Can you increase a school’s effectiveness without increasing its resources? Highmarks says absolutely. Highmarks Compass will provide school administrators much more precise data than is typically available today on how each and every student is doing within each subject. In addition, visual summary data will be available across grade levels.
Similarly, administrators will be able to view their teaching staff’s strengths and weaknesses and help set aside time in schedules for teachers to receive (or give) crucial training. For example, to avoid new teacher burnout, a principal could decide to give a new teacher 20% of his or her regular workday in hands-on training. To take advantage of a particularly talented teacher’s mentoring capacity, an administrator could set aside a particular percentage of the teacher’s time for training new or struggling teachers at the school.