November 2024
More Math Coming Your Way
EI’s production team is filming 9 math classrooms in Idaho this month. When these clips are edited and added to our Video Library, learners will see how to develop mathematical thinking by watching great teachers and learning from Dr. Brendefur’s analysis.
October 2024
Super Users in South Carolina
Numerous professional learning coordinators and instructional coaches in South Carolina came together to take a deep dive into EI’s customized course catalog. Each district was able to create individual learning paths for their teachers. Thanks to the SCDE Office of Educator Effectiveness, every educator in the state has access to Educational Impact’s Professional Learning Library.
September 2024
New School Leadership Content for Florida
With Florida experiencing more teacher and administrator vacancies than ever before, many school leaders are new to their positions. To meet the urgent training needs of the next wave of school administrators, EI has enhanced its leadership courses by adding engaging new content specifically aligned to Education Leadership Standards revised by the state in 2023.
August 2024
New Mental Health Series
EI is excited to announce the launch of a new series of specialized courses focused on K-12 School-Based Mental Health. Designed specifically for school counselors, psychologists and social workers, these engaging new courses provide users with proven techniques and strategies to meet the increasing demand for mental health support in high-needs districts.
July 2024
Listening and Learning
EI founder George Elias is a featured presenter at the EDGE Conference in Seattle. Customers that access EI’s PD courses through their seamless PowerSchool / EI Integration come together to share best practices. Districts also provide EI’s management team with important suggestions that help guide future course creation.
June 2024
Something for Everyone
EI adds new courses for substitute teachers, paraprofessionals, bus drivers and support staff. School districts can ensure that all school staff have meaningful courses and engaging content for professional learning.
May 2024
Happy Administrators in Kentucky
KASA (Kentucky Association of School Administrators) wrapped up another year of online training on the Danielson Framework . Administrators loved the online format, the use of EI’s real classroom videos and engaging learning activities in the customized course created just for Kentucky.
April 2024
Best PD Day Ever
EI designs a complete PD experience for 77 schools in Ontario, Canada. Principals lead their own school-wide trauma training using a customized PD agenda and curated videos created by EI specifically for Upper Grand district. states.
March 2024
EI Creates Compliance Series
EI releases its new compliance series featuring 20 courses that meet the state mandated compliance training of most states.
February 2024
EI & Mission Kids Address Child Abuse
EI partners with Mission Kids and begins filming a series on Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse. The series will also include content on Grooming and Human Trafficking.
January 2024
Teachers Needed
With many states experiencing teachers’ shortages and massive new teacher induction needs, EI expands its new teacher series to include additional video content and a broader array of topics.
December 2023
EI Aligns its Courses to New Rubrics
Recently many states and districts have modified their teacher evaluation system or rubric. EI’s education design team has worked tirelessly to realign its courses and content to these new evaluation standards.
November 2023
EI and DMTI to Create New PD Courses for Math
EI begins filming a new math series with Developing Mathematical Thinking Institute ("DMTI"). This exciting new online series features DMTI founder Jonathan Brendefur and numerous classroom examples and is designed to help teachers understand how to teach math differently with a focus on developing their students’ mathematical thinking skills.
October 2023
Keep Up With Changes To The Danielson Framework!
EI updates its popular Danielson series. Districts that have updated their evaluation rubric from 2011 / 2013 version of Danielson to the newly released 2022 Danielson rubric now have new PD content that aligns with this new language.
September 2023
EI & SC DOE Run Joint Workshop
"I cannot even begin to show all the appreciation I have for the Educational Impact
team. It was just amazing to see the
successful statewide workshop come together. I know our participants left with an
exceptional toolbox of resources for
their teachers and principals. Thank you for supporting the SC DOE and our
educators!"
Sincerely, Jenny Henke
South Carolina Office of Educator Effectiveness & Leadership
Development
August 2023
Maui Taps EI For Trauma Support
Trauma Expert Heather Forbes and Educational Impact help Hawaii teachers, administrators and students deal with the tragic events of the Maui fire. An asynchronous version of this insightful video presentation was added to the Trauma Informed Online Series in October and made available to all Hawaii educators that missed it the first time around.
July 2023
EI Embraces Military Veterans in the Classroom
EI debuts its new online series “Transition 2 Teaching.” Through a collaboration between teacher induction experts and military veterans who have become teachers, this series was designed specially to support veterans moving from the military to the classroom. Topics include lesson planning, classroom management, instructional strategies and many more.
June 2023
New Restorative Practices Courses Launched
After filming multiple classrooms in Colorado during the 2022-23 school year, EI releases its first course on restorative practices. This course includes numerous classroom examples that allow teachers and administrators to model best practices.
May 2023
Positive Affirmations Improve Student Outcomes
EI contracts with Jasmyn Wright, the Delaware teacher featured in a viral Gap commercial. EI’s experienced classroom camera crew captures Ms. Wright in action and shows why her powerful classroom affirmations have a huge impact on the students she teaches.
April 2023
New Literacy Content For Florida Teachers
EI and Polk County School District (FL) collaborate to create new classroom videos and build a series of literacy courses to meet Florida’s 40 hour literacy requirement for all reading teachers. This series is now being used across several Florida districts.
March 2023
WGU Renews Long Standing Relationship
EI renews it contact with Western Governors University for the 13th consecutive year. Western Governors continues to expand its use of EI video content, now using thousands of EI videos in over 100 WGU courses in its college of education.
February 2023
New Courses Ease Substitute Shortage
With districts finding it harder and harder to find qualified substitute teachers, EI develops a series of online courses specifically designed for substitute teachers with very little, or no teaching experience.
January 2023
New Classroom Videos for Teacher Evaluation Calibration
Educational Impact and Teaching Learning Solutions continue their long-standing partnership to deliver teacher evaluation calibration. Large districts like LA Unified and Baltimore City Schools now have more classroom videos examples to choose from for their evaluator training.
December 2022
EI & PowerSchool Improve Integration Capabilities
Customers who access EI courses though PowerSchool's' professional learning application can now access enhanced course reporting data.
November 2022
Hawaii Provides Trauma Training To All Teachers
The state of Hawaii contracts with Educational Impact to deliver its Trauma Informed Online Academy to every teacher and administrator in the state. Approximately 295 Hawaii schools are making trauma informed care a priority.
October 2022
EI Helps Schools Return From The Pandemic
EI launches new "Return to Learning Series". After two years of pandemic shutdown many teachers are returning to the classroom for the first time since 2020.