A quarterly opportunity to share updates, opportunities & highlight Mentor supports with the Acadience Mentor Community.
Connect with Acadience
We love the opportunity to meet Acadience Mentors in person. When at conferences or events, we invite you to find us and say hello! Then snag a picture and share it for a chance to be our next Connectwith Acadience winner.
Connect with Acadience
We love the opportunity to meet Acadience Mentors in person. When at conferences or events, we invite you to find us and say hello! Then snag a picture and share it for a chance to be our next Connectwith Acadience winner.
Where You'll Find Us:
November 2nd: 2023 Integrated PaPBS & MTSS Implementers Forum,Hershey, PA | Dr. Kaminski will be presenting.
February 14-17: NASP, New Orleans, LA | Dr. Rattan will be presenting.
Meet Acadience Reading K-6 Mentors Sara Lobaugh & Ami Healy! These ladies connected with members of the Acadience team at The Reading League 7th Annual Conference. Thank you to all the mentors who stopped us to say hello! Sara Lobaugh was selected as the winner!
As a Connect with Acadience winner, Sara selected to participate in additional training to further her knowledge in Acadience Reading Pre-K: PELI.
Thanks for connecting, Sara!
Meet Acadience Reading K-6 Mentors Sara Lobaugh & Ami Healy! These ladies connected with members of the Acadience team at The Reading League 7th Annual Conference. Thank you to all the mentors who stopped us to say hello! Sara Lobaugh was selected as the winner!
As a Connect with Acadience winner, Sara selected to participate in additional training to further her knowledge in Acadience Reading Pre-K: PELI.
Thanks for connecting, Sara!
In addition to tagging Acadience in Social Media, please share your picture with us at [email protected]
Promising Practices Invitation
Excited about the growth you are seeing in your classroom, building or district?
Have a great way to guide the use of Acadience data with grade level, school or district teams?
Promising Practices Invitation
Excited about the growth you are seeing in your classroom, building or district?
Have a great way to guide the use of Acadience data with grade level, school or district teams?
Acadience invites you to share your celebrations & implementation success stories with the Acadience Mentor Community. If interested, submit your proposal using the button below. If selected, you will be invited to share during a Mentor Office Hour or Mentor Webinar and receive free access to the Acadience Professional Learning Workshop of your choosing.
Incase you missed it, we are highlighting new features or functions recently released in Acadience Learning Online.
Acadience Learning Online
Incase you missed it, we are highlighting new features or functions recently released in Acadience Learning Online.
Did you know ALO now has a button to support creating initial grouping suggestions? Here's an article to support using the new feature.
Acadience Reading Español (K-3) will be releasing this fall in ALO as a beta version for digital scoring! More information will be shared during 2024 Mentor Renewal.
If you'd like to learn more about other newly released ALO functions, check out the Acadience Release Notes.
Reminding you of resources available to you in the Mentors' Network or on the Acadience Website. Each quarter we will highlight a tool likely to be of support in your Mentor role.
Have You Seen This?
Reminding you of resources available to you in the Mentors' Network or on the Acadience Website. Each quarter we will highlight a tool likely to be of support in your Mentor role.
Did you know there is a Welcome to ALO website?
Users of Acadience can find information and resources on the webpage to help with transitioning to the ALO platform.
Making you aware of the professional learning options and opportunities.
Professional Learning Spotlight
Making you aware of the professional learning options and opportunities.
MENTOR RENEWAL REMINDER
As a reminder, we have shifted to an annual renewal process. All Mentors will need to update their certification by completing the 2024 Mentor Renewal. The workshop will be available in January of 2024. Current Mentors will recieve notice and will also be able to access the workshop from the Acadience Learning Website under the Training tab.
Check Your Understanding
We have fielded some great questions from Mentors this quarter and wanted to highlight a few to share with the Mentor community. Read the question below, consider how you would respond and then click the button to see how the Authors replied.
Check Your Understanding
We have fielded some great questions from Mentors this quarter and wanted to highlight a few to share with the Mentor community. Read the question below, consider how you would respond and then click the button to see how the Authors replied.
From an Acadience Mentor:
We have a kindergarten student who will not verbalize the first sound in First Sound Fluency, but will sign the letter F to his teacher.
Can we give him credit for this response in Acadience Reading?
What, if any, approved accommodations exist for non-verbal students?
Most Acadience users are headed toward middle of year benchmarks. Are you ready? Use the checklist as a reminder of typical Mentor tasks for this time of year.
Acadience Math K-6 Mentor Workshop:January 25th, 2024
Acadience Pre-K: PELI Data Interpretation Workshop: November 21, 2024
Acadience Pre-K: PELI Mentor Workshop: December 1st, 2024.
To learn more about upcoming Mentoring Workshops, and to locate registration, please visit our website.
You may also complete this form to be added to an interest list regarding upcoming training you may be interested in personally or for a colleague.
Participant recruitment for readability study:
We are seeking school partners to participate in a study to examine the readability of revised oral reading and maze passages. The study will take place between the middle-of-year and end-of-year benchmark testing windows in 2024. Participating sites will be offered a 30% discount on any of our asynchronous reading workshops from March 2024 through September 2024, and coordinators for the first 50 sites to sign up for the study will be offered a stipend of $100. If you would like to participate or have questions, please contact Acadience VP of Research and Innovation, Dr. Jeff Wayman at [email protected].
