Reporting

How Reporting Teacher Progress Makes Better Mentors

A Comprehensive Professional Learning Experience

Do you ever wonder how much professional development actually ends up being used in the classrooms at your school? If you were to ask your teachers today, how much PD instruction could they clearly recall?

School Improvement Network was founded by educators who know that teachers aren’t any different than their students when it comes to learning. More than just lectures, they need consistent mentoring designed around the same, sound pedagogical principles that they practice in their own classrooms.

In order to facilitate seamless, powerful professional mentoring, School Improvement Network has built an innovative reporting tool into its professional development platform called “My Portfolio.” My Portfolio connects administrators to teachers, and teachers to one another as it plugs group members more directly into each other’s professional development experience.

Make a Plan and See it Through

With My Portfolio, administrators can create viewable, track-able online plans for teachers, departments, or entire districts. Everyone with permission to access a plan can contribute, adding material and reporting progress.

My Portfolio will automatically create easy to read reports displaying

• videos watched
• courses completed
• journal notes taken
• lesson plans written
• evaluations filled
• files uploaded in forums

School Improvement Network’s reporting functions compile, organize, and deliver everything administrators need to successfully follow through with all types of professional development plans, from one-on-one, short term mentoring, to complex, district wide PD.

Save Time and Eliminate the Hassle of Traditional Reporting

With the advent of digital technology now decades behind us, it’s surprising to find how many educators are still relying on traditional, paper based systems to report professional development progress. Even in schools where PD is completed online, many teachers continue to track and communicate their learning with paper forms and files.

For as comfortable as paper is, though, there are plenty of good reasons to go digital. In fact, the My Portfolio online system was developed at the request of teachers who were tired of the hassle of traditional reporting. Instead of passing around forms, collecting signatures, making copies, and having to track down files, My Portfolio allows teachers to simply click and drag PD files into their administrator’s inbox. Tracking teacher progress can be as simple as logging into your account.

More Reliable Reporting

Perhaps My Portfolio’s most compelling benefit is the way it takes the questions out of reporting. With this technology, mentors no longer have to wonder what is being completed and when— My Portfolio provides a permanent, digital record confirming whether material is viewed, how much is completed, and how much is left for another day. Rather than relying upon sign-up sheets or word of mouth, My Portfolio gives administrators up to the minute, irrefutable evidence of professional development progress.

Better still, My Portfolio places the mentor’s finger directly on her district’s PD pulse. As dozens or even hundreds of educators undertake their own, individualized professional development plans, a single administrator can not only keep track of a district’s progress, but can view PD videos themselves, at their convenience.  Mentors are given the power to immerse themselves in every teacher’s PD plan, not only following, but understanding first hand what is learned.                                                                                                                                                         

School Improvement Network’s suite of professional development tools provides teachers with learning that lasts a career, not just the duration of a class. Improve teacher engagement and student achievement at your school by discovering the products that hundreds of thousands of educators are already using.

Take a moment today to sign up for a free trial of PD 360, School Improvement’s premiere professional development platform, and see what it can do for you.