ELL Archives | Discovery Education Nurture Curiosity Thu, 07 Aug 2025 06:42:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 ELL Students See Significant Growth on EOY Assessments with DreamBox Math https://www.discoveryeducation.com/resources/research/napa-valley-ell-dreambox-math/ Thu, 07 Aug 2025 01:28:49 +0000 https://www.discoveryeducation.com/?post_type=research-impact&p=192603 ELL Students Using DreamBox Math Demonstrate Significant Growth on End-of-Year Assessments Download the Full Report At-a-Glance Type: Research Brief Time Period: 2021 – 2022 Source: Discovery Education Product: DreamBox Math Share This Report Napa Valley Unified School District piloted DreamBox Math in 2019, but when the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to go remote, district leaders […]

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ELL Students Using DreamBox Math Demonstrate Significant Growth on End-of-Year Assessments

At-a-Glance

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Research Brief

Time Period:

2021 – 2022

Source:

Discovery Education

Product:

DreamBox Math

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Napa Valley Unified School District piloted DreamBox Math in 2019, but when the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to go remote, district leaders chose to adopt DreamBox Math for all K–8 students for three years knowing it would be critical to support distance learning. The district believed that this would give educators and students ample time to integrate the solution and allow leaders to analyze efficacy data and measure success.

Through the pandemic and beyond, DreamBox Math has proven essential to address unfinished learning and close math opportunity gaps. Students receive the individualized learning they need, while teachers can monitor their usage, standard mastery, and assign work based on progress. This highly personalized learning, when implemented as designed, has ultimately led to marked student improvement on STAR Math.
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Director of Prevention & Intervention, Napa Valley Unified School District, CA

NVUSD partnered with DreamBox research team in 2022 to explore the impact of DreamBox Math. By analyzing 2021-2022 usage compared with STAR Math achievement results from fall 2021 and spring 2022, the teams believed they could determine if DreamBox Math had an impact on: Standardized test achievement, students across grades K-8 and achievement levels, students who are English Language Learners, and students who qualify for FRL.

Significant Results for ELL Students

Nearly one third of the student population in Napa Valley Unified School District are English Language Learners. Data shows that ELL students in grades 1-8 who completed about one hour of DreamBox Math per week demonstrated 8 percentile points more growth on the end-of-year assessments than students who did not use the program. This significant increase was also evident across all starting achievement levels, all grades, and for students who qualify for FRLP.

Napa Valley DBMath Results

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Sweetwater Union High School District, Sweetwater, California

San Ysidro Adult School Student Finds English Language Fluency with Reading Plus

Angelica, a native Spanish speaker from Tijuana, Mexico, is determined to get her high school diploma from the United States. Her goals include earning her diploma, going to college to study mathematics, and starting a teaching career. At San Ysidro Adult School, she enrolled in advanced placement classes as well as high school English classes. Reading Plus became an essential part of her journey toward English fluency.

Reading Plus' Impact

At first, reading was challenging for Angelica. Feeling confident in her reading comprehension took time. But her experience with Reading Plus helped her appreciate completing her readings. Initially, she stuck to fiction texts on the program but then found readings that could help with credits toward other classes; history selections in Reading Plus have been particularly helpful. “I can say that at this time, I enjoy reading,” she says. 

Reading Plus intelligently adapts and personalizes lessons for Angelica. It started her with beginner-level texts. As her proficiency grew, the platform upped the ante and gave her more complex reading lessons. In the beginning, she read about 80 words a minute, but now she reads and comprehends more than 180 words a minute. Within a year and a half, she had completed all DreamBox Reading grade levels. 

Angelica believes that being able to see her progress on the dashboard increased her confidence. As her confidence grew, so did her vocabulary, proficiency, comprehension, and speed. “You can see how much improvement you have [made],” she says. And she can feel the improvement when she speaks English at school and at her job. Similarly, she’s seen growth in her writing proficiency. Angelica says that in the early days of using Reading Plus, she would write about one paragraph that often had grammatical errors. Now she is writing essays with more certainty and ease. 

The flexibility of Reading Plus is also a perk for Angelica. The online platform can go anywhere:  the classroom, home, the library. So, when she had the time, she had access to her studies no matter where she was. Reading Plus not only helped her learn English, but it also improved her vocabulary, speed, and comprehension by helping her to identify the skills that everyone needs to read. She recommends to anyone who is considering Reading Plus to stay motivated, and you’ll be pleased with reading improvement.

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District Details

  • Sweetwater Union High School District has 32 campuses that serve 34,000+ students
  • Adult Division of the School District serves 10,000+ adult learners

Solutions

  • Reading Plus

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