We’re excited to share that the new AdvancED eProve surveys module of this state-of-the-art productivity platform now is available for all MDE schools and districts! Designated head of institution and/or primary contacts have been assigned Admin permissions and can begin using eProve surveys as of January 20, 2016. 

In addition to accessing AdvancED’s library of Certified Surveys, eProve surveys allow you to create custom surveys and distribute electronic surveys in multiple-languages. Your respondents also can complete surveys via a mobile device – improving overall response rates.

Are you ready to get started? Log in to eProve surveys and then: 

• Enter your password. (If you have an existing ASSIST account, log in using your ASSIST password. If not, create a new password when prompted, or click the Request Password link.)
  
• Select your institution. 
  
• Explore AdvancED Certified Content.
• Create and administer customized surveys. 

We also invite you to visit the eProve website to preview the other exciting eProve suite of tools. You will see the value of these tools and the benefit to your institution and how the eProve technology will allow you to transform your data into meaningful solutions and actions. If you have any questions about eProve, please contact us at eProve@advanc-ed.org.

Mark your calendars for the upcoming Spring Regional Calendars. Registration is now open!

• April 29 – Oakland Schools
  
• May 3 – Kent ISD
  
• May 5 – Wayne County CC
  
• May 10 – Saginaw Valley State University
  
• May 11 – Great Wolf Lodge, Traverse City
  
• May 16 – Van Buren ISD
  
• May 19 – NMU, Marquette

If you have not done so already, please review these recent communications from the Michigan Department of Education:

• Michigan Department of Education (MDE) Accountability & Accreditation School/District Reporting Requirements
  
• Streamlining School Improvement Plans

This is a reminder that schools and districts completing improvement plans must tag activities that are related to technology to ensure an accurate Technology Activity Report. This report assists Curriculum Directors, Technology Directors and School Improvement Teams with technology planning. 

Plan on attending a highly interactive workshop that models a toolbox approach that will powerfully demonstrate evidence-based strategies to increase student growth potential across every subset of your classroom population. This workshop provides an immediately applicable step-by-step implementation coupled with strategies to showcase highly effective teaching evidence/artifacts. Educators will leave with a plethora of tools and engagement strategies correlated to yield the highest effect size influences related to student achievement. 

Join us in this pedagogical adventure that will ignite and excite and totally eliminate any educator fatigue! Details are as follows:

Presenters: Dr. Elizabeth Johnson & Mary Kathleen Walsh, authors of We’ve Gotta Reach Em’ to Teach Em’: Where Teaching Intersects the Human Condition
March 3, 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
AdvancED Michigan Office, 826 Municipal Way, Lansing, MI 48917
Register today!