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State Standards Match
      Meeting curriculum standards is a major focus in education today. The Inspired Standards Match is designed to demonstrate the many ways Kidspiration®, Inspiration® and InspireData™ support the standards and to give educators ideas for using these tools to meet learning goals across the curriculum. Get the Inspired State Standards Match for California here:
www.inspiration.com/standards

Scientifically Based Research
      Research to support the use of specific teaching and learning techniques has long been a key part of every educator's decision-making process. Now, with the re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), also known as the No Child Left Behind Act, and its new requirements for research-based curriculum and products, research support is more critical than ever.

      Visual learning techniques are used widely in schools across the country to accomplish curriculum goals and improve student performance. The Institute for the Advancement of Research in Education (IARE) at AEL has completed a research study entitled Graphic Organizers: A Review of Scientifically Based Research. In the report, twenty-nine studies were identified and evaluated as scientifically based research (SBR). The studies provided evidence in support of the instructional effectiveness of the use of visual learning techniques.

Scientifically based research cited in the literature review demonstrates that a research base exists to support the use of visual learning techniques for improving student learning and performance in the following areas:

• Reading comprehension
• Student achievement across grade levels, diverse student populations and content areas
• Thinking and learning skills such as organizing and communicating ideas; seeing patterns and relationships; and categorizing ideas
• Retention

Find an executive and detailed summary of the report here:
      http://www.inspiration.com/research

Legal Compliance Curriculum Catalog
Inspiration® and Kidspiration® have both been approved for legal and social content compliance and have been listed in the California Department of Education's Legal Compliance Curriculum Catalog (LC Catalog). Districts are now able to use up to 30% of their Instructional Materials Fund to purchase Inspiration and Kidspiration. Click on the link below and search by subject and publisher (Inspiration Software)

      http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/ap2/lcsearch.asp?subject=Please%20select%20a%20Subject

For more info about Legal and Social Compliance
      http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/lc.asp

CLRN
Inspiration also listed on the California Learning Resource Network, for both Inspiration® and Kidspiration®. This will help Inspiration and Kidspiration purchases qualify for Title 1 and ET funding. Please take a look at:
      http://www.clrn.org/search/details.cfm?elrid=2365
      http://www.clrn.org/search/details.cfm?elrid=2390