Renaissance Next Integrations

Star Assessments offer a comprehensive system for understanding student achievement and growth in reading, math, early literacy, and more across grades Pre-K through 12. Combining CAT and CBM assessments, Star delivers rapid, research-backed data that equips educators to identify skill gaps, organize instructional groups, and guide next-step learning. All assessments are designed to minimize testing time while generating highly precise insights that drive targeted instruction. Administrators can review districtwide performance through interactive dashboards that highlight growth, compare demographic groups, and reveal long-term trends. Teachers receive clear information about which skills students are ready for, along with embedded instructional resources to support immediate action. Star’s strong correlations with state summative exams, ACT, and SAT allow educators to forecast future achievement early in the year. The system also includes dedicated tools for multilingual learners, dyslexia risk identification, and mastery tracking. With decades of research and billions of data points informing its design, Star empowers schools to confidently support every student’s learning journey.

Freckle is an innovative digital platform designed for K–12 education, offering personalized and adaptive practice in mathematics and English Language Arts, ensuring that each student engages with material that is tailored to their unique learning level. The process starts with a short adaptive assessment or by utilizing existing data to determine a suitable starting point for each learner, followed by exercises that can be completed at their own pace or assigned by teachers, all while being aligned with educational standards. In the realm of math, Freckle caters to a wide range of topics from basic arithmetic to advanced high school concepts such as algebra and geometry, while in English Language Arts, it features an extensive collection of fiction and nonfiction texts along with activities that cover grammar, sight words, phonics, and reading comprehension. As students progress through the material, Freckle continuously adjusts in real time; if a learner encounters challenges, the platform provides easier or scaffolded tasks, whereas for those who are performing well, it introduces more advanced content, fostering their skill development, mastery, and boosting their confidence. This dynamic approach ensures that every student receives the support they need to thrive academically.

myON is a tailored digital reading platform that grants students round-the-clock access to a vast array of enhanced, age-suitable fiction and nonfiction literature, boasting a core collection of over 6,000 titles that are personalized to align with each student's reading abilities, grade level, and personal interests. It creates a “close reading” atmosphere with integrated supports, audio narration features, adjustments for reading levels, and interactive tools that allow readers to engage with material that is both appropriately challenging and accessible. For those students who may have limited or no regular internet access at home, myON offers free mobile applications that facilitate offline reading by allowing content to be downloaded and synchronized when the device reconnects to the internet. Additionally, the platform includes a news-reading feature, “myON News,” which presents daily, age-appropriate news articles enhanced with multimedia elements such as videos, slideshows, and photo galleries, thereby promoting reading that extends beyond conventional books. This comprehensive approach not only fosters a love of reading but also ensures that all students have the resources they need to succeed academically.

FastBridge is an integrated assessment system designed to help schools strengthen academic and social-emotional learning through fast, reliable screening and progress monitoring tools. It blends CAT and CBM assessments to pinpoint student needs in reading, math, and SEB with precision and efficiency. Educators can easily identify which students are at risk, understand the root causes of performance gaps, and receive recommendations for instruction and intervention across Tiers 1–3. With assessments that take 30 minutes or less, FastBridge minimizes testing fatigue while maximizing instructional time. The platform’s Screening to Intervention (s2i) report clearly suggests whole-group, small-group, and individual interventions to drive targeted learning. Predictive insights from FAST Projection™ reveal whether interventions are working weeks earlier than traditional tools. Districts also benefit from data dashboards that disaggregate performance and support equity-focused decisions. Built in collaboration with leading researchers, FastBridge gives educators trustworthy data to accelerate growth for every learner.

Accelerated Reader, created by Renaissance, is a digital program designed to facilitate the management, monitoring, and encouragement of independent reading among students in schools, libraries, and classrooms. Students select books that match their reading abilities and read them at their own speed. Upon completing a book, they engage with a computerized quiz to evaluate their comprehension through the AR platform. Each title in the AR database is assigned a readability level based on the ATOS formula, as well as a point value that reflects its length and complexity; students earn points by successfully passing the quizzes. These accumulated points help students work towards individualized reading objectives established by their teachers. Educators, and sometimes parents, receive comprehensive insights and reports detailing each student's reading habits, which encompass the titles read, comprehension levels, progress towards their goals, and overall reading volume. This interactive approach not only fosters a love for reading but also empowers students to take responsibility for their learning journey.

Lalilo is an online foundational literacy program designed for young learners in grades K–2, providing personalized and standards-aligned practice across various areas such as phonics, phonology, and reading comprehension. Upon their initial session, students complete a placement assessment, enabling the program to utilize artificial intelligence to customize future lessons, ensuring that each child engages with material that is suitably challenging. The lessons are enriched with interactive activities, auditory cues, and scaffolded reading tasks; as learners advance, they have the opportunity to unlock fresh stories, earn badges, and interact with content in a captivating, game-like environment. In addition, teachers benefit from comprehensive dashboards and reporting tools, which offer insights at both the class and individual student levels, empowering them to assign tailored lessons, track progress in specific skills, and pinpoint areas where additional support may be required. This innovative approach not only enhances learning but also fosters motivation and engagement among young readers.

SchoolCity serves as a comprehensive K–12 assessment platform that enables educators and school districts to construct, implement, and evaluate assessments that are aligned with educational standards, including classroom formative, summative, interim, and common assessments. The platform boasts an extensive item bank, featuring over 65,000 items tagged for TEKS and DOK specifically for Texas, along with additional resources like TX Prebuilt Assessments, TEKSbank, and TEKSready, thus providing teachers and administrators with access to high-quality, state-compliant questions. In addition, educators have the flexibility to design personalized assessments by combining original items with those sourced from the item banks, and they can administer these tests either online through the revamped Student Portal or on paper. Furthermore, the platform accommodates students' needs by integrating an accommodations system that updates nightly, offering features such as online testing support, partial-credit scoring, and a wide range of item types, including multiple choice, hot-text, graphing, ordering, multi-select, and performance-based tasks, ensuring a comprehensive assessment experience for all students. This versatility not only enhances the testing process but also enriches the learning experience by catering to diverse student needs.

SAEBRS serves as a comprehensive screener for social-emotional behavior, tailored for K–12 educational institutions to evaluate students' social interactions, academic performance, and emotional health. Within a brief survey lasting just 1 to 3 minutes, administered by teachers for each student (or 3 to 5 minutes for the self-assessment version known as mySAEBRS), it assesses both the lack of negative behaviors and the presence of constructive, pro-social skills, thus providing a holistic perspective on a student’s readiness to engage in learning. The screener features a "Total Behavior" scale along with three specific sub-scales: Social Behavior (which examines skills like understanding social cues, empathy, and appropriate interaction), Academic Behavior (focusing on factors such as class readiness, attention span, work habits, and participation), and Emotional Behavior (analyzing aspects like emotional regulation, responses to stress, and overall internal wellness). This tool empowers administrators, educators, and support personnel to evaluate entire classes, grades, or schools, enabling them to filter and scrutinize results across various district, grade, or demographic categories. By utilizing this systematic approach, schools can better identify the social-emotional needs of their students and implement timely interventions.

Renaissance DnA is a comprehensive assessment creation and management platform designed for K–12 education that enables teachers to construct, administer, and evaluate various types of assessments, including formative, benchmark, and summative evaluations, all within a single cohesive system. The platform boasts an extensive item bank with over 80,000 high-quality questions covering subjects such as ELA, math, science, and history, in addition to more than 600 pre-designed assessments that can be utilized as-is or tailored to fit a school’s specific curriculum needs. Educators have the flexibility to create their own questions and passages to align with local standards, enhancing the relevance of the assessments. DnA accommodates a variety of item formats, ranging from traditional multiple-choice and constructed responses to innovative technology-enhanced options like drag-and-drop, hot-spot, graphing, and evidence-based selected-response questions, ensuring that assessments capture a wide spectrum of student competencies. Furthermore, the platform allows for diverse administration methods, enabling assessments to be conducted online, on paper, or in a hybrid format to suit different classroom environments. With such versatility, Renaissance DnA is poised to significantly improve the assessment experience for both educators and students alike.

STAR Phonics is an online tool developed by Renaissance that assists educators in swiftly and accurately assessing the foundational reading abilities of their students. This assessment evaluates proficiency in 12 essential phonics categories and identifies 102 specific phonics skills, providing educators with comprehensive insights into both the phonics patterns students have mastered and the areas that need further attention. The screening process is quick, usually taking just 2-5 minutes per student, and results are generated instantly without the need for manual data entry. It offers diagnostic reports at various levels, including individual students, classes, and grade-wide assessments; these reports reveal patterns of mistakes and gaps in skills, enabling teachers to customize their instructional approaches for individuals, small groups, entire classes, or even whole grades. Recently, STAR Phonics has introduced new features, such as audio pronunciations for every assessment word to enhance accuracy in scoring, as well as improved capabilities for exporting screener data categorized by phonics and by individual words. With these advancements, educators can gain a deeper understanding of their students’ phonics skills, ensuring that instruction is as effective and targeted as possible.

eduCLIMBER serves as a comprehensive management platform focused on the whole child, employing a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) to seamlessly combine various types of data, including academic performance, behavioral metrics, attendance records, social-emotional health, interventions, and qualitative insights into one interactive system. By consolidating information from diverse sources such as assessments, student information systems, behavior tracking tools, surveys, attendance logs, and custom inputs, it constructs a detailed longitudinal profile for each student as well as for the entire school community. The platform features integrated modules designed for early-warning systems, tracking interventions, facilitating collaborative workflows, and generating effectiveness reports, which empower educators to observe and respond to student risk factors—such as chronic absenteeism, behavioral challenges, or declining academic performance—in real time. Additionally, the “Observations” module allows educators to directly document behavior or time-sample data, enhancing the overall capability of the platform to support student success. Ultimately, eduCLIMBER provides a holistic view of student progress and needs, fostering an environment where tailored interventions can be effectively implemented.