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NewProducts L LEAPFR LEAPFROG SCHOOLHOUSE Leapster Leapster Story Explorers www.lea www.leapfrogschoolhouse.com Curricu Curriculum, $1,050 The Story Explorers kit helps K3 students develop Sto essential essent reading and listening skills using screenbased, handheld personal learning tools. It offers based instruction and skill practice in vocabulary, instr phonemic awareness, language structures and phon comprehension at English language proﬁciency levels 1-2; and building upon p English language content with Spanish audio support; and features teacher reports that show student progress. Each kit includes ﬁve handhelds, ﬁve headphones for quiet practice, seven cartridges to serve 21 students, 21 practice books, a teacher’s manual, 5 AC adapters and a power strip. QWIZDOM Q2 Remote m.com www.qwizdom.com 595/32 Hardware, $1,595/32 remote set The Q2 interactive assessment e tool gauges students’ progress ents’ progress, enabling data-driven instruction. As an interactive learning system, it uses a three-row custom eInk display that supports display of three-digit numbers and features low-battery and mode indicators. It also allows numerous question types, including multiple choice, numeric, yes/no, true/false and rating scale, and responds to screen, verbal or paper-based questions. Students can discreetly request help with the touch of a button and receive instant right/ wrong feedback. ONCOURSE SYSTEMS FOR EDUCATION Student Stats www.oncoursesystems.com Web-based solution, Starting at $4 per student, Quantity-pricing discounts available This technology offers an innovative way to monitor student performance, supporting dynamic access and analysis of standardized testing data. School districts can upload state and benchmark test results in order to aggregate and disaggregate data, providing the ability to compare current and prior-year assessment data across subgroups, grade levels and schools. It can be used individually or in combination with the company’s Lesson Planner and/or Grade Book solutions to provide the ultimate data analysis solution, enabling educators to analyze the impact of standards-based instruction and assessment in one system. Your Vote Counts and YOU Can Make a Difference! M3DESIGNS/EPEN PaperTools Pro 2.0 www.papertoolspro.com, Software, $55 Available on CD or as an Internet download, the software was designed to make research and documentation easy and efﬁcient. It helps users simplify and organize note-taking and prevent plagiarism. Professional and student writers can enter publication information for bibliography entries and citations, take notes either p g as quotations or in their own words, and identify a information with descriptors and keywords. It in also helps writers accurately record sources and a page numbers, transfer notes with citations into a p rough draft on a word processing page, and create ro bibliography and citation entries in MLA, APA, ACS, b CBE, AAAS and Chicago styles. C 58 September 2007 DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION is naming the Reader’s Choice Top 100 K12 Products of 2007. Which products belong? Use our new rating system to select your favorites. There are thousands of products to view and we’re adding to our database daily. Your comments may be posted online and published in our special products issue, which will be devoted to New Products. Visit www. districtadministration.com/products or contact our New Products Editor Ken Royal at kroyal@edmediagroup.com. District Administration http://www.leapfrogschoolhouse.com http://www.qwizdom.com http://www.oncoursesystems.com http://www.papertoolspro.com http://www.districtadministration.com/products http://www.districtadministration.com/products

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Cover Contents Editor’s Letter Letters News Update Curriculum Update Inside the Law District Profile Administrator Profile District Buying Power 2007 X-Factor Student Achievement Awards 2007 We've Got Mail Supporting New Teachers How Well Does This Web Site Work? New Products Problem Solution Computer Literature Research Corner Online Edge Supervisor’s Opinion Speaking Out Calendar of Events Understanding the Times

District Administration - September 2007

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