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Around the Corner: NCTM 2011 (Visit us in booth 1428!)

Tracy H — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:00:18 +0000

Are you attending NCTM 2011 next week (April 13th-16th) in Indianapolis, IN? If so, make sure you visit DreamBox Learning in booth 1428! We have a number of activities going on in-booth and at the show!

Calendar of Events

Thursday, April 14th

Book signing with Dr. Cathy Fosnot Models of Intervention in Mathematics: Reweaving the Tapestry 11:00am Meet and greet with Dr. Francis (Skip) Fennell 2:00pm

Thursday, April 14th

NCTM Speaker Session Join us for our speaker session on Virtual Manipulatives—Tools for Scaffolding and Adaptations, presented by Laura Koch and Mickelle Weary.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Session Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, PreK to 2 Saturday, April 16th at 9:30am —10:30am, Wabash Ballroom 3

Daily Schedule

Booth Presentations Schedule Join us in our booth for a daily schedule of presentations focusing on key educator challenges:

10:00am	Finding Funding for Instructional Technology
11:00am	Leveraging Real-Time Reporting for Insight Into Math Proficiency
12:00pm	Achieving Better, Faster Math Proficiency with DreamBox Learning
1:00pm	Increasing Elementary Math Proficiency for English Language Learners (Thurs & Fri only)
2:00pm	Math Intervention and the Promise of Adaptive Learning (Thurs & Fri only)
3:00pm	Achieving Better, Faster Math Proficiency with DreamBox Learning (Thurs & Fri only)

When you're at the event, come find us and share the challenges you and your schools face. We look forward to meeting you! Follow us for booth related news at @DreamBox_Learn.

Around the Corner: ASCD 2011

Tracy H — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:36:30 +0000

Are you attending ASCD 2011 next week (March 26th-28th) in San Francisco, CA? If so, make sure you visit DreamBox Learning in booth 2311! Join us in our booth for a daily schedule of presentations focusing on key educator challenges:

Presentations Schedule

10:00am	Finding Funding for Instructional Technology
11:00am	Leveraging Real-Time Reporting for Insight Into Math Proficiency
12:00pm	Achieving Better, Faster Math Proficiency with DreamBox Learning
1:00pm	Increasing Elementary Math Proficiency for English Language Learners (Sat & Sun only)
2:00pm	Math Intervention and the Promise of Adaptive Learning (Sat & Sun only)
3:00pm	Achieving Better, Faster Math Proficiency with DreamBox Learning (Sat & Sun only)

When you're at the event, come find us and share the challenges you and your schools face. We look forward to meeting you! Follow us for booth related news at @DreamBox_Learn.

TCEA 2011 is Next Week! Will We See You There?

Tracy H — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:27:49 +0000

Are you attending the TCEA 2011 Education Conference next week in Austin, TX? If so, make sure you visit DreamBox Learning in booth 1350! We'd love to meet you, and you could win some great giveaways for your classroom. Join us in our booth for:

Hourly demos

FREE Teacher Tools

A FREE 30-day classroom trial!

You could win!

When you're at the event, come find us and share your DreamBox experience with us. We look forward to meeting you!

Join DreamBox for Wednesday's Webinar: Google Apps for Education

Sue — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:26:04 +0000

Earlier this week we shared with you the good news that teachers can now access their DreamBox Teacher Dashboard in the Google Web App Marketplace! Using DreamBox Learning Connect, teachers and school administrators can securely get one-click access to their DreamBox reporting dashboard to monitor individual student's math comprehension and progress. Please join me on this live webinar and Q&A to hear more about the newly launched education category of the Google Apps Marketplace. This new group of apps allows schools to customize Google Apps for their students and faculty with a variety of applications to enhance classroom learning. You'll hear about the DreamBox app, and those from several other learning companies: Grockit, a social learning platform; and BrainPop, which develops educational videos and animated content. Date and time: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 4:00 pm (Pacific Standard Time) To join the webinar just click here.

DreamBox Floats on Google Apps Cloud

Guest — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:43:44 +0000

DreamBox Learning and Google have just announced that we’re supporting the new Google education application marketplace, with our DreamBox Learning Connect tool. Our development team has been working hard to support this new way to quickly get connected. DreamBox Learning Connect allows teachers using DreamBox Learning K-3 Math to have one-click access to their DreamBox Teacher Dashboard, putting student and classroom performance data right into their Google dashboard. Education is a new relatively new market for Google, but around the country, schools are adopting Google Apps for Education, a free (and ad-free) set of customizable tools that enable faculty, staff and students to work together and learn more effectively. DreamBox Learning’s K-3 Math Teacher Dashboard is just the kind of content that works well for teachers and school staff "in the cloud." Cloud-based (or internet-based) services give teachers, principals and administrators secure access to classroom applications, performance dashboards, and other information that sit on Google’s servers, which are managed by Google. School districts can save money in IT costs by doing so, and that is a big win for schools. DreamBox will be participating with Google in some upcoming launch activities, so keep an eye out for us as you see Google Apps for Education gather steam. In the meanwhile, let us know if you’d like to see how DreamBox Learning Connect works. We’re excited to showcase our new cloud-based access for school faculty and staff!

Are You Attending TCEA 2011 in Austin, February 9-11?

Tracy H — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:28:28 +0000

Are you attending the TCEA 2011 Education Conference in February? If so, make sure you visit DreamBox Learning in booth 1350! We'd love to meet you, and you could win some great giveaways for your classroom. Join us in our booth for:

Hourly demos

FREE Teacher Tools

A FREE 30-day classroom trial!

You could win!

We hope to see you in Austin!

Tech & Learning Award of Excellence to DreamBox Learning

Tracy H — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:38:32 +0000

Tech & Learning has announced their 28th annual Awards of Excellence winners, which honors products that help educators teach and manage classrooms with technology.

“Now that the use of technology in schools is no longer a novelty but a reality, it’s no longer about the promise of what a product can do; it’s about the proof," says Kevin Hogan, Editorial Director for NewBay Media’s Tech & Learning Group.

DreamBox Learning K-3 Math has won the Tech & Learning Award of Excellence for the second year in a row! We are honored to have been included as a winner – thank you to the more than 30 educators who reviewed our product and found it among the best of the best. Read more about the 28th Annual Awards of Excellence by Tech & Learning Magazine. View a list of our awards and honors!

DreamBox Learning vs. Other Math Programs

David G — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:26:57 +0000

I received the following letter from a parent who is not yet a customer. She writes:

I recently tried the DreamBox free trial, and feel it is a great program! However, my husband thinks that there are better programs out there. Can you help me explain to him why DreamBox is better than other math education programs on the market?

Many of our customers find DreamBox Learning as part of their research into math educational software, and I think this is great! As a parent myself, I strive to understand, as completely as possible, the goods and services that I give to my daughter, and I expect nothing less from our customer base. That being said, this blog post would be quite long if I did a side-by side comparison. Therefore, I’ll highlight was makes DreamBox stand out from the rest – then you be the judge.

Conceptual Understanding and Fluency

Our curriculum helps students simultaneously develop conceptual understanding, computational fluency, and problem-solving ability. We provide children with opportunities to develop the full range of skills and logical thinking, from learning the basic facts for computation, to developing problem-solving strategies.

Individually Adaptive

The key word is "adaptability". Unlike many educational programs, DreamBox Learning’s differentiated instruction looks beyond right or wrong answers. DreamBox is uniquely adaptable, offering each student an appropriately-challenged experience, tailored to their individual instructional level. We track every mouse click in order to offer the appropriate hints and instructional feedback, pacing, sequence, and level of difficulty of the lessons.

Self-Adjusting Lesson Placement

DreamBox Learning also offers a highly individualized response to student errors, making adjustments based on a wide range of variables. Instead of simply marking answers as "wrong", DreamBox analyzes the full range of each student’s online behavior, doing real-time assessment to determine if a student should skip content he already knows, or if reinforcement in a particular area of the curriculum is needed. By combining the latest educational research, with the expertise of our board-certified teachers, we’ve developed a unique and intuitive technology that constantly adapts, to optimize learning for each child.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

DreamBox Learning’s curriculum s with the Common Core State Standards, and matches their deep focus on developing student’s conceptual understanding and fluency in key curriculum areas. You can get more detailed information on how our curriculum aligns to the Common Core State Standards (as well as a detailed description of the concepts covered in each grade level) by going to http://www.dreambox.com/curriculum.

Detailed Progress Reports

DreamBox Learning also sends you updates on your children’s progression. The Parent/Teacher Dashboard reports on each student’s progress in real time, offering both summarized and detailed progress bars for easy analysis, and descriptions in plain English of what your children is currently learning. Parents also receive e-mail reports when their child meets new goals and milestones. We make every attempt to take the guesswork out of assessing your child's instructional level.

Engaging for Children

Finally, DreamBox is fun! The user interface (what the child sees) is designed to engage young students and keep them playing, by offering incentives such as award certificates and tokens. They can choose from a variety of themes, ranging from pirates to pet friends, and completion of lessons is rewarded with progress in their chosen stories. Students also get to personalize their experience, but here's the best part - none of these aspects affect the curriculum, meaning that the student gets the personalized engagement they want, AND the personalized math lessons they need. There certainly are a lot of great reasons to give DreamBox a try, but if you need one more, then here it is: a free 14-day trial! Signing up is quick, easy, and completely safe. At no cost to yourself, you can see, firsthand, what DreamBox Learning can do for your children's fluency in math. So... Is DreamBox Learning the best math education software on the market today? We'll let you be the judge of that. Do you have a question about DreamBox? Well, what are you waiting for? Use the “Send Feedback” button in the lower right hand corner of the DreamBox Learning game window, and let us know what’s going on. We can also be contacted about this, or about any other DreamBox questions you may have, at support@dreambox.com. We’re always more than happy to help you!

NCTM Baltimore is Next Week! Will We See You There?

Tracy H — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:11:23 +0000

One of three regional events by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is next week at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD. This event will provide two full days of professional development for teachers attending, and we'll be there right there with you!

Are you attending? If so, visit DreamBox in booth 322 and get in on the action!

Stay up to date; follow tweets by DreamBox Learning from the conference exhibit hall, and other participants, using the hashtag #NCTM.

Hourly demos

FREE Teacher Tools

FREE 30-day classroom trial!

You could win!

When you're at the event, come find us and share your DreamBox experience with us. We look forward to meeting you!

Are You Attending NCTM 2010 in Baltimore, October 14-15?

Tracy H — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:12:48 +0000

Are you attending the NCTM 2010 Regional Conference in Baltimore? If so, make sure you visit DreamBox Learning in booth 322! We'd love to meet you, and you could win some great giveaways for your classroom. Join us in our booth for: