ahead for building on-grade-level proficiency. Teachers can easily create a College and Career Readiness on-grade-level course by selecting a desired grade level from the content standards to provide students with the right types of support they need.
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Achieve students’ goals by using both courseware strategies with the same students.
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Individualize a student's instructional level with Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™) Measures for Academic Progress® (MAP®) Growth™ content.
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Provides the student with 15–20 minutes focused on each subject, two to three times a week, working independently outside of core classroom instruction.
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Accommodates a full array of different learning styles, including those served by special education, gifted, and at-risk students, and English language learners.
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Is based on research that includes extensive analysis of state standards by leading researchers and teams of experts.
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Provides detailed reports that promote data-driven instruction and at-a-glance progress monitoring.
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Generates forecasting data that assists with scheduling students for optimum performance on high-stakes tests.