Riviera ISD

Welcome, Riviera ISD Educators!

This page provides an introduction to Agile Mind’s middle and high school mathematics programs. Here you will find the orientation videos for each course submitted, as well as a quick start guide. When you are ready to review the programs, click the “Log In” button to the right.

Get to know Agile Mind. Our About Agile Mind Document provides a brief summary of what we have to offer.

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Agile Mind is proud to receive top ratings by EdReports.org in both middle and high school math.

Download Quick Start Guide

The Quick Start Guide will walk you through key features and navigation tools.

We recommend using this guide as reference before and during your online review.

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Blended Learning Approach

Our programs appear in a “blended” format, meaning that some essential materials are provided online and others in print. The online curriculum can be shared with an entire class by being projected. In this model, all that is needed is a computer, access to the Internet, and a projection device. In settings with access to shared computers or tablets, students can work online at the direction of their teacher.

In addition to the online materials, print resources are also available:

Student Activity Sheets are used by students in the classroom daily and for nightly homework. The sheets can be downloaded as pdfs from the online system or purchased as consumable workbooks.
Teachers receive a printed Advice for Instruction book with guidance for teaching each day with Agile Mind. The Advice for Instruction resources are also available online.

Accelerator

Agile Accelerator provides supplemental instructional and assessment resources for math and science that support a variety of learners across multiple grade levels. Interactive animations and simulations of key concepts and practice and assessment resources aligned to your standards equip educators to monitor progress and ensure all students are meeting expectations.

Relevant, flexible learning resources

Real-world scenarios, rich problem-solving tasks, and multiple entry points promote students’ engagement, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. Differentiation tools help target needs for individuals, small groups, and whole class instruction.

Learn how our blended print and digital resources are being used to support distance learning.

Powerful visualizations and interactivity

Hundreds of animations and simulations support the learning needs of all students with interactivity and multiple representations of mathematical relationships. Visualizations deepen student understanding of central concepts that are otherwise difficult to teach.

Balanced practice and assessment

Accelerator includes thousands of assessments expertly aligned to standards, reading level, and cognitive difficulty. Engaging, interactive practice sets — accessible by computer, tablet, and smartphone — support conceptual understanding, application, and procedural fluency.

Progress monitoring for success

Real-time reports pinpoint progress and gaps in learning by individual and by group. Identified needs and opportunities for additional challenge can be addressed with supporting instruction and practice resources.

TSI 2.0 Success Toolkit

In preparation for the Texas Success Initiative Assessment 2.0, the Dana Center and Agile Mind have developed customized assessments for the four TSI content areas. These assessments are joined by aligned support content and professional development to greatly increase the success rate of students on the TSI 2.0 Assessment.

Professional learning—face to face or virtual—equips educators with specific knowledge of TSIA and of TSI Success Toolkit
Assessment and reporting resources in Toolkit
- 10 tests, designed by Dana Center experts and available online, assess the 4 TSIA content areas
- Real-time reports show gaps and areas of strength
Learning resources linked to tests
- Engaging, relevant online instructional materials
- Online and offline practice items

Academic Youth Development

Academic Youth Development—a suite of programs created by Agile Mind in collaboration with the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin and leading psychologists—translates the latest research on student mindset, motivation, learning, and persistence into practical classroom strategies and tools that can be enacted every day, in every classroom to produce a lasting impact on every student.

About AYD

AYD connects students’ social and emotional learning (SEL) to challenges in school. More students succeed in school, career, and life when they learn skills that support their social and emotional development and then explicitly connect those skills to their academic learning.

This suite of programs translates the latest research on student mindset, motivation, learning, and persistence into practical classroom strategies and tools that can be enacted every day, in every classroom, to produce a lasting impact on every student.

Academic Youth Development programs help students develop the habits of mind
and actions associated with success in school and the workplace, and
have daily opportunities to apply new learning to challenging problems
in mathematics.

Integrating SEL with challenging mathematics

Academic Youth Development connects students’ learning with foundational mathematics content. Students apply new skills to real-world problem-solving in areas of mathematics that are essential to their grade-level achievement. They learn and refine proven strategies for mathematics success, and collaborate with peers to analyze and understand problem situations, develop conjectures, and describe their thinking.

AYD Outcomes

This document highlights outcomes for students and educators who participate in AYD, in terms of what they know and do related to key ideas and strategies in the program.

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Frequently Asked Questions

This one-page document shares common questions students have about Academic Youth Development.

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AYD Fact Sheet

This document describes the Academic Youth Development family of programs and the benefits for educators, students, and school systems.

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Transforming the Culture of Learning

In this video created by Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD (TX), students and teachers describe the impact of Academic Youth Development on their mindsets and their classroom learning culture.

Changing Attitudes & Mindsets

In this brief video, a teacher and her students describe the impact of Academic Youth Development on students’ mindsets for learning.

Academic Youth Development Introduction and Walkthrough

This video shares an overview and demonstration of the program, including key ideas and strategies that support students’ learning.

Productive Struggle

In this brief video, a teacher and her students describe how AYD helps them apply strategies to persist through academic challenges.

Changing the Culture of Learning Mathematics

In this brief video, a teacher and her students share how AYD helps students change how they feel, think about, and respond to mathematics.

Intensified Algebra I

Intensified Algebra I is a comprehensive intervention program to help students who are significantly behind become successful in algebra within one academic year. Central to the Intensified Algebra I program is the idea that struggling students need a powerful combination of additional time in class, a challenging curriculum, cohesive and targeted supports for developing their capabilities as learners, and
just-in-time interventions to address their misconceptions. Educators who serve these learners also need richer supports for their instructional practice. With these supports in place, students can get back on track, progress with their peers to graduate on time, and restore their confidence in their ability to succeed in advanced learning.

This groundbreaking program melds best practices in algebra instruction with advances in developmental and social psychology and research on struggling learners to shape students’ engagement, confidence, and commitment to challenging academic programs. Design principles of the curriculum include:

Rigorous algebra curriculum targeting students’ conceptual understanding,
associated skills, and related problem-solving and reasoning capabilities
Efficient and effective review/repair strategies
Ongoing, distributed practice
Social, psychological interventions that promote students’ positive beliefs about
their academic abilities
Supports for teachers, including classroom routines to help new teachers
establish positive learning environments
Tools that help students organize information and support metacognitive
awareness
Enhanced formative assessment strategies
Supports for literacy and language development

Struggling students need a powerful combination of additional time, a challenging curriculum, and cohesive, targeted supports and interventions. Agile Mind provides tools and teaching supports to help students stay on track, graduate on time, and gain passage to advanced learning.

Agile Mind’s Intensified Algebra I program is a blended program that integrates a comprehensive, engaging mathematics curriculum with interventions for struggling learners to motivate and develop students’ positive beliefs about their academic abilities. To learn more, visit the Intensified Algebra I program page.

Transform beliefs and behaviors

Social and emotional learning constructs are integrated within our Intensified curriculum. This groundbreaking program melds best practices in math instruction with advances in psychology and in research on struggling learners to shape students’ engagement, confidence, and commitment to challenging academic programs. Students are motivated. Teachers are energized. And parents see for their children a future where success is achievable.

Learn more about the social, emotional, and academic development principles behind our Intensified programs.

Intensified Algebra Videos

We encourage you to review the resources below, which provide a brief overview of our approach to teaching and learning and examples of classroom lessons.

Intensified Algebra Research Briefs

Intensified Algebra I Data Snapshots

Inverness Research Brief

Journal about Hillsborough

Providence Assessment Brief

Intensified Algebra Resources

Intensified Algebra I Alignment

Intensified Algebra I Scope & Sequence

Sample Student Activity Book

Sample Advice for Instruction

For more information

Please contact:

Tanya Tovar-Rabatte
Educational Partnerships Manager
214.212.0009 | ttovar-rabatte@agilemind.com

Nationally Respected Authors

Our math programs are developed in collaboration with the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin.

Thank you for your time and consideration as we work together to transform achievement in math and science — for all students!

Welcome to Agile Mind!

Welcome, Riviera ISD Educators!

Are you ready to get started?

Agile Mind is proud to receive top ratings by EdReports.org in both middle and high school math.

Download Quick Start Guide

Blended Learning Approach

Accelerator

Relevant, flexible learning resources

Powerful visualizations and interactivity

Balanced practice and assessment

Progress monitoring for success

TSI 2.0 Success Toolkit

Academic Youth Development

About AYD

Integrating SEL with challenging mathematics

AYD Outcomes

Frequently Asked Questions

AYD Fact Sheet

Transforming the Culture of Learning

Changing Attitudes & Mindsets

Academic Youth Development Introduction and Walkthrough

Productive Struggle

Changing the Culture of Learning Mathematics

Intensified Algebra I

Transform beliefs and behaviors

Intensified Algebra Videos

Intensified Algebra Research Briefs

Intensified Algebra I Data Snapshots

Inverness Research Brief

Journal about Hillsborough

Providence Assessment Brief

Intensified Algebra Resources

Intensified Algebra I Alignment

Intensified Algebra I Scope & Sequence

Sample Student Activity Book

Sample Advice for Instruction

For more information

Please contact:

Nationally Respected Authors

Programs

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Andrew Paulsen, Ed.D.

Charlotte Dowd

Massie McAdoo

Abby Neumeyer

Laurie Mayhan

Holly Wale

Brett Felten

Kristin Armistead

Am Norgren

Michele De La Garza

Alisa Rafter

Peter Walsh

Deborah Zimmerman

Gregg McFarland

David Savage

Clarence (Andy) Felong

John Moore

Linda Chaput

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