DreamBox Learning Case Studies
Case Study: Middle School Math Success
South New Rochelle, New York
Approximately 12 percent of 6th grade students at Isaac E. Young Middle School were identified as needing math intervention. In addition, many of the middle school teachers were not trained to provide (or not comfortable providing) math basics to students performing significantly below grade level, or teaching elementary math fundamentals at the K–5 level. Learn how DreamBox Learning helped to bridge gaps in math understanding and students performance.
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Case Study: Partnership for Blended Learning
Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Located in the heart of North Carolina, Rocky Mount Preparatory School is a public charter school serving suburban Rocky Mount, North Carolina. A Title I school, the majority of its students qualify for free and reduced lunch, which is 69% this year. With most of the elementary students below grade level in math, it was a situation that needed to be remedied from ‘the ground up.’
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Case Study: Transition to Common Core
Clarkstown, New York
Clarkstown Central School District, the largest public school district in Rockland County, New York, searched for a supplemental math program to support their shift to greater focus, coherence, and rigor in mathematics. With early intervention in primary grades a priority, they found that the strongest visually based online program to bridge the gap between current standards and the Common Core is DreamBox Learning’s Intelligent Adaptive Learning™.
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Case Study: Maximizing Individualized Instruction
Petaluma, California
Penngrove Elementary selected DreamBox Learning Math as an adaptive learning program to respond to each student’s learning needs. With students learning on DreamBox for 100 minutes per week, students have increased their math achievement scores, as measured by the STAR Math Enterprise™ assessment, by one grade equivalent in six months, moving from an average grade equivalent score of 1.3 to 2.3.
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Case Study: Math Intervention and Special Education
Spokane, Washington
Spokane Public Schools, Washington State’s second-largest school district, implemented DreamBox to district-wide to support math intervention and special education programs and accelerate growth for students who are scoring below standard.
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Case Study: Embracing Blended Learning
Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio and Austin, Texas
IDEA Public Schools, a public charter school network of 13 elementary schools serving low-income minority students, created a blended learning model with DreamBox Learning Math to increase overall student achievement. Over the course of a school year IDEA students are averaging over 60 hours of adaptive, individualized math instruction with DreamBox.
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Case Study: From Good to Great
Howard County, Maryland
Howard County Public Schools added DreamBox to its curriculum to augment exemplary math instruction in the classroom with individualized adaptive online instruction. After two years of using DreamBox, the district has increased the percentage of third graders proficient or advanced in math on the Maryland School Assessment from 89.5 to 93 percent.
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Case Study: Accelerating Learning
San Jose, California
Rocketship Education students using DreamBox Learning at three Title I schools in San Jose were able to increase their national percentile ranking by an average 5.5 points after only 21 hours on the DreamBox Learning Math program.
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Case Study: Making AYP in Math
Seattle, Washington
West Seattle Elementary, a Title I school in Transformation, added DreamBox to its curriculum and increased the percentage of fourth graders at standard in mathematics from 16 to 34 percent in one year. West Seattle Elementary also achieved the highest growth in math test scores in its school district.
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Case Study: Impactful Math Intervention
Anderson County, Kentucky
The Early Childhood Center was able to move kindergarten students in need of intervention from below the 1st percentile nationally to the 54th percentile in one year. Additionally DreamBox enabled teachers to more than double the number of intervention students served without adding staff.
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Case Study: Personalizing Instruction
St. Louis County, Missouri
Parkway School District added DreamBox Learning to its curriculum to provide individualized learning paths for 3,300 students in 18 elementary schools. DreamBox has helped Parkway students develop genuine number sense and cultivate automaticity and quick reasoning with numbers.
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Case Study: Building Number Sense
Carroll County, Maryland
Carroll County Public Schools, a top-performing school district, brought DreamBox Learning Math to its 23 elementary schools to help students develop number sense, deepen conceptual understanding, support struggling students, and enable high-performing students to move on to higher-level mathematics.
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Case Study: Managing Budget Cuts
South Los Angeles, California
ICEF Vista Elementary Academy, a school serving primarily low-income students who are English Language Learners, was forced to reduce its operating budget by 20 percent following deep state budget cuts. The school brought in the DreamBox Learning program to meet student needs for math intervention and individualized instruction in a cost-effective manner.
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