Stride
Motivating students can be challenging. Stride uses games and rewards to inspire students to master difficult math, language arts, reading, and science concepts.
Stride’s adaptive technology guides each student to practice where he or she needs it most—and then serves up a variety of content that’s lively and engaging, rich with a spirit of community and competition.
Stride features include:
• Deep content to further strengthen skills
• Translations for 60+ languages
• Integrated with Renaissance STAR Assessments ® for a comprehensive approach to improving student outcomes
• “Help Me” feature that recommends targeted skill review activities
• Fun and engaging games for students
• Technology-enhanced items to help students prepare for high-stakes testing
• Teacher dashboards to help better
• Easy to read student progress bars
- An open platform means Stride works on most popular devices, including tablets and laptops.
- The cloud-based system lets students access Stride anytime, anywhere.
- Benchmark and formative assessments ensure students are at grade level for end-of-course and end-of-year tests
- An adaptive learning engine continuously evaluates student responses to create a customized learning plan targeted to each student’s needs.
- Real-time data on student performance helps teachers drive instruction and optimize achievement
- Comprehensive content for grades Pre-K through 8 is aligned with national and state standards.
- In-depth reporting on student performance is available in a variety of formats.
- An anti-guessing feature ensures students always put forth their best effort
An recent statewide study* in Alabama found Stride was successful in improving academic achievement in targeted schools:
- Students who used Stride improved math benchmark pass rates by 15 percent.
- Stride students also improved reading benchmark pass rates by 10 percent.
- Stride students who were economically disadvantaged improved math pass rates by 23 percent.
- Special education students using Stride improved reading benchmark pass rates by 57 percent.
