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Effective goal setting shouldn’t just be a once a year exercise, but in many schools and districts, teachers set professional or instructional goals in the fall and only revisit them during formal check-ins. Without a consistent process between those checkins, teachers have limited opportunities to reflect on progress,…

The first weeks of school come with an important question: Where are students actually starting? After summer break, students return with different levels of skill retention. Some may be ready to move directly into grade-level work. Others may need a brief review of a prerequisite standard,…

Free test prep resources for the ACT® test can be valuable for individual students. But when a district is responsible for preparing an entire junior class, the challenge becomes much bigger than helping one motivated learner. District leaders also need visibility into student progress, standards mastery, and where…

Reliable assessment data starts with a secure testing environment. As schools prepare for the 2026-27 school year, Progress Learning is introducing Proctor Mode, a new feature designed to help protect the integrity of assessments and activities across K-12 classrooms. Proctor Mode delivers the…

Preparing students for the Georgia Milestones Assessment System (GMAS) means more than choosing the right assessments—it also means choosing the right way to evaluate student writing. Whether your district uses professional hand scoring, AI-assisted scoring, or teacher scoring, each approach offers different advantages depending on your instructional goals,…

If you lead a district, you may have noticed that college and career readiness (CCR) has stopped just being a report card footnote. In state after state, CCR indicators are moving to the center of accountability systems, carrying more weight and, in some cases, influencing school ratings,…

A new strategic partnership brings official content for the ACT® test, past papers, and enhanced score reporting directly into the Progress Learning platform, giving K–12 districts the most comprehensive path to ACT® test readiness available. We’re thrilled to share some big news with our school…

What Georgia’s New Writing Assessment Requirements Mean for Your District If you spent any part of this summer unpacking Georgia‘s new K-12 ELA standards, you already know this year is different. The new standards went into full effect in 2025-26, the Georgia Milestones assessments have been revised…

What’s New in Progress Learning: 2026–2027 Product Release & Enhancements Welcome to the 2026–2027 school year! A new school year brings new opportunities and new ways to make teaching, learning, and school improvement more efficient. This year, we’re introducing new features and enhancements across Progress Learning…