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Academic Approach supports school leadership and faculty in a coordinated manner to gather, analyze, and draw important insights from their students’ data and experiences and their school goals.
Based on research and data, we work with your faculty to develop responsive instruction both within and across departments that seamlessly weaves skill-based test preparation into your curriculum.
Your faculty will learn to create and use assessments to analyze student progress, use data to drive continued instructional planning, and implement research-based best practices and instructional strategies to develop student mastery of essential college-readiness skills.
Academic Approach supports school leadership and faculty in a coordinated manner to gather, analyze, and draw
important insights from the education world and the college-readiness testing landscape.
Based on research and data, we work with your faculty to develop responsive instruction both within and across
departments that seamlessly weaves skill-based test preparation into your curriculum.
Your faculty will learn to create and use assessments to analyze student progress, use data to drive continued
instructional planning, and implement research-based best practices and instructional strategies to develop student
mastery of essential college-readiness skills.
Professional Development
Professional Development.
We offer virtual or in-person professional development sessions focused on research-based practices to improve teacher capacity in providing rigorous, differentiated instruction.
We offer virtual or in-person professional development sessions focused on:
SAT Skills Insight Report
The Skills Insight Report groups students by SAT skill-band and recommends high-frequency, high-need standards for growth based on those skill-bands. The Skills Insight Report enables you to:
Academic Approach measures the success of our teacher preparation by its impact and sustainability in furthering your school goals. Specific professional development options vary depending on goals for the school year. Our offerings can be delivered virtually or in-person and include:
Introductory Sessions: Orientation to college entrance exams and the skills they assess, including Career and College-Readiness Standards, SAT Domains and Dimensions, and the Common Core State Standards.
Data Analysis Sessions: Analysis of your student data through the Data Driven Instructional Cycle (DDIC) process, including:
Prioritization of high-impact, high-need skills, as evidenced by our unique Raw Score Gain Report or SAT Skills Insight Report*
Analysis of student misconceptions and implications of rigor through item analysis
Development of an instructional response rooted in the data
Instructional Best Practices: Workshops aligned to the benefit of assessment and instructional strategies that advance student mastery on essential and necessary college-readiness skills. Workshop offerings include:
Formative Assessment Best Practices: Understand benefit of formative assessment, advance/adjust practice with formative assessment, and deliver numerous immediately usable strategies and materials
Reading Instructional Strategies: Investigate practical teaching strategies that develop students into stronger readers every day and translate reading skills to performing well on the SAT
Math Instructional Strategies: Analyze and discuss practical teaching strategies that help students master essential math skills and apply them to the SAT
Rigor in the Classroom: Assess current understanding of rigor in the classroom and develop a set of best practices for promoting academic excellence
Train the Teacher: Academic Approach provides faculty training and curriculum for teachers to instruct their own test prep courses. Teachers can rely on their existing relationships and knowledge of student baseline skills to customize their courses. Academic Approach provides training and support around our skill-based lessons. These lessons include scaffolded questions and test-level application items giving teachers the resources they need to prepare students to achieve beyond the test.
Curriculum Development: Collaboration with administrators, instructional coaches, and teachers to ensure curriculum coherency and alignment of expected outcomes and competencies of high school graduation.
SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and Math Toolkits: The Academic Approach SAT Toolkits are a set of tools and instructional materials to help schools infuse SAT-level rigor into the curriculum and incorporate targeted skills and practices into instruction.
FAQ
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“While other companies focus on tricks to beat the test, Academic Approach focuses on problem solving and learning grammatical rules or reading strategies to assist with multiple choice tests. The results have been nothing short of remarkable; our students have qualified for more scholarships and have been admitted to more colleges.”
“The Academic Approach team has been phenomenal in responding to the needs of my teachers and students throughout the 6+ years I have worked with them. They are one of our most valued partners in educating our students and supporting our teachers.”
“Students receive in-person classes crafted to explore the purpose of the SAT, the structure of the SAT, and the best ways to make the most of test day and achieve the best possible score. When, as a school, we partnered with Academic Approach, we found we had a 24-7 support network of consistent individuals who knew us, our school, and the particularities that made us.”
“Academic Approach employs knowledgeable experts and resourceful professionals who are able to facilitate all of their interactive, informative, and research-based professional developments, so teachers are able to align test domains with instructional practices using accurate pacing guides.”