Serving
Private & Religious Schools for Over 35 Years
Your Partner in Providing Quality Education
Every child deserves a quality education
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Supporting America’s Private & Religious Schools Supporting Your Students
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Supporting Your Teachers
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Supporting Your Leaders
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Supporting Your School Community
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Supporting Your Students At Catapult Learning, we recognize that at-risk students require personalized instruction that not only addresses their skill gaps but also builds self-confidence. Our programs have been built purposefully with these two goals in mind. We know what’s at stake, and we know what it takes to help students succeed.
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Proven Results In the last five years, our AchieveMath™ and AchieveReading™ programs have helped students dramatically improve their results on national standardized tests after just one year of instruction.
AchieveMath
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Instructional Programs Catapult Learning’s reading, math and English programs were designed to support your struggling learners with systematic and explicit instruction that’s tailored to the unique needs of your students. All our instructional intervention programs are delivered by highly trained educators in a smallgroup setting. Our teachers create a supportive learning environment and introduce new concepts through scaffolded instruction and guided practice activities that increase self-confidence and the motivation to learn. Our teachers and program supervisors collaborate closely with your teachers and staff to ensure that progress continues in the classroom.
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Our instructional programs can be delivered throughout the school day, after school, or as part of a summer learning program. All Programs are Aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Math and ELA.
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Summer Learning Leap is our innovative summer learning program that combines intensive academic instruction with enrichment activities and support for teachers and families. The goal: eliminate summer learning loss and prepare students to transition to the next grade level.
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Supporting Your Students with Common Core Assessment Focusing on discrete standards, Catapult Learning’s interim assessments provide valuable insight into students’ prerequisite knowledge as well as mastery of each gradelevel standard in math and reading. Using the Catapult Learning Common Core Interim Tests (CLCCIT) results and reporting tools, a teacher can plan instruction knowing exactly what skill gaps prevent a student from mastering a particular standard.
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Spotlight On... How Does CLCCIT Compare to SMARTER Balanced and PARCC? Like the tests being developed by the state consortia, the CLCCIT tests students on essential Common Core standards. However, the CLCCit tests have a different purpose. SMARTER Balanced and PARCC tests are being designed to give an integrated, summative evaluation of whether students are proficient in the Common Core at grade level at the end of the year. The CLCCIT informs teachers throughout the year, with results that are ready immediately following test taking. Also, SMARTER Balanced and PARCC are still in development. CLICCIT is available now.
Reporting Tools Crafted for Teachers by Teachers Teaching to the standards and preparing students for the new generation assessment tests means that students must perform at a higher level and complete more complex and demanding tasks. However, not every student progresses at the same rate. With CLCCIT reporting tools, teachers use real-time data to inform instructional decisions.
• View test results at the district, school,
and student level.
• Drill down to see individual student
CLCCIT Assessments and Reporting Tools
performance on specific standards.
• Use data to target instruction and
fill knowledge gaps
CLCCIT is designed to give teachers rapid feedback in order to immediately adjust and differentiate instruction and deepen student interaction with the content. • Spans Common Core domains at each grade level
Expert Professional Development Support Learn how to administer the CLCCIT, interpret the results, and implement data-driven instruction with professional development and expert coaching.
• Assess critical readiness standards from lower levels • Provides both online and paper/pencil testing • Includes real-time detailed dynamic reporting • Familiarizes students with questions similar to state test items
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Supporting Your Students with Technology Leverage the iPad to transform personalized Learning and enable effective differentiated instruction with iCatapult, a blended learning solution for general education, RtI and special ed. students play to learn with highly-engaging learning applications while benefitting from direct instruction with an experienced Catapult Learning teacher.
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Step-by-Step Catapult Learning’s Blended Learning Model For Grades K-8 Students begin the session together in one group for the teacher’s introduction and then are divided into two groups based on ability: • The first group works directly with the teacher on the lesson of the day. • The second group engages with individualized instruction and practice opportunities via the iCatapult Learning System. Each student logs in to his/her iCatapult account to access a personalized set of education apps, tailored to support the student’s most significant skill gaps.
iCatapult Personalized Learning There are more than 100,000 education apps in the marketplace today. Which are the most effective and engaging? More importantly, which are the most effective and engaging for each of your students? iCatapult offers the first iPad-based personalization engine that combines existing diagnostic results with the most engaging and effective education apps to create a personalized learning system for students. This program, built on the Common Core State Standards, ensures that all education apps meet the following stringent academic criteria: 1) Academically rigorous 2) Engaging for students 3) Proven to accelerate learning
Depending on the length of the session, students either switch groups halfway through the class or switch groups every other day. The teacher closely monitors student progress and adjusts the learning plan accordingly.
Whether students access iCatapult from individual iPads — or share an iPad — the system is designed to track and report individual student activity and progress. Ask us about our new personalized learning solution for High School Students.
Built from the Common Core State Standards
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Supporting Your Teachers The research is clear: Providing students with a highly effective teacher is the single most important factor when it comes to improving student achievement.
With today’s more rigorous standards
and a refined definition of what it means
to be effective, the challenge is how to build
sustainable capacity in your teachers.
We help you think differently about how to approach your instructional model. Our coaches and consultants partner closely with your teachers and instructional leaders to build sustainable capacity.
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Proven Results Oklahoma Study 2006–2010 The Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation partnered with Literacy First to provide elementary schools with the Literacy First Framework, a 3-year comprehensive reading reform process
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Elementary School Teachers
In one of the largest independent statewide reading studies ever conducted, Literacy First schools significantly outperformed the state’s control group in both teacher performance and student outcomes.
Growth in Reading API Scores (2009–2010)* 2009
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Literacy First Literacy First is a research-based, systematic, and comprehensive reading-reform framework that accelerates reading achievement of all students in grades PreK through 12. During the three-year process, our literacy experts identify areas for growth, tailor an achievement plan to your needs, and support your teachers and leadership team as they make appropriate changes to your instructional model. The Literacy First Process includes: • An individualized needs assessment through comprehensive site analysis • Change motivation foundations for your team • Job-embedded coaching and professional development for your teachers, site specialists, and administrators • Recommended video and print resource materials for continued support • MyDataFirst.com site, which can help compare the results to your goals and national norms
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Literary First is currently being used in over 800 schools in 20 states. Ask us about results from schools like yours.
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* 2010 Annual Report, Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation. The data represents ~ 100,000 students during a five-year period with actual reported data for 2009 and 2010.
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Spotlight On... Professional Development Catapult Learning professional development promotes instructional best practices that build teacher effectiveness. Our programs are focused on developing teacher capacity in core instructional competencies based on the work of leading researchers and authors Danielson, Marzano and Strong. Our professional development is delivered by highly qualified and extensively trained consultants who support teachers as they engage in high quality professional learning that builds a sustainable learning community focused on student growth Sample program topics include: • Common Core Planning and Instruction • Common Core Reading, Math, and Writing • Disciplinary Literacy • Assessment for the Common Core • Integrating Technology into Instruction • STEM and Inquiry-Based Learning
Training, Resources and Tools to Implement the Common Core For ELA and Math Teachers Our Discover The Core program engages teachers and instructional leaders with the new standards, discusses implications for teaching and learning, and integrates new tools into the classroom. Your school reaps the benefits of a professional learning community that extends across your entire system. Support your instructional teams with custom exemplar curriculum planning, instructional tools, and job-embedded professional development that deepen understanding as your school or district implements the standards in all curriculum areas. Delivered in several convenient formats, Discover The Core gives your teachers access to rich resources they’ll put to use immediately and refer to again and again: • On-demand videos • In-person seminars • Job-embedded coaching • Take-home reference materials ELA and Math Seminars review the instructional shifts in these disciplines and discuss implications on current teacher practice.
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We host on-site and off-site seminars designed to arm educators with tools and techniques to drive student achievement. Our seminars incorporate activities, discussion, and opportunities for guided practice. Seminars can be offered in a variety of ways, including webinars or multiday institutes.
Coaching For Science and Social Studies Teachers With the new standards, teachers in all subject areas must share the responsibility for teaching literacy every day. Disciplinary Literacy for the Common Core ensures content area teachers have the tools and skills to develop a higher level of literacy in their students by connecting what the students learn in ELA classes to what they learn in the content areas. Your middle and high school science and social studies teachers build sustainable capacity, as they discover how to: • Develop and practice strategies for Implementation • Plan for the CCSS instructional changes • Deepen their background knowledge of literacy Using our blended combination of seminars, job-embedded coaching, on-demand videos, and ready-to-use curricular resources, teachers learn to use complex text in engaging and dynamic ways and develop a higher level of literacy in their students. The On Demand Video Library provides teacher training and professional development that’s available to teachers for viewing on their own schedules, whenever and wherever they want. With ready-to-use comprehensive resource guides for nine areas of study, middle and high school science and social studies teachers receive information, resources, texts, and activities that they will use again and again.
We offer job-embedded, classroom-based support to facilitate the implementation of best practices as well as ensure that modifications in teaching and planning lead to positive student outcomes. Our coaches are highly experienced K-12 educators who possess expert knowledge of researchbased instructional strategies.
Transform Classroom teaching with Teachscape’s Observation and Evaluation System. Catapult Learning has partnered with Teachscape to deliver a research-based, paper-free observation process that combines best practices for performance evaluation with the latest technology. With Teachscape, you can: • Automate and conduct evaluations more efficiently • Observe, monitor, and improve classroom teaching • Get a complete picture of teaching effectiveness • Implement an ongoing protocol and strategy for improvement The unique combination of Teachscape’s cutting edge educational technology and Catapult Learning’s expert coaching and job-embedded professional development delivers a researchbased methodology for driving increasing levels of instructional capacity and student achievement.
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Supporting Your Leaders Using Data When students are underperforming, do you always know why? As standards become increasingly rigorous, understanding the trajectory of different students with similar skills
To improve student outcomes,
becomes that much more
you need to make sense of the
important when making
data. Using growth model analysis,
instructional choices.
we dig deep into your existing assessment results to help you uncover what is happening in the classroom with individual students over time.
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Step-by-Step Growth Model Analysis Our Research & Evaluation team analyzes your longitudinal trends in student achievement using growth model analysis. This allows us to help you focus on key patterns, observable trends in student achievement, and outliers.
Growth Model Seminars We provide seminars to introduce your leadership team to growth model analysis as well as to take you through activities designed to help use the analysis to drive decisions about prioritizing professional development and improving student learning.
Leadership Coaching We provide job-embedded coaching for school leaders to help use studentgrowth results to inform and drive professional development and student learning.
Sustaining Excellence™ The process starts with an extensive needs assessment that helps us identify your goals by focusing specifically on your instructional data landscape today and where you want to be. We then incorporate student growth model analysis to help generate an important inquiry into the real reasons behind student performance results. That inquiry is designed to tell you why there are differences — and how you might support teachers, principals, and instructional leaders as they make important decisions about how to engage their students and promote the most growth possible. You gain a framework that can help you identify effective school and teaching practices, target instructional intervention efforts, support coaching for teachers and leaders, and promote growth.
Qualitative Analysis We also offer a qualitative approach to better understand a school’s climate. Our team works on-site with school leaders to gather focus group data and conduct classroom observations of student learning activities.
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Supporting Your School Community Striving to focus on core academic issues — and, at the same time, provide the social, emotional, behavioral, and other support services struggling students need — is enough to stretch the resources of most schools. Catapult Learning provides expert support to schools struggling to meet the growing demand to address student challenges that interfere with academic success, such as learning idiosyncrasies, social relationships, emotional demands, behavior patterns, communication challenges, and health and wellness issues. To achieve this, you don’t need to hire and manage full-time professional specialists. We handle all the details, communication, and coordination — you get seamless support that extends resources to your students and families.
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Spotlight On... Specialized Services and Support In today’s world, students are increasingly challenged by the impact of stressors at home and in their community, as well as by their own learning and social skills. Each of these can negatively impact your students’ ability to make the most of their own intellectual talents and what their schools have to offer.
Quality Professional Services Each program is delivered by appropriately credentialed professionals who are guided by our experienced program supervisors.
Catapult Learning professionals are available to support your students to enhance their ability to be successful in the classroom in the face of these challenges. Specialized services include:
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School Counseling • Individualized or small group format • Consultation with parents and teachers
Catapult counselors are especially knowledgeable, professional, and
Family Connections
experienced. We count on their
• Support and education for parents of struggling students
support to help us deal with the
• Consultation with school staff regarding productive parent collaboration
that affect our families and interfere
• Liaisons to needed community resources Speech/ Language Services
sometimes complex social problems with students’ learning. Catapult counselors are flexible and will adapt
• Screening and evaluations as needed
their schedules to meet the needs
• Small group or individual therapy
of our families.
• Collaboration with teachers
Principal
Diagnostic Services
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• Consultation with parents and teachers School Nursing • Health record maintenance • State mandated screenings • Services for ill or injured students • Professional health monitoring
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• Assessment and recommendations
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Strengthen Achievement inYour Schools
3,800 2,000 20 teachers & educational service providers
private & religious schools
offices nationwide
Catapult Learning is the leading provider of educational services to private and religious schools nationwide. With research-based educational and support services as well as Common Core training, our goal is to improve student outcomes for at-risk students.
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Our Network Supports your entire community with instructional services that drive student achievement, professional development programs that build the capacity of teachers and instructional leaders, and specialized services that extend resources to students and families.
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Improving Student Outcomes in Religious and Private Schools for Over 35 Years