Securly Flex vs Power Walkthrough 3

Get more hours out of your school day. Securly Flex (formerly known as FlexTime Manager) lets you get more out of the instructional time in each school day by making it easy to add flex periods to your school schedule. Flex periods can help students gain more instructional time during the school day and create opportunities for personalized learning. While many schools see the value in offering flex periods to their students, implementing them can be a logistical nightmare. Securly Flex is a scheduling tool designed specifically to solve these problems. With Securly Flex, every aspect of flex period implementation—including agenda notifications, capacity management, rostering, and more—is made so much easier. Teachers can easily customize flex period offerings, and students gain voice and choice in their education. Provide more than a typical school experience. Teachers offer, students choose. With Securly Flex, you can: • Combat learning loss by providing more opportunities for individualized support • Give students time to develop their unique talents with personalized learning • Support social and emotional development with more relaxing offerings, mindfulness activities, or counselor availability • Prepare students for college and careers by providing opportunities to manage time and develop independence Experience the benefits without the hassle. Reap the rewards of flex periods with none of the typical scheduling and record-keeping headaches. It's easy with Flex.

McREL Power Walkthrough is a multi-platform, customizable data collection tool that allows users to quickly gather data during short classroom walkthroughs in order to capture key components of instruction. Following McREL’s training on recognizing research-based instructional strategies, observers use the device to record strategies, student grouping, and other components during 3-5 minute walkthroughs. Though our template is based on the strategies from Classroom Instruction that Works, 2nd edition, schools and districts can customize their template to capture additional data specific to their needs. After gathering data, users can create a variety of reports to see trends and patterns in instruction at district, school, team, and individual levels. These reports can be used to foster conversations on future goals, professional development needs, and tweaks that can be made in the classroom. Power Walkthrough 2.0 is a substantial change in experience from the previous application and as such is presented as a separate download. Key features and updates of 2.0 include: - New interface with easy access to creating and managing observations - New history feature to review data from previous observations - New rubric element - New online resources and help - Ability to download any previous observation from the web - Intelligent sync between offline and online observations - GPS location tracking for observations - Use phrase libraries with any note field. Please note that a McREL Power Walkthrough web account is required to log in and set up this software.