Differentiated Instruction
Helping educators make effective use of a wide range of information is critical to our approach and your success. Our instructional support and professional development sessions provide educators with the analytical skills and practical experience needed to make the most instructional use of data from summative tests, formative assessments, extended-day interventions, and classroom observation.
The consistent focus is on enabling the true differentiation of student instruction and teacher professional development, so that every learner receives the most targeted and effective support for his or her needs.
The Princeton Review has developed a set of core services built around this model:
As part of creating the bridge between assessment and instruction, we review all reports with relevant staff. For example, after each administration of a benchmark assessment, we typically meet with each school's administrators to review student performance and highlight specific areas to be addressed in classrooms or through PD for teachers.
Unlike testing or technology companies, The Princeton Review ensures your program success through a committed, focused infusion of training, professional development, and ongoing support for teachers and administrators. The face-to-face sessions, delivered by our experienced educators, are theme-based and workshop-oriented. They model best practices for translating theory and data into action in the classroom.
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Alignment to Basal Curriculum and State Standards and Tests
Most supplemental materials used by districts are off-the-shelf and generic, and hence inherently limited in their effectiveness. We will work with you to design customized programs that support your academic goals, align to your standards, and equip your students with the skills necessary to meet grade-level performance targets. This standards-driven model allows you to effectively address the multiple learning needs of students at all skill levels. We help you align your basal curriculum to state standards and assessments, integrate data from formative and summative tests, and tie your various basal and supplemental programs to a common framework.
Our expert team will work with you to develop a program that contains some or all of the following:
- Materials that align to local and state standards that reflect the scope, sequence, and pacing of district curriculum
- Teacher and student editions for all instructional materials
- Activity books for supplemental skill review and academic prep-and-practice tools focused on high-stakes assessments
- Electronic resources for skill remediation
- Parent Communication and College Readiness workshops
- Ongoing assessment at each grade level (for administration either online or with paper and pencil) to help form classes and differentiate instruction
- Professional development for administrators and teachers that builds capacity in curriculum, pedagogy, and practices of data-differentiation
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Expertise with Blends of Print, Online, and Face-to-Face
We believe that the most compelling instruction, professional development, and assessment blends print materials, online resources, and face-to-face modeling and interaction. Each of these media have inherent strengths that, when combined according to the needs and capacities of each district, result in programs that are powerfully efficient and effective.
 Print: Our data-differentiated professional development, extended-day, SES, and summer programs include texts and workbooks designed specifically for your district. Our research & development team creates engaging materials for teachers and students that incorporate your state and district standards and your curricular scope and sequence.
Online: For 10 years, The Princeton Review has led the field in creating online instructional and assessment systems that are engaging, easy to use, and instructionally supportive. We have more experience than anyone in supporting teachers and students electronically. Our online tools integrate seamlessly with Blackboard, SchoolNet, Orion, and most student information systems (SIS) to support enhanced instructional outcomes for teachers, students, and administrators.
Face-to-Face: Real learning takes place here. Since our inception, we have trained thousands of teachers in dozens of subjects and supported them with the tools, curriculum, and professional development they need. All of our programs, from Professional Development to Summer School to Extended-Day, focus not only on improving student outcomes but also on building instructional capacity at the school level.
Our national network of offices and educators allows us to place as few or as many coaches and consultants at your sites, and as often as you require.
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Accountability
To us, "partnership" is not a fancy way of saying "sales". Partnership means that we work side-by-side with your teachers, administrators, and instructional leaders to develop and deliver programs that measurably improve student outcomes. Your students become our students, and we will never let our students down.
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