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Mara Rodríguez is Curriculum Associates' director of educator success. She and her team are responsible for ensuring educators who use i-Ready (and the Curriculum Associates teams who support them) have the resources they need to succeed. Mara’s deep empathy for educators and understanding of how hard they work comes from experience. She taught math at Roxbury Preparatory Charter School in Boston and worked for an education nonprofit for more than eight years before she turned to, as Mara’s daughter puts it, “helping teachers.”
Steps for planning summer school include: plan like it’s the school year, have clear goals, select students strategically, recruit and support your staff, build your structure, engage students and families, and monitor, adjust, and stay agile.
Highland Elementary School in Riverside, Iowa, started its popular i-Ready Summer Challenge to keep students who weren’t attending summer school learning. Learn how they do it so you can replicate a similar program for your students.
In this post, we explain why we prefer to use the term “unfinished learning,” in most of our content, why we sometimes use “learning loss," and why we think this linguistic flexibility helps us better support our educator partners.
In spring 2020, R.V. Daniels Elementary School was faced with the same tribulations as any other school forced to suddenly change from in-person to virtual learning. However, this Florida school was able to ensure learning continued for its 375 students by keeping expectations and relationships consistent.
Teacher–family connection has never been more important. Learn how a Mississippi elementary school overcame digital divide challenges to keep families, students, and educators connected during distance learning.
Curriculum Associates' grants and funding team has assembled resources to help educators and administrators make sense of new federal funding sources, plan for summer school, and understand how our programs meet funding requirements.
