To access the Reports:
1. After your child has logged in, select a subject from the left-hand side of the screen to access the reports. (See the screen shot below.)
2. Here, you will find a variety of reports with information such as how much time your child has spent on various subjects, how they used their time, and what questions they missed. You will also be able to compare your child with other children in their class and in their state that are using Study Island. You can select reports by Subject or select the Summary option to get all subjects.
ohn Cusick of the Environmental Center at University of Hawaii at Manoa describes the formation process of Kilauea Iki Crater in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park to students during a recent U.S. Department of State-sponsored environmental leadership program. (Photo special to Hawaii 24/7 by Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto)
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A group of 20 undergraduate scholars from Burma, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand visited Hawaii Island June 2–8 as part of a U.S. Department of State-sponsored innovative environmental leadership program hosted by the East-West Center.
The students experienced Hawaii Island as a model for successfully addressing global environmental challenges at a local level as part of the U.S. Department of State’s Study of the United States Institute (SUSI) for Student Leaders on Global Environmental Issues.
SUSI is designed to foster a greater understanding of sustainability in the United States and aid in the development of more resilient communities in their home countries.
The institute focused on three key topics: 1) developing sustainable systems for natural resource and agricultural management; 2) food, energy, and water security; and 3) ecotourism.
“The Island of Hawaii models the world’s challenges in areas such as food self-reliance and energy self-reliance,” said Matt Hamabata, executive director of The Kohala Center, which partnered with the East-West Center for the Hawaii Island portion of the institute. “This island imports 90 percent of its food. Furthermore, the island’s dependence on fossil fuel imports has a crippling effect on its economy, yet Hawaii Island is abundant with natural resources that could move it to greater food and energy self-reliance.
“The students met with creative and energetic island leaders, such as Jerry Konanui, a respected Native Hawaiian community leader and farmer, who presented an overview of the Hawaiian history of food self-reliance. The students went into the world’s rarest forest, the Hawaiian dryland forest at Kaupulehu, with Yvonne and Keoki Carter, who linked that forest to the life of the ocean by introducing the students to the ahupuaa [loosely translated as summit-to-sea or watershed] concept for a complete sense of ecosystem health,” Hamabata said.
The scholars met with leaders from other field research sites including Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and the Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center. They also delved into Hawaiian history and culture, tourism and development on the island, geothermal energy, and community actions to protect ecosystems and cultural ties.
Christina Monroe, education project specialist with the East-West Center, said the students found links on Hawaii Island “that resonated with their home countries and the issues they face with sustainable agriculture, food security, tourism development, and resulting equity and native cultural impacts.
“The Hawaiian traditional resource management and land ethic based on cultural knowledge were instructive and inspiring to them,” Monroe said. “They see that Hawaii holds a special perspective on mainstream American development that can inform their own countries’ development. I think they will be more critical and effective leaders at striking the balance between preserving the inside with integrating the outside — a key to resilient communities, which is an outcome of the institute.”
The participants arrived May 23 to participate in leadership development workshops and obtain an overview of sustainability in the United States through lectures at the East-West Center’s Honolulu campus and field studies including Lyon Arboretum, Hanauma Bay, and sailing on the voyaging canoe Hokulea. They also participated in a two-day conference with more than 20 local environmental leaders.
Their last week was in Washington D.C. with briefings at the Environmental Protection Agency and Senate Committee for Environment and Public Works.
The program’s participants bring a broad range of backgrounds, including study of basic medicine and the effects of climate change on human health; marine biology, water-purification and renewable energy research; and information technology.
Goals of the program include:
* Transformative learning experience through introductions to a broad spectrum of American life.
* Opportunities for U.S. practitioners to learn about environmental challenges in the Asia Pacific region.
* Building networks and collaborative projects that link participants with U.S environmental professionals to develop practical solutions to shared challenges.
The five-week institute is hosted by the East-West Center with funding from the Study of the U.S. Branch in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Institute is held in collaboration with more than fifty organizations, including the University of Hawaii at Manoa Environmental Center, Yale University’s Global Environmental Governance Project, The Nature Conservancy, and The Kohala Center.
The East-West Center promotes better relations and understanding among the people and nations of the United States, Asia, and the Pacific through cooperative study, research, and dialogue. Established by the U.S. Congress in 1960, the Center serves as a resource for information and analysis on critical issues of common concern, bringing people together to exchange views, build expertise, and develop policy options.
The Kohala Center is an independent, not-for-profit center for research and education about and for environment. By respectfully engaging Hawaii Island as the world’s most vibrant classroom and laboratory for humanity, The Kohala Center builds teaching and research programs for energy and food self-reliance and ecosystem health to enhance island environments, serve island communities, and advance the work of the academy. The Kohala Center operates in partnership with local, national, and international research and educational institutions.
The Study of the U.S. Institutes are designed and funded by the Study of the U.S. Branch in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). Study of the U.S. Institute participants are among over 40,000 individuals participating in U.S. Department of State exchange programs each year. For more than sixty years, ECA has funded and supported programs that seek to promote mutual understanding and respect between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. Other ECA programs include the Fulbright Program and the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program.
Archipelago Learning is a leading subscription-based online education company. We provide standards-based instruction, practice, assessment and productivity tools that improve the performance of educators and students via proprietary Web-based platforms. Study Island, our core product line, helps students in kindergarten through 12th grade, or K-12, master state-specific grade level academic standards in a fun and engaging manner. During the 2009-2010 school year, Study Island products were utilized by approximately 10.0 million students in nearly 22,000 schools in 50 states. These students answered over 3.2 billion practice questions.
In June of 2010, Archipelago Learning acquired EducationCity, which provides an online K-6 educational program that includes instructional content and assessments in language arts, mathematics and science. EducationCity is used by 8,200 schools in the U.K. and 4,800 in the U.S. EducationCity and Study Island work in tandem to introduce, extend, enrich, remediate, and reinforce the learning process through proven, research-based content that ensures every learner can be successful in mastering the most rigorous standards of learning. In addition, Archipelago Learning introduced new online post-secondary programs last year through its Northstar Learning product line.
The Study Island SAT and the Study Island ACT programs were examined for this review; they are very similar programs with test-specific differences. Both programs are webbased subscription services that can be used by students or teachers at any time from any location - lab, classroom, library, or home. This review will focus on the Study Island SAT program.
Study Island has partnered with Tutor Associates, a one-on-one tutoring company, to offer the SAT (and the ACT) review program. The mathematics portion of Study Island SAT helps students master both computation problems and word problems similar to those used on the test; the verbal portion includes practice for the critical reading and writing sections of the SAT.
Animated interactive instructional videos help students learn key testtaking strategies and help them avoid common pitfalls. The program also provides hundreds of printable flashcards designed to help students practice common SAT vocabulary. Practice exams allow students to get a score estimate. Full-length practice tests can be generated on request.
Subscribing users can log on to an opening page that provides specific user statistics and desired reports. To the left of the screen, a menu offers choices including School Stats, Class Manager, Benchmarking (an add-on at an extra cost), Create New Topic (to generate new practice exercises), New Message, My Attributes, and My High Scores. Below the menu is a list of subscription services available to the user's school. At the top, users can click on on-screen buttons to link to Emailed Report Manager, Printable User List, and Adjust Student Difficulty.
An SAT button takes the user to a page offering three selections: Math, Verbal, and Practice Tests. The Math option leads to a page with nine math lesson areas and more than 50 specific lessons. The Verbal option leads to a page with nine verbal lesson areas that link to a total of 34 specific lessons, a guide to writing SAT essays, and practice prompts. Check boxes offer a direct link to the selected lesson areas. As students work through a subject, their results are recorded on this page as well.
Once users select a lesson, they are taken to a page that lets them select session options including Test Mode, Classroom Response Systems, Printable Worksheet, or Games. In addition, users can select a number of questions for the session, from a range of 1-20.
Each time the Test Mode or Worksheet options are selected, a different result can be generated. The Games selection links to 28 Java games.
The Classroom Response Systems option provides a page that enables the selection of specific clickers for use in study sessions. The Study Island SAT and ACT programs work with elnstruction's Classroom Performance System, Promethean's Learner Response Systems, Qwizdom's Student Response System, Renaissance's 2Know! Classroom Response System, SMART Response interactive response systems, and the TurningPoint student response system.