Proven to help students achieve
2 years of reading growth per year.
ThinkCERCA was designed to equip students with the critical thinking skills needed to meet today’s career- and college-readiness standards.
Third-Party Studies
ATLANTIC RESEARCH PARTNERS
Over 2x Reading Growth
SRI INTERNATIONAL
20% Gain in Writing Scores
In a controlled study by SRI, researchers found statistically significant impact on writing seen in as early as 8 weeks of implementation.
LEAP INNOVATIONS
2x Reading Growth in 1 Year
An independent study of 26 ed-tech products showed ThinkCERCA helped students achieve an extra year’s worth of growth in one school year.
LearnPlatform by Instructure
ESSA Level III (Promising Evidence) Standards Met
The findings for elementary, middle, and high school students met ESSA Level III (Promising Evidence) standards given the positive, statistically significant relationships between ThinkCERCA usage and student benchmark performance in grades 4-12.
Case Studies
FAYETTE COUNTY SCHOOLS
2.6x More Growth Than Control Group
At Fayette County Public Schools, ThinkCERCA students achieved more than double the ELA growth compared to non-ThinkCERCA students in a 3-year period.
FARMINGTON MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS
Achieving Double-Digit
PARCC Growth
Farmington Municipal Schools increased the average percentage of middle school students attaining grade-level standards in ELA, as measured by PARCC, by 13 percentage points within two years.
Youngstown City SCHOOLS
Significant Reading Growth by Mid-Year Assessments
Students who submitted five or more ThinkCERCA Writing Lessons demonstrated more than twice the reading growth on the NWEA MAP assessment than students who did not submit a Writing Lesson.
Bibb County SCHOOLS
Double-Digit ELA Gains
Among the students who used ThinkCERCA, 22.5 percent moved up one or more achievement levels on the state's end-of-year ELA assessment.
Partner Stories
Andrew Carnegie Elementary
Building a Common Language for Writing Across Curriculum
Meridian Junior High
Building Confident Writers and Thinkers Across Subjects in Grades 6-8
From Teachers using ThinkCERCA
"ThinkCERCA is the first program I’ve used that meaningfully integrates technology into a literacy classroom. My classroom’s focus is around reading and writing, and ThinkCERCA allows me to purposefully differentiate and scaffold articles and ideas for individual student needs while maintaining a uniform conversation at the class-wide level about a topic or skill."
CJ Joseph-Guevara
Teacher, Middle School 88, New York