The Power of the Tower January 2013
Greetings!    
 
Welcome to 2013! The halfway mark has arrived, and the entire team at Castle Learning would like to thank you for allowing us to be a part of your school life. You can count on the team to help whenever you need it!  

This time of year is also a great time to  to receive the news each month about what's happening in the world of Castle Learning.

Have a great month!
 
The Castle Learning Online Team
 
In This Issue
English News
Mail Bag
Special Education Benefits
Multiple Question Types!
Webinars & Documents
Social Studies News
Upcoming Conferences
English News 

December was a busy month for literature content updates. It's safe to say that the lineup of Castle Learning's language laborers love to lay out literary lots!

 

New literature sets were released for Good Night, Mr. Tom and The Book Thief, and constructed response questions were added for The Scarlet Letter.

Customer Support Mail Bag

 

In this month's mail bag you can get the answers to the following questions by clicking on the blue hyperlinks:
How CLO Can Benefit Special Education

As special education teachers are faced with ever changing requirements from both State and Federal Education commissioners, Castle Learning is making the demands a little less painful and much easier to provide differentiated instruction.

Since students remain at the forefront of our minds, providing students with a 21st Century extension to classroom instruction that assists in honing their skills with 24-hour access.  


While Castle Learning is often used for review and assessment, it can also be used as a Response to Intervention (RTI) tool.    

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Multiple Question Types in an Assignment 

It's here! Teachers can now include multiple question types in one assignment!  This feature has been a popular request, and the development team made it possible.  

 

There is now a question type filter on the Question Criteria Page that allows a teacher to include one or more of the following: Multiple Choice, Fill-in, and/or Constructed Response Questions.

 

Need a Refresher on Castle Learning?
Webinars and Docs Can Help

Would it be helpful to review some of the main features of Castle Learning? View this month's webinar schedule to determine which offerings would benefit you the most. 

The Documents section of your account holds valuable "how to" information for many of the day to day uses of Castle Learning. Some of our recently updated documents include:
Social Studies News
New Elementary Social Studies Questions

 

The Social Studies content team has recently added new elementary questions to the United States History and United States Government areas of the Social Studies course topic tree.  The questions were written with our Pennsylvania schools in mind, but there are many new history questions that are broad enough for use in all states.

Upcoming Conferences
Meet the Castle Learning Team

Jan 10 - Nassau County Mathematics Teachers Assocation
Jan 12 - Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Winter Curriculum Conference
Jan 27-29 - Pennsylvania Department of Education & PAFPC
Jan 31-Feb 1 - NJASA

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