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Curriculum development software for K-12
Educators are constantly keeping a balance. On one side of the scale: expectations, state curriculum requirements, school-wide initiatives, and progress monitoring mandates. On the other side: time, resources, sanity. We know that there is precious little time already, and yet, you are battling multiple unintuitive tools for curriculum creation and management. With limited control over your resources, you feel like an island where every student’s growth relies solely on you.
That’s why we created Beacon. Our products are driven by the needs of educators and informed by our own decades of experience in schools. With our curriculum management software, teachers and administrators can work together to drive student growth, maintain individual control, and stay accountable–all in one platform.
Collaborate with peers in real time
With Beacon, you don’t have to be an island. Our planner is collaborative, so teachers can lean on administrative support while maintaining the freedom to create resources and share among their peers. Because you’re collaborating in real time, you don’t have to wait for meetings or reports to make changes that benefit student growth.
- Planning within teams isn’t just easier, it’s faster and more effective. Pre-link curriculum components to plans for easier data collection and reporting.
- No more juggling the software and formatting preferences of individual teachers to create seamless curricula. Our rich-text editor allows teams to create, update, and collaborate in real time on native curricula and resources.
- Every school is different. If you’re using pre-packaged lesson plans or resources, it’s easy to upload, share, and individualize pre-made lesson plans in the software.
- Keep your high-level goals at the forefront. Administrators can work together to create and manage courses, sharing the workload and maximizing brainpower on problem-solving initiatives.
Easily access materials in our centralized resource hub
Teachers can create individual preps with custom templates for each class they teach, so each group learns under the best conditions for their unique learning needs.- Organize with color differentiators, so it’s easy to search for and locate resources and lessons. Color customization isn’t just for ease of planning; it’s also a functional search mechanism, so you can find what you need quickly and easily.
- If your process includes other software, enjoy the best of both worlds. Beacon imports resources and curricula from Google Drive, so you can design and edit however you want while still enjoying the social benefits and centralization of our smart content hub.
Make data-driven decisions with confidence
- Because Beacon knows which standards are attached to lessons, and administrators can see the unique ways teachers are contributing to curricula, administrators can source a wealth of data to support curriculum analysis and teacher growth.
- Take advantage of multiple data views in our Single-Test Analysis tool, so assessment scores and progress monitoring become meaningful metrics for curriculum decisions.
- Use data found in Beacon and Aware to support teachers and drive student growth. With Strive, assessors can mentor and coach teachers through in-app messaging, provide relevant professional development, and use a teacher’s own goals and student growth scores to support growth initiatives.
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Frequently Asked Questions
If you're a current Forethought customer, you don't need to worry. Forethought will remain available for the time being. However, we do plan to retire the application in the future. We created Beacon to build on everything that you know and love in Forethought, so if you'd like to see for yourself how Beacon can improve on the processes you've already built, reach out to our sales team by hitting that demo request button. Our team can also guide you through moving your curriculum materials to Beacon, so you don't have to start from scratch.
Beacon is better together with Aware and Strive! Strive and Beacon offer a complimentary space to reflect on instructional methods that promote the growth of your teachers. Wondering whether your assessments are aligned to the course scope and sequence? Aware offers a quick window into assessment administration to help teachers stay on target with the district pacing guide.
Beacon supports all of the common document formats from popular K-12 curriculum publishers.
Yes, Beacon integrates with Google Drive. No more bouncing between windows and applications to aggregate all of your resources!
Curriculum owners can collaborate on documents with the writing teams in real time. They are able to control share access levels and create curriculum components for the entire district to see. Teachers can plan collaboratively with their PLC teams building out lessons, resources, and instruction in their shared preps.
Beacon gives teachers quick access to their district curriculum materials without leaving their planner. This supports their practice of internalization and using the plan editor to differentiate instruction for their students.
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