Using Study Island and Castle Learning Effectively...

Castle Learning Teacher Tour
Castle Learning Advantages for students, teachers, administrators and parents
Castle Learning Case Study (Iroquois Schools 2008-2009)
Castle Learning White Papers

Study Island Tour
(additional information about Common Core Standards)
Study Island Benefits
Study Island NYS brochure
More S.I. resources


Improving Instruction with Data Driven Assessments...


Knowing what needs to change and how to address it
Inviting teachers to discuss how they measure student progress on an ongoing basis and brainstorm together about ways to improve on current practices.


Redesign teacher professional development in the use and implementation of technology tools to ensure that teacher learning opportunities are sustained, job-embedded, collaborative, data-driven, and focused on student instructional needs.

Helping Teachers Use Data
(5:28 min)
Watch a video interview with the district's coordinator of instructional coaches from a large urban district in New Haven Connecticut. She describes how staff at each school have been trained to analyze and use data from benchmark and formative assessments as well as how the math coaches from all the system's schools combine the results to inform system-wide decisions.

Response to Intervention

Response to Intervention Framework in primary Grade Reading