Ascend Education Gold Medal Program
Like the Olympics, where the finest athletes compete to achieve personal excellence, exemplary schools from around the country compete in the Ascend Education Gold Medal Program.
Best practices in math intervention are shared, along with personal success stories about how they use Ascend Math® to motivate their students to reach maximum performance.
The Ascend Math Gold Medal athlete schools shared objectives, desired goals, implementation plans and results of grade gains and high stakes testing, focusing on accountability of both teachers and students, and highlighting the cornerstones of personal achievement.
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R Dan Nolan Middle School, FL
May 12th, 2011This year, even using it from home, we had a couple students gain 5 whole grade levels! Then more typical results were: almost 13% of our students gained 3 grade levels; 14% gained two; and 21% gained 1 grade level.
Memorial Middle School, GA
May 12th, 2011Ascend Math helps Ms. Joseph individualize instruction and enables students to receive direct instruction from the program while she is working with others.
48% gain in score for the class
6 out of 9 students completed 1 or more levels. One student completed 4 levels!
Rockdale County Public Schools, GA
May 10th, 2011Ascend Math assisted the 21 teachers who utilized Ascend to determine what objectives each student needed to work on.
Ascend then provided each student with the individualized instruction to meet their needs in order to create efficiencies of instructional time, especially for students starting below grade levels.
With the help of Ascend Math and self discipline, one 8th grade student was able to go from Level 5 to completing Level 9-12, enabling him to meet his dream of being able to enroll in honors classes in high school.
Carbon County School District #2, WY
May 10th, 2011We have used the Ascend program to intervene with tier 2 and tier 3 students. It has provided instruction that has helped some of our struggling students gain up to three levels in a six month period.
The district met its objective for student grade level gains in that over 94% of students in the Middle School achieved up to 1 years growth in a 3 month intervention period. One student achieved four years growth in a seven month period.
Fort Stockton Middle School, TX
May 6th, 2011The impact Ascend math has had on our school is tremendous. Teachers can tell which students are on the Ascend math program because of their improved math abilities and skills in the classroom and on their assessments. One of the prominent success stories involves a special education student. The student worked over 23 hours on the Ascend Math program, and received commended performance on the state assessment in math.
In the 8th Grade with 60 students using Ascend Math 1-2 hours a week, 63% of Ascend Math students passed. Of those that did not pass, 12 students gained more than a year’s progress in math on the TAKS test. After the second administration of the TAKS test, the school’s total 8th grade pass rate rose from 74% to 86%.
Braden River Middle School, FL
May 6th, 2011According to Ascend data, 34.3 % of our students have progressed two or more grade levels, and an additional 31.4% progressing one grade level. Some students achieved up to four years growth.
