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Written by Dr. Sandra Markowitz and Adriana Lazaro, Enterprise Customer Success Managers with Progress Learning. Dr. Sandra Markowitz is an experienced educator with 17 years in the field of Instructional Technology. Passionate about assistive technology, Universal Design for Learning, instructional strategies, and workflow solutions, Sandra brings innovative…

Hispanic Heritage Month gives students a meaningful opportunity to learn about the people whose ideas, creativity, leadership, and achievements have shaped history and culture. The free Celebrating Voices: Hispanic Heritage Biography Project makes it easy to bring that learning into your middle or high school classroom.

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…

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…

When we launched our inaugural Alien Ranking Card Student Design Contest, we hoped students would have fun creating their own alien characters. What happened next exceeded every expectation. More than 500 original alien designs were submitted from classrooms across the country, each showcasing the creativity and…

Technology-enhanced items (TEIs) are becoming a central part of state assessments, but many educators still question how students truly perform on them. This large-scale analysis from Progress Learning examines over 3 billion student responses across grades K–12 and all core subjects to better understand how TEIs impact performance,…

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to reflect on how teachers and students across the country used Progress Learning to drive meaningful growth, monitor progress, and keep standards at the center of instruction. Every login, question, and assignment represents hard work and a step…

At the end of a long week, sometimes all a teacher needs is a good cup of coffee and some time to talk shop with people who truly get it. That’s the spirit behind Progress Learning’s Ambassador Coffee & Curriculum series, and our November session did…

What happens when students can see—and understand—their own growth? That’s the question Dr. Gillian Phillips, 8th Grade Team Lead and ELA Department Chair at Smokey Road Middle School in Coweta County Schools…