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McGraw-Hill Education | Wonders - The Power of Connection

User Newsletter, Issue 2, Fall 2017  

Wonders News!
Welcome back to school, Wonders teachers and administrators!

We're excited to start another year and to welcome many new users to the Wonders family. The Professional Learning Environment (PLE), highlighted below, should be your first stop as you begin planning your new year. It's an online springboard into deeper learning and a place to make connections with a global network of peers.

Looking for Wonders back-to-school resources? Many teachers asked for assistance with speaking to parents and the community about Wonders—and we listened! We’ve pulled together key content to help you kick off the new school year. You’ll find these and other resources listed below.

Here’s to a wonder-ful year!

Brandon Harvey and John Mark Slagle
Senior National Curriculum Specialists

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Professional Learning Environment
Within the Wonders Professional Learning Environment (PLE), you can take the Quick-Start Course for step-by-step guidance through the initial weeks of implementing Wonders, access videos and PDFs that dive deeper into best practices, and collaborate with other Wonders users. If you are an administrator, you can access modules on how to monitor implementation and conduct teacher observations.

The path to the Wonders PLE in ConnectED has been moved to the Resources tab. To access the Wonders PLE, log in to ConnectED and select:
> Your Teacher's Edition
> The "Resources" tab
> "Professional Development"
> The yellow Quick-Start Course or PLE icon

 
Back-to-School Resources
Back-to-school time is filled with enthusiasm and excitement about the year to come. There’s a lot to do, but Wonders back-to-school resources—including informative presentations, letters to parents, and how-to help—will assist in your preparations for the new year.

How-To: Grouping for Differentiation

The beginning of a new school year is a great time to administer the Wonders Placement and Diagnostic Assessment to inform how you will group your students for differentiated instruction.

Learn how to access and administer the assessment and interpret its results with these Placement and Diagnostic Assessment step-by-step directions. Or, to access a set of video directions, go to your Quick-Start Course. Select either the “Create Small Groups” module or the “Week 3: Differentiated Instruction” module, depending on which Wonders program you use.

 
 
ConnectED is a great resource for planning your lessons, assigning tasks to your class, and assessing your students. We're always working to improve your Wonders experience. Some of the most recent ConnectED updates include:
  • “Gradebook” tab added to the “Assess” page
  • Improved navigation on the ConnectED Teacher Workspace
  • Wonders ©2017 users: NEW classroom videos
  • World of Wonders users: NEW classroom videos
  • Maravillas ©2017 users: NEW Foundational Skills Practice for Grade K-1
In Your Own Words
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Email us at [email protected] and it could be in our next newsletter.

Looking For More?
Wonders Digital Walkthrough
Explore a few of the Wonders digital features that make technology purposeful, including the Data Dashboard.

McGraw-Hill Education YouTube Playlists
Looking for more helpful tips or thoughts from literacy leaders? Check out a few McGraw-Hill Education YouTube playlists. Take some time to visit—it will be worth it!
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Webinars

Interactive Classroom Literacy Tools
On her website, Educational Consultant and Wonders Contributing Author, Kathy Bumgardner, offers her interactive classroom literacy tools that combine research-based instruction, best practices, and positive humor to promote engagement and support your classroom instruction.

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