n2y Celebrates 2024 Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Back to School Recognition Unique Learning System and News2you Earn Top Honors
September 18 – n2y, a leader in special education, proudly announces 2024 Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Back to School accolades, clinching top honors across multiple categories. This year, n2y’s Unique Learning System (ULS) was recognized as the best in Primary Education (K–6) and Secondary Education (7–12), and News2you secured the award in Secondary Education.
Unique Learning System is a modified core curriculum for students with moderate to severe disabilities from preschool through transition. Covering reading/ELA, math, science, social studies, and life skills, ULS provides grade- and age-appropriate lessons, assessments, and reporting aligned to extended standards across all 50 states.
ULS’s evidence- and research-based methodologies ensure all teachers can deliver high-quality, standards-aligned content and help them save time in preparing, delivering, and assessing instruction. Automatic data collection and reporting demonstrate student progress on IEPs and help teachers make data-driven decisions on instructional adjustments. ULS’s customized Student Dashboard provides real-time connectivity between students and teachers, delivering engaging lessons matched to individual skill levels with accessibility options such as text-to-speech and symbol supports.
Joanna Hadlock, Product Director for ULS, stated, “We are proud to foster meaningful student learning and growth through the instructional content, materials, and support that we build into our solutions. Our desire for continuous improvement and providing best-in-class educational solutions is fueled by our unwavering commitment to be a true partner with our districts and schools.”
News2you, n2y’s adapted online weekly newspaper, connects students to current events to spark learning and communication. In more than 60,000 classrooms across the US, students engage in meaningful conversations with peers about world events, and they can use that information to interact with their families at home.
Standards‑aligned articles and activities in News2you are differentiated to four levels and help students build life skills, become more motivated learners, and even discover career options. As they experience and share new ideas in each edition, students not only strengthen their comprehension of the content but develop new critical‑thinking and communication skills.
Amy Glosup, Product Director for News2you, expressed her enthusiasm: “We are honored to be recognized in the Secondary Education category. News2you strives to enhance learning environments and support teachers and students with innovative, effective solutions for providing access to the world beyond the classroom. This award affirms our ongoing dedication to connecting all learners to the world around them through engaging, accessible current events.”
n2y’s Unique Learning System and News2you are instrumental in transforming the educational experiences of special education students nationwide, providing comprehensive, standards-based content and cutting-edge resources. These awards highlight n2y’s commitment to excellence and innovation in educational solutions.
Tech & Learning’s goal for the 2024–25 school year is to help their readers find “the most impressive products and solutions that support their work in any learning environment.” Products offering versatility, value, and solutions to specific problems that help schools provide innovative, effective teaching and learning were carefully considered. From security solutions to LMSs to hardware and software, both new and legacy technologies received recognition.
About n2y
n2y is changing the lives of special education administrators and teachers, therapists and paraprofessionals, and all the students they serve. Its award-winning solutions are designed specifically to address the needs of the whole child and help unique learners meet their state’s standards. Multiple integrated, evidence‑ and research‑based solutions empower educators to teach and students to achieve. Differentiated, standards-based academic instruction, enhanced by proactive behavior management, combines with collaborative IEP development to support learning for every student. For more information on these solutions, please visit n2y.com.
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