This summer, The RTL Foundation will be participating in the Summer Learning Challenge with the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) and The Achievery created by AT&T.

This collaboration aims to enhance online learning opportunities for all students, to help combat summer learning loss and prevent the summer slide.

Use our custom account link to sign up for your FREE account: THE ACHIEVERY

About the Program

The Achievery created by AT&T is a free digital learning platform that empowers students with over 500 entertaining videos and clips from popular movies and television shows with engaging learning activities across seven academic subject areas.

The Achievery is ad-free and available at no cost to students, parents, and caregivers. As part of the Summer Learning Challenge, The RTL Foundation have the opportunity to receive $9,500 in funding, along with additional support, to provide year-long learning opportunities for students across metropolitan Baltimore.

Our goal in participating in the Summer Learning Challenge is to activate a minimum of 250 Achievery student accounts in our community. Participating in this initiative not only allows us to provide valuable resources to our students and we can ensure they have access to entertaining, engaging, and inspiring educational content that aligns with academic standards.

Parents and staff accounts count towards our goal of 250 account activations!

FAQ’s

1. What is the Achievery? The Achievery is a new digital learning platform created by AT&T that provides a curated library of popular entertainment content paired with lesson plans and learning activities designed by education experts.

2. Who can access the portal? The Achievery is a free digital learning platform available to students, parents, caregivers and educators seeking supplemental solutions to support learning everywhere today’s connected students learn – at home, in the community and in the classroom.

3. What age/grade level(s) is the portal targeted toward? The platform provides education content to engage and inspire K-12 learners.

4. What type of content is featured on the portal? Users can expect to find engaging educational content and resources to support academic learning, social emotional learning and critical thinking skills.

5. How does the Achievery ensure that the content on the portal is age and grade appropriate? All video content, lesson plans and learning activities that appear on The Achievery have undergone a rigorous review process with subject-matter experts, educational nonprofits, and The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). To ensure age and grade appropriateness of the content, The Achievery has strictly followed the industry recommended parental guidelines for film and television. • Grades 3 and Up: TV-Y, TV-Y7, TV-G, TV-PG, G Films, and PG Films • Grades 9 and Up: TV-14, PG-13 Films.

6. Is the Achievery’s content aligned with specific educational standards? Each Learning Unit on The Achievery is aligned to a specific Common Core, CASEL (Social Emotional Learning), or ISTE standard.

7. How are individual emails tracked? All participants must verify their email to activate their account. Email addresses are stored as sensitive PII within AT&T systems for registration purposes. Emails sent to users from The Achievery are only tracked to see clicks, opens, etc. and information is used for analytical purposes only. User email addresses are not used for advertising and no information is shared with third parties outside AT&T for any purpose. Individual’s data will not be tracked.

8. How else is user data used by AT&T? Persons under 13 cannot open an account with The Achievery. Users over 18 that identify as parents can open "child accounts" as part of their own account to be used under their supervision by a minor. No personal or sensitive information is collected about the child accounts and tracking information (i.e., anonymized usage) is opt-out by default – only a consenting parent can enable usage data collection (again, only for analytical purposes regarding platform use). The Achievery user information is never shared with a third-party vendor or with other AT&T product or business units. Achievery data is only used internally to improve services and communicate about services to users. Users can always opt-out of email or any cookie setting.