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Renaissance - Accelerated Reader
Founded: 1986Country: United States
Country: United Kingdom
Renaissance - Accelerated Reader
Renaissance - Accelerated Reader
Independent studies commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation and the Family Fisher Trust from 2002 to 2020 report that SAM Learning significantly improves students' GCSE grades with as little as 10+ hours of usage.
Renaissance - Accelerated Reader
Neelam Parmar, Digital Learning: Students are encouraged to read books and accelerate their reading levels via the assessment/quizzes, making this is an exciting process and motivating path for them to progress.Fiona Mansell, English teacher and Achievement Leader: I wish that there were more modern books covered by accelerated reader. The choice of books that students can read sometimes feels limited.Dianne Hannan, Reading & Literacy Champion: A great deal to understand initially but is easy to use once up and running and provides great focus on reading and reading skillsGreg Newton, Leader: SAM learning has been an invaluable tool in our secondary school. We have whole school engagement of 92% of the school and 96% of Year 11 students have actively engaged with the tasks. Students have loved the tasks set and the challenges created. Teachers have enjoyed the time support but the automatic marking of work and the invaliuable QLA fucntion to help with both analysis and future planning.
I have found the support from the SAM team immense and have enjoyed leading on driving the use of the software in the school this academic year.
Greg Newton (Senior Leader at Tupton Hall School)Alison Harrold, Online platform lead/ Psychology & PE Teacher: To sign into the platform it only requires them to use their school email for their ID and Password. This is brilliant!! It is easy to reset if they accidently sign themselves out of the platform. This can be done by all staff who have access to the platform. They can access the platform anytime and anywhere – on a school computer, laptop or phone. It has adaptative A.I. that guides students to improve their score if they have not achieved 80%. It encourages students to get a higher score than their friends and climb the leader board as part of our schools house cup competition. They can choose from a range of activities to complete across major GCSE & KS3 subjects.gavin byford, deputy head: really like it both staff and students really like it
Renaissance - Accelerated Reader
Progress TrackingPersonalised Reading PracticeInstant FeedbackTarget SettingComprehension QuizzesMotivate Reluctant ReadersImprove Student Outcomes
Renaissance - Accelerated Reader
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Accelerated Reader works on tablets 7” and larger, and on Chromebooks. No app downloads needed; just an internet browser. Tablets with resolutions below 2,048 x 1,536 may require students to scroll to see the entire interface. Performance may be degraded on single-core processor devices.
If using a firewall, proxy, and/or content filter, some changes may need to be made for Renaissance Accelerated Reader to function properly.
Browser cookies must be enabled in order to log in to Renaissance as a student or personnel user.
Microsoft Word 2007 or above is required to author content, including Accelerated Reader quizzes and articles and Star Custom assessment items. Note Microsoft Word Online is not compatible.
Accelerated Reader Recorded Voice Quizzes require a sound card or integrated audio, and headphones or speakers.
Launch and setup is supported by our technical team - we work with school Network Admin.
Renaissance - Accelerated Reader
In PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideosAll new schools are required to book in training with a product expert, this allows for a smooth implementation and for teachers/educators to get the most out of their Renaissance products. New customer training comes with can also include an onsite visit from one of our specialists, which many schools find engaging and motivational and allows teachers to see how their own pupils are performing and progressing. Taking this training allows teachers to get to know our programs but also start imbedding them within the school and follow our proven best practice routines.
After every training session we always send resources to the school which allows them to do in house training for twilight or INSET days.
Schools also have the option of taking top up training every year, this is especially useful to see how their first year as gone, look at annual reports or any changes, updates to the RGP platform from which Renaissance products and reports are access, and to continue imbedding our best practice. We can even work with new starters on complete overview of our programmes.
Renaissance - Accelerated Reader
No installation - the school is provided with their own hosted website, known as RGP, and subsequent login details for all applicable staff/pupils.
48 hours
Renaissance - Accelerated Reader
Parent Access
Renaissance - Accelerated Reader
Renaissance - Accelerated Reader
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Implementation fee, including professional setup training: £1,361.66. Initial 40 licences: £996.00. Individual add-on licences: £6.00
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