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Admins: Enrollment Season is Here!
Castle Learning's Customer Support team looks forward to helping your school or district establish student accounts for the year. It is important to complete the enrollment process now so that each student and teacher has access to the power of Castle Learning from the beginning of the year.
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Schedule Training
Hands-On Workshops and Webinars
Castle Learning is committed to supporting your professional development. We believe that increased teacher skills leads to improved student achievement!
Castle Learning offers complimentary, hands-on workshop to all site license customers. Webinars are also offered for convenient training opportunities when gathering everyone together isn't an option.
To schedule a convenient, hands-on workshop for your teachers and/or administrators, call (800) 345-7606 or email training@castlelearning.com
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Math News
New Extended Response Questions
The Math Team added extended response questions to Castle Learning's database over the summer and they are ready for the beginning of the 2012-13 school year! Questions are available at all levels, and updates will continue so that all sections have questions as well.
Extended response questions meet the more rigorous demands of the Common Core standards, and meet higher critical thinking skills of Norman Webb Depth of Knowledge levels 3 and 4. Look for these new questions in the Constructed Response activity.
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Social Studies News
DBQs Stimulate Critical Thinking
Looking to promote critical thinking in the classroom? Look no further! Did you know Castle Learning features many Constructed Response (CR) & Document-Based Questions (DBQs) in our Social Studies course? The purpose of these questions is to challenge a student to think like a historian or social scientist. Using multiple types of primary source documents, the student must evaluate and analyze information, then generate answers based on the information presented. Castle Learning has questions for middle school and high school students.
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Upcoming Conferences
Meet the Castle Learning Team
Sep 27 - Dicoese of Harrisburg, PA
Sep 27 - NC Catholic Schools
Education Conference
North Carolina Catholic Schools Education Conference
Sep 28-29 - NC English Teachers Association
Sep 29 - NYS Association of Math Supervisors
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Simpler Question Criteria Page
The Castle Learning Development Team is always listening to feedback from teachers. The latest feedback helped shape modifications to the process of searching for questions when building an assignment. The new process is easy and flexible.
Video tutorials are available as guides for creating assignments, and can be accessed by clicking the Videos link at the top of any page in Castle Learning. There is a video for each subject area.
It is important to remember that you still have access to all of your previously created assignments; nothing has been lost.
In addition to creating top-level subjects which include all content within a specific subject (ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, & Foreign Language), teachers now have a very flexible filtering tool to use when searching for questions.
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ELA Topical Approach
The Benefits
Castle Learning has recently updated the question criteria page to allow teachers more flexibility when searching for appropriate questions. This especially benefits English teachers at all levels.
The new topical approach allows English teachers to search all topics and levels within the entire English Database - over 40,000 questions. The new question criteria page allows English teachers to tailor assignments based on several different search modes.
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Science News
New Elementary Level Questions!
Elementary Science has dozens of new beautifully illustrated multiple-choice questions on measuring tools and appropriate units of measurement for weight, mass, volume (capacity), length, distance, and temperature.
The Common Core Standards for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects stress the collective responsibility of teachers in all subject areas to promote critical reading, writing and thinking skills. Our Constructed Response (CR) Questions offer just the help you need!
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 Changing the ACT/SAT Culture By Method Test Prep
Changing the ACT/SAT culture at a school doesn't need to take a tremendous amount of time. Part of changing the culture means informing students that they can raise their scores, even if they only put in a little time. It also means getting the word out to students and parents about important tools like the ACT TIR and SAT Q&A Service.
Here are just a few ideas of things you can do to raise awareness and help your students increase their scores. - ACT Test Information Release (TIR) Service and SAT Q&A Service
- Bagel or Pizza Party to reward practice on Method Test Prep
- Using PLAN or PSAT Results
- ACT 27 Club or SAT 1800 Club
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