Every Student Can Succeed: How PowerUp’s Adaptive Blended Learning Ensures 6-12 Students Receive the Instruction They Deserve

Addressing the wide variety of literacy needs of students at the secondary level requires highly effective instruction and intervention systems, at scale. Tiered systems of support, such as Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) and Response to Intervention (RTI), emphasize the essential elements of high-quality instruction, screening, progress-monitoring, and data-based decision-making in teams (Center on Multi-Tiered Systems of Support). Yet, secondary educators often face the dual challenges of designing instructional programs in the absence of informative assessment data (Hock et. al, 2009) while also trying to find adequate time for literacy instruction and intervention in the context of busy middle- and high-school schedules.