Utlizing PowerMyLearning Connect as an Intervention

Have you heard of PowerMyLearning Connect? It is a free online tool to personalize instruction for students at all levels. Teachers login with a free account and build class playlists for students. Playlists include online activities and are specifically designed around classroom learning targets and objectives. PowerMyLearning Connect is a clearinghouse for digital tools and activities available on the internet. Students log-in with their email address and join the class by entering a class code. Students then complete the online learning activites that are assigned through the teacher's created playlist. Formative assessments can also be built in to the playlist.
Watch this short video to find out how playlists are built and assigned:

Using EasyCBM for Progress Monitoring

Student progress monitoring is a way to assess student academic performance and can be used to determine student growth of lack thereof. Elementary schools in our county typically use Reading 3D as a progress monitoring tool. At the middle schools, EasyCBM can be used as a progress monitoring tool for reading and math. The following video shows how to assign progress monitoring assessments using EasyCBM. 

EasyCBM is a norm-referenced test. This means that students are compared to one another. While the percent correct is typically important for classroom assessments, a norm-referenced test uses the percent correct to rank order students. Students scoring at or below the 10th percentile (essentially the bottom 10% of test takers) are identified as high risk with a red label. Students ranking at 11th-25th percentile are identified as moderate risk with a yellow label.