The Lexile® & Quantile® Educator Academy An introduction to our new professional development courses LISA NEMARGUT Product Manager MATT COPELAND Director of Educator Engagement and Implementation 

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Agenda 3 3 An introduction to our new professional development courses on the Lexile® Framework for Reading and Quantile® Framework for Mathematics. Lexile and Quantile Educator Academy Lexile® and Quantile® Certification Courses An exploration of the content, features, and benefits of the Lexile and Quantile Certification Courses. Questions and Answers 

4 Overview 

Why did we create the Educator Academy? Given the busy nature of both the personal and professional lives of educators, MetaMetrics wants to offer a diverse range of professional learning opportunities to expand their use of Lexile and Quantile measures. 5 We have more than 30 million students with measures, and we wanted to arm educators with the specific classroom use cases to put those measures to work. The asynchronous nature of these Lexile and Quantile Educator Academy courses provide educators timely access to information, at their convenience, to impact their instructional planning in the classroom and monitor student growth toward our goals for college and career readiness. 

6 Our new professional development platform containing online, self-paced courses for educators on the Lexile Framework for Reading and the Quantile Framework for Mathematics. What is the Educator Academy? EMPOWERS EDUCATORS TO: COLLABORATE with a professional learning community of educators on best practices BECOME CERTIFIED in the Lexile and Quantile Frameworks LEVERAGE the tools on the Lexile® & Quantile® Hub to put Lexile and Quantile measures to work in the classroom 

7 What is the Lexile & Quantile Educator Academy? hub.lexile.com edacademy.lexile.com 

8 Lexile & Quantile Certification Courses Features and Benefits 8 

9 The Masters of Educational Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (MEITE) program is a professional master's degree program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for students pursuing careers in the educational technology industry. The coursework and collaborative internship allows graduate students to research, design, and assess leading-edge edtech according to the best practices in the industry. How were the courses developed? MetaMetrics partnered with the MEITE program to research, design, and build the Lexile and Quantile Certification Courses. + 

10 Lexile and Quantile Certification Courses Consist of four distinct instructional modules Take approximately 10 hours each to complete Include a variety of instructional methods (reflection, direct instruction, knowledge checks, assessments, performance tasks & collaborative forums) Provide participants with micro-credentials, certification of completion & CEUs in applicable states ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 

Course Modules 11 Lexile Certification Course Modules Module 1 Understanding the Lexile Framework for Reading Module 2 Using Lexile Measures and Tools in the Classroom Module 3 The Lexile and Quantile Growth Planners and Career Database Module 4 Lexile Extensions, Advanced Classroom Applications and Communications > Quantile Certification Course Modules > > Module 1 Understanding the Quantile Framework for Mathematics Module 2 Using Quantile Measures and Tools in the Classroom Module 3 The Lexile and Quantile Growth Planners and Career Database Module 4 Quantile Extensions, Advanced Classroom Applications and Communications > > > 

12 Module 1 Describe the Lexile and Quantile Frameworks, the research that forms the foundation of the Frameworks, and how they are organized. Describe the similarities and differences between student Lexile and Quantile measures, and measures for materials. Match students with appropriate reading and mathematics materials. Understand what the Lexile & Quantile Hub is and how it can be used to enhance educators’ effectiveness. 

13 Module 2 Explore Find a Book to match students to targeted reading material. Describe various features of Grade Level Charts and use them to create instructional groups. Employ the Text Analyzer to measure text and identify features that affect complexity. Utilize WordLists to generate vocabulary instructional resources. LEXILE CERTIFICATION COURSE Use the Math Skills Database and Teacher Assistant to unpack state mathematics standards. Use Quantile measures to create instructional groups using Grade Level Charts. Differentiate lesson plans using the Quantile measures of students and Teacher Assistant. Identify resources and lessons that are appropriate for instructional groups using the Resource Center. QUANTILE CERTIFICATION COURSE 

14 Module 3 Use the Growth Planner to make predictions about a student's projected college and career readiness. Use the Career Database to analyze a career's Lexile and Quantile measures to interpret the entry-level difficulty of the reading and mathematical demand of a career. Interpret student measures in the context of the entry-level reading and mathematics demands of a specific career. ✓ Demonstrate knowledge of data-driven decision making in college and career planning. ✓ 

15 Module 4 LEXILE CERTIFICATION COURSE QUANTILE CERTIFICATION COURSE • Interpret a student's Lexile measure and develop a student profile. • Develop an action plan for parents/guardians to support their students at home. • Create a student-centered lesson for your grade or content area. • Produce a summer reading list for a class or grade level. • Create and share an original lesson plan developed using resources from the Lexile and Quantile Hub. • Interpret a student’s Quantile measure and develop a student profile. • Develop an action plan for parents to support their child at home. • Create a differentiated lesson plan for student enrichment. • Share a curated list of mathematics resources to parents and key stakeholders. • Create and share an original lesson plan that is aligned to the Quantile Framework. 

16 Online Professional Learning Community Describes the grade level, purpose, challenges and successes of the assignment. Reflects on best practices in creating lesson plans. Replies with positive affirmations, provides suggestions for improvement, validates multiple-rubric approach to student validation. Replies with positive affirmation, and reinforces the first poster’s approach by adding thoughts on evaluating student rubrics. 

17 Completing this assignment made me realize that there were MANY more focus QSCs than I expected. This will really help teachers interpret the standards. Often the standards are very long and vague, but the Focus QSCs break everything down. This knowledge will be very helpful when lesson planning and deconstructing standards. I think that the relationship between the QSC and state math standards are great, because there are often several DOK levels in one standard. That will really help teachers scaffold their teaching!” “I agree that this exercise made me really focus on the depth of just one part of one standard at my grade level. Doing this for every standard would make one much better informed about the standards they are charged with teaching.” “Yes! The break down the Focus QSCs provide is super helpful. Such a useful and helpful resource.” 

I have always used Find a Book to discover the Lexile of a known book. I did not realize I could check vocabulary and other information if I clicked on the book. I love that I can get more information about the text to help me scaffold for instruction. I find the vocabulary section extremely helpful now that I know about it. It will save me some time in differentiating the instruction and looking for key vocabulary.” 18 

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20 • Each course costs $99 per educator, and is available for 90 days to complete after enrollment. Non State Partner Educators will need Premium Hub access ($17.99 annually). • Volume pricing available. Enrollment edacademy.lexile.com 

MetaMetrics will provide free access to these courses to state leaders who request it so that they can review both the content and the platform. Free Access for State Leaders 21 If interested in this free access, please email me at: [email protected] 

Questions 22 We’ll now answer questions submitted during the webinar! LISA NEMARGUT Product Manager MATT COPELAND Director of Educator Engagement and Implementation 

The MetaMetrics State Service and Support team will schedule follow up conversations with individual states. Follow-up Conversations 23 Of course, always feel free to reach out to me directly! [email protected] For our current state partners, we will include this topic during our next scheduled quarterly call. For states not currently partnering with us, we will reach out and inquire about scheduling a quick call to discuss in the weeks ahead. 

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