Dream Box

We have exciting news!  We have an additional online tool that students can access from home- Dream Box. Your child has accessed Dream Box for the first time here and school and is ready to try it from home! 

Here is a letter from Principal Carolyn Milham about Dream Box.

Porters Point School has purchased DreamBox Learning's Math Program, an online, Intelligent Adaptive Learning(tm) program that helps all students achieve better, faster math proficiency. Adaptive learning programs pay attention to which questions students are answering correctly and how long it takes them to answer. The program uses this information to select material that matches the student’s learning needs.

Your student can access DreamBox Learning from any computer, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by using the DreamBox link found on the Porters Point School website: http://www.csdvt.org/pps/

DreamBox is an online program - there's no software to download! All you need is a high-speed Internet connection and Adobe Flash. Adobe Flash is free and is included with many Internet browsers.

Students will get the most benefit from DreamBox by using the program for at least 60 to 90 minutes per week. Games that are marked with a gold coin represent the concepts that students need to work on the most. Once a concept is mastered, the game will stay on as a “practice” lesson for students to review. New games are added once concepts are mastered.

Your child should need little adult help to use DreamBox. Each lesson has a tutorial that can be viewed at any time before and during the game. If your child asks for your help often, remind him/her about the tutorial and resist the urge to take over the mouse and answer the questions yourself. DreamBox will adapt to your level of math proficiency, presenting material that is more difficult than your child can do independently.

You may review your student's academic

progress by setting up a DreamBox Parent

Account. Please follow these steps to create

your free Parent Account:

1. Go to https://play.dreambox.com/login/5spm/porterssps

2. Have your student login to their profile just as they would at school

3. Click Setup Parent Access at the bottom of the page

4. Follow instructions to create a new login and password

5. Read Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

6. Click "Submit"

7. Make a selection under What do you want to do now? and begin exploring!

A video walkthrough of this process can be found at: http://www.dreambox.com/parent-how-to-videos/school-plus-home

Log into your home account after set up:

1. Go to http://play.dreambox.com

2. Enter your email address and the password.

3. If you would like to see your student's progress, click the "Parent Dashboard" button.

Using an iPad for DreamBox:

1. Download the DreamBox app from the App Store.

2. Open the app and select “School.”

3. When prompted, enter the school code: 5psm/portersps

4. Your child will select his/her teacher’s account and log in to play.

If you have any questions, please contact DreamBox Client Care by calling them at 877-451-7845 (weekdays 7am and 5pm, Pacific Time), or email support@dreambox.com.

Sincerely,

Carolyn Millham, Principal

Porters Point School