Academic Language Webinar #1 on EdWeb Last Week
Last week Digital Promise hosted our first-ever professional learning webinar Achieve Transformative Results by Teaching Academic Language on EdWeb.net. (Follow the link to watch it!) We were so pleased to hear that it was the #1 live webinar on EdWeb last...
Speak Agent to Exhibit at ISTE, EDxED NYC, and Sanibel Leadership Conference in June
Speak Agent will participate in three major events this month. Our technology platform has grown by leaps and bounds this year, and we can't wait to share the latest and greatest with you!
First, we will exhibit at EDxED NYC at Hudson High School in Manhattan...
Montgomery County After-School Program Finds 31% Gains in Reading Vocabulary with Speak Agent
Excel Beyond the Bell Elementary (EBBE), an after-school program in Montgomery County, Maryland, released its report “Leveraging the Power of Play” earlier this month. EBBE saw some exciting results with Speak Agent in reading! Their testing found 31.2%...
Reflections on the NSTA 2019 National Conference
“STEM teachers are not prepared to foster simultaneous content knowledge and language development,” states the National Academies of Sciences in their October 2018 report [1]. The science teachers we met at NSTA 2019 in St. Louis last week largely agreed....
Product Update - April 2019
The new Speak Agent version 1.6.3 adds several new or enhanced games and activities! Not to mention some other goodies. Here are the details:
ED Games Expo 2019
Speak Agent will participate in the 2019 ED Games Expo at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on Jan. 7-8, 2019. Find us at table #43!
Learn the Language of STEM at NSTA
Find Speak Agent's Language of STEM exhibit at booth 533 at the NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) Area Conference on Science Education. The event takes place at National Harbor, MD from Nov. 15 to Nov. 17, 2018. Come on down and visit with us!
Product Update - November 2018
The new Speak Agent version 1.5.1 is chock full of new features and enhancements. Here are the details:
Speak Agent to Present at 2018 WIDA Annual Conference
We look forward to showcasing the latest additions to the Speak Agent academic language learning platform at the WIDA 2018 Annual Conference in Detroit from October 23rd to 25th.
New Partners Implement Speak Agent Across Maryland
Speak Agent is being implemented in three Maryland counties this school year, each of which hosts one of the nation's top-50 largest public school districts. Our team is proud to work with our partners to accelerate academic language learning for English...
