IDEAL (Integrated Data to Enhance Arizona's Learning), an online, personalized, lifelong learning environment available to every Arizona K-12 student and certified teacher. Through a partnership between the Arizona Department of Education and alt^I, The Applied Learning Technologies Institute at Arizona State University, over 1 million K-12 students and 58,000 teachers receive IDEAL accounts, providing customized access to education and information--forever.

CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION

Resources offered by IDEAL include:

• An on-demand library of over 3,000 educational video titles, streamed to the user's computer desktop
• Interactive multimedia, standards-based math lessons
• Downloadable lessons from across the curriculum, including Fine Arts, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and PE/Health
• Links to educator-reviewed web sites indexed by subject

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

IDEAL connects teachers with development courses and materials for career advancement.

• How-To Center
• Teacher development materials covering everything from how to use popular software applications in the classroom, to creating lessons with primary sources, to using digital cameras and troubleshooting computer problems.

• ADE Reference Library
• Searchable online database of trade books aligned to the Arizona Academic Standards by grade level, subject area, strand, concept, and/or students' reading levels.

• Recipes4Success
• Interactive lessons to help you learn software applications such as PowerPoint, iMovie, and Photoshop

• Course Catalog
• Online professional development courses from ASSET, the George Lucas Educational Foundation, Intel Foundation, PBS TeacherLine, TEAMS, and Thirteen Ed Online. Graduate credit is available for specific courses.

ASSESSMENT

· Formative Assessments

IDEAL gives teachers access to the Formative Assessment Test Item Bank, to provide:

o Insight on students' strengths and conceptual errors in relation to specific course concepts

o Guidance to improve student understanding

o A means of monitoring progress in learning

o Diagnostic information concerning students' understanding of concepts

o Feedback to the instructor about the effectiveness of instructional activities

· Arizona Schools Improvement Plans

o IDEAL streamlines the implementation of state-required assessment and accountability with intuitive online tools for composing and submitting Arizona Schools Improvement Plans (ASIP).

Among the features we've got planned for future roll-out is parental access to student performance data, helping parents be active partners in their child's education. IDEAL recognizes that participation from every member of the Arizona educational enterprise -- administrator, teacher, student, and parent -- is necessary to give our students the best educations possible, and IDEAL will continue to build on its current offerings to achieve this goal.