AI-Powered Scoring & Intelligent Insights

Experience next-generation AI for multilingual learners launching August 2025. Our latest Connect to Literacy™ upgrade blends powerful innovation with purposeful design so every student gets the support they deserve when they need it most.

  • TX-TELPAS
  • CA-ELPAC
  • WIDA™
  • ELPA21
  • AZ-AZELLA
  • LA-ELPT
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Intelligent. Intuitive. Impactful.

How It Works

Step 1

Student Answers the Question

Step 2

AI Processes their Response

Step 3

AI Provides Score and Reasoning

Key Benefits

Instantly rates student submissions
Includes model exemplars for students
Includes an AI shield to prevent copying questions and prompts and pasting AI generated responses into the platform
Provides teachers with reasoning/rationale for each student response dynamically
Large Language Model AI trained and calibrated using tens of millions of K-12 MLL student responses collected over the past 6 years
Provides teachers with real-time targeted instructional strategies by student proficiency level, grade-band level and item type
Provides teachers with real-time targeted instructional strategies by student proficiency level, grade-band level and item type
Provides students with corrective feedback

Real-Time Results for Students & Teachers

For students:

  • Automatic scoring of written and spoken answers
  • Age-, grade-, and language proficiency level appropriate feedback
  • Personalized Learning Plans (PLPs)

For teachers:

  • Insight into class/group needs by PLD
  • Targeted instructional strategies
  • Saves time and enhances differentiated instruction

The Data Behind the Intelligence

Our AI Model was developed from six year’s worth of curated student data:

  • Millions of written & spoken student responses
  • Created with Multilingual Learners in grades K–12 representing 120+ languages
  • Fully aligned to all 8 national ELD/ELP standards
  • Scored and trained using the 25 Official K–12 Speaking and Writing ELP rubrics
  • Covers 750+ Speaking and Writing item types & 112 linguistic dimensions of speech
  • Calibrated by grade level, item type, ELP standard, proficiency level, and scoring rubric
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Responsible AI Training

Our expert-built models combine:

    • Augmented AI with human-in-the-loop calibration
    • ‍Large Language Model (LLM) Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing based upon Deep Learning Algorithms and Innovations
    • ‍Transparent scoring with explainability tools
    • ‍Bias mitigation to ensure equitable treatment
    • ‍Calibrated across grade-cluster bands, language-proficiency levels and item types by certified teachers/raters for each of the state and national ELD standards

Built for Smarter Balanced States

Accelerate to Literacy is built for districts administering the Smarter Balanced Assessment: California, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Connecticut, Delaware, Vermont, New Hampshire, and West Virginia. Wherever a district sits within the Smarter Balanced consortium,

Accelerate to Literacy connects English learners' language growth to the grade-level literacy skills the assessment measures.

Click on the sections below to explore Connect to Literacy™ for your region.

ELPAC - California

Connect to Literacy™ offers English Language Development solutions specifically designed for learners in California.

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TELPAS - Texas

Connect to Literacy™ offers English Language Development solutions specifically designed for learners in Texas.

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AZELLA - Arizona

Connect to Literacy™ offers English Language Development solutions specifically designed for learners in Arizona.

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WIDA™

Empower all multilingual learners (MLLs) to grow at least one proficiency level per year or your money back.

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ELPA21

Connect to Literacy™ offers solutions to support English Language Proficiency Assessment for the 21st Century .

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Less time grading.
More time teaching.

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