The Language of Content

Articles from the Speak Agent team that provide classroom resources, implementation strategies, research-based perspectives, and updates regarding our Content+LanguageSM platform.

Speak Agent Offers New PD Courses and Certifications for Teachers

Speak Agent is now offering an expanded catalog of professional learning courses that, for the first time, includes a self-paced digital component. These self-paced modules use Speak Agent digital lessons to teach Speak Agent through hands-on...

Learning to Use the WIDA ELD Standards

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the sweeping changes made by WIDA in their latest ELD standards framework? You are not alone! WIDA's 2020 edition is a fundamental rethinking of how we serve multilingual learners. There's also quite a bit of new...

Speak Agent Expands iPhone & iPad Access

This week we made major upgrades to the Speak Agent mobile app (v1.2.2) for students. It now supports work on more than 95% of student assignments on iPhones® or iPads®. This means that students can do virtually everything in Speak Agent on iOS...

Product Update - May 2021

The new version 2.2.1 adds a new activity, among other improvements:

Speak Agent iPhone & iPad App Now on Clever

Today we're announcing a major upgrade to the Speak Agent mobile app for students. It adds access to Clever and expands the number of activities available on iPhones® or iPads®. Hope you like it!

Product Update - February 2021

The new version adds two helpful new features for teachers. Plus, it improves the student learning experience in a number of small but meaningful ways. Here's the scoop:

Speak Agent Now on iPhones and iPads

Ho ho ho! Today we're announcing the release of Speak Agent for iOS. It's a mobile app for students to access their assigned lessons on iPhones and iPads. The mobile app offers the same overall learning experience and content as the web version!

Product Update - Thanksgiving 2020

What's better than a nice Thanksgiving dinner? A second helping of Speak Agent product updates, of course! It's our way of saying "thanks" to our partners. Version 2.1.0 fixes several usability items and adds many helpful new enhancements. Here's...

Product Update - November 2020

Speak Agent version 2.0.0loads everything faster. Much faster. It also fixes a number of minor issues. We've listed just the ones you'll notice the most.

Product Update - October 2020

Speak Agent version 1.13.1upgrades several beta test features recently released over the summer. It also adds new visual reading aids to better support learner variability.

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