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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

John Plunkett, 5th grade teacher at Bethany Elementary School, Beaverton School District, breathed a sigh of relief when COVID released its grip on the nation. As students happily reentered the classroom, Plunkett’s goal was, “to develop a safe and supportive learning environment as the students transitioned back from remote to in-person learning and to use a range of technology to help develop a foundation for academic success in middle school.” The result of the many hours he spent on creating engaging curriculum? “My class has over 260% growth in DreamBox [Math],” he says.

Bethany Elementary School teacher’s 5th graders see math proficiency improve over 260%

Just because it’s summer doesn’t mean students have to stop learning. Everywhere you look there are opportunities for them to expand their math and reading skills. DreamBox is here to help teachers support students’ learning this summer. Here are six fun math and reading activities that families can enjoy together while students improve their reading and math abilities.

6 summer reading and math activities for elementary students

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

Sammie Veit shares her experience using DreamBox Math, especially for intervention. Watch to learn more.

Educator Testimonial: Sammie Veit, Junior High Math Teacher, TX

Why Reading Plus Works: An Overview for 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

Watch this recorded webinar with PCS leadership and discover the pandemic strategies the district used to prevent learning loss and actually accelerate student learning by over 5 NWEA percentile points in just 8 weeks.

Meet the district that outpaced learning loss: Pinellas County Schools accelerates math learning by 5 points in 8 weeks

Leadership at Pinellas County Schools (PCS) used DreamBox Math to accelerate learning for students during the pandemic. As a result, students who used the program for one hour per week showed over 5 percentile points of growth in just 8 weeks.

Personalized learning, universal achievement: Analyzing the impact of DreamBox Math in Pinellas County Schools, Florida

Hear Dr. Matthew Cheeseman, Superintendent at Beaufort County Schools and NERESA Region 1 Superintendent of the Year, and Dr. Tim Hudson, Chief Learning Officer at DreamBox Learning, discuss innovative and inclusive approaches to MTSS programs.

MTSS for Educators: Ensuring all stakeholders get the support they need

Read about how Pinellas County Schools erased learning loss and actually accelerated math proficiency for students at all achievement levels before, during and after school closures.

Meet the district that outpaced pandemic learning loss by 5+ percentile points in just 8 weeks

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

2nd grade teacher Michelle Hoffman uses DreamBox daily for independent study, intervention, and enrichment. She's found that DreamBox meets students where they are, helps them work through areas of struggle, and fills in learning gaps.

Educator Testimonial: Michelle Hoffman - Teacher - Fort Mill School District, SC

The rural School District of Newberry County, South Carolina, serves approximately 3,000 students in kindergarten through grade 5 among eight elementary schools. In 2020, like many other districts across the U.S., they were looking for ways to support their students and teachers and specifically accelerate math learning. Newberry’s first month of usage saw 83% of all students across the district logged in and completing 3 lessons per week. The following month, usage increased to 89%, with students completing 6+ lessons per week, which is aligned to DreamBox’s usage recommendations.

The School District of Newberry County Accelerates Learning with DreamBox Math

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

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

Hear district leaders Dr. Darin Brawley, Superintendent of Compton USD; Shawnte Clewis, K-5 Math Coordinator of Compton USD; and Dr. Dean Wilson, Executive Director of The Terra Academy, discuss recent challenges in education, including how they proactively navigate teacher shortages, pandemic uncertainty and the impact of disrupted instruction, setting teachers and students up for success.

EdWeek Webinar: Essential Steps for Supporting Teachers and Accelerating Learning

“I decided to devote my life to support educators, to try to help to bridge the gap between talent and opportunity.” Hear from DreamBox CEO, Jessie Woolley-Wilson, who was recently featured in Microsoft’s #TheLegacyProject.

Unlocking Your Brilliance - My Hero is Fannie Lou Hamer ft. Jessie Woolley-Wilson

For this month’s Teacher tip, we invited Elizabeth Venn, Curriculum Designer, to answer a commonly asked question from our DreamBox educators. This month's topic is about supporting students who are seeing material that they haven't learned yet in class.

Teacher tip: Supporting students who are covering new lesson content in DreamBox

During a year of unprecedented challenges and learning loss, Mississippi’s Madison County Schools was able to mitigate learning loss and help K–8 students close the math gap!

How One Mississippi School District Accelerated Learning During the Pandemic & Beyond

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

Blended learning—the method of using multiple media and methods to teach—has been around for decades. Only recently, however, has it come to mean combining face-to-face learning with technology-based learning.

Introduction To Blended Learning For Elementary Schools

When Cynthia White became principal at Cleveland Elementary in Santa Barbara, Calif., in 2012, she quickly went to work to improve academic performance — at the time, the school was the second-lowest performing in the county.

Pathways to Personalized Learning

Students using DreamBox Learning® Math for 60 minutes per week progressed, on average, one year within the curriculum.

Reach and Engage Every Student

Although the COVID pandemic threw education as we know it into disarray, Shelby County Public Schools, already a nontraditional instruction (NTI) district, saw math scores increase. The NTI district, positioned so students continue learning even on days schools are closed, had a leg up on many other school districts around the country. Because of its NTI distinction, and in tandem with DreamBox Learning Math, Shelby County Public Schools K – 8 students saw 1.25 grade levels of growth in math during the 2020-21 school year.

Shelby County Public Schools see consistent student achievement despite COVID

DreamBox is a K-8 digital math program designed to complement your math curriculum this back-to-school season.

Welcome to DreamBox Math!

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

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

This webinar focuses on answering the question: How can school and district administrators get their students excited about, and prepared for, algebra?

Moving Beyond Algebra-Ready to Algebra-Excited

Effective, adaptive and engaging elementary school instruction

Math Learning

Second grader Ashley is a fan of DreamBox and math learning – and does a great job of explaining why.

What Ashley Thinks About DreamBox

Hi, my name is Trish Munson. I used Dreambox to help support our curriculum and it also helps the students scaffold the curriculum. It helps them be able to kind of work wherever they are, and think mathematically wherever they are. I

1st Graders Using Education Technology

As educators, we know that every student comes to class with a different level of math ability, yet we teach a single process to an entire class at the same time.

The Intelligent Adaptive Learning Difference

See how DreamBox lessons are designed to help students build fluency and understand the orders of operation rather than simply memorizing them.

Order of Operations

Learn about the interactive tools DreamBox lessons use to help students master concepts like the rate of change (slope).

Rate of Change

See how DreamBox lessons empower students to learn adding and subtracting integers with understanding and fluency.

Integer Addition and Subtraction

See how DreamBox’s game-like environment with built-in scaffolding supports students learning to use the distributive property.

Expressions with the Distributive Property

Learn about the powerful virtual manipulatives DreamBox lessons use to help students master expanding multi-variable expressions.

Expanding Multi-Variable Expressions

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

Mark Estrada, Superintendent of Schools in Lockhart ISD, TX, explains why his district chose DreamBox Math and how educators implemented DreamBox in their classrooms.

Interview with Mark Estrada

Nick Lundberg, Assistant Principal at Westview Elementary School, shares how DreamBox Learning has helped his students become more proficient in math.

How DreamBox has helped improve his students math proficiency.

Cathy Comfort, Principal at Westview Elementary, shares how DreamBox has helped make her school a top math performer in her district.

Top math performer in her district.

Monte Westfall shares his experience with DreamBox Learning in his school

Customer Story: Lawrence Virtual School - DreamBox leads to successful Students

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

Remote Learning Tips

Take a look at how our research-based math lessons by grade follow the learning progression that supports the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM).

Ready to use in elementary classrooms with any type of interactive white board, DreamBox Teacher Tools are virtual manipulatives designed to help teach the concepts students need to learn—and to reinforce Common Core standards.

Common Core State Standards for Math (CCSSM) – Teacher Tools

For students who would welcome more challenges in their math learning at home or school, DreamBox Learning© Math provides ‘just right’ differentiated instruction that motivates them to persist, progress, and achieve.

Enrichment

Response to Intervention (RtI), a key component of multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS), is an approach for designing and establishing research-based teaching and learning environments that are effective for students, families, and educators.

Math Intervention

America’s schools are underperforming in math education; many students are not reaching the level of mathematical proficiency needed to excel in school or in the workplace.

Closing the Achievement Gap

Using a technology-rich environment, student-driven learning means lectures are complemented or replaced with active learning strategies and learning guidance, rather than memorization, to engage the student and improve learning, support knowledge retention, and raise achievement.

Student Driven Learning

Personalized learning is instruction that offers pedagogy, curriculum, and learning environments to meet the individual student’s needs.

Personalized Learning

Adaptive learning is a computer-based and/or online educational system that modifies the presentation of material in response to student performance.

Adaptive Learning

Blended learning, or hybrid learning, is a formal education program that integrates face-to-face learning with technology-based, digital instruction.

Blended Learning

We believe a positive mindset goes a long way! With so many unknowns this year, teachers are incorporating Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) more than ever before.

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)

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

"Why don’t I understand this math?”  Stress and anxiety can be a common feeling for students when they don’t understand something the teacher is covering in class. Many times, the brain will shift and be unreceptive to the math problem. The stressful thoughts take over and students shut down. It is important for educators to have greater empathy when students are expressing worry and frustration. In this episode, join Dr. Tim Hudson, PhD to discuss the importance of social and emotional learning, as it relates to mathematics.

Why Wednesday S1E5: SEL

In this episode, join Tim Hudson, PhD to discuss the difference between mind numbing math (dull thoughts) vs. thought- provoking math (genuine problems that invite thinking). He’ll discuss techniques and strategies to inspire student thinking and foster transformational learning.

Why Wednesday S1E4: Real World Math Problems

You’ve likely heard one of your students say, “I’m just no good at math.” It’s an unfortunate mantra that keeps people stuck in a myth. It’s probably not true that the student isn’t good at math. They just haven’t been taught based on their ability.

Help students shift from negative to positive self-talk

Does this sound familiar? “I did well in math; but, never really understood what I was doing!” Learning requires evidence of thinking and learners deserve feedback on their thinking that moves them forward. However, is there an equity problem with every learner getting the right feedback to forward their thinking? This is a challenge with math instruction and often educators.

Why Wednesday S1E3: Why math instruction can cause inequity and teacher burnout

According to a study by the Stanford Research Institute, students using DreamBox scored 2.3 points higher on the NWEA assessments with gains equivalent to 5.5 percentile point in 16 weeks. Another statistic shows that by completing just five or more DreamBox lessons a week, U.S. students grew 1.58 grade levels in one year.

Teach students healthy goal setting

Congratulations! You’ve decided to homeschool your child(ren). You’ve talked to parents who homeschool, made your pros-and-cons list and envisioned a space in your home transformed into a classroom.

10 Homeschooling Tips for Beginners

When we hear “summative assessment” it typically means evaluating student learning at the end of a course or lesson. In other words, the end point. In contrast, formative assessment is more about monitoring student learning to provide ongoing feedback.

Why Wednesday S1E2: Formative Assessment

The beauty of DreamBox is twofold in that it’s engaging and it’s versatile. The virtual manipulatives make learning math feel like a game. At the same time, the Interactive Adaptive Learning technology automatically adapts lessons to meet each student’s capabilities and builds from there.

Introducing DreamBox to your students

The question remains as we enter the new school year – what learning remains unfinished? And, if we flip that term, how would we define “finished learning”? We invite you to join Tim Hudson, PhD to dive into topics around sense-making, exploration, and the role technology can play in further engaging and supporting the success of your students this year in mathematics.

Why Wednesday S1E1: Unfinished Learning

As a wave of bright new energy rolls into a brand-new school year, students, parents and education professionals are preparing to unleash growth potential in math.

Welcome Back, DreamBoxers!

To reach and teach the middle school math mind, understanding its inner workings and leveraging current best practices just makes sense. Our infographic provides some answers to who middle school students are, how they learn, and classroom strategies to make sure they stay engaged at this extremely critical time in their learning lives.

The inner workings of the middle school math mind

At DreamBox, we understand that students and educators are more than test scores. Our adaptive technology provides a source of data that we hope you can use to encourage this belief within yourselves and your students.

DreamBox Insight Dashboard

How Teachers Can Empower Students to Achieve With Confidence When students are engaged in deeper learning,..

6 Strategies to Help Your Students Become Algebra Ready

As any teacher or parent of a middle school student knows, there are shifts in attitudes and behaviors with the onset of adolescence. Understanding why these shifts happen can help us to better support students through what can be a challenging emotional and physical time.

Strategies for Teaching Middle School Math

To help you up your teaching game while you relax, we’ve compiled 10 of the hottest summer reads for teachers. So, grab your lounge chair, umbrella and a book of your choice. Let summer reading begin.

10 Summer Reads for the Best School Year Ever

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

Educators know the importance of fostering students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) alongside their regular academic instruction. Whether you’re teaching in person, remotely or a hybrid model, SEL is necessary to develop students’ math confidence and love of learning. DreamBox is here to both support your math instruction, and help you integrate SEL in your classroom to build students’ math confidence!

Top 3 social-emotional learning tips

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

During this webinar, Interventionist Pam Johnson of Carroll County Schools, GA shares best practices for delivering data from the district level to educators. She offers tips on how teachers can use this formation to personalize education for students, drive change and growth in their classroom, and close learning gaps.

Webinar: Empowering Educators with Actionable Data

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

Join host Dr. Tim Hudson (DreamBox) and panelists Dana Nathanson (Elementary Math Coordinator, Leander ISD) and Amador Vasquez (K–12 Math Coordinator, Lubbock ISD) for a discussion on strategies that help provide insight and action to enable educators to create a vibrant and effective academic recovery in Texas for all students.

Webinar: Building on the Brilliance of Students – Insights that Drive Academic Recovery in Math

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

Webinar: Implementing Math Programs with Fidelity in Remote and Traditional Settings

How do we put kids on paths to success? We give them the right amount of challenge today, give them the satisfaction of overcoming an obstacle and the increased confidence that comes with it.

Spark Brighter Futures

Hear how 2nd grade teacher, Sam, uses DreamBox Math to complement her remote learning classroom environment!

Educator Testimonial: Sam Hausman - Teacher - University Schools, OH

As educators, you know social-emotional learning (SEL) is critical to teaching to the whole child. However, addressing teachers’ own social-emotional needs isn’t always top-of-mind.

5 Tips for adult social-emotional learning

As educators, you know a lot of work goes into leading parent-teacher conferences. Hours of preparation go into discussing important, and often sensitive, information with families in a limited timeframe. Plus, talking to parents can feel stressful and nerve-wracking.

Mastering the art of parent-teacher conferences

This session discusses how parents can support their children with DreamBox Math. We cover tips for engagement, what is productive struggle, embracing productive struggle and supporting perseverance.

DreamBox at Home:  Supporting Your Child & Tips for Engagement

Stacie Caruso, Intervention Specialist at Upper Arlington Schools in Ohio, shares how DreamBox has helped her students foster grit and perseverance.

Educator Testimonial: Stacie Caruso

One of the greatest challenges for teachers and administrators is using data to effect real change. It’s easy to get caught up in the now but not give enough time to the then.

Growth mindset: understanding the destination and leveraging what you have discovered

The students’ arrival at learning mathematics is the destination our educators prudently plan for each school year. As educators prepare for the arrival of their students, they dedicate time to creating plans for standards-based instruction and exploring the best practices to meet the needs of all their learners.

Growth mindset: continuing the journey

Every educator begins a teaching journey galvanized by the purpose of equipping learners with effective skills and strategies to become successful within and outside of the school walls.

Growth mindset: the journey to grow mathematicians

The messaging tool provides a platform for personalized student-teacher communication, creating more learning connections, even in remote teaching circumstances. Students can send a message while using DreamBox. Teachers need to be logged into their dashboards to see student message notifications.

Messaging for Students

Our new messaging feature, located in your student roster, is a great way to communicate with your students. With this feature, you could message the whole class or individual students. Send a note of encouragement, a gentle reminder, or even a simple ‘hello’!

Messaging for Educators

Jennifer Johnson, teacher at Shakopee Public Schools, shares how DreamBox Math is used in her school's math intervention programs.

Educator Testimonial: Jennifer Johnson - Teacher - Shakopee Public Schools, MN

Webinar: Creating a Love of Learning and Resilience

Veronica Saxer, 5th grade teacher at San Ramon Valley USD, explains how she uses DreamBox Math to keep her students engaged in math as an early-finisher activity and when working with students who are struggling in math.

Educator Testimonial: Veronica Saxer - Teacher - San Ramon Valley USD, CA

DreamBox Learning has created a 2021 Grants Guide to support you in the grant-writing process and provide you with a list of available grants. Here, you will find everything you need to know about how you can fund the important education priorities on your list, such as DreamBox Math, through both federal and corporate grants.

Grant Funding Help For DreamBox Math

Pay tribute to the contributions of five Latino and Hispanic mathematicians in history.

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