MyGuide(R) Personal Learning Program Utilizes District Data To Create Differentiated, Standards-Based Instruction

NEW YORK, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The launch of the third edition of MyGuide®, a personal learning program from McGraw-Hill Education, will enable educators to link assessment data into differentiated supplemental lessons, achieving a greater level of differentiated instruction than ever before.

Designed for Grades 6-8 in reading and math, MyGuide uses the latest in cognitive science research and intelligent technology to link assessment data to instruction. Unlike other programs that only incorporate state summative tests, MyGuide also uses the district's own formative assessment results to deliver standards-aligned differentiated instruction, which includes extensive teacher support to ensure that every student's learning needs are met.

Once the district's assessment data is loaded into MyGuide, the system determines leveled content based on individual scores and provides teachers with differentiated lessons at the click of a button.

This unique classroom tool is eligible for Race to the Top federal funds. Its components include:

• MyGuide Management System for Teachers: Allows teachers to print MyGuide instructional materials, preview online tutorials, access differentiated instruction tools, and link to additional teacher resources.
• MyGuide Online System for Students: Provides students with individual accounts where they can complete online tutorials, review their own summative test scores and generate copies of the summative MyGuide.
• Teacher Power Packs: Delivers explicit differentiated instruction for three groups of students and includes classroom strategies for working with small groups in a workshop model.
• Student Power Packs: Delivers state standards-aligned, performance-based instruction to achieve standards mastery.

"Douglas Unified School District, located in the southeast corner of Arizona, has several unique characteristics, including its high poverty rate and large student population of English Language Learners. The district has two middle schools that serve approximately 900 students.  The teachers at these schools were struggling to successfully utilize the data from benchmark assessments to perform meaningful and effective interventions with students below level.  MyGuide was the product that made this connection possible for Douglas."

- Director, Office of School Improvement, Douglas Unified School District

"MyGuide is a great way to differentiate instruction. We have found that we can use it as described or we can use it as a reading lesson with hands-on independent activities, while the teacher manages small instructional groups. We can see that the students have improved when we look at their formative and summative assessments. The best part is the dialogue that teachers are having in their Professional Learning Communities and the development of common assessments."

- Reading Coach, Douglas Unified School District

For more information about MyGuide, call 1-866-539-0439 or visit grownetwork.com.

About McGraw-Hill Education

The McGraw-Hill School Education Group, a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, is a is a leading innovator in developing 21st century teaching and learning solutions for K-12 education markets, offering traditional and digital instructional, assessment, and reference content and tools for teachers and students. The School Education Group addresses critical areas in primary and secondary education through Learning Solutions Centers focused on improving student learning outcomes and promoting digital innovation in literacy, STEM, college and career readiness, and intervention and special needs education. McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), has offices in 33 countries and publishes in more than 65 languages. Additional information is available at http://www.mheducation.com.

SOURCE McGraw-Hill Education