New Student Learning Objectives Management Tool

SANDY, Utah - April 1, 2013 - PRLog -- Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) are critical to measuring student achievement growth as well as supporting and helping strengthen teachers’ instructional skills.  Community Training and Assistance Center’s (CTAC) in-depth SLO training and process within Truenorthlogic’s software portal creates a powerful, online SLO management tool for K-12 school districts and state education agencies.  

SLOs are carefully planned goals for what a student will learn over a given time period and can be written for both tested and non-tested subjects.  Teachers and administrators engage in a collaborative process that helps teachers analyze their practice and adjust instructional strategies to better meet student needs.  Then reviewing SLO outcomes can result in meaningful conversations reflecting on student successes and determining strategic improvements.  Each phase of the SLO model - preparation, development, implementation and analysis - is imbedded within the online portal providing easy access to evaluation and professional development data.

Delhi Unified School District (California) is currently piloting CTAC’s SLO management tool with plans to fully implement along with a new educator evaluation system managed by Truenorthlogic in the 2013-14 school year.

“SLOs directly link teacher evaluation and instructional reform.  They improve student learning, while strengthening teacher practice.   SLOadvantage TM, the Student Learning Objective software, provides school districts and states with a customizable and integrated data solution that makes it possible to systematically manage SLO implementation and the evaluation process,” says William Slotnik, Founder and Executive Director of Community Training and Assistance Center.

“Educators need on-going feedback in order to grow.  SLOs help teachers see student growth and identify professional development needs.  In collaboration with CTAC, our SLO management tool allows administrators to better evaluate teacher effectiveness aimed at improving student achievement,” says Jeanette Haren, President and CEO of Truenorthlogic.

ABOUT TRUENORTHLOGIC

Truenorthlogic is the leading provider of K-12 Education Human Capital Management solutions that solve complicated educator quality issues.  Our award-winning solutions help State education agencies and districts link human resource management with sustainable, scalable strategies to ensure an effective educator for every student, including teacher preparation and induction support, licensure and certification tracking, career planning tools, evaluation, professional development management and system support for differentiated learning and incentive pay models. With more than one million licensed users, Truenorthlogic has a proven track record helping organizations achieve educational workforce excellence.  For more information, visit www.truenorthlogic.com.

ABOUT COMMUNITY TRAINING AND ASSISTANCE CENTER

CTAC builds district, state and community capacity by providing technical assistance, conducting research and evaluation, and informing public policy.  CTAC’s major education initiative focuses on performance-based compensation, teacher and administrator evaluation, teacher preparation and development, school turnaround and district improvement, state-to-district assistance, and union-management collaboration.  For more information, visit www.ctacusa.com.