Context Clues was created to prevent the "summer slide," otherwise known as the growing achievement gap between students who read over the summer and those who do not. The interactive text message game is built around the national Common Core reading standards to encourage young people to read over the summer and give them access to quality reading materials. Players will solve a mystery using different literacy-boosting puzzles and challenges in order to win. At the end of the game, users will be given an SMS locator to find their local library and will also receive a suggested reading list. Learn more (HERE).

The Quality Performance Assessment (QPA) framework allows educators to create performance tasks that measure students' deeper mastery of content and the skills, in order to engage and prepare a diverse community of students for college, career, and life in the 21st century. The QPA model offers an accurate, reliable, and flexible alternative to measuring student knowledge and skills.