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To help teachers focus on the skills their students need to quickly get caught up on this fall after missed instructional time during the COVID-19 closures, Renaissance has introduced Focus Skills, a set of free tools for K–12 literacy and math educators.

Using data from nearly 80 million Star Assessments taken by 25 million students, the company’s curriculum experts determined the skills most critical for accelerating learning and closing learning gaps. Identified as key skills within Renaissance’s learning progressions—the path students take as they move from a novice to an expert level of understanding, according to the standards of each state—Focus Skills are essential for student progression and are prerequisites for learning future skills. Focus Skills are also transferable skills that help students achieve success in adjacent domains and subjects.

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