Customer Support
“One of the key aspects of Summit is how accessible your team has been and continues to be in terms of direct support and feedback to us. You truly promote an atmosphere of collaboration, and that is something that really stands out relative to other educational programs/products.”
Mr. Kitzler, High School Newcomer teacher
“Summit has stellar customer service that is really helpful and friendly. Summit responds in a timely manner to questions, comments, and concerns. Summit understands teacher and student needs. They listen and respond to teacher feedback.”
Ms. Harper, Elementary teacher
“Summit K12 is Brilliant and Effective.”
Ms. Penner, 5th Grade Science Teacher, HISD
Lesson Planning and Preparation
“Summit also offers Lesson Plans that are simple, teacher friendly, time-savers that you can adjust to your needs or leave as is. These plans include the differentiated pieces for your students. Anything you could possibly think of to plan for an ELA lesson Summit has the resources and Lesson Plans to go with them!”
Ms. Harper, Elementary Teacher
With Summit K12 lesson planning is easy AND the books are exceptional. They are very student friendly, extremely interesting to the students and integrate science and reading beautifully. For good reading teachers who are uncomfortable with science content, this is perfect! It also could work the opposite way (good science teachers who are uncomfortable teaching reading).
Mario Arias, Dallas ISD
Vocabulary Development
“I loved how the Vocabulary Boosters flash cards allowed all students to feel successful, by giving them the chance to attempt missed words over and over until they got it right.”
Ms. Garcia, 5th Grade Teacher
“I like the fact that my English Learners get exposed to content vocabulary and get to use it in a variety of ways.”
8th Grade ELA/ESL teacher, Galena Park ISD
“The ConceptLinks Literacy program matches our Standards of Learning and helps integrate science with literacy skills which is a win-win situation for my teachers. I thought the vocabulary focus was excellent in all of the books. I liked the introduction piece where the students identified words they knew, were familiar with and ones they didn’t know. This piece helped focus my students into key vocabulary and gave them a mindset for reading.”
Colleen Orman, Norfolk, VA
Student Engagement & Motivation
“My students were in awe of the high quality, real-life images throughout the ConceptLinks ebooks and the Vocabulary Booster flash cards.”
Ms. Gonzales, 5th Grade Teacher
“My students were excited every-time they got to read the ConceptLinks books.”
Ms. Guerrero, 5th Grade Teacher
“I like how Summit K12 gives students visibility to their own results, which motivates them to work hard to achieve higher scores.”
Ms. Carolina, 5th Grade Teacher
“Summit has vibrant, colorful, engaging images of Vocabulary Words as well as showing them the multiple meanings of a particular word as well. My students loved the visuals as well as the audio while they listened to the content in their student ebooks.”
Ms. Harper, Elementary teacher
“My students were engaged, and my struggling readers were surprised about their own level of interest in reading the content. The materials supported what they were learning in Science class, so their confidence increased. I love the books, and so do they!”
7th Grade ELA/ESL Teacher, Galena Park ISD
Summit offers very interesting and engaging subjects for my 8th grade students.
8th Grade ELA teacher
“I’d like to add that the students enjoyed working with the module. At first I thought they would resent being part of another pull out reading group. However, after our very first meeting, the kids were hooked! They also all improved on the post-test – so I felt great about that…The books are very powerful in the reading and science domain. I felt the features (Key words page, Key ideas, graphics, text features…) were wonderful.It is an awesome opportunity for students to master science and become better readers. The books were highly engaging and constantly enforced reading and science strategies!”
Katie Boyd, Elementary Teacher, Norfolk, VA
Formative & Summative Assessments
“Summit provided with me detailed data to monitor student progress on both content and language skill assessments, allowing me to target those who struggle or are at risk. I like how Summit provides well defined language and content objectives with a variety of leveled activities.”
Ms. Fisher, High School Newcomer teacher
“We used the online quizzes and had immediate feedback for the results. I use the Summit data to meet with my principal and the RTI team to show growth and progress and the achievements of my students.”
Ms. Harper, Elementary teacher
Science Tutorials
“The Concept Boosters Science visual mini-lessons were wonderful for the year-end review of our priority science standards.”
Ms. Rojas, 5th Grade Teacher
“Fantastic Review resource! This is the best science review program my students have ever received. Very engaging lessons.”
Ms. Champion, 5th Grade Teacher
“I enjoyed the fact that Summit had the prerequisites for 3rd and 4th grades so that if my students came in not understanding the grade level knowledge it was an easy way to scaffold and review the prior TEKS using the Science Tutorials.”
Ms. Laso, 5th Grade Science
“Summit K12 is a quality product. I have been looking for this type of program for my Science students for quite a while.”
Teacher, 5th-8th Grade Science, Dew ISD
“We started using Summit K12 in March of 2018 just after our spring benchmark. Our spring science benchmark average was 46% and our students achieved a 61% passing rate on the Science STAAR. We improved our passing rate from 50% in 2017 to 61% in 2018 and plan to use Summit K12 starting in August of 2018, so we can experience significant growth in Approaches, Meets, and Masters categories in 2019.”
Ms. Rodriguez, 5th Grade Science Teacher
“Our average district-wide 5th grade science scores went from 77% to 82% after using Summit K12’s Science Tutorials program for 3 months. This is the first time we have been above 80% as a district. We used the program in 13 of our 25 Elementary Schools with the highest needs. All schools using Summit experienced double digit growth including one school that went from 59% to 81%, another that went from 66% to 88%, and another that grew from 79% to 95%.”
Elementary Science Curriculum Coordinator
“After using ConceptLinks for one school year my ELL students performed at the same level on the 5th grade STAAR Science test as my regular students.”
John Simpson, Round Rock ISD
Writer’s Workshops
Data Tracking, Analysis and Use
“We use a lot of data in our teaching. Seeing the Concept Boosters reports gave us information at a glance as to which standard we needed to go back and review with students.”
Ms. Ruiz, 5th Grade Teacher
“Summit K12 helped us target instruction based on the quick data turn over that the program offers.”
8th Grade Science Teacher, Marshall MS, HISD
Student Achievement and Growth
“75% of my students grew at least 1 TELPAS proficiency rating level this year. Summit K12 fit well with my learning stations method of teacher my EL students.”
Ms. Benjamin, 8th Grade ESL teacher
“I teach a Middle School sheltered content instruction for ESOL students and used the Summit K12 program for nonfiction reading, writing, and career explorations. We saw student growth in both Science and Social Studies classes as a result of using the Summit program.”
Ms. Burt, 6th-8th ESOL teacher
“We used Summit K12 for nonfiction reading and vocabulary development and within one semester 80% of our students showed significant growth on their Reading Inventory (RI) assessments.”
Ms. Deepnarain, High School Newcomer teacher
“Summit provided my students with exposure to non-fiction texts in a way that was accessible for my English Language Learners and helped provide some background knowledge needed for classroom and assessment purposes. All of my ESOL students progressed 1 full level on the Reading ACCESS test this year.”
Ms. Richardson, Elementary ESOL teacher
“All of my students who used Summit K12 saw growth on their ACCESS Writing scores. We focused on Writing this year and used Summit K12’s Writer’s workshop that is aligned to the WIDATM standards.”
Ms. Rozelle, 3rd-5th Grade ESOL teacher
Newcommer Lesson Plans
Reading comprehension strategies
Differentiation of Content and Lessons
“Summit is our program for Reading and Writing. Summit made it easy to differentiate among my students, the program is fluid, and my students are engaged. We loved the Connect to Literacy books and every day we did a whole group Language Skill mini-lesson.”
Ms. Sato, 7th-8th Grade ESOL teacher
“I used Summit to support my students in Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening. Summit differentiates the content and brings it down to their level so they feel successful.”
Ms. Harper, Elementary teacher
“The program catered to the different reading levels of my Middle School ELL students. I was able to monitor their reading progress and closely monitor how my students move ahead with different activities.”
8th Grade ELA teacher, Galena Park ISD
“The program is very well designed according to the different student reading levels. It is very engaging and motivating and the students really enjoyed the program! . . .ConceptLinks is a very good program with a lot of visuals and features that really help students—even ELL students—comprehend the material.”
Mario Arias, Dallas ISD
“We emphasize hands-on learning in the Science Lab, but we are always looking for ways to integrate science instruction into the communication skills block. The Summit K12 program is an excellent resource for that purpose. We are also very committed to increasing student mastery of content vocabulary, and this system is a great way to introduce and reinforce that vocabulary.
The ConceptLinks Literacy Differentiated books are rich in text features and provide many opportunities to have students assess their own understanding of the text and apply corrective strategies. The content and vocabulary presented are right in line with our science curriculum, and enhanced vocabulary development. I liked the Science Vocabulary Words component of the Preview Guide.
ConceptLinks Literacy supports our goal to increase writing across the curriculum, so we love the Writer’s workshop component of the program.”
Sharon Ferron, Norfolk, VA
Progress monitoring
From a Student’s Perspective
“I like Summit because it reads things for me and it helps me a lot to answer the questions. It has a bunch of tests and websites that are good for practicing for the book that you are trying to finish. The Summit program has taught me stuff I haven’t learned yet and I am happy to work with Summit because it is good and convenient. If the Summit program is there, why not take the opportunity to use it? You know you don’t know it, so why not use it and learn it! ”
5th Grade Student
“Something I like from the Summit program is that I get to learn new things. The Summit program also helps me work on the things I do not know.”
5th Grade Student
“What I like about the Summit program is that it gives you your scores, you can read books, it has a pretest, and gives you time to take the post-test. ”
5th Grade Student
“I like the activities and it is too fun for me. I always want to come to your room because it is too fun!”
5th Grade Student
“I like when I do the pretest and I get a good grade. I also like the science subjects so I can get good at it. I like the topics. They help me with my grades. I am learning different vocabulary words.”
5th Grade Student
“What I like about SummitK12 is that I get to learn about things that I haven’t learned about. ”
5th Grade Student
“I like the Summit program. You read stories that you never know in your life. The Summit program helps you a lot with reading and writing.”
5th Grade Student
“In my opinion, I think that in Our Civic Life I learned a lot for me. I get much smarter at the thing that we do in the classroom. I think it is fun to be in the classroom. Even though I play a little bit, I still do good. Because of that, ESOL is the best class I ever had in my life!”
5th Grade Student
