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Recognized as a "Best Assessment Solution" and "Best Parent & Student Solution"

School Assessment solutions from Pearson have been recognized in the 2024 EdTech Digest Awards, with Navvy and Spotlight products earning 'Cool Tools' finalist honors for Best Assessment and Best Parent & Student solutions.

The EdTech Digest Awards celebrate the "best and brightest" in education technology and serve as the world's largest awards program of its kind. Since 2011, the Awards have recognized products, organizations, and individuals for outstanding contributions in transforming education through technology to enrich the lives of learners everywhere.

"It's a wonderful honor and a meaningful achievement for our teams to be recognized for innovation, excellence, and above all, student and educator impact. We’re incredibly proud of Navvy and Spotlight and look forward to further building and sharing their capabilities with more schools in the future," said Sharon Hague, managing director for Pearson School Assessments.

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The start of a new school year is an exciting time that offers a fresh start for both educators and students. In those first few weeks when you’re getting to know the individuals in your classroom and establishing a routine, a key piece of that process is developing a picture of how well each student is understanding the concepts you’re teaching. Getting a clear picture of student learning at the beginning of and throughout the year can help to inform and personalize instruction to each student's specific needs. 

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As a parent of three kiddos under 10, I know firsthand that kids are complex. To meet them where they are and support their development is a fluid process that must take into account their unique needs, goals, and personalities. In talking to teachers across the country, I hear the difficulty they face in personalizing instruction to support every learner. Not because of lack of effort and certainly not because they aren’t passionate about their roles in students' lives. It's in part due to the management of multiple technology platforms and systems-technology aimed at helping teachers, but often leading to more work. When multiple tech platforms don't talk to each other, that means teachers must track student results in different systems, reconcile them with each other and then, what they actually know about their students.

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Throughout my career, I've had the privilege of listening to and learning from educators across the country. Over the past seven years, I've collaborated with these passionate professionals to create a classroom assessment and learning suite called Navvy, designed to address their most pressing challenges at the intersection of assessment, teaching, and learning.

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This guide by Laine Bradshaw, PhD identifies three features of learning evidence needed to effectively support day-to-day teaching and learning: granularity, reliability, and proximity. While any one of these features is not unique to Navvy, the combination of the three is. 

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Join us for a virtual showcase of Pearson’s innovative classroom assessment system and see for yourself how Navvy helps K–12 educators successfully navigate and advance student progress on required learning objectives. 

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