How to Buy

Justification:  Engage parents with a robust LRM that strengthens the connection between school and home.

Parent and community groups will love Epiphany Learning because it:

• Fosters easy, transparent communication between school and home
• Helps learners obtain self-knowledge and discover talents, strengths, skills and dispositions that prepare them to be professionals and community members
• Provides parents and guardians with real-time access to all their learner’s academic records, ongoing learning experiences, and teacher feedback

Justification: Provide English Language Learners with opportunities to tackle complex problems in English while supporting them with a highly visual user interface.

Epiphany Learning supports English Language Learners by:

• Allowing students and ELL specialists to set and assess individualized language acquisition targets
• Empowers students and teachers to document and reflect upon the transformative, authentic experiences language learners have on their journey to fluency
• Using the common language of technology to break down language barriers

Justification: Challenge learners with a truly individualized experience.

Epiphany Learning supports gifted and talented students by:

• Allowing teachers to create differentiated learning experiences that push students of all ability levels to grow
• Providing gifted students with a safe space to explore their talents and discover college and career possibilities
• Creating a robust framework for reflection to build metacognitive skills and promote self-awareness

Justification: Create a progressive, 21st century learning experience for each student.

Epiphany Learning supports student-centered education by:

• Providing a lively interface that meets students on their level and leverages their tech literacy
• Empowering each learner with an individualized experience that maximizes engagement and buy-in
• Creating an environment where students can demonstrate knowledge and skills through rigorous, authentic, carefully-documented experiences

Justification: Engage students in critical thinking and problem solving. Improve students’ habits of inquiry, self-directed learning, and critical reflection.

Epiphany Learning supports critical thinking, problem solving, and self-directed learning by:

• Encouraging learners to set meaningful academic, personal, and professional goals and document their progress
• Creating an environment in which students can access content and skills in their own individualized way
• Promoting meaningful reflection on personal growth, academic work, and pre-professional planning

Justification: Improve vocational and technical education and provide opportunities for students.

Justification: Provide a framework for teachers and students to maximize their use of time, create authentic learning experiences, and claim ownership of the curriculum.

Epiphany Learning improves schools by:

• Creating a system to document individual learning experiences and tie them to curricular learning goals
• Fostering a Growth Mindset among both learners and teachers
• Providing buy-in through a responsive user interface that harnesses students’ existing tech and web literacy for learning

Justification: Provide teachers and administrators the best change to grow with a personalized Professional Growth Plan.

Epiphany Learning fosters professional growth by:

• Allowing teachers and administrators to create a Professional Growth Plan that aligns with their preferences, learning modes, strengths, needs and areas of interest
• Offering a robust SMART goal setting tool that ties individual goals to school- or district-level targets
• Providing an easy-to-use interface for teachers, administrators and professional development coaches to identify, document, reflect upon and approve professional learning experiences

Justification: Get valuable, authentic feedback from students about school culture to identify areas of risk or need.

Epiphany Learning supports safe, drug-free schools by:

• Fostering an environment of openness, communication, transparency and accountability
• Allowing teachers, schools, and districts to survey students to determine trends in motivation and engagement
• Providing students, teachers, and administrators with the tools to set meaningful goals that will help make schools safer and protect learners from the threat of drugs

Justification: Implement innovative strategies to meet the needs of gifted and talented students and provide professional development for personnel involved in the education of gifted and talented students.

Epiphany Learning supports gifted and talented students by:

• Empowering teachers and students to create powerful, individualized learning experiences for gifted students
• Fostering a high-accountability culture that prepares gifted and talented students for the rigors of adult professional life
• Creating a framework for teachers to learn new strategies for teaching gifted learners and seamlessly put them into action

Justification: Expanding the number of high quality charter schools while developing curriculum materials, assessments, and other materials that promote increased student achievement and are based on successful practices.

Epiphany Learning supports the charter school movement by:

• Giving agency to students, creating a more equitable environment for each learner
• Creating a framework for complex, meaningful learning experiences
• Providing a rigorous, high-accountability assessment interface

Justification: Create authentic, meaningful, developmentally-appropriate learning opportunities for students with disabilities.

Epiphany Learning supports students with disabilities by:

• Empowering both special and general education teachers to find or create learning experiences that engage students with disabilities
• Providing a framework to tie student achievement to specific learning targets
• Creating a Learning Path that meets each student on his or her own level to set purposeful goals and assess growth

Justification: Create an environment where each student can succeed, regardless of demographics or background.

Epiphany Learning supports Title I by:

• Creating an equitable environment that focuses on individual strengths, goals, and achievements.
• Empowering teachers and students to access the curriculum in a way that’s authentic to their surroundings and experience
• Providing a framework for students to set, pursue and measure progress toward meaningful academic, professional, and personal goals

Justification: Create an enthusiastic learning community that extends well beyond traditional school hours.

Epiphany Learning supports the creation of 21st Century Community Learning Centers by:

• Creating a self-directed learning environment where work can be completed independently during after school hours
• Allowing teachers and students to set goals for enrichment, remediation, or challenge work outside of traditional school hours
• Empowering students to schedule work sessions and study groups on their own time