Foster a positive professional growth environment

Share meaningful professional growth opportunities and collaborate with teachers to help them meet their goals.

Provide the support your community needs.

Educators are kind, creative, and tough. They choose to use their talents to help children and other educators. Yet, they’re no different than professionals in any other career. Like everyone else, teachers want job security. They want fair pay. They want professional and personal support. As a leader for your community, you can provide those essential retention points by fostering a positive professional growth environment.
We have used decades of research to craft a staff and teacher evaluation management system that adheres to best practices, so schools can build a culture of support and community. Plus, we are current and former educators who lean on the expertise of the districts we serve to better our software. We’re confident that Strive can improve staff and evaluator quality of life.

Develop and host professional learning opportunities for your staff

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Your students have unique learning needs, and so do your staff members! When you use our suite of tools, you can develop evidence-based professional learning opportunities that tackle sticking points in your classrooms. You don't have to guess what your school needs. Our software tells you.
Share opportunities that connect to staff and teacher growth goals. Staff members can request professional learning opportunities based on their personal passions. You can also develop conferences and courses that align with goals in your community.
Use data visualization to identify district and school-wide training needs. Strive offers a student growth and teacher performance correlation that helps administrators and district leaders identify which teachers and assessors may need more support. Data from Aware can also provide highly-specific insights about learning needs in each school.

Respond to and collaborate with staff in the app

Some need mentorship. Others need collaboration. You can meet staff members where they are by cultivating individual relationships from within Strive. You can help each person find their ideal pathway to the next, deeper level of learning.
Keep your communications private and consistent with Strive’s in-app messaging. You don’t have to juggle meaningful mentorship conversations with the thousands of other messages in your email inbox. Go straight to Strive to continue important conversations that help staff members grow.
Each teacher and staff member can dream, ideate, and develop their own professional growth journey. Administrators and evaluators can use these goals, learning certificates, and student growth portfolios to truly customize the evaluation experience.
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Create the evaluation process your teachers deserve

Research shows that teachers don't respond well to evaluations that stem from a negative evaluation process. And who can blame them? Everyone deserves feedback that's growth-centric and tailored to their needs. That's why Strive is customizable—so you can create your own evaluation process on a foundation of data, trust, and collaboration.
  • Represent your school's culture, values, and priorities by customizing your evaluation process. Make the process your own from your evaluation forms to the language you use to describe each step.
  • Individualize the evaluation process for each staff member using their goals and professional learning certificates to provide the support they’re asking for. Walkthroughs and observations can be more than a time of assessment–they can become moments of connection.

Lighten the administrative load

It’s hard to focus on individual relationships when you’re living deadline to deadline, especially if you’re responsible for the growth of dozens of teachers! Strive makes it easy for you to knock out administrative tasks, lighten the cognitive load, and focus on building relationships.
Use our monitoring dashboard to sign evaluation documents and see upcoming deadlines. Everything you need to know, including time-sensitive information, can be accessed from your dashboard.
Funnel the time you save on administrative tasks into making big-picture changes, improvements, and management decisions for your evaluation system. Worry less, connect more with features that enable you to reach out, issue reminders, and make professional dreams come true.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Customize evaluation forms and add criteria that targets specific learning needs in your community. You can provide professional learning opportunities that help staff to meet those specific needs. At the end of the year, see how the courses and conferences you offered improved student growth and evaluation ratings with an easy-to-read report. Teachers can even search for relevant learning opportunities by the learning standards they’re hoping to target for their own student growth initiatives.

Staff members can upload professional learning certificates to their portfolio, so you can view and approve learning credits. This way, you can see their robust history of professional learning, and allow them to source high-quality educational resources from other online and in-person opportunities.

While we do not provide pre-created professional development for your staff through Strive, Eduphoria does offer training and implementation on our software which your teachers can redeem for credit, should you allow them to. We also offer online learning resources through our teacher learning platform, which you can assign to teachers and award for credit.

Should you offer your own courses or conferences, you can easily take attendance with our new QR code attendance option. Teachers only need to scan the code and mark their attendance, then administrators can award credits through Strive. Staff can also upload professional learning certificates from third-party programs.

While the courses created within Strive don’t allow for theme or color customizations, course creators can attach documents and resources that meet their theme or visual standards. You can also link to videos created on other platforms. You do, however, have everything you need to create basic, guided professional development courses within Strive.

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