Perhaps the ultimate success in education would be to have students who contribute to society, are confident in their abilities and hold their social responsibilities as a trust. Try measuring that, however. Instead, education is faced with a whole array of metrics trying to measure “Effectiveness,” none of which stand on their own as sole barometers for success. For Safal, evaluation is a first step to performance improvement, one that must be taken within the whole context of a teacher’s environment and should ultimately drive demonstrations of skills rather than simple measures of them.

Safal Evaluates Progress

The frameworks used by Safal Partners come from a wide variety of sources including school districts, best practices and research. Coupled with Safal’s experience in change management, our implementations not only provide the basic data required, but also engender participation by teachers who value the process as a key tool to their self development. Safal’s mandate is to create simple-to-use technology solutions to support productive evaluation systems.

Safal builds strong evaluation models that include:

• Managing change: Getting teacher buy in and commitment to the process will make the difference between openness to change and doing just enough to not get fired.
• Federally and state mandated metrics: Safal will help you through the often complex world of compliance, to dot the i’s and cross the t’s with regulatory boards.
• Developing predictive indicators: Knowing where you were is one thing, but knowing where you’ll end up is even better. With predictive indicators, you’ll be able to better manage your entire teacher pool, understand when there may be a “perfect storm” and take corrective action to avoid it.
• Build solid technical foundations: Data capture, processing and reporting should be a natural part of daily activity, not a burdensome task to be done in a rush at the end of each month.