Is the child learning?

Rather than measuring whether the child learned the material over the course of a year, we use a more proactive approach by assessing routinely whether the instructional methods being employed are working. Is the child learning and if not, what can we do differently?

Special needs students, as a subgroup in Pennsylvania, score lowest on the Pennsylvania System of State Assessment (PSSA). One hundred percent (100%) of students in Pace programs are in this subgroup. Our achievement goals for students are ambitious; our measurement and intervention strategies are focused on helping students to achieve at their appropriate grade level or to be making ambitious progress toward meeting grade level standards. Using state of the art technology, progress is tracked weekly and benchmarked against grade level three times per year.