Savvas Learning Company - Best Mathematics Instructional Solution

Company: Savvas Learning Company, Paramus, NJ
Company Description: At Savvas, we believe learning should inspire. Our next-generation learning solutions, developed by leading authors and educators, leverage the power of adaptive learning and advanced technology to deliver immersive, personalized, and engaging content that connects teachers and students with real-world learning experiences, helping all learners discover their greatness. Visit savvas.com.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Education
Nomination Sub Category: Mathematics Instructional Solution

Nomination Title: Savvas Learning Company’s enVision® Mathematics Common Core © 2020/2021 Grades K-8

Comprised of:

enVision® Mathematics Common Core ©2020 Grades K-5
Update released January 1, 2019

enVision® Mathematics Common Core ©2021 Grades 6-8
Update released January 1, 2020

The enVision®Mathematics Common Coreseries is a comprehensive K-8 math curriculum that supports all students in developing deep conceptual understanding, fluency, and application through rigorous problem-solving and high-interest math projects. The nationally recognized enVision Math series provides the focus, coherence, and rigor of the Common Core State Standards, and offers the flexibility of print, digital, and blended instruction. What sets enVision apart is its research-grounded lesson design, featuring problem-based learning paired with visual learning strategies and extensive customization options to empower every teacher and student.

Accessible through Savvas Realize™, one of the edtech industry’s most versatile learning management systems, enVision offers a rich, interactive experience designed to support students of all levels and provide access to instructional content online, offline, and anytime. Through reliable single sign-on, Realize allows teachers to customize lesson plans, administer assessments, and monitor student progress, as well as manage student data and integrate with Google Classroom®. The Realize Scout Observational Assessment Tool gives teachers the ability to collect, tag, and comment on student work. A new feature, the Distance Learning Toggle, makes Realize even more flexible by quickly highlighting, with the click of a button, curated content optimized for distance learning.

enVision provides teachers with resources and tools for differentiated instruction and adaptive, personalized learning, including digital activities such as:

3-Act Math Modeling — Multimedia lessons present engaging, real-world situations where students use mathematical models to propose solutions that are meaningful to them.

Practice Buddy (K-5) and Practice Powered by MathXL (6-8) for School — Personalized learning options such as additional examples, videos, and individual questions provide instant feedback to help correct errors and misconceptions.

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Projects — High-interest activities provide opportunities for students to explore real social, economic, and environmental issues.

Interactivities powered by Desmos (6-8) — Interactives like a cutting-edge graphing calculator and geometry technology are embedded directly in lessons.

Pick a Project — Student-centered activities promote student choice and engage learners in real-world math projects.

In conclusion, enVision is a next-generation learning solution that provides a proven scope and sequence to help all students succeed at math.

The enVision Mathematics Common Core series sets the standard for true problem-based learning and visual instruction, and gives students real choice in how they learn and apply math.

The entire enVision Mathematics Common Core K-12 series, including ©2020 Grades K-5 and ©2021 Grades 6-8, has earned the highest “All-Green” rating from EdReports.org, the highly regarded independent nonprofit organization that reviews K-12 curriculum to help identify quality instructional materials for school districts and educators. It applies evidence-based analysis in evaluating math and English Language Arts programs. By giving “All-Green” ratings to each of the products in the enVision Common Core K-12 line, EdReports has determined that the full math series consistently delivers high-quality, standards-aligned instructional material across all grade levels.

In 2020, Savvas asked enVision teachers across the nation to share their most memorable learning moments. Sara Jones, a third grade teacher from Des Moines, Iowa, said: “I love how my students get the hands-on learning they need to move from tactile learning to abstract learning. This helps them to visualize the whole number being broken up into groups, just like multiplication. It is a great way to introduce fact families and make those connections.”

Fifth-grade teacher Thomas Dennison blogged his enthusiasm for teaching enVision Math, sharing: “I love the ‘Practice Buddy’ and ‘Quick Check’ pieces of our enVision Math program. I can customize which problems students get, and it grades them for me and keeps record. The ‘Practice Buddy’ is my favorite because if students miss the problem it gives them multiple chances to try and learn from their mistakes. And when students work with each other, their problems are the same concept but different numbers. It ensures that they can’t cheat off each other but they can help each other. By the time I get to a pair of students working to check on them, they have already problem-solved it themselves. That’s how you build problem-solvers.”

(More testimonials submitted by teachers using enVision Math are available in the attached “Sharing Success” PDF.)