Case Study

Bringing Excitement to the Common Core

Bringing Excitement to the Common Core

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www.ixl.com Enterprise High School serves 300 students in rural Mississippi. When the school implemented the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in 2014-15, Algebra I teacher Jacqui Lewis wanted a program that would help with this transition. IXL Math brought the standards to life for her and her students—and brought new energy to her classroom. New Standards, Burned-Out Students When the district rolled out CCSS, the new math standards weren’t always easy to interpret. As the only Algebra I teacher in the district, Jacqui felt like she was on her own. “There was no one to collaborate with,” she explained. “It was hard to understand how each objective mapped to the curriculum we were using, and which problems I should assign to help my students master the objective.” Knowing that

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