Welcome, Illinois Educators!

i-Ready Tour

Engage in a hands-on experience of the i-Ready educator and student experiences with interactive product tours in Reading and Mathematics.

i-Ready Central^®

Explore videos, tips, planning tools, and more to ensure you are getting the most out of your i-Ready implementation.

i-Ready Reports Book

See the reports that help educators make effective instructional decisions to drive student growth and help all students access grade-level instruction through i‑Ready’s rich, actionable data.

i-Ready Back to School 2022–2023 Brochure

This brochure previews the changes coming to i-Ready in the 2022–2023 school year.

i-Ready Stretch Growth® as a Path toward Proficiency  

Learn about i-Ready’s approach to measuring student growth, including how differentiated Typical Growth and Stretch Growth measures support each student’s growth and proficiency goals.

Addressing Unfinished Learning with Your ESSER Funds 

Explore how i-Ready and our suite of educational programs can help districts meet critical needs supported by this federal funding program.

Get to Know i-Ready Assessment

Watch this video for an overview of i-Ready Assessment.

The Importance of Criterion- and Norm-Referenced Data

Learn why you need both normative and criterion-referenced assessment data to understand what your students know and can do.

i-Ready Assessment Overview

The rich data from i-Ready Assessment empowers teachers with a deeper knowledge of their students’ needs.

i-Ready Assessment Items

i-Ready Assessment items are built by design to measure college and career readiness.

Actionable Reports

Based on Diagnostic results, i-Ready reports provide detailed information on student performance by domain. Clear instructional recommendations, including a personalized instructional path, are provided as well as aggregate data for spotting trends across groups of students.

Student Data Chats

This document provides guiding questions and tips for facilitating data chats throughout the school year.

Personalized Instruction for Mathematics

Explore Personalized Instruction and lesson reporting in Mathematics. Our estimated runtime for lessons on average is 20–40 minutes. There is built-in adaptivity for students finding success or struggling with a given skill to efficiently meet the needs of the individual student. Students may do multiple lessons in a day. i-Ready will save their progress through each lesson, even if they don't complete a lesson in a single sitting.

Personalized Instruction for Reading

Explore Personalized Instruction and lesson reporting in Reading. Our estimated runtime for lessons on average is 20–40 minutes. There is built-in adaptivity for students finding success or struggling with a given skill to efficiently meet the needs of the individual student. Students may do multiple lessons in a day. i-Ready will save their progress through each lesson, even if they don't complete a lesson in a single sitting.

Learning Games for Mathematics

Learn how i-Ready’s fun and interactive Learning Games strengthen understanding of mathematical concepts and foster a positive relationship to mathematical standards.

Educator Guide: Learning Games

Learn more about what the Learning Games are, how they benefit students, and how they fit into the classroom.

Proven to Work with English Learners (ELs)

Discover how i-Ready is uniquely designed to support ELs.

i-Ready Supports Multilingual Learners

We recognize the many assets Multilingual Learners bring to the classroom, and ensuring they achieve academic success with rigorous grade-level content is our priority.

Accessibility and Accommodations Update

We recommend all educators familiarize themselves with i-Ready’s full list of universal supports, designated supports, and accommodations. We’re continually improving our programs, so we update this information regularly. The link below is refreshed regularly with information on our current offerings and future program enhancements.

Diagnostic for Mathematics (Grades K–12)

Read how the Diagnostic for Mathematics in Spanish empowers educators to better understand their students’ mathematics content knowledge and skills independent of English-language proficiency.

Scores on i-Ready Diagnostic That Are Equivalent to Performance Levels on the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) 

This document provides a score crosswalk table between the IAR and the i-Ready Diagnostic assessment. This crosswalk was constructed using an equipercentile linking approach to show the IAR performance level most closely associated with the i-Ready Diagnostic score for each grade and subject.

The Relationship between i-Ready Diagnostic and the 2019 Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR)

i-Ready Diagnostic and the 2019 IAR are highly correlated—with an average spring correlation of .79 for English Language Arts and .85 for Mathematics.

National Center on Intensive Intervention

National Center on Intensive Intervention's evaluation of i-Ready as an Academic Screening Tool and Progress Monitoring Tool

State of Student Learning 2022

Our annual research report discusses the effects of student learning post-pandemic. 

What Can We Learn from Fall Assessment Data?

While fewer students were ready for grade-level work when they returned to school this year, our early i-Ready Diagnostic results offer several reasons for optimism.

How Growth Goals Actually Hold Students Back

Kristen Huff, vice president of assessment and research at Curriculum Associates, shares her thoughts on growth goals in this article published by EdSurge.