Case Study: Burleson Independent School District achieves personalized, gamified, self‑paced learning and increased student engagement with NEO

Providing personalized learning through gamification

Burleson Independent School District’s REALM program needed a way to deliver a gamified, blended and self‑paced curriculum that would keep students engaged in and out of school. To meet that challenge the district adopted NEO (NEO LMS by CYPHER LEARNING) to house games, workshops and quests and provide the structure for personalized, mastery‑based learning.

NEO implemented staged lessons, a gradebook, progress meters, video assignment recording, teacher notifications and mastery settings that let students revise work until they meet the district’s 90% mastery threshold. The platform gave students autonomy and measurable tracking (a student reported 85% completion over six weeks), sped up grading and improved teacher‑student communication, delivering clearer mastery data and higher engagement for Burleson Independent School District.

Burleson Independent School District

Cheryl Essex

Dean of The REALM