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Units of Study (UOS)

The heart and soul of Teengagement are high-interest, nonfiction units of study, each written at 3 Lexile bands and in ACT-style for student differentiation. Teengagement units of study:

-center around an engaging and relevant essential question
-include paired text, data, and project-based authentic assessment
-grow vocabulary and comprehension skills
-deliver rigorous assessments for practice with standard-based questions
-track performance gains by standard
-include writing prompts that build on paired text and data
-provide standards-aligned rubrics

Teengagement units of study are designed for vertical learning, building critical thinkers to be active learners while still providing needed instruction and practice for success on state assessments.

UOS Instructional Components

Each unit of study is supported by instructional pieces for teachers.

-A student introduction video ties directly to the essential question and authentic assessment.
-Instructional Blueprints for each UOS are a springboard for mapping the unit, and a “lifesaver” for reading instruction, providing a toolbox of teaching strategies.
-Each Instructional Blueprint is accompanied by a video for teachers, walking teachers through the instructional components of the UOS.

Test Prep Instruction

Teachers are provided with a targeted state assessment test-prep instructional plan and series of videos to use in conjunction with Teengagement units of study and the Teengagement Test Prep courses. Test Prep Instruction includes:

-week-by-week and step-by-step support for teachers
-test prep pacing guide
-rigorous assessment texts and questions
-instruction for standards, task demands, and question styles with various levels of complexity
-student self-study centers for targeted individual work on skills regarding complex text, vocabulary, and question and response analysis

Standards-Based Reporting and Progress Monitoring

Teengagement provides progress monitoring for both students and teachers with digital standards-based reporting and a Reading Assessment Answer Document to track progress on standards across units of study. Standards-based reporting:

-provides a means for measuring instruction by standard for individuals and groups of students
-drives instruction by identifying areas of concern and/or weakness for individuals and groups of students
-gives coaches and administrators access to data reports for the teachers they supervise
-allows students to be accountable for their own learning
-encourages student and teacher understanding of how to identify different types of standard-based questions with multiple opportunities to practice and analyze question types

Teengagement Empower

Teengagement Empower provides web-based professional development. Relevant, actionable, and instructional capacity-building videos provide teachers and coaches with meaningful professional development, delivered in an online format convenient for busy educators. Teengagement Empower videos focus on essential topics for successful teen literacy instruction:

-effective implementation of Teengagement in the classroom
-measuring and monitoring progress using standard reporting data
-teaching through the standards
-effective test prep

Teengagement Empower videos are designed to provide teachers and coaches a more impactful, actionable, and efficient way to complete necessary professional development.

Teengagement Empower Plus

Teengagement Empower Plus is an interactive professional development toolkit for teachers, designed to build teacher capacity with best practices for instruction. Using interactive instructional and assessment tools, teachers are led through modules that check for understanding while allowing teachers to complete meaningful, relevant professional development individually, on their own time. 12 Teengagement Empower Plus includes modules covering:

-informational reading standards 1-9
-how to teach a unit of study
-using a guided reading format to build lessons
-small group intervention

Teachers will earn a completion certificate at the successful completion of each course which may be submitted to their district for credit.