April, 2024
As of April 1, you’re prompted to enter your email address and password to log into your Imagine Robotify account. Please review your profile settings to ensure your current email is up to date and make any necessary changes.
Learn more about this important new data security measure in the Help Center
April, 2024
Elementary Fast Track updates continue with Grade 6 elementary, including Fast Track-specific pacing guides, slides, assessment summaries, kit lists, and teacher-supplied materials lists.
Additionally, broader Fast Track updates were made, including Spanish pacing guides and slides for Twig Science Elementary K–6.
April 2024
The newly updated Skills Block Curriculum Guide makes preparing for implementation easier than ever before!
This update includes a fresh new look and feel, new sections to provide clear learning pathways for new and returning teachers, improved navigation, enhanced research and design sections that highlight alignment to reading science research, and centralized key resources to help prepare for the year.
Get to know Anak, Watota, and Jeffi as they explore the world of letters and sounds, encountering a wild array of animals and experiences along the way.
In our brand-new Letter Stories video series, these engaging characters help reinforce letter names, sounds, and formations in students’ memories as they guess the identities of each creature or object. This series will contain videos for all vowel sounds and digraphs.
Check out the Letter “e” and “i” videos on our Learning Letters page and in Skills Block Kindergarten, Module 2, Cycle 11, Lesson 56 (for “e”) and Skills Block Kindergarten, Module 2, Cycle 6, Lesson 31 (for “i”).
April 2024
We are thrilled to share that the Inspire Math videos in grades 6–8 are now available in both English and Spanish!
These short, engaging videos showcase the math for each unit in a relevant and often unexpected real-world context to help spark student curiosity. You can find the Inspire Math videos linked within the sequence of lessons on a unit landing page.
April 2024
Get to know Anak, Watota, and Jeffi as they explore the world of letters and sounds, encountering a wild array of animals and experiences along the way.
In our brand-new Letter Stories video series, these engaging characters help reinforce letter names, sounds, and formations in students’ memories as they guess the identities of each creature or object. This series will contain videos for all vowel sounds and digraphs.
Check out the letter “e” and “i” videos on our Learning Letters page and in Skills Block Kindergarten, Module 2, Cycle 11, Lesson 56 (for “e”) and Skills Block Kindergarten, Module 2, Cycle 6, Lesson 31 (for “i”).
April, 2024
To help support the health of your Imagine Robotify implementation and recognize the most return on your investment in this supplemental computer science program, we continue to update and enhance our Help Center with actionable ideas:
April, 2024
We’ve added a suite of English and Spanish printable resources in Imagine Math Teacher Resources under the “Live Teaching” category filter to support student success in working with Imagine Math Live Teachers. Learn more about Imagine Math Live Teachers in the Imagine Math Help Center, including student-facing how-to videos and more!
Live Teaching will have updated operating hours for the 2024-25 school year.*
Imagine Math Live Teaching Hours 2024-25 (All times local)
Monday–Friday: 8:00am–10:00pm
Saturday: 9:00am–4:00pm
Sunday: 6:00pm–10:00pm
*Live Teaching hours for the current 2023-24 school year can be found in the Imagine Math Help Center.
April, 2024
Educators and students in Imagine EdgeEX can view standards covered in lessons. This update allows teachers to understand what skills are covered in the lessons and gives students deeper insight into the objectives of their lessons.
Students can now view a new Progress Overview page from their Course Map. This page provides students with detailed information about their course progress in an easy-to-understand way.
Answer Explanations are now available for math assessments. These explanations are available to students after they have completed an assessment attempt and to teachers via the “Show Answers” toggle.
April 15, 2024 10:32 am
Offering Provides Equitable Access to Verified Digital Content to Inspire Civic Engagement for Grades 6–12
Scottsdale, AZ – April 15, 2024 – Imagine Learning, the largest national provider of digital curriculum solutions serving over 15 million students and one million educators, today announced the launch of Traverse Explorer, which provides free access to relevant lessons from their highly-anticipated, breakthrough core social studies curriculum. Traverse Explorer serves timely and grade-appropriate digital content directly to teachers and is designed to inspire students to become engaged and informed citizens. This free resource addresses the critical need for easily accessible and verified digital social studies lessons for millions of educators and students across the U.S.
“To foster a thriving democracy, it’s imperative that we cultivate an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to both understand and actively participate in the systems that govern our society,” said Sari Factor, Vice Chair and Chief Strategy Officer of Imagine Learning. “For too long, the education system has de-emphasized the importance of social studies and civics for students, often citing a lack of resources and competing priorities. Traverse Explorer is designed to address this gap by offering educators equitable access to digital curriculum, fostering critical thinking and inquiry skills essential for every student to become an active and educated citizen.” At this week’s ASU+GSV summit in San Diego, California, the topic will be discussed during a panel moderated by Factor titled “Civic Engagement in an Uncivilized Climate.”
A previous study by MRD Education found that teachers spend an average of seven hours per week searching for instructional materials and another five hours creating their own. Social studies resources, in particular, are challenging to find, with a RAND American Teacher Panel Insights Report stating that “most teachers reported a need for better civics instructional resources.” Streamlining teachers’ workloads is crucial, especially as the teacher shortage crisis worsens due to political polarization in education.
Designed to empower educators and inspire civic engagement in 6–12 grade students, Traverse Explorer:
“When crafting the Traverse curriculum, we recognized the transformative potential of digital, inquiry-based content grounded in current events, coupled with the ability to quickly update the resources as new developments unfold. Traverse Explorer represents a significant opportunity to disseminate this wealth of knowledge to as many students as possible, revolutionizing social studies across the nation,” said Dr. Kathy Swan, Ph.D., Professor of Social Studies at the University of Kentucky and curriculum author of Traverse.
Traverse Explorer will launch in June 2024 with five inaugural free lessons about Federalism and the U.S. Highway System (U.S. History), Commerce in Asia (World History), Using Cash versus Credit (Economics), First Time Voting (U.S. Government), and the Effects of El Niño (World Geography). New lessons will be made available monthly. For more information regarding Traverse Explorer and to sign up to be notified as soon as it is available, visit https://www.imaginelearning.com/traverse-explorer/.
About Imagine Learning
Every classroom, every student is bursting with potential. That’s why we pursue relentless innovation at the intersection of technology, people, and curricula. Imagine Learning creates K–12 digital-first solutions fueled by insights from educators, working alongside educators to support 15 million students in over half of the districts nationwide. Our core portfolio includes Imagine IM, Imagine Learning EL Education, Twig® Science, and Traverse®. Our robust supplemental and intervention suite equips learners with personalized instruction for English and Spanish literacy, math, coding, and more. Imagine Edgenuity® is our flagship courseware solution, complemented by Imagine School Services’ Certified Teachers. Imagine Learning. Empower potential. Learn more: www.imaginelearning.com
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April 12, 2024 10:38 am
Workplaces are changing fast. Jobs with “routine” work have decreased and there’s a much bigger emphasis on soft skills like the 4Cs. In part one of our four-part series, discover how critical thinking unlocks future pathways for students and how STEM in particular fosters it.
Ever thought that studying STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is only useful for students considering careers in science or tech? If so, then you wouldn’t be alone — but it’s time to change that perspective.
The truth is, workplaces are changing fast, and some traditional skills are becoming less relevant today. Growing digitalization of roles, AI technologies, and new communication methods demand a totally different set of skills fit for the modern workplace (Thornhill Miller et al., 2023).
This is where STEM subjects come into play. By studying STEM at schools, students pick up the soft skills that are exactly what employers look for today. Not only do these soft skills make the transition from education to the workplace smoother, they also open the door to any career — whether that’s a STEM-related role or not. These soft skills are commonly referred to as 21st-century skills, or the 4Cs: critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity.
“The world is incredibly complex. It’s like a giant jigsaw puzzle, and I use those fundamental [STEM] skills to find all of the puzzle pieces and put them together in a way that makes sense to me.”
What do we mean by critical thinking? And why does it take center stage? Critical thinking is about analyzing and evaluating information to make sound conclusions. It’s more than solving math problems or conducting experiments — it’s about challenging assumptions and seeing beyond the obvious to become an active, engaged problem solver.
In the classroom, this might look like students debating the best approach to solving a problem or designing multiple hypotheses to test an experiment. Ultimately, it’s a skill that prepares students for overcoming real-world challenges in any field.
So how does mastering Pythagoras’ theorem or challenging scientific approaches benefit students who don’t want to pursue STEM? The answer lies in the universal transferability of the critical thinking involved. Whether it’s strategizing a marketing campaign, improving customer service protocols, or writing compelling narratives, critical thinking is woven into the fabric of every career you can imagine.
Prepare the next generation of STEM leaders with digital and hands-on learning aligned to the 4Cs.