Success Stories
Explore what Let’s Go Learn customers are saying. Success stories in their own words.
Andrew Glass
Madrona Day Treatment, Kitsap Mental Health Services
Excerpts from Interview…
When a learner comes to us we want to provide them baseline data and then we want to demonstrate growth. And that is something we’ve struggled with—using other programs. We’ve tried to use some other programs but they weren’t as robust as Let’s Go Learn, they weren’t as comprehensive as Let’s Go Learn, and they didn’t have all the features that Let’s Go Learn has to be able to write an IEP per se, with all the data that those assessments provide.
There are other programs that just do progress monitoring three times a year or four times a year. What Let’s Go Learn was able to provide was not just progress monitoring through different intervals a year, but then we hybrid it, so we use direct instruction and then we go back to LGL Edge and use that component. The other thing we do is what Let’s Go Learn does and it’s really awesome is that —and I have to do it— I’ve created a whole instructional component just on decoding: you could go into the grade level skills, you could hit 10, and then it could design a whole prescriptive year-long of reading instruction. And, in our environment which is pretty intense, it takes a lot off the teacher and it designs it right there for you. It tells you exactly what to teach and it gives you just a comprehensive, linear way to get to the goal.
Last year and I took all the ELA IEPs right off Let’s Go Learn. It was so comprehensive. And the other great thing is it made it so the parents could understand what I was talking about and that’s huge.
What also is really cool is that Let’s Go Learn has you look at a whole bunch of different skills. So hopefully, and usually, our students will have some skills that they’re stronger in…Our learners usually have a lot of school failure, so to really demonstrate that there is some success, there is some success and build off those strengths, really is a nice way to change the framework of the IEP. It’s usually deficit-based and parents are just used to going, “Okay I’m going to hear how terrible my student is, and how my learner is doing.” It allows us to be strengths-based and that’s the way we run. And then it just gives such a different vibe for an IEP. And it starts building…we are a relationship-based program and it starts building that relationship. We’re not just looking at what a what a kid can’t do.