Getting started for Schools and School Districts



Getting started steps for Schools and School Districts

Decide which implementation works for you

Sign up through our onboarding form

Work with our teams to get you onboarded


Overview

What major challenges is Navigator solving for you?

  1. You own your own data, and are given tools to leverage it, understand it and to make it work for you.

  2. You, your teachers and students gain a rapidly expanding research backed map of learning, and GPS-like tools that guide you.

  3. You join a community built tool, built by fellow schools, researchers, educators and even students to solve your very real challenges. By working together, every challenge solved is shared with the whole ecosystem to the benefit of everyone!

What is Navigated Learning (NL)

Learning is complex, learners are diverse, and ecosystems are intricate. Gooru understands that school districts are committed to equity and equal access to results. In order for schools to achieve excellence for all learners, regardless of their starting location, learning abilities, and cultural backgrounds, they need to have transparent insight into their students' knowledge gaps and strengths, portfolio of learning activities, and learning preferences. Once this is achieved all stakeholders in the learning ecosystem can make in-the-moment, data informed decisions because they will be able to see where each learner is in their knowledge, skills, and mindsets. Schools need stakeholders to have real-time data about their students’ efforts and outcomes, so that everyone in the learning community can best support efforts for strong learning outcomes for all students. Gooru’s Navigator course addresses this issue and bridges the distance between teachers, guardians, students, and administrators.

Navigator Courses Supplement Your Curriculum

Navigator Courses

Math Navigator brings together all of Gooru’s Navigator tools to create a Navigator course solution that supplements existing classroom curricula and practices to support complex knowledge and skill development. Math Navigator can be used with the existing curriculum and norms of the district and can be used for gap filling, review, and/or acceleration of learners. Learners move from 2nd to HS-grade math with a full spectrum of Common Core Standards aligned resources and assessments. No matter what grade learners are in, Math Navigator will generate an individualized pathway and provide highly curated, personalized suggestions to help each learner reach their math goals.With these tools all stakeholders in the school ecosystem can track student activities and growth and support them as appropriate.

Upcoming Navigator Courses

In the 2020-21 school year, ELA and Science Navigator courses will be added.


What tools are included with the Navigator for Schools Package

Navigator for Learners

Helps your students improve their scores and gain mastery through Gooru’s full spectrum of activities, personalized interventions, and customized routes. They can view their progress on their individualized Skylines and see them grow as they master each concept.

Navigator for Instructors

Provides your teachers with resources to fill gaps within your existing curriculum and gives them real-time insights into each student in each class. They can engage students with media-rich content and suggest personalized learning activities.


Navigator for Guardians

Navigator for Guardians provides real time data about their students performance to parents, guardians or other mentors.

Mission Control

Allows administrators to access real-time data to coordinate and scale success. Everyone can feel confident in making data-informed decisions based on learning gains, learner performance across competency frameworks, and time spent on learning activities.

Navigator Library

With Navigator Library your teachers gain access to over 4 million open education resources across diverse authors, learning styles, and disciplines and can transform any curriculum into a Navigator course.

Navigator for Administrator

Lets the administrator set up a custom tenancy, roster users, and control other account settings for various roles and functionalities with precision.


Getting started

Decide which Implementation works for you

While independent teachers or groups of teachers could just start using Navigator simply by signing up, many Schools, or School districts have additional administrative and reporting requirements. To address these requirements the Gooru community have developed Mission control, a school-wide reporting toolset, Navigator Library, a content authoring tool, and Navigator Admin, an administrative tool to manage your school or district. To gain access to these specialist tools you will either need to setup your own instance on your own servers, or have us host it for you.

Basic, self setup

  • Setup your own instance Visit our GitHub repo here

  • Create your own courses

  • Roster your learners

  • Comprehensive self service instructions are being developed.

$ FREE

Supported Setup

  • We setup your server

  • We support your onboarding requirements

  • We provide training to teachers and administrators

  • You gain access to premium courses and content.

Small per/user/year fee + setup Contact us for pricing.

Sign up through our onboarding form

Signing up will be a lot easier soon, for now, please email partner@gooru.org

Even if you are going to use the Self-service free option, please reach out and let us know how you will be using it. Consider joining the community as we all work together to solve each others challenges.


FAQ

What are the general implementation steps

  1. Roster Your Students, Teachers, and Administrators - Currently we offer onboarding users using single sign on with IMS Global OneRoster, ClassLink, Gmail, and WS Federation. Google Classroom and Clever Integrations are also coming soon.

  2. Locate Your Learner - We provide flexibility in your learners’ starting locations. Districts can use existing NWEA or other standardized test scores, create a quick diagnostic, allow for teacher input, or use an approximation based on grade level to provide the starting location for their users.

  3. Create or Access District Data Lake (Optional and at additional Costs) - Gooru can integrate with an already established district or school data lake or create one for you. This allows the raw data from a variety of 3rd party tools and apps to be gathered and analyzed in one tool, Mission Control. School districts can opt into this feature at no additional cost.

  4. Training Sessions - We recommend atleast two training sessions per year to our districts. Our first training session will give teachers and administrators an overview and understanding of Navigator tools and how to use them. The second training happens two weeks later to address questions, concerns, and explore how to get the most out of Navigator. Please note that due to the current pandemic, all training sessions are remote and conducted over video chat.

  5. Customize Navigator Learning Maps - Math Navigator has a built in scope and sequence that allows for Navigated Learning, but districts can choose to align our framework to their curriculum needs and standards. Districts can provide Gooru with their custom scope and sequence or choose from a publicly available option.

How do I roster my school, how can they log in?

Districts can begin to use the Navigator products by single sign on and roster integration through GMail, Classlink, OneRoster, or Google Classroom (upcoming).

What training and support do you provide?

We offer easy to understand training for administrators and teachers and in-depth training and resources, such as a How To Guide and support articles are available at any time on our website.

How long does it take to onboard if we need your help?

Generally the onboarding process takes place over a 5 weeks

  • Week 1 - Project Kickoff work session

  • Week 2 - Project Plan is agreed on, resources are allocated

  • Week 3 - You prepare your roster of students, define your preferred Scope and Sequence, and if required your competency framework and content.

  • Week 4 - Single sign on is setup, students are rostered, teachers are onboarded and training begins

  • Week 5 - Import of scope and sequence and if required, competency framework and content.

  • Week 6 - Launch



Additional Resources and Documents

Gooru Executive Summary
Navigator for Schools - 2-pager - SHARED
Learning Navigator for Schools - Benefits and sign up process
Mission Control for LAUSD
Navigator for Schools