Dr. Griggs McKinnon, the county's technology director, attributes the improvements in the Caldwell schools to the leadership of Superintendent Dr. Tom McNeel and to the dedicated teachers and staff whose focus is the success of every student. He also emphasizes the importance of sound testing and diagnostic information for effective teaching, which is largely helped by PassKey software.
Students can advance at their own pace and focus time on learning a skill they find most difficult.
PassKey lessons help students achieve state standard levels in math, reading, writing and science with the inclusive, automatic onboard state objectives program. In order to lead students to complete skills mastery, lessons are arranged hierarchically. Besides providing solid, diagnostic data for educators, PassKey has helped teachers in another very important way. As teachers watch students work at their own pace through the tutorials, they learn a great deal about the different learning styles of their students. In the lab, the teachers accompany the students and supervise them in work that correlates to the work done in the classroom.