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The STAAR® (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) exam includes specific question stems that students will encounter across grade levels. Understanding these stems and the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) they align with can help teachers and administrators better prepare…

Written by Rheanne Renzenbrink. Rheanne is a former secondary English teacher in Texas with over a decade of experience in the classroom, standardized testing, teaching with TEKS, and helping students succeed on STAAR® exams. As a former secondary English teacher with over 10 years of experience…

At Pine Valley Middle School in New Caney ISD, Texas, one teacher is making huge strides in her students’ math achievements. Mrs. Abagail Dunnavant, a 7th grade math teacher with four years of experience in this role, has been using Progress Learning since back when it was Education Galaxy. Over…

We recently sat down with Jaime De La Torre, Director of Instructional Support at Anthony ISD, in Anthony, Texas to chat about how Progress Learning has impacted his school district. Anthony ISD is a relatively small district in Texas. Jaime wanted to find a solution that could alleviate the workload…

In April 2022, we decided to head to Texas to see how Education Galaxy, a product from Progress Learning, was working at Crandall ISD, an independent school district in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. We visited 4 of their 5 elementary campuses—W.A. Martin Elementary, Wilson Elementary, Walker Elementary, and Noble Reed Elementary—to discover all the different ways teachers were using our solution to support instruction in the classrooms.