Company: Savvas Learning Company, Paramus, NJ
Company Description: At Savvas, we believe learning should inspire. Our next-generation learning solutions, developed by leading authors and educators, leverage the power of adaptive learning and advanced technology to deliver immersive, personalized, and engaging content that connects teachers and students with real-world learning experiences, helping all learners discover their greatness. Visit savvas.com.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Education
Nomination Sub Category: PK-12 Personalized Learning Solution
 Nomination Title: Savvas Learning Company's SuccessMaker®
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For Back to School, August 2023
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SuccessMaker® is a continuously adaptive supplemental reading and math program that personalizes learning for every student and provides educators with real-time insights on student mastery and growth. The evidence-based program is uniquely designed to supplement core K-8 mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA) instruction with a proven instructional approach that accelerates achievement for all learners.
Powered by adaptive technology and able to be translated into more than 60 languages, SuccessMaker automatically gives each student just the right targeted scaffolding, feedback, or additional instruction, right when they need it. Students are placed into their just-right starting point through the program’s embedded diagnostic assessment. From there, continuously adaptive instruction adjusts to student performance in real time as students work in short 15-20 minute sessions, 3-5 times per week, per subject. Instant instructional insights are then provided through up-to-the-minute student mastery and growth data. Lastly, teachers deliver targeted instruction with automatically suggested small groups and point-of-use targeted print lessons.
SuccessMaker’s adaptive engine provides each student with an individualized learning pathway that addresses their specific instructional needs. The ultimate personalized learning solution, SuccessMaker continuously adapts with every swipe, click, and student response, working just like a personal tutor. The program even forecasts student performance based on their up-to-the-minute program usage, then prescribes the exact amount of weekly usage each student needs to reach their individualized target learning goals. Since SuccessMaker never stops instruction to administer a test, teachers never need to wait for a benchmark assessment period to get a real-time view of student mastery and growth.
New for school year 2023-2024, SuccessMaker: Foundations of High School Math is an intervention solution that provides personalized adaptive instruction for high school students who haven’t yet mastered all the prerequisite skills necessary for success in early high school math classes (such as Algebra 1, Integrated Mathematics I, or Geometry). Available on its own or bundled with SuccessMaker Math, SuccessMaker: Foundations of High School Math works effectively as an adaptive intervention solution for students in Grades 9 and 10 who don't yet have the prerequisite skills they need to be successful in early high school math classes.
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Efficacy Research
Two separate quasi-experimental design studies determined that students using the SuccessMaker personalized learning solution showed statistically significant greater math and reading performance over control students who were not using SuccessMaker. The recent studies — conducted by independent researchers following the post-pandemic return to in-person learning — demonstrated that SuccessMaker meets the ESSA Level 2 evidence standard, the highest level a quasi-experimental design study can receive.
The recently conducted quasi-experimental studies add to the impressive body of research behind SuccessMaker, which has been rigorously and repeatedly tested for efficacy through both experimental and quasi-experimental design studies to determine how well the program meets the diverse needs of all learners. Through these studies, SuccessMaker has met both ESSA Level 1 and 2 evidence standards by demonstrating statistically significant and positive effects on student outcomes.
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Customer Testimonial
In fall of 2022, the Port Byron Central School District in New York, which uses Savvas Learning Company’s enVision for core mathematics instruction, adopted its supplemental math program, SuccessMaker, as a way to close post-pandemic learning gaps through personalized differentiated instruction.
“Before our district adopted SuccessMaker, we knew some students needed extra support but we didn’t know in what areas of mathematics,” said Katie Naples, director of curriculum, instruction and assessment for the Port Byron Central School District. “Using SuccessMaker, our teachers can pinpoint quickly and easily where students are in their math progress and where they need to go next. We couldn’t do that before.”
Read the case study, “How Engagement Initiatives Are Leading to Math Growth at Port Byron Central School District” here.
Awards
SuccessMaker has received industry recognition from several award programs over the years. Most recently, SuccessMaker: Foundations of High School Math won the 2023 Tech & Learning Best Tools for Back to School Award of Excellence in the secondary education category.
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Offering personalized learning as unique as every student, SuccessMaker powers growth for all learners, no matter their starting point, while giving teachers up-to-the minute instructional insights on student mastery.
SuccessMaker Reading, grounded in the Science of Reading, offers explicit, direct instruction in the skills necessary for learning to read and reading to learn. It addresses foundational skills and builds students’ higher-order thinking skills for close reading through age-appropriate instruction.
SuccessMaker Math, based on the principles and strands recommended by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, enables students to work on content from multiple math strands in each session.
SuccessMaker: Foundations of High School Math can flexibly fit into a busy high school student’s day. As an anytime, asynchronous, student-driven learning solution, students can work in the program on a supported device anywhere they have an Internet connection.
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