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6 Key Steps to SBL

Speaker: Garnet Hillman, Educational Consultant: Hillman Consulting and Author of "Standards Based Learning In Action" and "The Grade Cleanse."

Standards-based learning(SBL) is an innovation in education that focuses on learning and helps increase achievement. In this webinar, Garnet Hillman shares key steps to effectively set-up your standards-based learning initiative. Garnet Hillman is an educational consultant and author who works with schools and educators to improve instruction, assessment, and grading practices.

Hear these key learning points:
- What practices need to change and impact of behavioral grading
- Considerations for determining standards
- The basics of unpacking standards
- How to use formative and summative assessments
- The essentials of proficiency levels, record keeping, and clear communication
- Powerful collaboration tools for learning targets and rubrics

You will also learn about TeacherEase, industry-leading software to help implement and assist comprehensive standards-based learning programs.

Audience: Administrators, instructional coaches, instructors, and guidance counselors.

ISBE Attendance: Calendar Changes for Remote/E-learning

Effectively manage academic calendars to ensure remote/e-learning attendance is properly reported to ISBE.

Audience: School Administrators and Secretaries

Yearly Rollover Simplified

SchoolInsight makes it easy to transition from one year to the next. Transfer students, copy report cards, rollover account balances, and verify your system is configured to meet your needs.

Audience: School or District Admin who manage yearly configuration in the system.

Free-Reduced Lunch Applications: Managed Online

Looking for an organized solution to Free-Reduced Lunch Applications? SchoolInsight's included tools make it easy to manage the process online. Parents complete and submit the form on the parent portal. Admins review and notify families digitally. Random verification samples can be pulled, and verification steps tracked. Lunch program fields are updated in the lunch module, no double data entry.

Audience: School Administrators, Secretaries, and anyone who handles Free-Reduced Lunch Applications

Use Your Data: Reports in SchoolInsight

Utilize data to make decisions. Communicate information to staff or parents. Integrate your data with custom forms and letter templates. Track progress through the year and find patterns. Topics include custom reports, custom forms, letter templates, groups, and reports for attendance, tuition & fees, discipline, instructors, standards-based grading, and curriculum.

Audience: District or school admin, secretaries, anyone who uses system data to make decisions.

Leadership to Transition to SBG

Speaker: Tim Westerberg, PhD, School Improvement Coach.

Are you providing the support needed for adoption of systematic standards-based grading? Your front line team of teachers, counselors, and administrators deserve and need a comprehensive system for standards-based grading. Tim Westerberg shares insights from his book, “Charting a Course to Standards-Based Grading.” Tim served as a school principal for 26 years and currently works as a school improvement coach.

Hear these key learning points:
- Standards-based learning (SBL) training to provide thorough grounding
- Time to develop measurement topics, scoring scales, and leveled assessments
- Technical assistance for creating strong scoring scales and writing reliable assessments
- SBL-compatible software to assist
- Outreach assistance including talking points and FAQs
- Input to evaluate effectiveness and suggest modifications
- Individualized handholding and accountability to reinforce ideas get implemented

You will also learn about TeacherEase, industry-leading software to help implement and assist comprehensive standards-based learning programs.

Audience: Administrators, instructional coaches, instructors, and guidance counselors.

Standards-based Grading Made Easy

Effectively monitor student growth with standards-based grading. SchoolInsight's Standards-based Grading tools offer an easy-to-use, familiar, grading experience for educators, are easily configured to your needs, and enable educators, parents, and students to understand student progress throughout the year. View the webinar and see how SchoolInsight can help you focus instruction with standards-based grading.
Topics include setup, daily processes, and reporting student progress.

Audience: Administrators, instructional coaches, instructors, and guidance counselors.

Managing Report Cards in SchoolInsight

Effectively communicate student progress to parents. Build custom report cards for traditional and/or standards-based grades. Utilize different grading scales and assess multiple points per class. Integrate honor roll, GPA, and attendance. Topics include building report cards and assigning them to courses, opening report cards to instructors, adding scores to report cards as an instructor or admin, verifying instructors have entered report card grades, integrating honor roll, calculating GPA, and printing or publishing report cards.

Audience: District or school admin, secretaries, anyone who manages report cards.

Online Registration: Easily Enroll Students for Next Year

Ready to register students for next year? SchoolInsight's Online Registration module can help. Learn how parents can re-enroll current students, add younger siblings to the district, and register entirely new families too. Save admins time, reduce data entry by staff, and maintain control of the process. Forms can be distributed electronically and fees collected online without handling cash or checks. Admins review all data prior to accepting it into the system.

Audience: School Administrators and Secretaries

Learning Management System: Manages Units, Lessons, and Assignments Online

Take your classroom online. Use the TeacherEase Learning Management System and Curriculum Tools. Create, manage, and copy units and lessons from class-to-class and year-to-year. Share curriculum with colleagues. Assign work to students or post resources for them to view online. Integrates seamlessly with your gradebook.

Audience: School Admin, Curriculum Planners, Instructional Coaches, and Instructors.