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Angelica, a native Spanish speaker from Tijuana, Mexico, is determined to get her high school diploma from the United States. Her goals include earning her diploma, going to college to study mathematics, and starting a teaching career. At San Ysidro Adult School, she enrolled in advanced placement classes as well as high school English classes.

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Support and recognition for a job well done are key in the Laurens County School District 56 goal to build better number sense among its students. Eddie Marshall, Director of Federal Programs and Elementary Education; and Dr. Edith Ann Grant, District Math Specialist, kicked off the 2022 school year with a math challenge.

Laurens County teachers and students embrace DreamBox Learning™ for math proficiency

Waterford Graded School District comprises three PK – 5 elementary schools and one 6 – 8 middle school. District educators strive to close the achievement gap (measured as on-track to graduation) and accelerate the academic growth of its students. One tool teachers use to achieve that goal is DreamBox Reading (formerly Reading Plus).

Waterford Graded School District students using DreamBox Reading with fidelity averaged 3.2+ reading level gains in the 2021-22 school year

Heritage Elementary School, in the Wake County Public School System, is a multi-track, year-round school that serves grades K – 5. They chose DreamBox Math to support their math interventions and to give teachers better access to student data.

Heritage Year Round Elementary students increase math proficiency by 15% with DreamBox

The pandemic brought many challenges, especially the ability of teachers to help students keep up with their studies. In addition, students already struggling with math needed even more attention than in an in-person classroom. Learn how Allen ISD closed learning gaps with DreamBox Math.

Allen ISD used DreamBox as a powerful tool to close gaps during the pandemic

Learn how San Jose Unified School District (SJUSD) uses DreamBox Math to support students with special learning needs, bilingual learners, and students in mixed grade classrooms.

Using DreamBox Math purposely to maximize student support

By working with students at their skill levels, teachers have seen huge gains in their reading, confidence and motivation to reach their goals. At the same time, giving students a wide range of reading materials to choose from keeps them coming back for more.

Holman Middle School students see impressive reading improvement with DreamBox Reading

In 2007, Lindsay Unified School District began the work of transformation to better serve its learners and implemented the performance-based system, a competency-based grading model that emphasizes mastery and personalizing in learning.

Lindsay Unified School District

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In 2022, NCES conducted a special NAEP reading and mathematics assessment to explore student achievement during COVID-19. Reading scores had the highest declines in decades, and math scores declined for the first time ever. Despite recent challenges, research conducted before, during, and after school closures indicates DreamBox programs prevented learning loss.

While national test scores decreased, DreamBox students excelled

Download Five ways educators can accelerate learning this summer to discover critical tips on how your district can create significant learning gains during summer school programs. You’ll learn best practices for how to build engaging, student-centric environments and provide easy-to-implement programs proven to drive learning recovery.

5 ways educators can accelerate learning this summer

Learn which out-of-school-time (OST) programs can help your district foster learning and meet academic goals with this comprehensive guide.

Out of School Time Intervention Models

Discover critical steps to navigate the education landscape, review intervention programs and select the most beneficial learning solution to drive student success.

5 Steps to Choosing an Intervention

The Common Core State Standards for Math (CCSSM) and Standards for Mathematical Practice were written to help teachers fine tune instruction and provide a clear understanding of what students are expected to learn.

Common Core State Standards for Math (CCSSM)

Teacher-designed math lessons and math lesson plans strengthen Common Core readiness.

Common Core State Standards Lessons

Math lessons by grade—and free lesson plans—support the Common Core

Common Core State Standards Lessons by Grade

One of the most powerful ways to guarantee learning is to ensure engagement.

Remote Learning Tips

In this video, we examine the important relationship between motivation and reading success.

Motivation in Reading

Hear from this testimonial how DreamBox Reading Plus enhances English Language Learners' experience, providing tailored support and resources to accelerate language acquisition and literacy skills.

How does DB Reading Plus support ELL?

See what educators have to say about why they love DreamBox Reading Plus!

Why do educators love DB Reading Plus?

Hear from Trina Cornell, a reading specialist from Holman Middle School, MO, about why she chose DreamBox!

DreamBox Reading Plus pilot testimonial

Through the launch of Reading Park, DreamBox is bringing its patented, state-of-the-art adaptive platform for the first time to PreK-2 readers, offering personalized learning paths that adapt in real-time to every interaction, both within and between lessons, in a playful, engaging learning environment. Reading Park meets Foundational Reading Standards for grades K-2 as outlined in national and state English Language Arts (ELA) standards.

DreamBox Reading Park Overview

Discover the research for the five components of reading and how to best support silent reading fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary development for 3-12 students.

The five components of reading and how DreamBox Reading 3-12 helps educators support component development

Social justice protests throughout the summer of 2020 sparked a wave of reflection and change across our nation’s institutions, from criminal justice to sports. In education, the movement revealed the need to intensify efforts to provide students with rich multicultural diversity in books

From “Mirrors” to “Doors”: Why Students Deserve Diverse Texts Worth Reading

Silent reading fluency is the ability to comfortably read silently with concentration, at appropriate reading rates and with clear understanding. This skill bridges the gap between word recognition and comprehension.

Most tested, least taught: What is silent reading fluency and how can educators help students master this critical skill?

Learn how Hononegah Community High School uses DreamBox Reading (formerly Reading Plus) for its 9th grade interventions

Hononegah Community High School 9th grade students improve literacy with DreamBox Reading

With only 35% of U.S. fourth-grade students proficient in reading, how can we improve reading outcomes for all of our students?

Science Matters: Literacy Research is the Key to Improving Reading Outcomes

The International Dyslexia Association provides an authoritative summary on the guidelines for instruction for students with signs of dyslexia. Here are the 8 instructional elements they recommend.

8 Research-Based Instructional Recommendations for Students with Signs of Dyslexia

Results have shown that students at Henderson Collegiate Middle School with strong fidelity of use made 4.4 instructional grade levels of growth in 2020-2021.

Henderson Collegiate Middle School

M. Sadler, Reading Specialist at Econ River High School in Orlando, Florida describes DreamBox Reading (formerly Reading Plus) as a progressive ladder that, when properly climbed, allows struggling readers to reach the career and college reading readiness level.

Econ River High School

Students at Golden Grove Elementary School with strong fidelity of use made 3.2 instructional grade levels of growth in 2020-2021.

Golden Grove Elementary School

Once you’ve chosen a reading intervention that suits your needs, how do you implement it to ensure its success?

4 Key Ingredients of a Successful Reading Intervention Implementation

Nearly every student in the U.S. experienced some type of disrupted learning as a result of COVID-19. For some, remote learning was short-lived. For others, full-time, in-person learning will happen for the first time this fall since March 2020.

Re-Engaging Students and Building Back Stamina in the New School Year: Perspectives from the Field

Three stimulus bills passed by Congress in 2020 and 2021 allocate nearly $190 billion to K-12 education through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) fund. Learn how your school can use these funds to accelerate learning.

How to Accelerate Learning with ESSER Stimulus Funds

Many schools adopt a reading intervention program to help students reach grade-level reading goals. But how do administrators choose the right one?

4 Factors to Look for in a Reading Intervention

Across all tier groups, students who completed the recommended amount of DreamBox Reading (formerly Reading Plus) instruction during the school year achieved significantly larger proficiency gains than students who did not engage in Reading Plus instruction.

Rapid results with short term usage

Summary of Findings: Across all tier groups, students who completed the recommended amount of DreamBox Reading (formerly Reading Plus) instruction during the school year achieved significantly larger proficiency gains than students who did not.

High School National Results 2019-2020 School Year

Summary of Findings: Despite nationwide school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students in all tier groups who engaged in the recommended amount of DreamBox Reading (formerly Reading Plus) instruction over the course of the 2019-2020 school year achieved expected growth on par with prior year results.

National Results for the 2019-2020 School Year

Middle School National Results 2019-2020 School Year

Across all tier groups, students who completed the recommended amount of DreamBox Reading (formerly Reading Plus) instruction during the school year achieved significantly larger proficiency gains than students who did not.

Elementary School National Results 2019-2020 School Year

How to Select, Implement, and Assess a Reading Intervention Program

School leaders have the power to cultivate a culture of literacy and keep both teachers and students engaged in effective literacy instruction.

How Literacy Leadership Influences Student Learning

DreamBox Learning is unique for our ability to support educators and drive student learning. We’re unique because our team has heart. Diverse, passionate individuals who bring a range of incredible skills, perspectives, and experiences to the table comprise our team.  

For us, it’s important to capture their stories and share what makes them special. We celebrate the people at DreamBox who bring ideas to life, make the impossible possible, and empower their teams to do well to do good.

The DreamBox Difference: Our Team

Four dedicated educators from across the nation shared their experiences, best practices, and wins during DreamBox Math and Reading Plus pilot implementations. The conversation illuminated exactly how powerful the right tool in the right hands can be to drive student learning outcomes. We’ve captured a few of our favorite takeaways from the conversation below.

Four educators share five takeaways from their experience with DreamBox Learning

Access resources and recommendations to help integrate SEL into your schools and classrooms.

Why SEL Is an Absolute Must-Have in Your District

Students’ learning needs are more diverse than ever. In a single classroom of 30 students, an educator may encounter 30 distinct levels of abilities, different skill sets, and various individual learning styles. With such variation, it can be difficult for educators to fully address each student’s unique needs.  Educators must keep all students on positive learning trajectories, responding to individual student struggles while simultaneously working to meet education goals for all students in a classroom.

Remediation, acceleration, intervention: What’s the difference, and when should educators adopt each strategy?

February is Black History Month in the United States. We asked members of DreamBox Nation – our online community of educators – how they celebrate Black History Month with students.

Six ways educators are celebrating Black History Month with students

Summer school programs are an ideal way to provide learning recovery and reinforce critical math and reading skills. Yet, developing an effective summer program can come with unique challenges.  Leaders have less time to plan and fewer teachers to help students who need the most support. DreamBox Math and Reading Plus programs help educators accelerate learning during the most challenging and crucial instructional periods.

How DreamBox Learning helps solve 5 summer program challenges

Discover the key takeaways from recent NAEP scores and actionable ways you can help students recover from learning loss.

2022 Main NAEP scores are here. Now what?

Learn how districts have proactively prevented widespread learning loss, evident in recent NAEP scores, by providing math and reading interventions proven to yield results.

What NAEP scores mean for educators

Learn about the most effective tool educators can use to support and accelerate students’ self-directed learning skill-building.

How to empower self-directed learning in the classroom

Learn about the history and meaning of Juneteenth and ways educators can celebrate the holiday with their students.

Twelve ways educators are celebrating Juneteenth with their students

Learn why leaders prioritize program implementation, staff communication and a culture of appreciation.

Seven key takeaways from our recent webinar: Essential Steps for Supporting Teachers and Accelerating Learning

Educators and students have demonstrated resilience over the past two years, but the effect of interrupted learning begs for educators to respond with effective tutoring programs and tools.

Building strategic and effective tutoring programs

If you’re into math, and who isn’t, you probably know a thing or two about pi. For instance, National Pi Day is always March 14.

Pi Day surprises

DreamBox provides targeted support for all students. Explore three ways you can differentiate instruction in your math classrooms.

Targeted support for math students with special needs

Emotions and energy over holidays and extended school breaks are guaranteed to go up and down, for both grown-ups and kids. Add in a bit of math and you may have an equation for drama!

Tips to keep students learning during the holidays

Individualized learning, or individualized instruction, is a method of teaching in which content, instructional technology, and pace of learning are based upon the abilities and interest of each learner.

Individualized Learning

Effective, adaptive and engaging elementary school instruction

Math Learning

The top predictor for how much a student will use DreamBox is how much their teacher uses it. If a teacher uses DreamBox frequently, it’s likely their students will too.

Partnering with Families to Drive Student Success

Formative assessment is a critical way to monitor student learning – especially at the beginning of the school year – and to provide ongoing feedback throughout the rest of the year.

5 tips for quick formative assessment

DreamBox knows that by fostering inclusion and diversity in math, all students benefit. Why? Because children learn best when they feel included and represented in the classroom. But the positive effects are much more far-reaching than just the classroom.

Bringing diversity and inclusion to math classrooms

Educators know firsthand that the COVID-19 pandemic has majorly interrupted schooling. Although it’s had numerous impacts on students, one of the greatest challenges that schools are working to address is unfinished learning.

Addressing unfinished learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic

In Fall 2020, DreamBox released new volume lessons featuring a 3D lesson format designed to show students the mathematical concepts behind volume.

Ask DreamBox Anything: Volume Lessons

On February 22, the U.S. Department of Education announced that states must resume annual summative assessments this year even though many schools continue remote learning and some states have requested testing waivers.

The benefits of using formative assessments to guide instruction

Keep in mind that good habits formed during the Math Challenge can drive perseverance and growth all year long. Here are five ways you can build excitement over the next few months, and keep the momentum going strong throughout the the school year—and beyond.

5 Ways to Get Students Excited About the Math Challenge

In the February DreamBox Nation ‘Ask DreamBox Anything’ series, educators had the opportunity to ask our curriculum designers about geometry lessons.

Ask DreamBox Anything: Geometry Lessons

At DreamBox, our goal is to unlock learning potential in each and every student no matter the race, gender or zip-code, but we must also address the systematic racism and injustices facing students and people of color. In light of recent events, we wanted to share a message our CEO, Jessie Woolley-Wilson...

Onward and upwards as we link our hearts and arms to work for a better tomorrow.

The road to sustained motivation for young math learners

Grit is Passion + Perseverance

Something the Professional Development Team at DreamBox Learning® has heard requested from both teachers and administrators revolves around using DreamBox to aid students in developing goal setting skills and a growth mindset.

DreamBox Student Conferencing Guide

We’re thrilled to announce an exciting addition to DreamBox for students in grades 3-8.  By now your students have noticed our new Student Weekly Goals feature.

Introducing Student Weekly Goals

You’ve probably heard the above Zig Ziglar quote before or perhaps seen it on a poster. I’ve always liked it because it says success depends more on a willingness to work hard, rather than raw talent. To me, that’s motivational.

“Attitude Determines Altitude…and Other Math Mindsets”

Every building you spend time in––schools, libraries, houses, apartment complexes, movie theaters, and even your favorite ice cream shop––is the product...

Architecture and Construction Through Mathematics

For the first 30-days of school, setting routines and expectations is everything! We do this for our class processes and procedures, but often see screen...

DreamBox Time Saving Cheat Sheet

Beneath the August sun, lakes and saltwater bays fill with recreational sailboats. Even summer sailors rely on basic geometry to “tack” toward a destination by changing their sail angles in relation to the wind. And this just skims the surface of how math has intersected with sailing since antiquity.

Use Math for Ocean Navigation!

electing which EdTech program is right for your district is a big decision and investment. After you talk to your stakeholders, complete your research, weigh your options and narrow your choices, the important work of piloting the program(s) begins.

6 Steps to Implementing a Successful Pilot Program

From the invention of the first 3D TV to the first moon-based observatory, African American mathematicians, scientists, and inventors have contributed to our nation’s greatness since the time of President George Washington.

African American STEM Leaders You Need to Know (If You Don’t Already)

The majority of the 5.5 million English language learners in the U.S. public school system speak Spanish as their first language, which makes the capability of teaching math in Spanish, using bilingual teachers...

Six Strategies to Help ELLs Succeed in Math & 9 Free Math Activities for K–8 ELLs

One authority on Response to Intervention (RtI) for math is the Institute for Education Sciences report, “Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for Elementary and Middle Schools.”

RtI for Math: What Works?

New discoveries about Earth happen every day. Chemists and biologists use math and science to give us valuable information we wouldn’t otherwise have access to. Here are 9 mighty math-y facts about our fair planet.

9 Fun Math Facts for Earth Day 2016

Six tips for math formative assessment that leads student achievement.

What is Math Formative Assessment?

One of the goals of 21st century educators is to inspire students to be lifelong learners, and they should also be passionate lifelong learners themselves.

Professional Development Grants for Teachers

Getting more women and girls interested in STEM fields is the unfinished business of the 20th century, according to Hillary Clinton.

Women in STEM who Rock & 8 Cool Websites to Get Girls Psyched About STEM

Teacher Tips for Turning Data into Insights

Using Data in the Math Classroom

The Reality of Learning Gaps in My Classroom

Success in Algebra Requires Deeper Learning

When you’re a math major in college like I was, you can be guaranteed at least two things. First, many people will assume you’re a human calculator because they’ll ask you to make outrageous computations on the spot. Second, fellow

The Math Barrier: An Unfortunate Reality

Many years ago I surprised my wife by cooking a new meal. I read through our entire Betty Crocker cookbook to find just the right recipe and went to the store for the ingredients we didn’t have: ground cayenne pepper,

Chefs Know More than Just Recipes: How Experts Differ from Novices

High school chemistry teachers, Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams have been given credit for inventing the flipped classroom, but they don’t make that claim.

The flipped classroom: in elementary school, too?

Physical (also known as concrete) manipulatives like the abacus or blocks have been basic tools of the math teaching trade since time immemorial.

What are the benefits of virtual manipulatives?

...is the zone of proximal development? The zone of proximal development (ZPD), often referred to as the optimal learning zone, is a concept developed by social cognitive theorist and psychologist...

Math Learning in the Zone of Proximal Development

As school districts look for ways to give their students a personalized learning experience without expanding their budgets, blended learning  can be an effective option.

6 Models of Blended Learning

The world has changed substantially in the last 100 years, and education needs to change as well to ensure our children are fully prepared for a world we could hardly imagine when we were growing up. “One-size-fits-all” education may have been sufficient years ago. It’s not now.

How Personalized Learning Can Benefit Students

...are seven unique ideas for fun first grade CCSS-aligned math activities to get you started: 1. Dominoes The CCSS require first graders to know how to represent and solve problems...

7 Common Core Math Activities for 1st Graders

In an age of constrained budgets and overworked teachers, adaptive learning is bringing a spark back into the classroom and completely innovating the way education is approached.

Six key benefits of adaptive learning

Education used to follow a strict instructional model: Learn new material in class, do homework at home, review and repeat. But blended learning is changing all that, and many teachers are using technology to embrace a new model of education:…

'Flipped learning' model personalizes education

...school, communicate with faculty and take an active role in school-related decision-making. The Harvard Family Research Project concluded that parental involvement is associated with higher student achievement. They found that...

How parental involvement affects student achievement

Examples of how DreamBox’s adaptive lessons and virtual manipulatives ensure students build their own mental models of place value and successfully make the transition from concrete thinking to abstract reasoning.

Understanding Place Value with DreamBox Virtual Manipulatives

For many struggling students, high quality classroom instruction isn’t enough; these students require targeted math interventions designed to address the gaps in their understanding

Math Interventions that Help Build Foundational Skills

...DreamBox address or a single sign-on portal — depends on their school’s preference. Teachers will share a school’s login method with students at the start of each school year. (Note:...

Simplified student login for schools

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