Lexia Learning - ELL/World Language Acquisition Instructional Solution

Company: Lexia Learning, Rosetta Stone English, Concord, MA
Entry Submitted By: Nickel Communications
Company Description: For more than 30 years, Lexia Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, has been on the leading edge of research and product development to intensify and accelerate literacy skills development for K-12 students of all abilities. Its robust offering includes solutions for differentiated instruction, personalized learning, and assessment.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Education
Nomination Sub Category: ELL/World Language Acquisition Instructional Solution

Nomination Title: Rosetta Stone English

July, 2020

According to the National Education Association, in five years, Emergent Bilinguals, also known as English Learners, will make up nearly 25%of the total K–12 population in U.S. public schools. But many educators may not have sufficient time, knowledge, or resources to provide the necessary amount of differentiated, personalized instruction required to help all their Emergent Bilinguals thrive. To help support these learners, Lexia Learning developed Rosetta Stone® English for grades K–6. http://www.nea.org/home/32409.htm

The new adaptive blended learning speaking and listening program supports young Emergent Bilinguals as they build the linguistic competence and confidence needed for academic successthrough academic conversations.

The program is designed to helpemergentbilingual students – also known as English language learners–acquire higher language proficiency levels of English. Part of Lexia Learning’s language and literacy product suite, the program blends language learning with subject knowledge tosupportacademicachievement.

With embedded alignment with multiple state and national language proficiency standards, Rosetta Stone English focuses on three key areas — speaking, listening, and grammar. Students are able to practice their speaking and listening skills in a safe, non-judgmental and culturally responsive environment, applying their learning using content from math, science, social studies, and general knowledge, and biographies.

Culturally and ethnically diverse characters engage and encourage students throughout their learning journeys, while interactive academic conversations empower them to build the linguistic competence and confidence needed for academic success.To address individual needs, the program offers both standard and scaffolded instruction.

Assessment Without Testing® technology gathers and analyzes actionable, real-time progress monitoring data and recommendsadditionallessons for teacher-facilitated peer-to-peer speaking and listening practice. All reports can be accessed through our easy-to-use Educator Platform, at the student, class, grade, school, and district levels.

By providing Emergent Bilinguals with frequent listening and speaking opportunities, particularly in the area of academic language, Rosetta Stone English brings the best of language acquisition strategies and literacy outcomes for today’s English Learners.

Market performance
Rosetta Stone English was introduced in July 2020. As of January 2021, 12,041 students are actively using the program at 685 schools.

Critical reception
Rosetta Stone English was named a winner in both theTech & Learning magazine’s Best of 2020 productsand THE Journal’s 2020 New Product Award program.
https://www.techlearning.com/news/2020-best-of-show-at-iste-awards-and-best-of-2020-awards
https://thejournal.com/articles/2020/12/01/the-journal-2020-new-product-award-winners.aspx

Customer Satisfaction -ESL teacher testimonial
Beta tester, Esmeralda Hernández, bilingual/ESL specialist at Marilyn J. Miller Elementary in Fort Worth, Texas, stated, “I would recommend the Rosetta Stone English program to other educators because it provides a systematic approach to learning English as a second language in an interactive and academically rigorous way. Additionally, the educator platform allows me to collect data to make instructional decisions to meet my English Learners' diverse needs.”
Testimonial video: http://rosettastoneenglish.gallery.video/rse-testimonial-video
Customer testimonials: http://rosettastoneenglish.gallery.video/rse-testimonial-video
Case study: https://www.lexialearning.com/resources/rosetta-stone-english/right-solution-right-time-engaging-emergent-bilingual-students-tampa

Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/gedFYNv0oWc

URLs:
Product website: https://www.lexialearning.com/products/rosetta-stone-english

Collateral: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iaCvmcaKEIbM39uTMqwCTbqMZ8IrVCF_