This post describes your best chance to start closing the gap for your ELLs before the 2020 WIDA ACCESS and TELPAS testing windows begin.
Articles from Speak Agent with math literacy and science resources, strategies, research, and program updates.
Fighting the COVID Slide Among English Learners
This post details the many ways in which Speak Agent addresses the academic language needs of English Learners and other students to fight the COVID Slide.
July 2020 Newsletter
The July 2020 issue of the Speak Agent newsletter explores the causes of the COVID Slide and ways to address it for ELLs and other students.
The Widening Gap for English Learners
This article reviews the spring quarter’s impact on English Learners and other students from an academic language perspective.
The Students We Serve
This post examines the dire state of the achievement gap and sets out guiding principles that Speak Agent is using as it works to do its part.
The Language Deficit and the COVID-19 Slide
This post describes how distance learning is missing a critical language component and how Speak Agent can help mitigate the COVID-19 slide.
Free Distance Learning During COVID-19
Speak Agent is offering its Math and Science programs free to schools during the COVID-19 outbreak through July 31, 2020. Here’s how it works.
Are You Ready for Coronavirus?
In this first issue of the Speak Agent newsletter, we look at ways to prepare for remote instruction in the event of Coronavirus-caused school closures.
Speak Agent Awarded Research-Based Design Product Certification
Speak Agent has earned the Research-Based Design product certification from Digital Promise. In this post, we discuss why this is a big deal!
Speak Agent for Smartphones Coming this Winter
This post describes the upcoming Speak Agent smartphone app release and the rationale behind it.
Reflections on the NSTA 2019 National Conference
Notes from Speak Agent’s session and interactive discussion about Integrating Academic Language and 3-D Science Learning at the NSTA 2019 National Conference.
Five Principles of Personalized Teaching
This article explores personalized teaching as a precursor for personalized learning and makes five recommendations for how education technology can better support teachers.
