Professional Learning
At Simplicity Education, we are educators at heart. We believe the best way to serve and make an impact is by educating.
What We Offer
Simplicity’s training offerings run the gamut of data-driven professional development to help you, your school, or district leverage data painlessly and efficiently:
Mastering Data Analysis: Learn the basics of data analysis in Google Sheets or Excel and best practices for interpreting data.
Instructional Decisions Using Data: Learn best practices for asking and answering questions about your school’s data to make data-driven decisions.
Cultivating a Positive Data Culture: We will provide you with the tools you need to diagnose your school’s data culture and champion a positive one!
No matter what option fits with your need, Simplicity partners with you to develop the best training format for you! We pride ourselves in prioritizing understanding your people and your culture for the trainings to be most impactful.
Simplicity’s Professional Development Trainings:
Mastering Data Analysis
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We have a comprehensive library of trainings that we can tailor to meet your level of data expertise:
100: Not sure where to start with large amounts of data? Trainings in the 100-level series leave you with the ability to use a wide range of Google sheets functions.
200: Our 200-level curriculum extends your knowledge of the fundamentals of data analysis by teaching you how to join your data, visualize it and analyze it using best practices.
300: Our 300-level curriculum pushes you to think critically about how you engage with data. Whether it’s exploring the concept of data culture or creating a dashboard with your own data, our offerings at this level add depth and breadth to your data skills.
All of our trainings are grounded in relevant and exciting data - whether it’s your own or a set that we prepare. We prioritize practical application, meaning that all our trainings include plenty of time for polishing your data skills.
Instructional Decisions Using Data
For teachers and coaches
Is your school’s data and reporting organized in nice charts and graphs, but you don’t know where to start on using the data to improve outcomes?
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Major topics include:
— How to ask questions about your school’s or classroom’s data
— How to use data to make evidence-based and actionable decisions
— How to organize and dive into data to understand trends
At the conclusion of these training sessions, you will be set up to successfully implement the systems necessary to make impactful and specific action plans using data.
For all educators using data
Does your school have an overwhelming amount of data but need to get up to speed with how to organize and analyze it in Excel, Google Sheet or data visualization system to make data-driven decisions?
For school leaders
Are you ready to champion a culture at your school that celebrates the collaborative and joyful aspects of data and its ability to create a cohesive experience for all stakeholders?
Cultivating a Positive Data Culture
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Major topics include:
— How to assess your school’s data culture
— How to cultivate a positive data culture at your school
At the conclusion of these training sessions, you will be able to implement a process for diagnosing your own organization’s data culture in a clear and structured way. You will also be able to develop an actionable plan for shifting your organization’s data culture.
Professional Development the way you want to learn.
From bite-sized webinars to weeks-long summer institutes, we have a professional development option fit for you! Do you only have time for a quick review of best practices for making data-driven decisions? Check out our webinar series! Do you want our team to partner with your organization to build out more robust training programs? Check out our week-long or summer institute options!
Webinars
We aim to be the most inclusive and accessible platform for educators seeking to be more data-driven. Whether you are a brand new teacher or an experienced educator looking to get caught up on the most recent ed tech innovations, we have a training for you.
Our webinars are organized so that you can pick and choose which skills you’d like to hone. As we continue to expand our offerings, you’ll have access to a well-rounded suite of webinars that will leave you with a solid foundation in the most up-to-date data-driven ed practices around.
Workshops
Simplicity will partner with you to customize day- or week-long workshops for your team or school. The topic is up to you, but we will provide a full load of materials, including case study practice, real-time feedback, and take-home reference documents, to ensure a sustainable impact long after the training ends. The sessions will be completely interactive, fueling collaboration amongst your team members.
Summer Institute
For your summer training and professional development, we can help you craft a schedule as well as provide trainings tailored to your community’s needs!