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How do you help struggling older readers or an older reader who can’t read? Learn about the state of literacy beyond Science of Reading and how ANet, through an innovative partnership, provides support for district to provide supports for this student population.
The members of our OCEO team are dedicated leaders of our internal culture and communication! Get to know this wonderful team in our latest ‘Meet A Team!’
Address the challenges in data-informed decision-making and the need for coherence. We highlight the significance of alignment for scalable impact and offer practical advice for educators. From forming diverse teams and focusing on incremental changes, to involving stakeholders,and aligning with your core values, coherence can enhance clarity and the quality of student data.
The members of this system-based coaching team managed by Coach Impact Lead Kori Hamner are passionate about helping students. All former educators, this team balances between being a thought partner and a cheerleader for the educational leaders they serve.
Are you curious how to know your students understand math standards? View your students' understanding of standards in an intuitive and easy-to-use format. Explore the benefits of our new reporting feature.
Our assessments are tools for instruction that help you see your students more clearly. We help you understand whether kids are learning the subject and standard, not just whether they are learning the curriculum.
Our core values help guide our work as we create actionable interim assessments that empower students and teachers.
Meet our Engineering team in our series - Meet A Team! These individuals are our builders and innovators for many of our resources and tools.
Centered on building your understanding and capacity for empowering students with learning and thinking differences, the resource list provides educators with information and suggested actions to take during the school year. These resources are a sample of the many resources ANet partners can access on the learning and thinking differences page on The Hub.
Two years after our story about Sacred Heart STEM School in Boston, we followed up with Principal Monica Haldiman and Assistant Principal Kate Cody to hear how they continue to support students, especially those with Learning and Thinking Differences, with their ANet coach Erin Gilbert.
Learn about our partnership with Hartford Public Schools as they adopt and implement a new curriculum. A key component of our partnership for the last two school years has been facilitating meaningful learning experiences for instructional coaches. Gain insights on how ANet and Hartford Public Schools use professional learning to reach instructional goals.
Meet the smiling faces behind the RSSP team at Austin Achieve Public Schools’ Northeast Campus. Principal Mariela Mensik, Assistant Principal Jessi Lopez, Primary Instructional Coach Mari Tibbetts, and Academic Data Director Jermal Giles have made tremendous strides in improving outcomes for K-2 scholars, especially emergent bilingual students.
Meet our ELA assessment team in our series - Meet A Team! These individuals bring our equitable, formative ELA assessments to fruition, combining years of experience as former educators and a passion for equity.
There’s no magic in education; transformational results for students come from intentional shifts to educator practice with a student-centered mindset. Our new Breakthrough Results study details our findings with five diverse districts across the United States over multiple years. Read about systematic change throughout levels of a district in approaches to instructional leadership, assessments, and high-quality instructional materials evaluation and adoption.
The Kentucky Department of Education selected ANet as their partner in a pilot program implementing high-quality instructional resources in math, ELA, and science for school districts across Kentucky. Learn about the evaluation and implementation process Barbourville Independent School District engaged in alongside ANet professional learning and coaching.
Meet members of one of our coaching team in our new series - Meet A Team! These nine coaches work with school leaders across the state to target inequities and drive breakthrough results for students.
Students in grades 3-5 from partner schools wrote responses to various standards-aligned prompts featuring prominent people in Black history for our first Black History Month Student Writing Contest. Students read journal entries, historical passages, and poems as they synthesized text to create their entries in ANet’s Quiz Tool.
Thank you to all who participated in the 2023 contest.
The educational leaders from Moving Everest give us succinct and impactful insights as we use interim assessments to inform instruction. Our blog captures five takeaways from the video and resources to further support our student data analysis and usage.
Read results from year two of our partnership with Transforming Education to increase equity-minded, whole child practices for students. Learn how including social-emotional practices for both adults and students yield significant results in student achievement.
As she completes her first year as CEO and tenth year at ANet, Osarugue “Michelle” Odemwingie reflects on what it means for ANet to empower all students and support educators. Michelle captures the urgency of disrupting inequities and the importance of immersing ourselves in the communities we serve. Read her reflection to learn more about our beliefs and how they impact our work.
ANet and Transforming Education are teaming up to design and implement an integrated approach to academics and social-emotional learning–a focus on the head and the heart. See how this approach is empowering both students and teachers at one school!
We have said it before, and we will say it again: what students read matters. ANet is dedicated to modeling what diverse and equitable texts can look like in an instructional context, including in assessments, and that students have ownership of their education. We are sharing our own approach as well as tools and resources to support you in making this a reality in your school.
ANet is honored and humbled to announce that we have received a generous gift from esteemed philanthropist Mackenzie Scott. This gift is a critical catalyst in our organization’s journey toward ensuring more equitable instructional practices across the country and centering the voices and supporting agency of those most often marginalized by the education system.
ANet wants to ensure that students are not just seeing people of color represented in texts about struggle and oppression or in stories where we need to be flawless, heroic, or extraordinary; people of color deserve to be three-dimensional and have a voice in every sphere of life.
Stories of impact, tools, and resources for educational leaders who may be looking to increase their capacity as instructional leaders by identifying their own growth areas and elevating the unique strengths of their colleagues while in partnership with ANet’s job-embedded coaching
See how partnership with Achievement Network (ANet) leads to a boost in instructional leadership capacity for teachers and leaders alike at one school.
With the pivot back to virtual learning over the last few weeks, we want to re-elevate a series of virtual learning tools and resources to help educators ensure student success. Additionally, we want to honor the humanity of this moment by encouraging educators to nurture both the heads and the hearts of their students as well as themselves and their colleagues; adults whose own social-emotional needs are not being met are unlikely to be able to promote social-emotional wellbeing or academic success in the students they serve.
When Principal Misty Mbadugha joined Honey Dew Elementary School, she arrived at a school with a seemingly strong culture; the community was tight-knit, teachers believed in their students, and students, families, teachers and leaders were generally happy at Honey Dew. But something was missing—students were happy, but were they truly learning? Find out how Mbadugha and her instructional leadership team changed the answer to that question!
We know that our students of color experience educational inequities. Within those populations of marginalized students, however, exist students who are even further marginalized; English learners and/or students with learning and thinking differences frequently do not experience integrated supports during their instruction.
In a three-year period, instruction at Ardmore Elementary has completely transformed and students are making incredible academic progress year over year. We spoke with three fifth-grade teachers—Mireya Frederick, Alissa Zaghian, and Lisa Symonds—to learn more about their progress and what’s driving success at Ardmore.
Learn about how one district has reshaped their literacy data in our latest partnership feature. Our three year district & system partnership with Manor ISD, through our work as a technical assistance provider through the Texas Education Agency, has lead to implementation of high-quality instructional materials for their reading and ELA materials.