Discovery Meeting Registration
We are hosting a variety of webinars, please join us!
The Webinar Team
Doc Watson
Vice President
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.
Current Discovery Meeting Topics
Registration - Efficient, Friendly & Complete
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
Nurturing Trust: Ensuring Integrity in Your Lotteries
Building community trust in the lotteries you run for over-subscribed schools and programs.
15 minute Discovery Meeting
Evaluate ALL Your Staff - YOUR Way!
All Staff Types
All Rubrics
Are observations taking too long?
We've got you covered!
NYS Approved Benchmarks
The most efficient evaluation system available!
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
Please Note: All times are EDT
Nurture Public Trust with Transparency & Integrity
We all understand the necessity of a lottery system, right?
Our programs and schools are in such high demand that we simply can't accommodate everyone!
Lotteries offer an excellent solution to meet our students' needs, but the process must be clear and transparent. Given the constraints of limited resources, we inevitably fall short of meeting the expectations of some families. It's crucial for families to trust the integrity we've built into the system. Many districts rely on spreadsheets or other solutions to randomize applicants, which can lead to unnecessary questions and public skepticism. Now, imagine having a dedicated tool designed specifically for this purpose, offering both the flexibility and controls needed to eliminate any doubts about the lottery's fairness.
Please Note: All times are EDT
Annual Staff Evaluation Challenges
While it isn't the most popular topic, efficient and accurate evaluations can be critical to educational improvement.
- Can you evaluate ALL your staff in one tool?
- Any rubric?
- Are observations taking too long?
- We've got you covered!
- The most flexible and 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)
Please Note: All times are EDT
Organize, Share & Use Curriculum To Teach!
Instructional Planning: Better Learning though Alignment, Collaboration & Organization
Connect your Curriculum & Assessments with what is really going on in the classroom!
- Take Control
- Curriculum Mapping
- Assessment Alignment
- Organizing complete lessons
- Store lesson and assessment resources.
- Teachers and students have access to thousands of ready-made
- Lessons
- Units
- Courses
- Assessments
- Other Learning Resources.
- Students log in to complete the online lessons and submit them.
- Collaborate with Colleagues
- Create Continuity - Schedule common assessments
- Create custom lesson element templates for each plan book.
- Print or share your plans with administrators & colleagues
- Choose how and when to share the lessons with your students on-line.
- Save Time
- Our print feature allows you to distribute the lessons to your students.
- Re-use plans from one year to another to save you time.
- Attach ready-made lessons to supplement your existing plans.
- Lessons are auto-graded and the grades are populated into the integrated gradebook.
- Attach any standards to your plans and run coverage reports.
- Attach teacher and student resources to your plan
Armed with the right team & right tools it IS possible to “meet students where they are.”
Please Note: All times are EDT
Request a Repeat of a Popular Meeting
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.
