Anita Thomsen
Account Manager
anita@learning.com
Phone: 800-580-4640 x4569
Fax: 503-210-0351

Samuel Esparza
Strategic Account Manager
sesparza@learning.com
Phone: 520-730-1648

Product Description:

Aha!Math

Aha!Math offers RTI Functionality

• Aha!Math includes a tool for educators to assess students through a Universal Screening Assessment, to identify students at risk of poor learning outcome.
• This assessment not only identifies low performing students, but also prescribes curriculum to all students based on the performance on the screening and any subsequent assessments.
• With the assessment feature, teachers have the ability to assess students as frequently as necessary to determine progress and to identify areas where students and teachers should focus in order to reach instructional goals.
• Screening and Benchmark assessment can be used as pre- and post- assessments to determine student progress.
• In addition to the assessment and prescription features, Aha!Math includes a reporting capability that allows teachers to monitor progress of students within an intervention as well as for a small group or an entire class. This allows for documentation of the progress of students as well as identifies where additional focus could be applied to reach instruction goals.

Aha!Math includes integrated Spanish curriculum for grades K-2

• Spanish/English glossary to focus on academic and schema vocabulary.
• ELL strategy guide that gives teachers assistance using Aha!Math to help students in language acquisition and mastery of academic vocabulary.
• Journal activities for teachers to create math and language literacy exercises for students to use in English, Spanish or both.
• Designed to meet both the needs of the bilingual educator with the need for native-language content instruction in the early primary grades, and the ELL instructor who provides English language instruction with native language support.

Aha!Math Overview

Aha!Math is an engaging and interactive web-based supplemental math curriculum for Grades K-5 that supports teachers with research-based instructional models, strategies and content to improve students foundational math skills while developing higher level problem solving and reasoning skills. Aha!Math is designed for multiple-use scenarios, including as a supplemental classroom and student curriculum, as part of extended day and summer-school programs, with special education students and as an intervention tool. The instructional design for Aha!Math provides teachers with multiple options for delivering instruction for Response to Intervention (RTI). The dynamic nature of the product and Learning.coms digital learning environment allow for both traditional and non-traditional classroom and teaching scenarios. As an online resource, it is available anytime, anywhere, and is a great way to extend learning into the home to engage both students and parents.

In addition to leveraging the latest technologies and instructional design theory, Aha!Math:

• Meets national and state standards Aha!Math is built on a foundation of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Curriculum Focal Points.
• Focuses on key foundational math concepts and provides opportunities for building conceptual and procedural knowledge, discovery and analytical skills, and for cultivating students creative problem solving and 21st Century skills.
• Scaffolds instruction introduces core concepts, follows with more in-depth coverage of key topics, supports by meaningful application in relevant scenarios, and tests for both conceptual understanding and information recall.
• Maintains interest and supports individualized and whole class instruction with multi-modality (lessons, games, activities, quizzes, instructional modules).
• Leverages an easy-to-use and flexible learning management system that enables schools, districts and teachers to customize and extend the curriculum, scope and sequence, and even create cross-curricular connections using other third-party and Learning.com content and resources.

Aha!Math is delivered via Learning.coms Sky Digital Learning Environment . Sky provides a powerful delivery, content management and customization platform and makes it easy to create and manage classes in ways that make sense for teachers. Its simple, with just a few clicks of the mouse, to plan and organize instruction, flexibly meet the needs of individual students, find and assign content, and monitor student progress. Sky also includes tools that allow teachers to create, rate and share their own digital content, training, and lesson plans.

Aha!Science

Aha!Science is an engaging and interactive supplemental curriculum to support teaching core science concepts in Earth and Space, Physical and Life Sciences for Grades 3-5. Its rich, Web-delivered content goes beyond structural simulations to experiential learning in virtual environments, enhancing students' understanding through interaction and application. It is ideal for whole class and individualized instruction.

In addition to leveraging the latest technologies and instructional design theory, Aha!Science:

• Meets national and state standards explicitly incorporates the National Science Education Standards.
• Provides in-depth coverage of science topics.
• Is graphically stunning, which increases student interest and engagement.
• Scaffolds instruction introduces core concepts, follows with more in-depth coverage of key topics, supports by meaningful application in relevant scenarios, and tests for both conceptual understanding and information recall.
• Moves students beyond facts to experiential learning in a digital environment.
• Maintains interest and supports individualized and whole class instruction with multi-modality (lessons, games, simulations, quizzes, journaling, instructional modules).
• Includes unique journaling and hands-on activities designed to reinforce scientific process through exploration and experimentation, providing opportunities for school-home and school-community connections through extensions.
• Includes motivating, interactive games and simulations that engage students while they reinforce and apply their learning.

The engaging design of Aha!Science curriculum and integration of student (peer) coaches and learning games keeps students excited about learning science. Hands-on activities support inquiry-driven learning and interest in science and the methods and process that drive success in this potentially intimidating subject. Students become lifelong science learners and successful science students when their natural curiosity about the world is nurtured. Aha!Science offers supplemental curriculum designed for multiple-use scenarios so teachers can instruct, engage, and inspire their students to not only succeed on high-stakes exams, but also to build understanding of and enthusiasm for science.

Aha!Science is delivered via Learning.coms Sky Digital Learning Environment . Sky provides a powerful delivery, content management and customization platform and makes it easy to create and manage classes in ways that make sense for teachers. Its simple, with just a few clicks of the mouse, to plan and organize instruction, flexibly meet the needs of individual students, find and assign content, and monitor student progress. Sky also includes tools that allow teachers to create, rate and share their own digital content, training, and lesson plans.

EasyTech

EasyTech is a proven, Web-delivered K-8 technology literacy curriculum, easily and effectively integrates technology into Math, Science, Language Arts and Social Studies. EasyTechs instructional model addresses technology skills in an applied format, correlated to core subject areas. EasyTech supports teachers with research-based instructional models, strategies and content to improve student learning outcomes in core curriculum subjects while providing them with the skills they need for success in the 21st Century.

EasyTech was developed specifically for K-8 students and takes into account student literacy, attention span, and the greater complexity of the concepts they need to learn for their age. EasyTech covers these critical tools and skills: computer fundamentals, keyboarding, word processing, graphics, visual mapping, databases, spreadsheets, graphing, communicating online, Internet safety, presentation, web browsing, multimedia, and basic HTML. EasyTech delivers instruction to students through six different types of curriculum items: Lessons, Discussions, Activities (includes Projects), Practices and Quizzes. EasyTech is based on Learning.coms powerful Digital Learning Environment that allows teachers to get started with just a few clicks of the mouse. EasyTech is available in English and Spanish.

EasyTech includes a comprehensive NETS-T professional development curriculum for teachers. The product enables your teachers to use 21st century teaching skills and technology in the classroom and in their careers. EasyTech helps teachers prepare to teach the 21st century skills that are now in national and state technology and core curriculum standards. With units for each of the 20 NETS-T 2008 performance indicators, teachers will learn how to implement every part of the NETS-T.

• engage 21st century learners
• implement NETS-T standards
• support national and state technology standards
• support technology and 21st century skills that are present in core curriculum standards
• comfortably use technology in the classroom

The items in this curriculum are arranged in units that correspond to the 20 NETS-T performance indicators.

New Curriculum for NETS-S 2007
Learning.com is continually creating new curriculum to reinforce EasyTechs alignment to the NETS-S 2007.

Prescription from 21st Century Skills Assessment to EasyTech
Districts using both 21st Century Skills Assessment and EasyTech are able to prescribe curriculum to classes, groups, and individual students, based upon student performance on Learning.coms 21st Century Skills Assessment.

Detailed Prescriptive Keyboarding Report
A new report shows teachers each students performance details and work using the prescriptive keyboarding lessons. A color-coded heat map of a keyboard illustrates each students speed and accuracy per key. The report shows student speed and accuracy per session, and which exercises (and what the exercise focused on) were completed.

EasyTech is delivered via Learning.coms Sky Digital Learning Environment . Sky provides a powerful delivery, content management and customization platform and makes it easy to create and manage classes in ways that make sense for teachers. Its simple, with just a few clicks of the mouse, to plan and organize instruction, flexibly meet the needs of individual students, find and assign content, and monitor student progress. Sky also includes tools that allow teachers to create, rate and share their own digital content, training, and lesson plans.

EasyTech Online Safety

Meets E-Rate requirements for online safety teaching and reporting for grades K-12, and supports teachers, parents and students to learn critical skills in Internet safety. EasyTech Online Safety helps teachers avoid using ineffective, fear-based Internet safety curriculum and resources, ensuring that curriculum is based on research and is grade appropriate from K to 12.

• Provide teachers with effective curriculum on challenging online safety topics, including detailed lesson plans and guides.
• Understand how well students grasp content through reports and student tracking.
• Approach critical topics with positive, research-based lessons, discussions, activities and journaling, developed in collaboration with Dr. Patricia Agatston, co-author of Cyber Bullying: Bullying in the Digital Age.
• Support parents and the school-to-home connection with parent guides in both English and Spanish.

In-Depth Online Safety Curriculum includes:

• Cyber bullying
• Proper online behavior
• Keeping personal info safe
• Safe texting
• Inappropriate content
• Avoiding online scams
• File-sharing and more

EasyTech Online Safety is delivered via Learning.coms Sky Digital Learning Environment . Sky provides a powerful delivery, content management and customization platform and makes it easy to create and manage classes in ways that make sense for teachers. Its simple, with just a few clicks of the mouse, to plan and organize instruction, flexibly meet the needs of individual students, find and assign content, and monitor student progress. Sky also includes tools that allow teachers to create, rate and share their own digital content, training, and lesson plans.

EasyTech Keyboarding

EasyTech keyboarding makes instruction fun, and entices elementary and middle school students to build their skills. This Web-delivered curriculum combines EasyTech interactive lessons with flexible, adaptive practices that quickly bring students to touch-typing mastery.

• Curriculum for grades 3-5 and for grades 6-12
•  Includes Sky class and curriculum management tools
•  Interactive, self-paced Lessons and Practices
•  Library of skill-builder exercises and longer story-form challenges
•  Reports on progress, and areas to practice
•  Web-delivered, so no downloads or installations
•  Automatically recommends practices when students log in

Prescriptive techniques
Teachers dont have to know best practices to build students typing skills. Our design combines proven classic techniques in touch typing instruction with advanced prescriptive technology. It adapts to students progress and automatically builds custom practices and exercises that focus students learning and progression.

Designed for flexibility
Teachers may combine EasyTech with their own hands-on instruction, or use in class or computer lab settings with varied student pacing whatever works best for them.

Save teachers time and headaches
EasyTech Keyboarding is delivered through our Sky digital learning environment. The Sky platform makes it easy for teachers to create their own lessons, assign curriculum, track student progress, and incorporate any Web-based resources into their lessons, all with just a few clicks of the mouse.

EasyTech Prescriptive Keyboarding is delivered via Learning.coms Sky Digital Learning Environment . Sky provides a powerful delivery, content management and customization platform and makes it easy to create and manage classes in ways that make sense for teachers. Its simple, with just a few clicks of the mouse, to plan and organize instruction, flexibly meet the needs of individual students, find and assign content, and monitor student progress. Sky also includes tools that allow teachers to create, rate and share their own digital content, training, and lesson plans.

District Curriculum Publishing

District Curriculum Publishing is a Sky Advanced Solution that allows designated educators within a
school or district to assemble learning objects from multiple sources into custom curricular
sequences or curricula. These course curricula can be used as online pacing guides, curriculum maps, course templates, etc., to distribute content to educators in a ready-to-use fashion.Teachers can quickly assign course or curriculum content as-is or customize it to meet the needs of the course, group or individual student. Authors of custom curriculum can track usage, make updates and determine access to the curriculum easily and efficiently.

District Curriculum Publishing provides an efficient way to distribute standardized content
while still providing the teacher with the flexibility to address student needs. Training and other just-in-time PD materials can be delivered with the curriculum so that all of the materials are available to instructors from one location.