Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and netTrekker Connect Assessment and Instruction for Personalized Learning
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netTrekker now integrated with DataDirector™, an online assessment management system, to support data-driven instruction through personalized digital content
Cincinnati (July 6, 2011) – netTrekker, a leader in delivering digital K-12 educational content in context to individualize curriculum, and global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), have partnered to help educators conduct data-driven instruction more effectively and efficiently. DataDirector, an online assessment management system from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is now integrated with netTrekker, enabling teachers to easily identify standards-aligned, digital content that can be used to address students’ individual needs and overcome performance gaps for specific learning objectives.
DataDirector is an online assessment data tracking, reporting, and management solution that puts powerful decision-making support in the hands of educators. DataDirector allows users to compare multiple sets of data that they may identify needed interventions, devise enhanced curriculums, and drive the academic achievement of all students, from struggling readers to high performers to special student populations. DataDirector helps educators make sense of a wide range of data at every level and track student assessment over time.
With this new integration, school and district subscribers who have both netTrekker and DataDirector can access netTrekker content for remediation from their Exam Report in DataDirector to help improve performance for every student. Teachers have immediate access to standards-aligned digital content for remediation on a specific standard for whole-class re-teaching, or remediation for individual students. Once in netTrekker, they can use its refinement menus to find exactly the type of content they need for individual students, such as video, interactive learning exercises, educational games, and more.
With netTrekker’s breadth and depth of digital content, teachers are able to quickly find, organize and deliver digital resources that meet the targeted learner’s needs when they are needed. netTrekker offers more than 300,000 educator-reviewed digital resources that are aligned to standards and span the entire K-12 curriculum, including collections from many trusted content providers. Featuring a Universal Design for Learning and a variety of innovative tools, netTrekker empowers teachers to make learning personal for all students, no matter where they are on the learning continuum.
The company has previously partnered with HMH on other education initiatives. netTrekker is integrated with the Learning Village Curriculum Management Solution and the Edusoft® Assessment Management System from HMH. The Learning Village is a powerful curriculum management system that creates a single point of access for curriculum, collaboration, teaching, and professional development. From one central portal, educators tap into a wealth of online instructional resources from netTrekker, and collaborate in the broader district-wide learning community.
The Edusoft® Assessment Management System helps schools administer district benchmarks and classroom tests quickly and easily, deliver rapid results, improve the reliability of assessment programs, and connect assessment to instructional decisions. Using the Edusoft assessment platform to access netTrekker’s standards-aligned resources provides targeted and prescriptive instruction to improve student performance.
Schools and districts can activate the free integration between netTrekker and DataDirector by contacting their company representative. To learn more about netTrekker, visit netTrekker.com.
About Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
With education products and services used by 57 million students throughout all 50 U.S. states and 120 countries, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is a global education and learning company. The world’s largest provider of materials for pre-K–12 learning, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is leading the way with innovative solutions and approaches to the challenges facing education today. Through curricula excellence coupled with technology innovations and professional services, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt collaborates with school districts, administrators, teachers, parents and students, providing interactive, results-driven learning solutions. Its Educational Consulting Services group works to increase student achievement in underperforming schools by developing, implementing and supporting education transformation through sustained district partnerships. With origins dating back to 1832, the Company also publishes an extensive line of reference works and award-winning literature for adults and young readers. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com.
About netTrekker
netTrekker is dedicated to enhancing education through highly effective technologies and services that enable schools and educators to personalize learning and inspire students. The company is a leader in the organization and delivery of digital K-12 educational content. Its flagship product, netTrekker, is one of the leading educational tools in the industry, and was first to market with a standards-based solution utilizing the services of Academic Benchmarks (www.AcademicBenchmarks.com), the premier provider of comprehensive standards-based K-12 educational databases, alignment tools, and integration products. netTrekker provides access to more than 300,000 safe, relevant, educator-reviewed resources to support students’ individual needs. igotta by netTrekker offers a personalized 21st century workspace for students to study and complete school assignments while learning critical academic and career skills. netTrekker Global Services supports publishers and education agencies through the transition from print-based to digital learning content through a customized technology and service offering. Peers, teachers and parents have honored netTrekker more than 25 times for its contribution to education. Founded in 1999 by Robert Reinders, the company serves millions of students and thousands of schools around the world. Visit netTrekker.com.
Additional Contacts
netTrekker
Laura Hannah
Senior Marketing Manager
513-731-4090
lhannah@netTrekker.com
www.netTrekker.com
C. Blohm & Associates, Inc.
Kristen Plemon
608-216-7300 x18
kristen@cblohm.com
www.cblohm.com