New Breakthrough Technology Allows Districts to Create Individual Learning Paths Aligned to State Standards, Research-Driven Strategies, and Existing Resources
Imagine if educators had a roadmap that laid out the most appropriate learning path for every student and accommodated individual needs on the journey to improved academic performance. Further envision that these learning paths help ensure that students reach their destination -- on time -- and enjoy tremendous success in the classroom. Think this is the stuff of education reformists’ dreams?
Think again. It’s all possible today with the launch of IntelliPath™ by HOSTS Learning®, the leader in K-12 learning management systems and academic mentoring and intervention programs. IntelliPath is a highly customizable instructional management tool that enables educators to create in-depth, individual learning paths for students by combining assessment results, standards-aligned instruction, lesson planning, educational content and reporting into one comprehensive, yet easy-to-use system.
“We believe that education must be focused, individualized and measurable, but admittedly, that approach requires a tremendous amount of time and resources,” said Joe Debellis, chief executive officer and president of HOSTS Learning. “IntelliPath combines the entire instructional cycle of assessing, diagnosing, prescribing, implementing and evaluating into one turn-key solution based on the latest technological advances, plus our 35 years of experience in helping all students become successful learners. We not only use and preserve each district’s investment in assessments and learning resources, we help them maximize it.”
IntelliPath’s power lies in the generation of individual learning paths for accelerated improvement. First, assessment data from various sources – formative assessments, state tests, and norm-referenced tests – are imported into the system. Next, IntelliPath uses that data to identify curriculum gaps, precisely align a school’s existing instructional resources with each targeted learning need, and make recommendations for optimal, personalized instruction. More than 50,000 potential core and supplemental curriculum and learning resources are part of the IntelliPath system, including basal texts, supplemental resources, software and customized district or school curriculums.
The system delivers just-in-time information in a variety of customizable reports so that administrators, teachers and parents can effectively manage students’ learning needs in the classroom or in prescribed one-on-one mentoring sessions. The reports can track day-to-day mastery of state standards performance at the district, school, class, group and individual student levels, performance on specific assessments and progress checks, and historical performance on standards and objectives.
The IntelliPath implementation doesn’t stop with customized learning paths. It supports a comprehensive onsite and online professional development component as well. Teachers are given customized modules that address five core competencies required to ensure individual student and school-wide success: instructional leadership, data-driven decision making, implementation of best practices, differentiating instruction and strategies for supporting struggling learners.
“With the help of HOSTS Learning, we have been able to build a common language of instruction school wide. The results have produced unparalleled improvements in math and reading test scores that have swiftly reduced student achievement gaps,” said Eric Driessen, principal of Brewster Elementary School in Brewster, Wash. “What’s more, our teachers see this solution as the best way to support our goal of continuous instructional improvement for each of our students. It is easy to use, cost efficient and, best of all, proven to help students achieve incredible results.”
To learn more about IntelliPath or HOSTS Learning, please go to www.hosts.com or call 800-833-4678.
About HOSTS Learning
For over 35 years, HOSTS Learning solutions have helped more than one million K-12 students improve their reading skills and math proficiencies through its research-based instructional management systems, professional growth services, and mentoring and intervention programs. The HOSTS school-wide solution holds the distinction of being the only structured learning system identified as significantly reducing academic failure in both the No Child Left Behind language and the IDEA reauthorization.
Based in Vancouver, WA, HOSTS Learning solutions are currently used in schools in 40 U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and El Salvador. For more information, please visit www.hosts.com or call 1-800-833-4678.