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Operate your ELD program in one connected system
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Operate your ELD program in one connected system
Supporting multilingual learners requires coordination across many moving parts. Student progress data, program decisions, compliance documentation, instructional planning, and collaboration all play a role in helping students succeed.
But when these pieces live across disconnected tools or systems, it becomes difficult for educators to see the full picture. Teams spend valuable time searching for information, navigating workflows, and piecing together insights instead of focusing on the work that matters most: supporting students.
That’s why Ellevation is designed to help districts run their English learner (EL) programs within a single connected system, bringing the information, workflows, and insights educators rely on into a single environment.
Clarity across your entire ELD program
English learner programs generate a lot of important information: student progress data, program documentation, instructional supports, and decisions made across teams.
When that information is scattered across different systems or static documents, it becomes difficult for educators and administrators to maintain a clear understanding of what’s happening across their district.
Ellevation helps educators and program leaders gain a unified view of their multilingual learner program – from student progress to program activity – making it easier to understand where students are thriving and where additional support may be needed.
Recent updates make it even easier to bring these insights into view. Educators can now create dashboards more easily and replicate proven dashboard views across teams, helping schools surface the information that matters most without complex setup.
Submitted form results are now also easier to review together on the Student List, ensuring that important program decisions and documentation remain visible long after forms are completed. This new feature helps teams stay aligned and ensures that key insights don’t get lost in disconnected workflows – bringing visibility from submitted forms directly to our powerful analytics features.
Efficient workflows that support educators
Behind every successful English learner program is a coordinated set of workflows. Educators collaborate across teams, document key decisions, track student progress, and manage compliance processes throughout the year.
Recent updates, such as Cycle Organization, make it easier for teams to structure their workflows to reflect how their programs actually operate. Educators can now group Forms cycles into custom folders—such as by school, initiative, or timeline—making it easier to navigate processes and manage multilingual learner workflows at scale.
By bringing greater structure to these operational processes, districts can reduce administrative complexity and ensure teams spend less time managing systems and more time supporting students.
Timely insight into student language growth
Traditionally, districts rely heavily on annual assessments to understand student language proficiency. While these assessments provide valuable insight, they often arrive too late to influence instruction in real time.
Ellevation helps districts gain more continuous insight into English learner progress by integrating growth insights directly into the same system educators use to manage their programs, now available through our new benchmark assessment.
When student growth insights align with the broader program context, educators can monitor progress more frequently and adjust instructional strategies to meet evolving student needs.
Instruction that responds to student needs
Supporting multilingual learners requires instruction that adapts as students grow.
Educators benefit most when student insights connect directly to classroom support—when the information they see about student progress helps inform how they plan instruction and engage with learners.
Ellevation helps districts connect these pieces. Educators gain access to guidance, instructional strategies, and research-based activities that support language development in real classroom moments.
Because these supports exist within the same system that surfaces student insights and program information, educators can align instructional planning with the evolving needs of multilingual learners.
Coming soon: Seamless access for every student
For digital tools to truly support multilingual learner programs, access must be simple and reliable – especially when taking assessments.
Ellevation continues to focus on simplifying student access to our new benchmark assessment.
Upcoming Google Single Sign-On (SSO) support will allow students to log in with the same Google credentials they use across many district learning tools, reducing friction and aligning with the district's authentication systems.
By making access easier and more secure, districts can ensure technology supports learning rather than slowing it down.
Bringing it all together
When these elements operate within a single connected platform, districts can better support multilingual learners while reducing the complexity of managing multiple tools.
Ellevation’s role isn’t simply to provide individual capabilities – it’s to bring them together in a way that helps districts operate stronger, more coordinated multilingual learner programs.
Because when insight, workflows, and instructional support work together, educators can focus on what matters most: helping multilingual learners grow and succeed.