Summit K12

“"I feel like you guys listen — and when y'all have come for site visits, that's been one of the best things, for y'all to see how the product looks with students."”

“The teachers are using it with fidelity, and they're invested in those students' future — in their language acquisition journey.”

“You drop these seeds... and every once in a while, one blooms right in front of you — and it's a beautiful thing.”

““We are doing our best over here, and I cannot wait to share the results.””

““They love the immediate feedback. One student told me, 'Miss, I like it because I can click it and listen to the word as many times as I need to until I get it.' The parents said the same thing. Nobody is rushing them.””

““That was the way we saw it in Summit K12! That was the way you taught us how to write.””

““You should see the parents having fun! That's what learning should look like.””

““What I love about Summit K12 is that it starts students exactly where they are. Everyone begins at their own starting point and grows from there. Every student was different, and the platform honored that.””

““It is pretty easy to navigate and all the resources are right there, you know. I fell in love since the beginning. It's very accessible for all of the teachers.””

““As an English learner myself, I remember the fear and anxiety of taking these tests, because it's in a language that you're not comfortable with. Now I see them thinking - I know how to do this.””

““I just gave the ELPAC test to a student who did not speak a single word to me in English when I first met them, and now they're answering, they got through the test. That is such an accomplishment, because you just see the growth.””

““This is the one program I know that really meets students where they are. The fact that they're working on listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and that they all connect to each other, is so important.””

““When I see the students taking their ELPAC assessment, I hear them say, ‘It's Summit K12,’ and they get excited because they know what to do.””

“Summit K12 provides our students in the English Language Development course with a WIDA-aligned resource to build English proficiency and confidently practice grade-level academic vocabulary. The adaptive learning platform supports our ongoing work to increase graduation rates for English Language Learners.”

“No question has been too big. Everybody has been so responsive — and that is what has made this a success.”

“Summit K12 is the best thing that has ever happened to our students,”

“"For someone to have immediate feedback... they can actually see it. It's like they're playing a video game — and they're learning."”

“"If they can't read, they're not going to be able to do math — or any other subject for that matter."”

“It's not something they have to do. It's something they get to do... they get to show off their bilingual superpowers.”

“Ever since we started using Summit K-12, he has become such a more confident and better reader. What we're doing is working — and it's translating into the classroom.”

“The support we've had from Summit K-12 is nothing like I've experienced in my years of teaching. I always feel like I have someone to turn to. That's the key to our success.”

“Summit K-12 and our core curriculum, are only going to do as much as we commit to as a team," concludes Nunez. "That idea that we wanted to use something that had structure, that there was a routine involved, that there was progress monitoring, data to be looked at—to do that with fidelity and intent, I think it has made a huge difference.”

“I think there’s a lot of tangible evidence that we can look at to say, okay, this is real data. This is our kids moving forward," Nunez notes. "When students have been in ELD since kindergarten, it almost feels like they’ve been beat up by this idea of you have to take this class, you have to take this test. But now, they started to believe that they could do it.”

“We ended up doing a speaking lab where our instructional aid that worked directly with English learners took half the group into a speaking lab, and then the other half worked with the teacher on the speaking domain," Nunez explains. "We were able to keep those groups really small, and students were more willing to complete their 20-30 minutes of speaking for that day.”

“Being an ELD teacher for eight and a half years myself, I wanted something that catered to the four domains and had specific activities, lessons, and assessments," says Nunez. "It was something where it didn't create more work for the teacher, rather, we were able to facilitate a routine where they were able to use the platform to best meet the needs of their students.”