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New Jersey School District Taps Otus, Discovery Education for Data Insights

West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District (WWP) in Central New Jersey has partnered with assessment and data platform Otus and ed tech company Discovery Education to better utilize data to support student achievement. Its goal: to gain insights into student performance by enhancing the district's ability to collect, read, and react to student assessment data, according to a news announcement.

WWP will utilize the Otus platform, provided through Discovery Education, to:

  • Centralize district assessment data for a holistic view of student learning;
  • Utilize data to group students with similar needs for targeted intervention or extension;
  • Align instructional strategies with data insights; and
  • Provide every student with a collaborative plan for success, outlining goals and milestones to address academic, attendance, and other needs.

In addition, WWP educators will receive professional development  on the Otus platform from the company's team of professional learning experts, to gain best practices for integrating the platform's resources into instruction.

"The addition of Otus to the district tech stack improves our educators' ability to easily pull and analyze achievement data and then adjust instruction to improve student outcomes," said Allan Johnson, supervisor of technology, training, & media sources at WWP, in a statement. "We look forward to deploying this new resource districtwide."

"Discovery Education is thrilled to continue to support the students and teachers of the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District through its unique collaboration with Otus," commented Tori Byrd, Discovery Education's manager of educational partnerships. "As the first school system nationwide to leverage the unique partnership between Otus and Discovery Education to combine high-quality learning solutions and state-of-the-art data analytics, West Windsor-Plainsboro is setting a new bar for innovation in this space."

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Rhea Kelly is editor in chief for Campus Technology, THE Journal, and Spaces4Learning. She can be reached at [email protected].

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