What People Are Saying

What people are saying about
the New Little Book . . .

About The New Little Book: OGT Social Studies

Teachers

(Evaluation Survey taken after using The New Little Book for one school year)

Students like the glossary. The test taking tips and strategies are also very useful.

The New Little Book is aligned with the [OGT] standards. It is concise and complete in content.

It teaches people to think critically.

The Introduction helped students learn to answer questions by analyzing what the questions are asking them to do.

The entire book was very useful with my students.

Other Teachers

The New Little Book is a fantastic tool for OGT preparation. After using The New Little Book, my class’s average OGT score increased significantly as well as the number of students who passed the test their very first time! We also utilized the book as an interdisciplinary tool in their English class! Our new Social Studies OGT intervention class is currently using the book as one of their primary resources this year. I am excited to begin this year with The New Little Book as a teaching tool and truly begin to unlock its potential in my classroom.

—Mathias Hauck, a high school social studies teacher of at-risk students.

What I love about The New Little Book is that is organized strictly by the standards. In my classroom, instruction is standards-based and students are collectively and individually coached for mastery. This book is an excellent tool for any OGT Social Studies coach/teacher because The New Little Book's presentation of the standards is brief, but deep. Thus, the book makes for an excellent tool for individual intervention—whether for enrichment or remediation. The focus on vocabulary and clear presentation of significant concepts empowers students for OGT questions regardless of how they are written.

One of my favorite memories regarding The New Little Book dates back to last year’s March testing. I was driving to school that day and passed one of our seniors walking to school reading/reviewing his New Little Book as he walked down Terrace Road on his last chance at passing the Social Studies OGT for graduation. It made me happy and proud to see this gentleman taking his individual effort toward graduation seriously. It made me happy to know what he had in his hands was a succinct and deep approach to the standards. That gentleman passed the SS OGT that day and graduated in June. Whether his engagement with The New Little Book was the deciding factor or not, we cannot say. But I can say that The New Little Book was that young man's choice of tools before his last chance at SS OGT. He made that choice on his own. It was a tool he could continue to use by himself—even while walking to school—and the results speak highly for that choice! The vocabulary reviews at the end of each standard are excellent review tools for teachers as well. We often play ‘review hoops’ using terms from those vocabulary lists.

—Lori Eiler, a high school social studies teacher.

Administration (Cleveland Metropolitan School District)

The responses of students and teachers to using The New Little Book as a teaching and learning tool are overwhelmingly positive. The book focuses on the benchmarks of the Ohio Academic Content Standards and provides a much needed social studies glossary. In addition, it asks teachers and students to prepare for the social studies portion of the Ohio Graduation Test by developing critical thinking skills. Both of these criteria are important factors in our selection of this tool as a valuable resource.

—Eric Gordon, Chief Academic Officer

The New Little Book is extremely high quality.

—Glenda Hathaway, former Deputy Chief of Curriculum & Instruction

The way this is laid out, the way it explains the vocabulary—this is great. . . I know that my students are going to be very happy to see this.

—A Social Studies department head

The Media

The Call and Post headlined a story, “New Study Guide Aims to Raise Ohio Grad Test Scores.” The newspaper said, “Teachers who reviewed the guide have praised it for its layout, its explanation of social studies vocabulary, and its story-telling format."

—The Cleveland Call and Post, October 3, 2007

CHEERS . . .

to the Heights-Hillcrest-Lyndhurst Branch of the American Association of University Women for writing "The New Little Book: OGT Social Studies" to help kids get through the Ohio Graduation Test. The group then sent thousands of copies to the Cleveland schools where, by all accounts, it’s having good effects."

—The Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 14, 2007

Teachers gave the book high grades for classroom activities, student response, and more.

What people are saying about the New Little Book . . .

What people are saying about
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