From Placement to Progress: Using the RCL Report for Reading Level Growth

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From Placement to Progress: Using the RCL Report for Reading Level Growth

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One of the most common questions that educators get asked (by parents, by school leaders, by themselves!) is if their students read on grade level. To answer this, English/Language Arts teachers often conduct benchmark a…

Player Activity Report: Your Key to Tracking Activity and Monitoring Progress

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When teachers are evaluated, the metrics typically focus on student growth or proficiency. In essence, did we make a measurable impact on our students during the year? As a former educator, I understand that, despite our…

From Learning to Mastery: Using the Skills Report to Guide Skill Development

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The Skills Report The Skills Report focuses on your players’ skill ability across the English/Language arts skills they encounter. As they answer more questions, the Skills Report updates to reflect their progress throug…

My Coach Is Here for You!

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As they play and learn with Shoelace, your students are generating a lot of valuable data!  This data can empower you to make smart strategic choices, like how to group players together more effectively, which lessons to implement next, and even the ability to personalize the learning content for each…

Hone Higher Order Thinking Skills with Perspectives Assignments

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As a former teacher, I recall the struggles of lesson-planning for higher-order reading standards like comparing and evaluating texts. Meeting these standards takes a lot of prep: carefully selecting texts that juxtapose…

Working to evaluate EdTech platforms through the new lens of AI? Download support from Shoelace!

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Hi all! Lauren here. As I write this, I’m settling back into a traditional workweek after the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC). At the conference, one educational buzzword quickly and clearly emerged as the top focus on everyone’s minds: Artificial Intelligence (AI).  I hosted a session at the…

The ShoelaceL Challenge

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We’ve launched a spectacular new dwell for your players to challenge! This nightmarishly difficult dwell was designed to increase playtime and encourage players to continue answering questions correctly. To learn more about challenges, visit our help desk article.

Class Missions: Battle Monsters & Build Literacy

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Class Missions, one of our favorite Premium Plan features, are coming to all educators for free  next week for a free trial from May 9th-13th, 2022. To get started, here's an overview of what they are, how to use them in your class, and some cool ideas from other educators to get the most out of them.

Why & How Dreamscape is Free

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It’s no easy task to create a game that people will truly enjoy. Not to mention the  competition in the market from large game studios with lots of people and lots of money. How is a small start-up from Canada supposed to top Candy Crush, Fortnite, or even Angry Birds? And what if that start-up…

Skills that kids learn from Dreamscape other than reading

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The primary goal of Dreamscape is to improve literacy rates around the world, and get students more engaged with the content they are reading. To accomplish this goal, we made an extremely engaging game that runs on reading. So of course kids will improve their reading skills through playing Dreamscape– but those aren’t the only skills.