Make data-informed curriculum decisons
If you evaluate and manage curriculum content, it can feel like you don’t have access to the full “student success” picture. Which lessons were most successful? How did teachers individualize curriculum materials? Were assessments planned at appropriate intervals? You may even feel uncertain about your curriculum decisions because you’re wrangling spreadsheets, binders of assessment data, and a mess of paper and digital instructional components.
With Beacon, you can rest assured knowing that everything you need to make program decisions and improve your curriculum is in one place. Our curriculum hub and native data analysis tools allow you to identify trends and lead confidently without ever leaving the software. Our tools were made to work better together, so you can work with your district, school, or team to facilitate high-quality instruction.
Build your system to collect data rather than searching for it retroactively
How much time do you spend analyzing data before significant points in your year? If you have a data routine, it’s probably become second nature to auto-calculate spreadsheet columns. If you don’t…how many different emails do you send just to get your hands on the information you need to make decisions? Rather than retroactively reaching out to get the data you need, you can build your system to collect data all year round. By the time you need it, it’s exactly where you’ve designed it to be.
- Pre-build your library of resources and teaching strategies for teachers to drag and drop into their lesson plans. This way, you’re unified as a team and organized when it comes time to evaluate materials.
- Put important assessments into Beacon’s planner. Your calendar will always be there to provide context for your program evaluation efforts at the end of the year.
- Use our Scope and Sequence Analysis tool to see live updates on which standards teachers are teaching. When you go back to compare instruction to assessment scores, you’ll be able to identify gaps in instruction at a glance.
Offer real-time feedback thanks to native data analysis tools
Much of the K-12 coaching culture depends on those dedicated walkthroughs, observations, and summative evaluations to provide feedback to educators. As an educator, you know how important it is to be on top of the trends, so students can receive the real-time interventions they need to succeed. We make it easy for administrators to see what their teams are doing, provide feedback, and follow up. That way, feedback is readily available when it’s most needed.
- Beacon is collaborative, so team leaders can see their teachers’ plans, identify support needs, and check in when and where they need help.
- Provide live, digital feedback on lessons, resources, or planners using our functional color-coding feature. Simply add a block to your teacher’s lesson and color-code it, so they can easily search for and implement your feedback.
- Our Scope and Sequence Analysis tool provides a simple, graphic layout of which standards are being covered in a unit. If someone is falling behind, you can make snap decisions about how to support the teacher.
Confidently manage and improve your program
You’re dealing with so much data. Whether you have a data management system or not, it can be difficult to find and analyze the data you need to make decisions about curriculum, especially if your teachers prefer to work on paper. In Beacon, everything is digital, but it’s also organized so that it’s easy to make fast, effective decisions about coaching and feedback, curriculum resources, and assessments.
- Stop digging through binders and notebooks full of data. Beacon houses your curriculum, resources, assessment schedule, and data about how your plans were executed throughout the year.
- Lead your team to work better together and as individuals. With data in the software, you can see how each team member contributed to curricula and how they supported their students.
- The strategies your teachers used, their methods of assessment, assessment dates, and the feedback they received are all available for you to make effective program improvements.
Enjoy a unified in-app experience that makes data accessible
Are you dealing with a notes app full of log-ins and tools that weren’t built to work together? If you’re having to transfer data from app to app, then your valuable time isn’t being spent on the things about your job that matter most to you. Beacon was built to work better together with our other applications, but it was also built to be a complete solution to curriculum planning and management, so you don’t have to juggle clunky tools and different log-ins to do your job.
- Beacon works with Aware, our data management and assessment platform, to make it easier for you to integrate data into your most crucial decisions.
- Our app was designed to be the one and only solution you need for curriculum, so enjoy an easy, continuous user experience.
- Multi-task, batch plan, and make last-minute adjustments to curricula thanks to our multi-pane interface. The design allows you to easily reference unit documents and standards as well as all of the resources available to you.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Beacon delivers the complete instructional data cycle. It helps educators understand the crucial pedagogical context—the teaching that happened before the test. Our Beacon and Aware Better Together integration allows teachers to seamlessly proctor exams right from their planner. This creates an immediate, fresh set of performance data and, most importantly, generates the actionable analytics needed to inform instruction and guide student success after the assessment is complete.
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