In part 2 of our Trends & Student Data Strategies during Hybrid Learning post, you’ll hear about creative approaches to understanding engagement, how schools are using a health tracker to get a snapshot of student health before the school day starts, and one strategy for tracking learning gaps and responding with interventions and tutoring. Trend […]
Trends & Student Data Strategies during Hybrid Learning: Part 1
This week we’re highlighting some trends across schools after a year of asynchronous and hybrid learning. Many of our school partners had elements of these structures and operations prior to the pandemic but had to quickly adjust the way they worked in a virtual environment based on the data they were seeing. In part 1 […]
ESSER Funding 101 & Using Student Data Strategies to Respond to Learning Loss
With the recent passage of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSA) in December 2020, conversations around ESSER funding seem to be popping up in more and more education spaces. Now, with the addition of new funds from the American Rescue Plan, released on March 24, 2021, our team wanted to share some […]
Student Engagement Data: How to Make it Easy & Actionable
Schoolrunner is proud to serve thought leading schools across the country in using data to analyze, track, and improve student achievement. For more than 10 years, we’ve worked with teachers and school administrators to drive student success at many of the nation’s most progressive schools. Our comprehensive system has helped schools manage academics, attendance, culture, […]
Engagement, Attendance, & Communication: Strategies and Solutions from School Leaders
At Schoolrunner, we’ve been thinking about how to best support our partner schools, whether they are remote, hybrid, or transitioning back to in-person. We wanted to share some best practices from our school partners that address both the needs of this unique school year and can carry through to an in-person learning environment. How are […]
Data Strategies for Distance Learning: DC Data Summit
As schools across the country kick off the new school year, school leaders are faced with an unprecedented set of unknowns. After all, no one alive today has started a school year with most if not all of their public school students learning remotely. Experience counts, but how helpful is it when the new school […]
Learning While School is Closed: What Comes Next?
These days, it’s so 2019 to think about business as usual for our nation’s schools. Now that we’re several months into schools being closed because of COVID-19, there are some early lessons and challenges to reflect on that will help school leaders and staff think about and plan for the start of the 2020-21 school […]
Learning While Schools Are Closed: School Leaders Share Remote Learning Innovations
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lives of people all over the world have been turned upside down. Businesses are closed, people are forced to stay-at-home to remain safe, and schools have shut their doors to keep the pandemic from spreading. Amidst this unprecedented disruption, school leaders, teachers, parents, and students are working […]
Improving Student Outcomes: Insights Powered by Better Student Data & Accessible Analysis Tools
School leaders who launch new schools are faced with many questions and challenges as they dream of and prepare for their first day of school, including, “What makes our school unique?” “How do I build a staff?” and “If I build it, will they (students) enroll?” These and other questions require thoughtful approaches and lots […]
Creating a School Culture that Makes Kids Want to Return
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Rob Love, Founding Dean of Culture at our partner school Vanguard Collegiate of Indianapolis, and was thrilled to learn more about Vanguard’s success using Schoolrunner to promote a positive school culture. As he reflected on what’s worked so well, Rob explained how Vanguard is leveraging Schoolrunner […]
