Discovery Meeting Registration
We are hosting a variety of webinars, please join us!
The Webinar Team
Doc Watson
VP Customer Relations & Business Dev
Doc Watson has over 35 years of experience in educational technology. In 1991 Mr. Watson pioneered a ground-breaking computer-mediated distance learning program - an early Learning Management System for health care education.
Mr. Watson spent 12 years working with a regional provider of a Student Management Systems. He has also worked on projects providing school security & data virtualization.
He believes “Every Teacher and Student CAN and WILL Succeed.” The RightPath™ suite currently helps to provide Individualized Learning, Assessment Management, Data Informed Instruction, with critical teacher support, etc. in over 60 districts.
Ruth Arezzi
For 15 years, Ruth has ensured that all programs drive toward district needs and student success. From Blended Classrooms and programs like Credit Recovery and Homebound Instruction, to specialized services like Curriculum Development, Assessment Creation and Data Informed Instruction, Ruth’s core focus is to ensure individualized education opportunities and success for every student. Prior to joining Right Reason, Ruth was a certified instructor specializing in K-6 Education.
Tabatha Campion
Educational Specialist, Program Support
Since 2013 Tabatha has worked to oversee the operation and development of online e-Learning courses for Right Reason. She is deeply committed to using the power of various multi-media platforms to create engaging content for our 21st century learners. Tabatha earned a Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Education in Instructional Technology from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. She is a certified K-6 teacher and a certified Instructional Technology Specialist PK-12.
Jamie Wood
Program Coordinator
A NYS certified Social Studies teacher, Jamie Wood has been working for Right Reason Technologies for the last 11 years. As Program Coordinator, she works both virtually and onsite training, consulting, and working closely with teachers and administrators to ensure both teacher and student success. From curriculum writing, program design and implementation, to APPR and Data Driven Instruction, she works closely with the RRT team and school district partners.
Current Discovery Meeting Topics
Welcome Center - Friendly for Families & Staff, Efficient Registration & Equitable Application Process
Transform your Registration Office into a Welcome Center!
Comprehensive Enrollment, School Choice or Program Application And Lottery System For Efficient And Equitable Enrollment
15 minute Discovery Meeting
Manage All Student Performance Data In One Place!
Data Management & Analytics Made Easy
State Data, 3rd Party Data. Local Data - It can All Be Store And Managed in One Place!
15 minute Discovery Meeting
Resilient Schools Require An Intentionally Holistic Approach to Wellness
Data Informed Social Emotional Support + Data Informed Academic Support
15 minute Discovery Meeting
Invest 15 Minutes To Learn How We Can Help With Closing Gaps
Robust, Flexible Remote Learning + Learning Gap Closure = Student Success!
15 minute Discovery Meeting
Efficient APPR and/or Benchmarks
Are test refusals making APPR difficult?
Are observations taking too long?
We've got you covered!
NYS Approved Benchmarks
The most efficient evaluation system available!
15 minute Discovery Meeting
Credit Recovery / Summer School
We've got you covered!
Blended Learning or Self-Paced
Fast, easy, targeted, efficient...
Individualized Learning via multiple modalities!
15 minute Discovery Meeting
Registration
Friendly or Frustrating for Families?
- Is Registration still based upon a paper packet of complicated forms?
- How many time do families have to answer the same questions?
- How many languages is your application available in?
- Is it easy for applicants to upload images of required documents?
- Does the process guide families through your "feeder school options?"
- Does the process prevent enrolling in an inappropriate building?
- If online, is it easy to submit the application on a smartphone?
- Can family information from one student registration be used for another student without re-typing?
- Can families check back to see the status of their registration?
- Can students be registered without a single visit to the school district?
School Choice / Program Application
Could the Process Be More Friendly, and Equitable?
- Is the school choice or program application process based upon a paper packet of complicated forms?
- Is the required process clear to applicants?
- How many languages is your application available in?
- Does your process delay application processing causing kids to miss classes?
- Is there an appearance or reality of Inequity in school/program assignment?
- Immigrants
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- Sibling attendance
- Etc.
- Would an efficient, balanced lottery process be a dramatic improvement?
Staff Perspective: Are your processes Efficient & Effective?
Registration
Is Your Process Frustrating for District Staff?
- Does your process require data entry by district staff?
- Are applications queued by registrar and/or status?
- Can your staff compare submitted documents with relevant data side-by-side for accuracy?
- Is your Registration compliant with regulation deadlines (e.g., McKinney Vento, etc.)
- Does your registration process prevent out of district address fraud during the application process?
- Can staff use templated emails to communicate with families?
- Is your medical clearance process securely online and part of the registration process?
- Is building availability visible during the process?
- Could flexible workflows between district staff and building staff be more efficient?
- Could secure, separate workflow for medical clearance ease delays in processing
- Are you concerned about Data/Document retention issues?
School Choice / Program Application
Could the Process Be More Efficient and Equitable?
- Seamless and flexible workflow between district staff and building/program administrators
- Building/program availability visible during the process?
- Avoid delayed application processing causing kids to miss classes
- Assure accurate data
- Avoids appearance or reality of Inequity in school/program assignment
- Immigrants
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- Sibling attendance
- Etc.
- Automatic waitlist updates upon acceptance refusal
- Duplicate application identification
- Integration with SMS after enrollment completion
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Annual Professional Evaluation Challenges
While it isn't the most popular topic, efficient and accurate evaluations can be critical to educational improvement.
- Are test refusals making evaluations difficult?
- Are observations taking too long?
- We've got you covered!
- NYS Approved Benchmarks, and the most efficient evaluation system available!
Benchmarks & Diagnostics
- Grades K-8 Math & ELA
- Secondary Core Course Diagnostics
- 45,000 Item Bank
- Part 1 and/or Part 2
- Multiple versions for AB or ABA
- Online or Plain Paper Bubble Sheets
- Multiple Choice/Extended Reponses
- Rigorous and Reliable
- Auto-scored (except for extended response)
Efficient Observations
Growth and effectiveness is predicated on support and timely feedback. RightPath™ provides the tools and opportunities for collaboration with walkthroughs, formal evaluations and evidence collection.
- Mobile Device Optimized
- Supports NYSUT, Marshall, Danielson
- Multiple Reviewer Workflow Option
- Teacher-Evaluator Communication
- Domain Standard Narratives
- Custom Narrative Bank provides efficient comments:
- within summaries
- at the domain indicators
- Supports ALL Non-teaching staff evaluations
- Roll-up and Summary Reports
Target Growth Calculations
- Rapidly Roster Students
- Add Baseline Scores
- Set SLO Targets with unlimited templates
- Grade Levels
- Special Ed
- ENL
- AltEd
- Target Score Types
- Raw
- SI (Success Index)
- Percent Growth
- Constant (e.g. >65)
Need a Summer School or Credit Recovery program?
We've got you covered!
Challenge Identification & Lesson Assignment Made Easy
- Easy, efficient, cost-effective
- Drive instruction based upon individual student needs
- Individualized Instruction via multiple modalities!
- Self-paced or Blended Learning
- Meet the students where they are!
- Device agnostic - phones, tablets, Chromebooks, etc.
Identify Learning Gaps with a RightPath™ Diagnostic
or
ANY Standards-Aligned Assessment!
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Manage All Student Performance Data In One Place!
Data Management & Analytics Made Easy
State Data, 3rd Party data, local data - it can all be stored and managed and analyzed in one place!
The RightPath™ platform can store and manage:
- State Assessment
- Scores
- Student Responses
- Student strengths and weaknesses in relation to
- 3rd Party Assessment scores and responses
- Fountas and Pinnell BAS
- NWEA Maps
- STAR
- iReady
- AIMSWeb
- DIBELS
- etc.
- Local Assessments
- Mid-terms
- Finals
- Quarterlies
- Tests & Quizzes
Assessment Data can be:
- Imported from original sources (with help from our team)
- Administer your local assessments in RightPath™
- Online
- Copy-paper bubble sheets
- Our Assessments
- Grades 3-8 Math & ELA Benchmarks
- Regents Diagnostics
- Unit Tests, etc.
- Your assessments
- Existing assessments - as-is
- Create new assessments with our item banks
RightPath™ Student Performance Profile:
Sort, Filter, Manage the RTI Intervention Process, Create Student Review Groups
Color-Coded & Exports to Excel!
Drill down to see individual student longitudinal records!
Even Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Data!
Look for correlations between academic and SEL Strengths and weaknesses!
Identify Learning Gaps from ANY standards-aligned assessment!
See building block standards and assign remediation if desired!
Evaluate Assessment Efficacy and identify poorly designed distractors
Monitor Proficiency Growth!
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Resilient Schools require an
intentionally holistic approach to wellness
Data Informed Social Emotional Support + Data Informed Academic Support
Essential SEL Ingredients for Resilient Schools
Strength based curriculum and programs that provide focused support based upon the insights gained with the Holistic Student Assessment.
Essential ACADEMIC Ingredient for Resilient Schools
Data Informed Individualized Instruction
Transforms Teaching And Learning By Providing Definitive Areas Of Need And Prerequisite Learning Standards And Skills Necessary For Each Individual To Move To Mastery
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Invest 15 minutes to learn how we can help with Closing the Gaps
Robust, Flexible Remote Learning + Learning Gap Closure = Student Success!
The ability to facilitate students learning from off-campus is now a requirement for a variety of reasons. School closure due to pandemic, snow days, homebound students, insufficient staff resources due to illness, etc. What used to be an occasional need is becoming a more frequent occurrence. "Checking the box" for a collection of ad-hoc solutions or expecting teachers to individually fill the need with the conversion of their classroom materials is no longer enough. Teachers and students alike need the ability to switch modes smoothly without a loss of pedagogical fidelity. Teachers need access to an organized curriculum that they can provide sequentially to all students or as individualized instruction for all students. Learning should follow the designed scope and sequence to avoid the unnecessary creation of new learning gaps and to continue to provide opportunities for students to progress with their peers, while staying on track for graduation.
RightPath™ Remote Learning
Easy, Comprehensive And Individualized
Comprehensive standards-aligned coursework that is sensibly organized and easy to navigate.
Every student is unique and special. Students come to school each day with different strengths, challenges and assets. The days of the “one size fits all” education practice is no longer acceptable. With these demands, teachers and schools are challenged to find ways to accommodate all the needs of each individual student. Supporting learning while remote presents additional challenges if the tools are not complete. RightPath™ provides essential learning support and tools for teachers and schools to navigate the creation of the appropriate learning environments and programs to promote success.
The Learning Resources featured in RightPath™ provide numerous instructional paths and tools for teachers to support the individual needs of their students. A robust library of interactive and engaging intervention lessons grades 1 -8 are coupled with high school core and elective coursework offerings (see samples below.) Individual Learning Plans, diagnostics and system generated intervention grouping, assist teachers to individualize instruction. Teachers, grade level and school-based success teams can utilize instructional reporting to easily progress monitor while making adjustments for the needs of their students.
Have It Your Way
- Assign entire courses, or assign clusters of lessons as you go - based upon your course scope and sequence.
- Utilize assessment outcomes to provide insights so you can assign lessons in small groups or individual
- Allow RightPath™ to auto-assign based upon needs identified by an assessment. Small groups, individual students or all students!
Whether you prefer to use the term "delayed learning" or "learning gaps" it is undeniable that the last 2 years have had a negative effect on student learning.
There is considerable research that shows that once a student has fallen 2 academic years behind, normal in-class remediation is insufficient to reverse the trend towards academic failure and ultimately dropping out of high school.
In addition to the stressors all of us have been dealing with:
- Students have been forced to adapt their learning style to changes in course delivery
- Teachers have had to hurriedly migrate their learning resources from on site to remote delivery or learn complex tools at home and without sufficient PD
- Students have had to learn remotely with little or no supervision due to parental employment requirements.
- Teachers have had less ability to assess student learning
- Students have had to help siblings while or sharing their remote learning space
- Inequities in resources have exacerbated challenges for students already disadvantaged by economic stresses
- Tier 1 instruction has been challenging, Tier 2 & Tier 3 nearly impossible
Learning gap identification is particularly difficult now because it doesn't follow the intuitive patterns that we expect.
Students who in the past have excelled, or at least been able to manage proficiency, are struggling in the current circumstance.
Students whose learning style is best supported through traditional lecture model instruction and who in the past generally did not require remediation, are quietly struggling.
Distractions of all kinds, including short- and long-term technical challenges and absences, are causing patterns of learning loss in places that we used to be able to assume would be fine.
The only way to help students work their way out of elusive learning gaps is with formal remediation that is data informed and where instruction is individualized as much as possible. It's also necessary to continue with on-grade level instruction.
The best method to close the gaps is an expanded Data Informed Instruction AIS/RTI/MTSS program for the large number of students affected by COVID.
Spend 15 minutes and learn how our over 20 years of experience with Remote Learning and Data Informed Individualized Instruction can transform your students' learning!
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Request a Repeat of a Popular Meeting
Let us help you insure student learning in these trying times
Join us to hear about the amazing ways we can help your students learn!
School District Learning Insurance for school closings and hybrid learning plans
- Universal availability to on-demand coursework and student data and reporting
- Prepare ahead for all that might wish to leverage the power of RightPath™
- Sync with your SMS for up-to-date rosters and users
- Support ALL teachers despite varying levels of tech comfort
- Dramatic cost savings for full district coverage
RightPath™ Steppingstones to Student Success -
- RTI & AIS
- Identify the building block maps and standards that are keeping the students from success
- On-demand lessons aligned to the building block maps
- Identify & remediate prerequisite lessons from prior grade levels
Resilient Schools - SEL – Identify & Address SEL Challenges to Resiliency with the PEAR “3 Essential Resiliency Ingredients.”
- Know Every Child: Elevating Student Voices
- Support Educators: Professional Development to Meet the Moment
- Multi-Tiered Interventions to Meet Student Needs
Student Data Management – All performance and SEL data in one place
- Benchmarks & Diagnostics available
- Learning Gap analysis
- Individual, small group, whole group lesson plans – including lessons!
- SEL (Social Emotional Learning) data side-by-side academic performance data
RightPath™ Ascend – Families have Direct Access to Learning Gap Remediation!
- Choose the course
- Check their knowledge
- They independently work through engaging lessons based upon building block maps & standards.
- Nurture their desire for success and prepare them for a future of joyful learning
Please join our frank discussion of these challenges and see how providing access to key resources with a sufficient support system can help your teachers move from “where we are” to “where we need to be.”
Armed with the right team & right tools it IS possible to “meet students where they are.”
Easily Focus Performance Data On Student Needs
What does the data say about my students’ challenges, and how can we give them what they need?
Collect the Relevant Data:
- State Assessment Scores
- 3rd Party Assessment Scores
- Local Unit Tests, Mid-Terms, Finals
- Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resiliency Factors
- Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Support Need Tier
- PLC/IST/Data Meeting Notes
- Student Support Plans
Analyze to Identify Student Needs & Curriculum Gaps:
- Whole Group, Small Group and Individual Student Learning Gaps
- Assessment effectiveness
- One system containing all your data points to compare & analyze
- Longitudinal patterns for individual students – Target Remediation
- Longitudinal patterns for all students - Curriculum Gaps?
Act – Accurately Target Student Needs, Improve the Curriculum
- Assign targeted lessons to Whole/Small groups and Individual Students
- Use Mini Assessment after every lesson for progress monitoring
- On-Demand Quick Assessment for Topics/Units
- Create targeted Mid-Terms & Finals
- Map the Curriculum and Teach from the Maps with Integrated Planbook
Please join our frank discussion of these challenges and see how providing access to key resources with a sufficient support system can help your teachers move from “where we are” to “where we need to be.”
Armed with the right team & right tools it IS possible to “meet students where they are.”
Affordable Credit/Learning Recovery – Summer School
Easy & Efficient- Remediate only what they have showed you they don't know!
Due to the disruption of our educational efforts over the last 18 months, more students have learning gaps and those gaps are larger than ever before. In addition, gaps are not always where we would expect them to be based upon prior years’ experience students that have never struggled before are struggling now.
Learn an easier and more efficient way to meet this challenge utilizing a unified system for DDI - Data Differentiated Instruction. Our RightPath™ platform can drive the Instruction and remediation from on-demand assessment results. RightPath provides the teachers with Instructional Reports and Individualized Paths for each student. This allows the students to focus on the content they need to know and not on the content they have already mastered. Each student’s ILP (Individual Learning Plan) can be assigned to them for completion, and progress can be monitored with mini-assessments built into each lesson.
- Credit Recovery
- Re-approaching coursework after a previous unsuccessful attempt and thereby proving sufficient proficiency to be given full credit for the course.
- Typically requires “seat time” and used only for secondary level courses
- Learning Recovery / Remediation
- Learning accomplished prior to unsuccessful completion of a credit bearing secondary course so “prior seat time” isn’t required for eligibility
- Avoids creating a sense of failure for the students
- Appropriate for remediation for Grades 3-12
- Summer School
- Start and end date flexibility
- Appropriate for remediation for Grades 3-12
- Shorter sessions can allow for 2 sessions if desired
- Run diagnostics during school year to “hit the ground running!”
- Delivery Modalities for all of the above:
- Diagnostics administered online or via Bubble Sheets
- Onsite teacher moderated including traditional classroom teaching
- Onsite self-paced
- Hybrid setting
- Remote setting, self-paced
- Flipped classroom
Start NOW with no costs until next year!
Armed with the right team & right tools it IS possible to “meet students where they are.”
Webinars: Meeting Students Where They Are
Where are my students? How can I get them where they need to be?
Where we are:
- Learning Gaps are larger – e.g. Secondary Failure rate 80% larger
- Days are still only 24 hours
- We don’t know when we will be “back to normal” (ever?)
- Teachers are overwhelmed
- Many teachers have the wrong tools
- Cost is a factor
Where we need to be:
- Teachers working less than 23.5 hours per day
- EVERY student showing growth towards proficiency
- Students working on their individual Learning Gaps
- Sufficient time to evaluate Student SEL (Social Emotional Learning)
- Reduce pressure of the budgetary strain
How to get there:
- Learn to do more with less time through efficiency
- Use Mini Assessment after every lesson
- On-Demand Quick Assessment for Topics/Units
- Easy Learning Gap Identification
- Lesson Suggestions & Resources
- Easy Access to Curriculum Maps w Lesson Resources
Please join our frank discussion of these challenges and see how providing access to key resources with a sufficient support system can help your teachers move from “where we are” to “where we need to be.”
Armed with the right team & right tools it IS possible to “meet students where they are.”
Illinois PD Opportunity (4 hour in-depth workshop on all 8 Steps)
Meeting scholars where they are!
Be Data Informed and Student Driven
The challenge:
The ability to leverage student data to solve instructional challenges is becoming an increasingly critical skill in today’s complex learning environments. Schools process significant amounts of data – from standardized assessments, to student work, and teaching practices– and it takes time, commitment, and collaboration to fully analyze these findings and translate them into actionable steps that lead to better student outcomes.
Educators have an ever-increasing stream of data at their fingertips and they struggle with which data to choose. But how to use this data to improve teaching and learning — how to make it less overwhelming, more useful, and part of an effective collaborative process that informs instruction and supports all students in their learning — can be challenging (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2021).
In this session we will:
- Explore and understand the 8-steps of the Data Wise Improvement Process how it can help you improve teaching and learning.
- Cultivate habits of mind that can improve the effectiveness of teams and help foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- Build skills in looking at a wide range of data sources, including student work, test scores, and instructional practices.
- Experience the use of protocols to engage in the collaborative use of data.
As a Result Participants will:
- Become ‘Data Informed’ rather than ‘data driven’ to help bring coherence to the work you are already doing in schools.
- Use a structured process to look at multiple measures of student data (student work, district demographic data, historical data, and other data sets) related to district goals in order to create a plan to drive instruction, increase collaboration, and improve strategic planning.
- Efficiently and accurately identify needs
- Effectively focus on meeting those needs
Please join our frank discussion of these challenges and see how providing access to key resources with a sufficient support system can help your teachers move from “where we are” to “where we need to be.” Armed with the right team and tools it IS possible to “meet scholars where they are.”
About the Presenter:
Tamara Jones, MS, SAS,SDA is an expert in curriculum and instruction, specifically data informed instruction and assessment design, systems alignment and program evaluation. She has over 25 years of experience in education serving as a classroom teacher, Regional Staff Development Trainer, Coordinator of Assessment (and Accountability), Coordinator of K-12 Instructional Support and Training. She attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education to become trained in the Data Wise Improvement Process. She received both BA and a MS in Elementary Ed from Nazareth College, earned both School Administrator and Supervisor (SAS) and School District Administrator (SDA) in School Administration and Education Leadership at the University of Rochester and will complete her (Ed.D.) in Educational Administration with Advanced Certificate in Program Evaluation from the University of Rochester in May 2022. She has provided many workshops for teachers, administrators and others at the local, regional, and state levels.
Illinois Free PD Opportunity (90 minute workshop - Intro & First 4 Steps)
Meeting scholars where they are!
Being Data Informed, not Data Driven
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Participants will:
- Become ‘Data Informed’ rather than ‘data driven’ to help bring coherence to the work you are already doing in schools.
- Use a structured process to look at multiple measures of student data (student work, district demographic data, historical data, and other data sets) related to district goals in order to create a plan to drive instruction, increase collaboration, and improve strategic planning.
- Efficiently and accurately identify needs
- Effectively focus on meeting those needs
Please join our frank discussion of these challenges and see how provding access to key resources with a sufficient support system can help your teachers move from “where we are” to “where we need to be.” Armed with the right team and tools it IS possible to “meet scholars where they are.”
About the Presenter:
Tamara Jones, MS, SAS,SDA is an expert in curriculum and instruction, specifically data informed instruction and assessment design, systems alignment and program evaluation. She has over 25 years of experience in education serving as a classroom teacher, Regional Staff Development Trainer, Coordinator of Assessment (and Accountability), Coordinator of K-12 Instructional Support and Training. She attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education to become trained in the Data Wise Improvement Process. She received both BA and a MS in Elementary Ed from Nazareth College, earned both School Administrator and Supervisor (SAS) and School District Administrator (SDA) in School Administration and Education Leadership at the University of Rochester and will complete her (Ed.D.) in Educational Administration with Advanced Certificate in Program Evaluation from the University of Rochester in May 2022. She has provided many workshops for teachers, administrators and others at the local, regional, and state levels.