Riverside Insights

What happens when nearly 70 leaders across the organization step away from the daily grind to align on the future? You get a masterclass in growth and strategic action. Last week, we gathered for our Growth Summit—a dedicated space for our leadership team to sharpen our skills and, more importantly, step back and center ourselves around the educators and administrators we serve. As we head back to our teams, we are carrying three core principles forward: 1. Listen to Industry Voices: Staying ahead means staying curious about the changing landscape of education. 2. Enhance Our Leadership: Growth isn't a destination; it’s a constant commitment to becoming better coaches and managers. 3. Center the Customer: In every meeting and every decision, the customer’s perspective remains our North Star. Now it’s time to turn these insights into action!

Learn how two districts are finding gifted students "hiding in plain sight." 🔍 Our latest blog features a K-12 Dive article on the power of universal screening and CogAT® data to uncover overlooked talent. By moving beyond traditional identification methods, both districts have expanded not just the number of students identified but the diversity of learners receiving advanced support. Here is what they achieved: •Northwest ISD (TX): Identified overlooked multilingual, 2e, and economically disadvantaged students. •Charleston County SD (SC): Tripled their advanced learning identification in just two years. 🔗 Read the full breakdown here: https://bit.ly/3QAcn98

Fragmented tools lead to fragmented results. At Riverside Insights, we are committed to providing a unified framework for student well-being. By bringing the DESSA and Move This World together, we’ve created a single, connected system that bridges the gap between screening and instruction. Want to see this system in action? Join our Senior Director of Impact, Kendall Sweeney, LMSW, and Dr. Lisa Micou on April 30th for a deep dive into this new approach to behavioral and mental health support. Register now to learn how to: •Identify student strengths early. •Deliver consistent instruction across all MTSS tiers. •Monitor progress with actionable insights. ⭐️BONUS: We are offering CEUs to all attendees⭐️ When: Tomorrow, Thursday, April 30, 2026 | 1:00 PM EDT 🔗 Register Here: https://hubs.ly/Q04dV50b0

For Teacher Appreciation Week (May 4-8), we’re not just celebrating educators—we’re celebrating their impact. Across schools and districts, teachers are doing the work that often goes unseen: identifying learning gaps, adjusting instruction, and driving measurable student growth. At Riverside Insights, we want to make that impact visible and showcase it during Teacher Appreciation Week. 👩🏫👨🏫🍎 Who is an educator in your school or district making a difference in student growth? Help us shine a light on their hard work: →Comment below with a shout-out →Share a video or quote via our async link: https://hubs.ly/Q04dC2-D0 Let’s bring their dedication into the spotlight. ✨ #TeacherAppreciationWeek #RiversideInsights #EducationLeadership #StudentGrowth #Impact

At Riverside Insights, the Riverside Champion Award recognizes individuals who go above and beyond to advance our mission: those who take ownership, drive results, and make a lasting impact. 🏆 We're proud to honor Andrew Staedeli, Corporate Controller, as our Riverside Champion. 👏 Andrew championed the successful launch of Ramp,our new corporate expense management system, leading his team to transform how Riverside Insights manages corporate expenses. Through strong leadership and collaboration, the team delivered an innovative solution that strengthens (& simplifies!) our operational foundation and positions us for smarter, more efficient growth. That kind of initiative, bringing people together, driving meaningful change, and keeping the mission front and center, is exactly what moves our organization forward and allows us to better serve the educators and students we exist to support. 🍎 Want to join a team that celebrates ownership, collaboration, and going the extra mile? We're growing! 🚀https://hubs.ly/Q04cTwNx0

What does it mean to be truly strengths-based? 🌟 At Riverside Insights, we believe that student well-being is the foundation of academic achievement. The DESSA isn’t just an assessment—it’s a roadmap for resilience that empowers educators to look past deficits and focus on every student's unique potential. The data speaks for itself: A Johns Hopkins study revealed that just one tier of growth in resilience skills is associated with a full school year of academic gains. By using a common, strengths-based language, your entire district can: 🔹 Unite to track behavioral competence effectively. 🔹 Foster a proactive culture of support. 🔹 Turn assessment data into actionable growth. Swipe through to see how the DESSA uplifts every student. 👉 Visit our website to learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q04cmC7F0 #EdLeaders #MentalHealthinSchools #K12Education #StrengthsBased #RiversideInsights

At Riverside Insights, we believe that identifying giftedness requires looking beyond academic achievement to understand a student’s underlying aptitude. That’s where the Cognitive Abilities Test™ (CogAT®) comes in. The CogAT is designed to measure a student’s learned reasoning abilities across three distinct batteries: 💡Verbal: How students use language to solve problems. 💡Quantitative: Understanding numerical relationships and logic. 💡Non-Verbal: Identifying patterns and spatial relationships (critical for fair identification!). By providing a holistic view of a student’s cognitive strengths, we empower educators to differentiate instruction and provide the right level of challenge for every bright mind. 🚀 Swipe through to learn how CogAT helps unlock student potential and transforms G/T Programs 👉 🔗Learn more about supporting gifted learners: https://hubs.ly/Q04c86_V0 #GTchat #K12Administration #GiftedEducation #RiversideInsights #CognitiveAssessment

Did you know Riverside Insights offers a comprehensive suite of assessment products? We are dedicated to providing the tools necessary to support the whole child and empower those on the front lines of education and clinical practice. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting our diverse product suite and sharing the different ways we support: ✔️Educators: Streamlining classroom insights. ✔️Districts: Driving data-informed decision-making at scale. ✔️Clinicians: Providing reliable tools for precise identification and support. Stay tuned as we dive deeper into our solutions! 🚀 Which of our products do you have questions about or have been wondering about? Let us know in the comments! 👇

Our article, Social Emotional Growth as a Protective Factor Against Chronic Absenteeism is now available online in the journal, Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy. Our study shows that students who develop their social emotional skills are much less likely to be chronically absent - our hope is that our findings encourage schools and districts to assess & monitor students' SEL skills, and to adopt programs and practices that support SEL development. https://lnkd.in/gMAKpy28 Jennifer Robitaille Emily Taylor Riverside Insights

We’re excited to share that the Riverside Insights Research team will be presenting at #NCME2026 (April 8–11, Los Angeles)! Our team is contributing across a wide range of sessions—from foundational psychometrics to cutting-edge applications of AI in assessment: Wednesday, April 8: 🔹 Vertical scaling (training session) Thursday, April 9: 🔹 AI and construct validity in psychological testing 🔹 Prompt engineering & embedding-based diagnostics 🔹 Post-COVID CogAT norm development 🔹 Data sampling, stratification, and weighting 🔹 COVID-19 impacts and longitudinal trends in CogAT scores 🔹 Implications of normative updates for gifted identification 🔹 Machine learning & LLMs for item response prediction 🔹 Social-emotional skills and absenteeism outcomes Friday, April 10: 🔹 Measurement invariance methods in clinical assessment 🔹 The impact of basal and ceiling rules on reliability coefficients Saturday, April 11: 🔹 Detecting drifted items in scale linking with ML techniques Huge credit to our incredible research team: Hyeonjoo Oh, Youngmi Cho, Sharon Frey, JongPil Kim, Matthew Naveiras, Sid Sharairi, Onur Demirkaya, Huan Liu, Hsin-Ro W., Tong Wu, Emily Taylor, and Jennifer Robitaille. We’re proud of the depth and impact of this work and look forward to connecting with colleagues, collaborators, and the broader measurement community. If you’ll be at NCME, let’s connect!