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NJ Students Gear Up for Statewide Exams Using an Online Writing Program

Combination of MY Access! and teacher professional development at East Orange High School prepare students for the HSPA exams!

ast Orange, New Jersey, with a population of nearly 70,000 is located in Essex County, only 11 miles from New York City and three miles from Newark, NJ, making it a major hub between metropolitan areas and a thriving industrial and business community. While the city of East Orange has many things to brag about, it is most proud of its Jaguars: the students, staff and parents of the East Orange Campus High School. The East Orange Campus High School, one of the 20 schools that make up the East Orange School District, is located on the former campus of Upsala College. Focusing on a very diverse urban student population, the school houses more than 1,300 students in grades 1012. The school was developed around career academics and uses the Whole School Reform model of "High Schools That Work." One of the biggest challenges facing the school was how to succeed on the English Language writing

portion of the High School Proficiency Access! online instructional writing Assessment (HSPA), New Jerseys program from Vantage Learning. high-stakes exam. The exam is crucial According to Language Arts teacher in measuring not Elissa King and only the success of Principal Dr. Kelvin It was vitally individual students, Harris, the school is important for us to but of the schools an ideal one in find the right and districts in the which to use MY combination of state as well. Access!. It was While East Orange vitally important for technology, student High has a solid us to find the right engagement tools track record on the combination of and professional exams, the school technology, development to was looking for the student allow our students right combination engagement tools of technology and and professional to embrace the teacher development to writing process and involvement to allow our students prepare for the make the best to embrace the HSPA Exams. writers possible out writing process of its students, and and prepare for the to boost scores on the writing portion HSPA Exams, where the ability to write of the HSPA. proficiently is the main objective, they In 2009, the East Orange said. Based on this ideal, the school Curriculum and Technology implemented MY Access! with 600 departments went in search of a students in each grade level. solution to the challenge, and believe The school also believes that while they have found the solution: the MY MY Access! is the best writing program

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available, it is critical to make assure overall writing proficiency. that each teacher is proficient in the According to Ms. King, Our mechanics and tools of the program students have benefited enormously itself, and to make the software the from this program. Our students are ultimate teachers assistant and tutor. so enthusiastic about using MY Access! With that in mind, the District took part and receiving their feedback right in Vantage away. They have Learnings been writing and Our students have intensive Test revising more than benefited enormously Success Teacher ever, and feel from this program. Training. challenged and Our students are so A feature of MY motivated to enthusiastic about Access! that continue to using MY Access! and benefits ELL improve. receiving their students (or ESOL, One of the most ESL) at elementary, unique aspects of feedback right away. middle and high teaching writing They have been writing schools across the with MY Access! is and revising more than world, is the that teachers no ever, and feel instant feedback longer spend every challenged and students receive in spare minute motivated to continue their native scoring essays and to improve. language. marking corrections Students submit that students essays in English, and can receive seldom read. I can check an instant, targeted feedback and individual students progress from instruction in seven different essay to essay or check how my entire languages. class is doing on an essay. The data I To use MY Access!, students write obtain is very meaningful in helping an essay based on a teachers me pinpoint where my students need assignment, and submit it to the instruction, said Ms. King. Web-based system. The program While success on the HSPA Writing instantly analyzes over 350 semantic, Tests in the spring is crucially syntactic and discourse characteristics, important to Ms. King and to the and scores the essay on focus and school district, she added that MY meaning, organization, content and Access! provides much more than test development, language use and style, preparation, Using MY Access! allows mechanics and conventions, and my students to think and to show their

voice as a writer, something they have been hesitant to do in the past. Our students essay scores increased, but more importantly, so has their confidence. I hope my students can use MY Access! throughout their education and into other subject areas. Since we started using MY Access!, Ive seen a dramatic difference in students eagerness to write. Many of our students come from homes where they had little contact with computers. MY Access! gives them the chance to perfect their writing skills while also perfecting their technology and typing skills, all of which are so important for kids today, Ms. King concluded. There is no doubt that the students and teachers at East Orange High School in New Jersey have become a tremendous example in showing how technology, coupled with dedicated students and trained teachers, canand willcontinue to grow well in the Garden State. As the HSPA exams approach, these budding students are ready for the challenge!

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