The DreamBox Learning Blog

The days of lugging around backpacks filled with heavy textbooks may soon be gone. As American schools continually look for innovative ways to incorporate technology into the classroom to improve personalized learning, touch-screen tablets are taking a central role. “We must use technology to empower teachers and improve the way students learn,” Joel Klein, a [...]

The most challenging aspect of teaching involves reaching all learners. In a given classroom of 20, 30, 40 or more students, I want and need to know what each student is thinking at every moment in order to be the best teacher possible. Yet with all that teachers are expected to do on a given [...]

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 [...]

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) has recently published a book edited by our Lead Academic Advisor, Dr. Catherine Twomey Fosnot. The book, “Models of Intervention in Mathematics: Reweaving the Tapestry,” approaches intervention with the belief that “it is not the children who fail. As Marie Clay once said, ‘If children are unable [...]

One of my favorite things about working at DreamBox is collaboration. Currently, our Academic Team is four National Board Certified Teachers including myself. We plan the curriculum, and work with experts in the field to develop lessons that are academically rigorous, follow an appropriate developmental sequence and that take advantage of a rich digital environment. [...]

I recently received this letter from a parent: I am concerned that the amount of time my sons spend in the “Carnival” part of DreamBox may be affecting the speed of their progress.  Do my children advance in placement when they spend their time at the Carnival and in My House?  Or should I primarily [...]

A customer writes: After taking a few months off for the summer, our daughter has started using DreamBox again.  However, she is finding that she’s backslid a bit, and that the problems are a little too difficult for her. How can we help her get back in the groove? As you may already know, DreamBox Learning’s [...]

I continue to marvel at the power of the Web and the way it has completely transformed how we transact business and conduct our lives. We connect and communicate, we buy and we use content (books, music, movies, information, etc.) in completely new ways. In that brief second after you click the mouse, just consider how personalized and targeted the response is to your purchase on Amazon, music selection on iTunes, flight scheduling on Expedia, restaurant reviews on Yelp, friend connections on Facebook, and searches on Google.

Exciting news! DreamBox Learning was named the "Cool Site of the Day" on April 2, 2009. It's truly an honor...

This was a very exciting week at DreamBox Learning. When we launched DreamBox K-2 Math we heard from hundreds of kindergarten, first and second grade teachers around the country...