School Improvement
New Century has a history of helping principals and teachers raise academic performance at schools serving students of deep poverty, limited English proficiency, and high mobility. Using New Century with fidelity across multiple years has resulted in even the most challenged schools reaching the highest performance standards in their state accountability systems.
Individualized Instruction Made Easy
Whether implemented separately, or as part of an RTI model, or as part of a Continuous Improvement model, individualized instruction is recognized as critical to addressing the needs of under-performing students. Unfortunately, the typical teacher lacks the time to implement the assessment regimen and to design and deliver the individualized instructional plans for each of her students. New Century's adaptive online assessments instantly provide a unique lesson path for each student, targeting skill gaps rather than an entire level or unit of instruction. Instructional time is efficient, and measurable learning gains come relatively quick. Embedded interim assessments automatically adjust the lesson path to match the individual's changing needs and to provide teachers with frequent progress snapshots and other performance data to adjust their whole class instruction.
Addressing Under-performing Students
Unlike many software products, New Century addresses a student's skill gaps, even if they are far below grade level. New Century's curriculum uses examples from science, history, and geography to teach critical subject content and is age appropriate, even for older students struggling with lower level skills. The scientifically based and rigorous instructional design teaches new skills and is not simply a drill and practice program. Extensive use of instructional audio in Reading, Writing, and Mathematics provides a multi-modal pedagogy that accelerates learning for all students and helps move English Language Learners towards reading proficiency.
Test Focused Instruction
New Century's Summative tests, developed to follow the state test blueprints, help students become more familiar with the proficiency test format and expectations. Results are electronically linked to individually targeted instruction in areas of identified weakness among the tested objectives. New Century's Summative tests can be re-administered to help teachers and administrators benchmark a student's developing progress toward passing the state proficiency test.