In This Issue:

• What's New At Carnegie Learning
  • Carnegie Learning Home Connection
  • Introducing the Carnegie Learning Math Series
  • Carnegie Learning in the News
• School Spotlight
  • Carnegie Learning Distinguished Schools
  • 2011 Learning by Doing Award Winners
• Professional Learning
  • Carnegie Learning Online Professional Development Offerings
  • Carnegie Learning Webinars

Carnegie Learning Home Connection

For 2011-2012, The Carnegie Learning Resource Center has added the Home Connection, a selection of content to support students and parents while using Carnegie Learning curricula away from the classroom. The Home Connection features:

• Getting to Know Carnegie Learning: A selection of video content that offers an introduction to the Carnegie Learning curricula and research base, product walkthroughs, as well as interviews with teachers and students that are achieving success using Carnegie Learning curricula in their school
• Getting Started: Online learning modules that prepare students for working with Carnegie Learning software.
• How You Can Help Your Child Be Successful: Links to online content that supports parents and students with helpful study skills and additional math practice exercises
• How You Can Learn More: Links to more information about Carnegie Learning, including research papers and customer success stories.
• Student Skills Practice: The Skills Practice worksheets provide additional practice on the skills covered in the textbook lessons.

You can preview the Home Connection page from your Resource Center account. Registration for students and parents is handled with an access code, unique to your school. You can download a PDF with the code and student registration instructions from the Your Account tab under Account Details in the Resource Center.

Introducing the Carnegie Learning Math Series: A Common Core Math Program for Grades 6-8

Carnegie Learning is pleased to announce that our new middle school program is here! Introductory pricing is available for a limited time.

Our program includes our innovative Carnegie Learning Math Series textbooks and our engaging MATHia software, each aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for Mathematical Practice Standards. Our pedagogical approach focuses on how students think, learn, and apply new knowledge in mathematics and empowers students to take ownership of their learning.

Three "Big Ideas" set us apart. Our curricula:

1. Engages and Motivates Students
2. Promotes Deep Conceptual Understanding
3. Contains Powerful, Ongoing Formative Assessment

Experience the New and Exciting Features of the MATHia Software:

• 30+ Fluency Challenges
• 35+ "See it, Try It" Modules
• CoachCalc, an instructional calculator tool that helps students to understand appropriate calculator use
• Text-to-Speech now supported on Mac and PC operating systems
• Fun motivational elements like Messages of the Day, Achievement Badges, and Math Wonders

if you are a customer looking to implement the Carnegie Learning Math Series this fall visit our Online Professional Development article in this issue to find out how to learn more about the series.

Carnegie Learning in the News

Visit our website to read about the latest news happening
at Carnegie Learning.

August 2, 2011
Apollo Group to Acquire Carnegie Learning
Carnegie Learning Technology to Advance Apollo Adaptive
Learning Platform

June 14, 2011
Carnegie Learning Announces Winners of 2011 Student & Leader Awards Program
Learning By Doing AwardsRecognize Three Individuals for Bridging the Math Divide

Carnegie Learning Distinguished Schools

The goal of the Distinguished Schools program is to award schools who have worked to inspire math success from their students through strong leadership and determination.

Winning distinguished schools will receive:

• $250 gift card
• Pizza party for Carnegie Learning students (up to $250)
• Recognition plaque
• Case study highlighting achievement

Nominate a Distinguished School Via Our Website

2011 Learning by Doing Award Winners

The Carnegie Learning Award Programs recognizes and rewards outstanding accomplishments in the Carnegie Learning classroom and lab. We are pleased to honor those students and teachers who have demonstrated exceptional dedication to teaching and learning mathematics. Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2011 Learning By Doing Awards:

2011 Learning By Doing Leader Awards
Barbara Cleveland	Winner: Barbara Cleveland Wilson Middle School Yakima School District 7, WA Runner Up: Diane Spence, J.W. Sexton High School, Lansing Schools, MI
2011 Learning by Doing Student Awards
Virgil McArthur	Middle School Winner: Virgil McArthur Barry Goldwater High School Deer Valley School District, AZ Runner Up: Lovelie Denis, Homestead Senior High School, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, FL
Carol Lin	High School Winner: Carol Lin Goudy Technology Magnet Center Chicago Public Schools, IL Runner Up: Marc Schoonover, Clarksville-Montgomery County School District, TN

Read more about the winners and their entries by visiting our Awards Programs page: www.carnegielearning.com/programs/awards

Carnegie Learning Online
Professional Development Offerings

Carnegie Learning Online Professional Development is designed to support you with on-demand, just-in-time learning. Available via the Carnegie Learning Resource Center, our Online PD modules include both interactive and video content, developed to make instructors more successful and confident using Carnegie Learning curricula.

Our Online PD platform includes:

• Both guided and interactive software walkthroughs
• Task-based learning segments
• Reflection questions to highlight key learning goals
• Easily navigated user interface

The following modules are available on the Carnegie Learning
Resource Center:

• Course Introduction Modules:
  • NEW: MATHia Software Tools
  • Cognitive Tutor Software Implementation Series
  • Cognitive Tutor Geometry Software Series

• Carnegie Learning Event Modules:
  • NEW: 2011 Carnegie Learning National Math Institute Series
  • 2010 Carnegie Learning National Math Institute series

• Detailed Instruction Modules:
  • How-To Module: Exam View Assessment Suite

For more information and to view a sample video, please visit our Online PD Web page. To view our Online PD modules visit the Carnegie Learning Resource Center and click on the Online PD tab at the top of the page.  You must create a login before you can have access to the Carnegie Learning Resource Center.

Carnegie Learning Webinars

If you are interested in learning new teaching strategies, learning about current educational trends or hearing from experts in the math field, please join us for one of our FREE math webinars. Our webinars are designed to connect educators and administrators to their peers and experts in the field of mathematics to learn how we can better engage students in learning math. Register to attend a webinar today! www.carnegielearning.com/webinars

The 2011 Carnegie Learning Complimentary Math Webinar Series

Margaret Smith Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education	Orchestrating Productive Discussions of Student Responses: Helping Teachers Move Beyond “Showing and Telling” Wednesday, October 19 4:30pm ET
Melissa Boston Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Duquesne University	Using Patterning Tasks to Foster Algebraic Thinking Wednesday, November 9 4:30pm ET

Orchestrating Productive Discussions of Student Responses:
Helping Teachers Move Beyond “Showing and Telling”
Wednesday, October 19th
4:30 P.M. ET

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Using Patterning Tasks to Foster Algebraic Thinking
Wednesday, November 9th
4:30 P.M. ET

Nominate Carnegie Learning for the 2011 District Administration Readers' Choice Top 100 Products program!