Savvas Receives CODiE Best ELA EdTech Award for myPerspectives

Savvas Learning Company, a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, is proud to announce that its myPerspectives English Language Arts (ELA) program has been named the “Best Reading/Writing/Literature Instructional Solution for Grades 9-12” in the 2022 SIIA CODiE Awards for Education Technology. myPerspectives is a powerful, standards-aligned ELA curriculum that values the perspective of the learner and prepares students to become lifelong readers, writers, and thinkers.

A CODiE award judge praised myPerspectives as “really exceptional in its ability to save educators time in creating customized and engaging content for students to interact with. I love that texts include multiple ways to engage, whether it’s fiction, videos, news articles, or even podcasts. It’s clear that the tool was designed by educators and with students in mind. I also appreciate that there is intentionality in providing diverse texts that are culturally relevant.”

“We would like to thank the SIIA CODiE Awards for honoring myPerspectives as an outstanding ELA solution,” said Bethlam Forsa, CEO of Savvas Learning Company. “myPerspectives supports and challenges students to become both collaborative and self-directed learners. By offering students an engaging, interactive learning environment to share their ideas and build critical literacy skills, myPerspectives helps to promote higher achievement in the classroom while preparing students for the future demands of college and career.”
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