Strive

Teacher evaluation system management

Evaluate, mentor, and develop the staff in your district with our comprehensive evaluation management system.

Managing a well-run evaluation system takes a lot of time (and so much paperwork). At Eduphoria, we recognize the importance of the professional growth cycle to every facet of education. We aim to reduce bias in your evaluation system, lighten your workload, and increase learning opportunities.

Strive isn’t just a teacher evaluation system. It’s professional development software for educators and staff that captures every step in the cycle of growth, from goal creation to evaluation. With our software, you’ll have everything you need to grow and retain skilled educators in a single application.

Be consistent and measure success

To collect valid and reliable data, your evaluation system must be consistent and unbiased. Our software facilitates an unbiased evaluation system through data collection and visualization. Easily identify school and district-wide learning needs, so you can share the information with your staff.

Pinpoint areas in your evaluation system that are producing skewed data and diagnose the inconsistencies that cause them with our scatterplot data visualization tool.
Develop and share professional learning opportunities based on the trends you identify within the data.

Prioritize local goals and initiatives

You shouldn’t have to force your existing processes into an inflexible software. Strive adapts to your processes through customization. Change the steps you use for the evaluation process and rewrite the wording to accurately depict your school culture. You can even adapt evaluation forms to capture your priorities.

Customize the evaluation process to meet your needs and school-wide initiatives.
Add evaluation criteria to district or state-level forms, so you can evaluate best practices community-specific goals.
Add appraisee types, so you can evaluate and connect with all of your staff, including counselors, coaches, and custodians.

Help staff members reach their professional goals

Research shows that teachers ignore irrelevant and impersonal feedback. The feedback you provide through evaluations should be centered around the individual's goals and priorities. Thankfully, Strive captures the passions of the person by connecting them with relevant learning opportunities. It also allows evaluators to personalize their feedback and build community with those they assess.

Have mentorship conversations with the in-app messaging feature.
Provide relevant learning opportunities based on each person's growth goals. Teachers can search and select professional development based on their own goals and student learning domains.

See all your paperwork in one place

Evaluations require hours of administrative upkeep. We know you have a lot of moving parts to track! That’s why we built the dashboard to be simple, accessible, and organized. You can turn off that little feeling in the back of your head that you forgot something because our interface allows you to track and handle those administrative tasks without ever leaving the app.

Whether a district leader, principal, or administrator, see a bird’s eye view of the people you monitor, including approaching deadlines.
Track your own deadlines, submit paperwork, and write observations within the app.

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Evaluation Process

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I cater to each teacher’s learning needs based on their level of experience?

Strive allows evaluators to create relevant learning opportunities based on what teachers have self-identified as a need. Teachers create goals for themselves and their students in their Strive portal. Evaluators can access these goals and suggest relevant professional learning opportunities. They can also see past evaluations, evidence of growth, and that teacher’s previous professional learning certificates, so they know exactly where teachers are starting from in terms of experience. We also provide reports, so district leaders can see statistics on what kinds of professional development their teachers are taking and asking for as well as evaluation results.

We’ve had to dedicate a whole staff member to do data analysis and reporting for TIA. How can Strive reduce their workload?

Strive takes evaluation data and student growth information already housed within the software and funnels it into the TIA export. The TIA export contains all of the data fields required by the state of Texas for a complete TIA application. Your TIA team can also use our student growth and teacher performance correlation tool to identify skewed ratings. If your evaluation system is producing skewed data which could interfere with successful TIA applications, this data visualization will make it easy to identify and resolve problems in those areas. Finally, Eduphoria is an approved technical support provider, so we can assist with: general TIA support, teacher observation, student growth measures, and data analysis.

How does Strive facilitate goal attainment for teachers?

Our software provides support for every level of the professional growth cycle from goal creation to goal attainment. Once teachers create their goals, they can search for specific professional learning opportunities based on that goal. They can also create goals for their monitor groups and find professional development for the skills and learning domains they need to know to help those students grow. During the evaluation process, they can upload evidence of their growth for their evaluators to review. Evaluators can provide feedback and suggest additional learning opportunities based on support needs they’ve identified during observations. Finally, teachers can create action items when writing a goal to help them frame their journey toward goal attainment. Because of the collaborative capabilities within Strive, including in-app messaging, evaluators can provide the individualized support each teacher needs to reach their goals.

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