1. Alliance
TM
Driving achievement
through partnership

2. The Alliance commitment to Unparalleled on-site support
shared goals Alliance is the only K-12 solution that
EdisonLearning Alliance™ is grounded combines a research-based design and
in the conviction that every student – proven tools with a dedicated local
given the proper tools, support and support team that work hand-in-hand
environment – is capable, with with administrators and teachers in a
encouragement, of exceeding collaborative partnership.
expectations. To deliver an The Alliance Achievement Team has
outstanding educational experience one mission – to serve the students,
we leverage collaborative partnership administrators, and teachers as a
that combines your resources and dedicated part of the local school
experience with our hands-on expertise community. Staying local allows the
and research-based tools, strategies, Alliance Achievement Team to better
and methodologies. understand the partner schools, and to
dedicate one hundred percent of their
Path to success Superior tools, dedicated teams time to address partner needs.
Alliance addresses every aspect of
As educators, EdisonLearning
improving your school’s performance,
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Specialists in leadership, teacher
understands there are often effectiveness, curriculum and
extraordinary challenges associated but even the best program cannot instruction, and professional
with giving students in your care the deliver real results without effective development
great education they deserve. We implementation.
created EdisonLearning™ Achievement xx
Expertise in turning around
The EdisonLearning difference is low-performing schools
Services to offer you highly effective K-12
achievement improvement solutions.
efficient execution. xx
Pioneers of positive learning
By providing both the critical tools and environments and effective
Alliance™, the core offering in the
teams necessary to deliver sustainable school organization
EdisonLearning Achievement
improvement, Alliance allows you to
Services portfolio:
follow a proven pathway toward
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Hands-on experience with analysis of
achievement data and data systems,
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Is designed to both turn around achievement success. as well as student achievement plans
struggling schools and help make
Alliance tools and systems include:
good schools great
A transformational program
xx a school’s capacity to deliver
Builds xx
Professional development for teachers
tailored to your needs
and administrators
better education
Alliance is not a one-size-fits-all
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Enhances a district’s aptitude to xx
Leadership development
solution. Schools have differing needs,
provide higher quality education xx level district and school
Higher driven by achievement mandate
among its schools organization, resources and models requirements, budgets, and local
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Implements a structure that helps xx
Learning environment and circumstances, and the set of services
ensure sustained high performance student management provided by an Alliance engagement will
vary. The Alliance program is designed to
xx perfectly with the expectations
Aligns xx
Curriculum and instruction tools
be flexible, offering two distinct levels
surrounding the American Recovery including state specific
of service and support to accommodate
and Reinvestment Act: “Companion Guides”
specific sets of needs:
- Increases teacher effectiveness xx diagnostics
School
xx I Transform your schools
Level
- Shows advancement toward college
and career-ready standards
xx
EdisonLearning Benchmarks into true centers of academic
- Improves performance in xx
Achievement planning and monitoring excellence with proven tools, systems,
professional development and on-site
low-performing schools xx
National support
support.
- leverages the use of enhanced data
- Scheduling, research and
systems to monitor and enhance
assessment, technology
xx II A transitional program
Level
student progress designed for schools that have been
- Conferences for teachers, principals
moved off state watch lists. Level II
and leaders
schools are ready to transition into self
xx achievement and
On-site serving academic excellence.
leadership teams
Both levels provide a complete solu-
xx High School resources
Alliance tion tailored to meet your needs with
varying degrees of direct on-the ground
involvement from EdisonLearning.

3. Professional Development EdisonLearning Benchmarks
Leadership Schools must collect and analyze
Schools must have strong leaders if relevant and timely student data in
they are to become centers of academic order to track progress against goals,
excellence. The EdisonLearning Alliance and ensure that information on student
Leadership Development Program strengths and weaknesses is being
provides school leaders with the leveraged in the instructional plan.
resources and customized support they EdisonLearning Benchmarks enable
need to grow professionally and become schools to accomplish these tasks.
strong instructional leaders of A powerful instructional tool for
high-achieving schools. teachers and administrators,
xx instructional leadership from
Strong EdisonLearning Benchmarks...
principals supported by a highly
effective leadership team
xx students monthly with online
test
assessments written specifically to the
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National conferences for leadership state’s standards.
teams bringing together new
Alliance Achievement Team
principals and team members to
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generate instantaneous reports
Alliance Achievement Teams are providing teachers and leaders with
help solidify their goals and enhance
hand-selected professionals chosen valuable information on how their
effective collaboration
based on their successful experience students are progressing towards state
using EdisonLearning School Designs. xx
Continuing local/on-site support end-of-year standards.
Achievement teams are local. They Personalized development for teachers xx
leverage frequency that optimizes
are more than just on-site; they are The Alliance Achievement Team works impact on classroom instruction.
embedded in your community and with school leaders to develop personal
invested in your success. growth plans for teachers based on
EdisonLearning’s research-based frame- Preparing children to succeed in
works for highly effective teaching. The
team then provides focused coaching today’s world is a complex task.
and mentoring for teachers that target
Expectations are high on all
their identified growth areas.
Curriculum Companion Guides fronts, with strict accountability
District Alliance
Curriculum Companion Guides help
In addition to the tailored solutions we mandates, intense competition
bridge the disconnect that often exists
offer individual schools, District Alliance between expected outcomes, adopted
offers a higher level of support. By for college admission, and a job
curriculum, and classroom instruction.
working with your district team, we
market that is more challenging
leverage the concept of “teach the xx teachers embed end-of-year
Help
teacher” so districts can build great standards and skills into reading and than ever. A good education that
capacity and, in turn, work with schools math instruction throughout the year
to attain greater achievement. xx skills to help teachers
Teach helps students reach the highest
differentiate instruction for students
levels of achievement is the key
Alliance High School with special needs
The tasks of improving achievement and xx sample assessment questions
Feature that opens up life options and
ensuring that students are prepared for that are frequently tested on
college, work, and life present their own high-stakes exams
prepares them for what they’ll
set of challenges. Alliance also offers face in the future.
solutions designed specifically to
address the needs of high schools,
The strength of the on-site
including:
Alliance Achievement Team is Results
xx learning communities
Small
The dictionary definition of “alliance”
xx
EdisonLearning College NEXT! Program that it can customize the support describes a working partnership
xx Across the Curriculum
Reading
and training it provides to specific
between different parties. In an Alliance
Program engagement, it’s the partnership
between EdisonLearning and local
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Gateway Program individual needs.
schools that leads to progress: the
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Dedicated on-site support school culture evolves, and student
achievement accelerates.

4. The foundation of the EdisonLearning approach to Education
Our Four Cornerstones™ philosophy
Top Talent Culture of Engagement and Aspiration
EdisonLearning Alliance™ places great emphasis on A nurturing learning environment that is conducive to learning
developing leadership and teaching capacity with is a vital component of all great schools. Alliance™ provides
services tailored to meet the individual needs of teacher support to engage and motivate so that students aspire to high
and administration. expectations and greater achievement.
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Teacher Development xx organization implementation plan
school
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teaching frameworks xx
mentorship, support and advisory programs for schools
xx
professional growth plan xx management handbook, templates and
student
management training
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classroom observation
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coaching, mentoring, modeling
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learning environment training and observation tools
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Professional Development
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College NEXT! program kit
xx research materials
college
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professional development for administrators and teachers.
Demanding Content and Customized Instruction Achievement-Driven Management
The EdisonLearning distinction
One of the biggest challenges faced by schools that need Achievement-driven management is a critical component
The proof of EdisonLearning’s ability to to improve is the disconnect between expected results and behind keeping your school’s focus firmly on achievement
help you deliver great education rests in the instruction provided. The tools, training and professional and continuous improvement.
development provided by EdisonLearning helps ensure that
nearly 20 years of hands-on experience. Alliance data systems enable you to measure success and
the students in your care will meet those expectations both
We’ve been put to the test, with hun- continually improve learning.
in breadth of knowledge and level of proficiency.
dreds of district partners, thousands of Curriculum and Instruction tools: xx
EdisonLearning Benchmarks
schools, and millions of students served. xx assessments
data
xx and math Companion Guides
reading
Our holistic approach to developing xx
Reading Across the Curriculum Program xx dashboard
school
and delivering educational services, xx
resources for teachers xx achievement planning tools
student
our background as educators, and our xx
Gateway Program (high school only)
culture of collaboration and partnership xx
catch-up program schedule and assessment
is what makes EdisonLearning a true
xx and math intervention
reading
innovator in the education field.
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advisory programs
Find out more
For more information about
EdisonLearning and our mission to
“ A partnership created to improve traditionally low performing schools
inspire students to think, learn, and
succeed, please visit www. has helped produce major gains in student achievement at several schools
edisonlearning.com/alliance, call us
at 1-877-I-CAN-LEARN across the Charleston County School District.
(1-877-422-6532), or e-mail us at
alliance@edisonlearning.com. Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test (PACT) scores showed that three
Working together, we can help every
of the four most improved elementary schools, and five of the 16 most
student achieve!
improved Charleston public schools, were working in partnership with
[EdisonLearning] Alliance.”
– Charleston County School District Press Release

5. Case Study
Driving achievement improvement in The Aloha State
In 2009, EdisonLearning increased its total number of partner
schools in Hawaii from 12 to 35, after three years of
demonstrated improvement in student achievement led the
Hawaii Department of Education to expand their partnership
with us.
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Between 2005 and 2008, 1,600 additional students reached
“grade level and above” in reading in the schools where
EdisonLearning provides the Alliance service.
xxthe same period, 1,800 additional students reached
In
“grade level and above” in math.
xx the three years of EdisonLearning’s involvement,
During
achievement has increased 22 percent in reading and 30
percent in math.
xx of the original twelve schools working with
Eight
EdisonLearning in Hawaii have made adequate yearly progress
(AYP), the level of improvement school districts and student
groups must achieve each year in reading and math.
Results
As depicted in the chart below, average three year reading and
math gains at EdisonLearning’s Hawaiian Alliance partners
significantly exceed state averages.
EdisonLearning partners vs. Hawaii state average
Reading Growth
25%
20%
Hawaii
15%
10% EdisonLearning
5% “We are looking forward to continued
0%
2006 2007 2008 and expanded success with our Alliance
1 yr gain 2 yr gain 3 yr gain
partnership. EdisonLearning’s high
expectations for student learning, relentless
EdisonLearning partners vs. Hawaii state average
commitment to building local capacity for
Math Growth
30% improving classroom instruction, and the
25%
Hawaii outstanding customer service provided by both
20%
15% EdisonLearning the Hawaii based and headquarters teams
10%
continue to exceed expectations.”
5%
0% – Ronn Nozoe, Complex Area Superintendent
2006 2007 2008 Hawaii Department of Education
1 yr gain 2 yr gain 3 yr gain

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TM
Four CornerstonesTM are trademarks of
EdisonLearning, Inc.. Offering details are subject
to change, and may vary by individual client
engagement. Student and school performance
depends on many variables; as such, specific
results are not guaranteed and may vary.
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