Why School Improvement Network?

As the creators of the industry’s leading on-demand professional development tools, School Improvement Network provides a suite of products that are proven to help teachers and improve student learning.

We Created the Market for On-Demand PD

It’s true—though many companies have been recording specialists, experts, and talking heads for years, School Improvement Network was the first company to turn theory into practice with real classroom examples. We create the perfect training for educators, because our company was founded and continues to be run by educators. View our suite of professional development products.

By Educators, For Educators

School Improvement Network is the only company in the industry that was built and is maintained by educators instead of business people. Our founders, John and Blanch Linton, taught high school and elementary school. They saw the need for professional development that didn’t just tell teachers what to do, but showed them how to make a classroom work. We have been in over 3,500 classrooms from coast to coast in every circumstance that teachers face, and we provide training that is proven to work.

82% Renewal Rate

Educators love School Improvement Network’s suite of products. More educators use these unparalleled resources every year, and the vast majority returns every year for effective training that works. Teachers who use our resources are able to turn around schools that no one expected to succeed, and that is why educators have come to rely on School Improvement Network’s effective suite of products.

Training Proven to Work

Third-party observers have proven it time and again—the more hours educators spend on PD 360, the world’s largest professional development platform, the better students perform on tests and in the classrooms. We support educators’ needs with products like PD 360, Common Core 360, Observation 360, and others to help them achieve their most important goal: to improve education. All products from School Improvement Network are developed by experts on our own production team.

Benefits of an In-House Production Team

This isn’t outsourced work. We meticulously review every second of material that we put out—and we are constantly producing something new, relevant, and unique. One of our experts is Curtis Linton, director of Equity 360 and author of three books on equity training in education.

Equity Training in Education

Students must overcome many challenges. Equity 360 is a program that gives educators a plethora of tools to deal with challenges surrounding socioeconomics, race, gender, religion, and other pressing issues that our students face every day. We couple this expertise with PD 360’s considerable resources to make sure you get the most out of these and 120 experts.

120 Experts

Your schools and teachers have individualized concerns. We do everything we can to give teachers all the resources they need to get the job done. That’s why our full-time production staff has created and made available over 1,800 video segments on PD 360.

Over 1,800 Videos on PD 360

The on-demand library of over 1,800 PD videos gives educators access to the most training videos in the industry, with over 3,500 examples of best practices in real classrooms. This is some of the highest quality training material available highest quality available, as evidenced not only by a list of more than 70 awards, but also by the incredible impact our products have on education. We have now extended the expertise and quality of PD 360 to Common Core 360, a new resource for Common Core training.

Common Core Standards Training

Educators require training not only on the “how-to” of the Standards, but also on the vision, purpose, and goal behind the Common Core Standards. That’s why we are producing Common Core 360, the only tool available with comprehensive training on the what, why, and how of the Common Core Standards. In addition to teaching educators about the Standards and how to implement them, we are following multiple school districts across several states as they navigate the crosswalk to the new set of standards. Administrators in these and other areas help their teachers with the industry’s most advanced observation tool.

The Industry’s Most Advanced Observation Tool

Observation 360 is the only classroom walkthrough tool to provide prescriptive technology and an integrated PD system—that means the tool will automatically recommend specific video training to meet a teacher’s specific needs. And now educators can record the lesson on a 360-degree camera thanks to our partnership with thereNow.

Administrators track a teacher’s use of the observation results thanks to the complete integration with PD 360. Teachers then can collaborate with more than 720,000 certified educators on the issues they face on the world’s largest online professional learning community.

World’s Largest PLC

The PD 360 Community is accessible only to verified educators, and there are more than 720,000 educators with access to the tool, making it the world’s largest online PLC. Members of the community share favorite PD 360 videos, upload their own video content, create public and private groups, and form national and international PLCs all in one place. Educators find the PD 360 Community and all other resources so effective that we have an industry-high renewal rate at 82%.

Awards

We have over 70 national and international awards for film quality, relevancy, business practices, and other topics. However, we do not produce great material to receive awards; rather, we receive awards because we produce great material. The awards are simply recognition for thousands of teachers’ jobs well done.

You are invited to sample our products for free. Spend time exploring the content and accessing the community where you will find even more resources uploaded by your peers. When you start a 30-day free trial of PD 360 and/or Common Core 360, you will gain a FREE lifetime membership to the PD 360 Community!

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