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Target instruction with confidence for stronger EL growth
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Target instruction with confidence for stronger EL growth
At Ellevation, we understand the dedication and effort required to plan meaningful instruction for ELs. In today’s demanding educational landscape, where time and resources are precious, every minute teachers spend preparing is intentionally directed toward achieving measurable student outcomes. Even so, it can be challenging to connect high-level-program goals for EL success with the reality of effective day-to-day classroom practice.
With this in mind, Ellevation has recently released a set of powerful new enhancements to instructional tools within our ELD solution. These tools are designed to give both teachers and leaders insightful data to ensure they can target instruction with confidence and drive meaningful EL progress district-wide.
New insights and tools for empowering instruction
Whether it’s a teacher seeking the perfect activity for a specific language objective or an EL leader making strategic program level instructional decisions, Ellevation’s latest updates are built to maximize impact on student growth.
Strategies Insights: Connecting usage to outcomes
Educational leaders need ways to ensure that high-value instructional resources are being used effectively and in line with district priorities. That’s why we’ve introduced Strategies Insights, a new analytics feature that provides leaders with actionable, aggregate data on how educators are using instructional activities across the district. It’s more than just an engagement metric, it provides clear visibility into instructional patterns and trends.
With actionable data at their fingertips, EL administrators can:
- Identify what's working: See which activities and instructional focuses are driving the highest engagement.
- Target support: Spot where additional, targeted professional learning or instructional guidance is needed.
By connecting everyday classroom practice with district-level decision-making, Strategies Insights ensures that ELD programs can better align instruction, resources, and professional support in ways that truly fuel meaningful impact on ELs – combining these insights with growth data and instructional planning capabilities across the solution.
Saved Activities: A personalized resource library
Educators are constantly navigating a vast library of instructional content, adapting materials, and planning lessons under significant time constraints. When they discover a truly effective resource, they need to be able to access it instantly.
The ability to now save Activities is designed to make teachers’ lives easier by keeping their most valued resources right at their fingertips: a simple one-click ‘save’ action to easily create a personal, organized library of their favorite instructional resources. This capability empowers educators to organize and maintain their own personal library of high-impact activities. It ensures easy discoverability and facilitates the vital practice of repeated, consistent use of effective materials.
By focusing on personal relevance and ease of access, Saved Activities support continuity and effectiveness in the classroom, allowing them to move from exploring content to planning meaningful classroom instruction with confidence and ease.
Instructionally focused dashboard templates: Data informed instruction made easy
Effective use of data in instructional planning should be an accelerator for improvement in student outcomes. Dashboards in Ellevation have long been able to surface data to give insight into where support is needed most—and soon, building them will be easier than ever.
We are excited to share a first look at a new way to create Dashboards in Ellevation using ready-built templates. This upcoming feature will offer a gallery of pre-configured dashboard templates, providing easy-to-use starting points for building new dashboards tailored to specific, high-priority needs.
This powerful update replaces complexity with clarity. The new process will automatically configure the ideal structure for critical instructional focuses, like classroom assessment for ELs or supporting newcomers. By simplifying and streamlining dashboard creation, users and teams will be able to build a relevant, consistent, and actionable instructional view faster than ever before.
By providing an intuitive, streamlined path to data, educators and teams can effortlessly leverage dashboard capabilities to focus on their most critical instructional priorities, driving data-informed decisions for EL success without getting bogged down in setup and configuration.
Planning and Practice, better together
These new capabilities underscore our commitment to providing the tools that connect high-impact instructional resources with measurable outcomes – all in one, unified ELD solution. By empowering educators to save their favorite activities and giving leaders visibility into district-wide insight trends, we ensure that every decision is informed, and every EL receives the targeted support they need.
Courtney Ingard is a Product Marketing Manager supporting go-to-market initiatives for instruction and teacher impact solutions at Ellevation. When she’s not working, you’ll likely find her walking the beach with her family, spending time at the potter’s wheel, or curled up with a good book and a cup of tea.