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Helping K-12 districts excel through enhanced online communications and collaboration.

Streamline and Individualize Instruction

Facing the Pressure to Perform

In the No Child Left Behind era, kids aren’t the only ones in K-12 schools who are under pressure to raise the level of their game. Teachers are also being asked to improve performance—with the same limited time and resources. eChalk helps teachers meet this challenge, increasing their productivity by enabling them to improve their communication and collaboration with colleagues, provide the resources students need to direct their own learning, and save time on their own everyday tasks.

Collaboration Fosters Success

eChalk’s powerful Web-based communication tools allow teachers to collaborate more effectively, making it easy to identify and share best instructional practices, favorite lesson plans, and other resources. Maintaining teacher-to-teacher mentoring programs is also easy with the eChalk system, enabling peer review of classroom activities, team teaching, and other techniques that aid new and experienced teachers alike.

Focus on Students

In addition to supporting teacher collaboration, eChalk also allows teachers to provide students with the resources they need to direct their own learning; a key step on the way to impacting student performance. In the online classroom, teachers address students’ varied levels, interests, and learning styles by providing different kinds of resources, such as online discussion topics, foreign language dialogues, educational audio broadcasts, or Webcast lessons. As a result, students can take greater control of their own learning, gain communication, problem-solving, and investigation skills, and collaborate with their peers and teachers in a true 21st century classroom.

Use Time & Resources More Efficiently

With eChalk, recreating the same class materials and lesson plans from semester to semester or year to year are a thing of the past, as are making photocopies and wasting reams of paper. Instead teachers can easily publish lesson plans, homework assignments, test information, grades, and other resources online, teachers save time inside and outside of the classroom, increasing their productivity without taxing their resources.

Increased Visibility = Improved Preparation

With eChalk, administrators, other teachers, students, and parents can all see what a teacher has planned for the week’s lessons, what homework has been assigned, test information, and other scheduled classroom activities. This increased visibility reinforces teachers’ accountability for what students learn, raising the bar in terms of planning and organization.