digiCOACH vs Cognia Observations

digiCOACH is a walkthrough tool that provides meaningful feedback based on high-yield strategies. The complete system helps educators align their professional development decisions to district-wide goals by utilizing live instructional data. digiCOACH includes: - Immediate formative feedback and coaching tips that lead to increased academic achievement. - Sophisticated, yet simple to use reports help identify your school’s strengths and target areas for professional development. - Easily customizable look-fors and coaching tips for alignment to school and district goals. - A vast library of educational practices and feedback statements that can be incorporated into a customized walkthrough solution. - Coaching Plan tools support principals and coaches in capturing key insights, documenting meetings, and creating action steps with ease. Download digiCOACH and join the thousands of digiCOACH users across the US and around the world. Why Use digiCOACH? - Built-in Strategies and Coaching Tips - Custom Walkthroughs - Support for Remote Learning Environments - Peer Observations - Principal & School Visit Observations - True/False, Multiple Choice, and Likert-scaled Look-fors - No Active Internet Connection Needed - Support for Professional Development Partners - K12 and Higher Education and County Office Support With digiCOACH, you have access to a powerful one-of-a-kind built-in library of strategies and coaching tips that can easily be included in your coaching feedback emails to teachers. These research-based tips are designed to help you inspire positive changes in adult behaviors and boost student achievement. You'll also find specialized tips for supporting multilingual and English Language Learners, promoting equity in classrooms, enhancing social-emotional learning, and supporting AVID/WICOR® strategies. Teachers love digiCOACH feedback and our tools make it easy for you to provide meaningful, impactful feedback to every teacher. Our comprehensive reports provide actionable insights into longitudinal data, allowing you to pinpoint instructional progress over time and learning gaps by breaking down information by school, grade, or department. Coaching Reports help you identify strengths and areas for growth across individual teachers, departments, or your entire school—empowering you to lead with clarity and drive meaningful success. Effortlessly track everyone's walkthrough dates, durations, and frequency with our usage reports. digiCOACH’s educational advisory team uses comprehensive instructional research to continuously develop and enhance the digiCOACH system. Experience the benefits of working with a team that knows what students, teachers, and administrators need to achieve success. Our research team has proven results in increasing Math and ELA scores on high-stakes testing, English Language Learner performance, Average Daily Attendance, and in decreasing suspension rates in large, urban schools. Visit digiCOACH.com to explore the different digiCOACH editions including the Remote Learning Edition designed to support online and hybrid instruction environments. A subscription is required to access the online reporting features.

Cognia offers three powerful observation tools in one convenient app. Independent use of the tools help educators gather data to develop classroom insights, drive purposeful conversations between school leaders and teachers, and deliver effective strategies for student success. Effective Learning Environments Observation Tool® (eleot) See the impact of instruction by focusing on your most important stakeholders—your students. The eleot® is a learner-centric classroom observation tool that provides a range of items to measure students’ engagement, collaboration, and dispositions, indicating their responsiveness to the learning environment. Environmental Rating for Early Learning™ (erel) Ensure a brighter future for the next generation by gaining insights on practices and behaviors of both your youngest learners and the adults who influence the early learning environment. The erel™ is a research-based early learning classroom observation tool that examines elements of effective classroom environments essential for fostering the optimal health, safety, and educational development of young children, infant to kindergarten. Teacher Observation Tool Support your teachers and strengthen instructional practices with short, formative observations collecting actionable feedback that improves teaching and learning and helps students thrive. With this proprietary observation tool, administrators can gather and interpret data for focused discussions on teaching practices and build capacity for effective learning environments. Use the Cognia® Observations app to: • Conduct observations online or offline and take notes as you go. • Upload offline observations later when internet access is available. • Receive immediate access to a PDF copy of an observation. • Create and distribute detailed reports of observations from the desktop application. • Create, view, and manage observations at the system level and for associated institutions.