Superintendents use Elements™. Superintendents share with us what their top issues are and how Elements™ helps with deal with these issues.
- Student achievement: Low student achievement is a number one problem. Elements™ aids in diagnosing student strengths and weaknesses so that proactive measures can be taken to improve results: teacher effectiveness, AYP, graduation rates, morale, public image, etc.
- Budget: Budgets are shrinking and class sizes are getting larger. Everyone is being called to “do more with less.” Curriculum development, instructional planning, assessment, data analysis and reporting of results are very labor intensive processes. Thinkgate’s ability to streamline the process of education decreases staffing needs, improves productivity for teachers and administrators, and allows more “time on task” for teachers.
- Student achievement: Reporting of student progress to community stakeholders toward district goals for the economic stability of the community supporting those students moving on to college, technical schools or the work force.
- High quality staff: High quality teachers are attracted to high quality schools. By raising student achievement and providing a system-wide culture of data decision making, student success will follow.
- Targeting resources: A superintendent can customize views of reports to quickly gain access to data in targeted areas of need. Through the use of progress reports, gains in student achievement in these areas can be monitored. Using the Documents feature, custom district improvement plans can be created and data dynamically populated throughout the year charting progress and identifying possible issues in reaching those goals.
- Sharing information: Data portals can make it easy to share data regarding district performance to all community stakeholders.