Research shows that the quality classroom educator is the single biggest driver of student learning-accounting for 40% of the difference in student achievement. SchoolNet’s PD planner empowers education ministries and administrators to effectively respond to that achievement drive by creating a data-driven professional development (PD) environment focused on teacher quality.

PD Planner is a scalable solution that manages and tracks all aspects of accredited PD programs, and aligns individualized plans with school and ministry goals. Moreover, PD planner ensures return on investment with real-time management tools that demonstrate whether the ministry’s PD initiatives are building skills and creating lasting change.

With PD planner, districts can easily manage an online catalog for all PD activities, enrollment, enrollment, notifications, district-and site-based PD reporting, and external PD approvals. District can use PD planner to manage professional development proposals and approval workflow. PD planner can also connect to HR or ERP information sources to manage various data (i.e. position and employment information and state certifications).

In the face of rapidly increasing retirement and transfer rates and decreasing educator / teacher retention rates, it has never been more critical to identify and develop talent within the school and ministry. SchooNet’s Advance provides schools and ministries with the tools they need to measure and develop educational leadership capacity and maximize the investment in their employees.

From identifying qualified talent to creating tailored succession planning programs and measuring participant outcomes, Advance provides Schools and ministries the data-driven means to monitor, manage and optimize their human capital investment.

Advance also helps to improve retention and reduce vacancies by presenting individualized career path options for every employee, and creating a talent bench to fill projected vacancies for key positions. This talent bench can help districts optimize staff utilization and ensure that the best-qualified educators and staff are placed where they are needed most.

Competencies are the knowledge, skills and behaviours that drive educator/ teacher performance. By identifying the competencies most critical to each job, schools and ministries can focus their human resources and professional development (PD) efforts on improving nation and state-wide performance.

Skill Builder-the foundation of School Net’s data-driven Human Capital Management solution-provides tools districts need to easily implement and monitor an effective competency-based program to recruit, develop and retain educators, administrators and ministry staff.

With Skill Builder, schools and ministries can define competencies for all employees. And administrators can instantly identify developmental and recruiting needs with at-a-glance views of employee performance. At the same time, staff can complete self-assessments to measure their own competencies- so they can identify and pursue areas for needed or desired professional development.