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Wisconsin District Gets Personal

  • By Dian Schaffhauser
  • 04/07/14

A Wisconsin school district with 9,200 students will be going full steam ahead with its implementation of a personalized learning program. To monitor student achievement, West Allis-West Milwaukee School District has adopted Mileposts from Silverback Learning Solutions.

Teachers use the cloud-based service to create personalized learning plans for their students, to manage interventions, monitor progress and gain insights about specific instructional approaches that seem to work for a particular student. The software integrates multimedia learning resources from Gooru, an open Web collection of resources posted by K-12 teachers that can be used as-is or mixed with their own lessons and shared.

The district chose Mileposts after a "thorough evaluation," said Superintendent Kurt Wachholz. This technology, he added, "will provide our community with a modern way to understand individual student achievement and collaborate around tailoring curriculum and learning resources to support, modify and improve their achievement throughout the year."

Silverback said in a statement that its software is in use in 18 other states. Among those customers are Bonneville Joint School District in Idaho and Southbridge Public Schools in Massachusetts.

About the Author

Dian Schaffhauser is a former senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal, Campus Technology and Spaces4Learning.

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