One of the keys to a successful human capital management strategy in k-12 is asking the right questions. Based on a theory of action, you can determine what you want to know, how you’ll get the data and what decisions you’ll make once you get it.
Frontline Education is all about connecting you with the insights that are going to drive your strategy forward. And that means more engaged, effective educators – and better student outcomes.
Key Questions for Strategic Human Capital Management in K-12
See how the insights built into Frontline’s solutions can help you answer critical questions.
Frontline Professional Growth puts the information you need at your fingertips.
Workshops. PLCs. Continuing education. Coaching and mentoring. Peer observations. Conferences.
Your teachers are likely engaged in a host of professional learning activities. But at a time when we’re always asked to do more with less (whether it’s time, funding or staff), it’s tough to know if all that PD is doing what it’s supposed to do.
That’s why we built the dashboards in Frontline Professional Growth — designed to give you an up-to-the-minute snapshot of professional learning and teacher evaluations. Here are a few of our favorites.
With Frontline Professional Growth you can answer critical questions like:
Say with confidence: “We’re making progress toward our strategic plan goals.”
By specifying the specific goals of your school system in Frontline Professional Growth, you’ll be able to quickly see if you’re providing employees sufficient resources to achieve your school or district-level improvement plan.
Insights:
See in which areas you need to provide more professional development opportunities
Understand whether you’re providing enough professional learning to impact a given goal, by analyzing activities completed, hours invested and employees enrolled
Compare each of these goals to results to identify future initiatives to undertake
Check the status of PD Requests
Say with confidence: “Managing PD in my district is easy and efficient.”
Where are PD funds being spent, and what approvals are needed? Look no further. This dashboard in Frontline Professional Growth provides a quick glimpse of requests for learning activities, showing you where teacher agency and leadership are flourishing.
Insights:
See how much money you’re spending on out-of-district professional development, and if funds are being spent appropriately
Determine whether internal district resources should be used instead — then allow teachers to propose activities and add them to the district catalog
Ensure professional development needs of various employee groups across the organization are being met
See Teachers’ Composite Scores
Say with confidence: “Our teachers get better every year.”
A big professional learning budget, gifted speakers, high enthusiasm from teachers and staff — none of it matters if it’s not making a difference where it counts: in the classroom. The big question: Are your educators continuing to improve their teaching practice? Frontline Professional Growth lets you easily see the big picture.
Insights::
Get a summary of all teacher evaluations to see if teachers are growing year over year
See whether professional learning being offered actually meets teachers’ needs
Track Employee Evaluations
Say with confidence: “We’re on track to complete evaluations.”
Teacher evaluations aren’t just about complying with state regulations — they’re a vital component of the feedback process. The Status of Employee Evaluation Forms dashboard in Frontline Professional Growth gives you an instant picture of where you are in the process.
Insights:
Quickly see where you’re at in the process of providing feedback to teachers and staff
Track acknowledgements to ensure that teachers have seen the feedback provided
Drill down into individual results to see progress for each employee
Take the next step.
Frontline Professional Growth gives you what you need to make data-driven decisions as you empower your teachers to grow and thrive. Find out how it can help you provide impactful professional learning, manage evaluations and support collaboration in your school system.
It’s important to review and analyze your own data to make sure you’re progressing. But sometimes a little perspective can go a long way. What might you be missing?
With the one-of-a-kind Institute Report in Frontline Absence & Time, you can instantly see how your employee absences and substitute fill rates compare to other districts.
Leveraging national data from thousands of districts, the embedded benchmarks are even validated by the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University. We don’t mess around!
With Frontline Absence & Time you can answer critical questions like:
Frontline Recruiting & Hiring’s dashboards: built for insights.
Finding the right candidate for each position is one of the most vital ways you can impact student learning. But it’s not easy to find phenomenal candidates, and it can be tough to stay on top of everything going on when there are only so many hours in the day. It’s even harder to be strategic when you’re fighting to stay one step ahead.
Frontline Recruiting & Hiring gives you the answers you need. We’ve built dashboards designed to provide insight into your recruiting and hiring strategies — take a look and let us know what you think.
With Frontline Recruiting & Hiring you can answer critical questions like:
See at a glance which vacancies might need extra attention.
Frontline Recruiting & Hiring shows you which openings have received the most applications, as well as those with the least activity. It’s all about being able to prioritize and find the best candidate for each position.
Insights:
Know where to focus your energy or resources to build applicant pools more strategically
See which positions have had the most (and least) activity
Plan ahead with a deeper understanding of how long it will take to build an applicant pool for hard-to-staff positions
Know applicant and new hire demographics.
With Frontline Recruiting & Hiring’s dashboards, you’ll be able to see a breakdown of your applicant pool and new hire demographics over the past six months.
Insights:
Discover if your initiatives to nurture a more diverse applicant pool and workforce are paying off
Ensure that your district’s selection process is free of bias by comparing applicant demographics to new hire demographics
Explore data in greater depth with easy access to a full EEO Report
Explore where your applicants are coming from.
With easy access to analytics about your district’s top referral sources, you’ll know how effective your recruiting strategies are, and see where to put your resources. Plus, you can compare top referral sources for new hires to the general applicant pool, letting you pinpoint where future new employees are most likely to come from.
Insights:
See if your most prolific recruiting channels are the best source for finding the right candidates
Identify whether paid referral sources are worth the expense
Track the efficacy of new recruiting channels or strategies
Take the next step.
Frontline Recruiting & Hiring gives you the insight you need to make strategic decisions. Find out how our solution can help you proactively recruit the best applicants, identify candidates most likely to succeed in your district and save time throughout the hiring process.
Beautiful Dashboards. Powerful Insights for Special Education Management.
Special education management is complex, with constantly changing regulations and sensitive data. It requires seamless communication, coordination and timely action by busy staff across your district.
To add to the complexity, many districts have finite resources, which often leads to staff juggling a sea of reports, lists, spreadsheets and calendars. These old-fashioned tools are cumbersome to create and share — and, as soon as they’re created, they’re outdated, leaving your staff in a never-ending state of “reactive mode” — this is when compliance hiccups occur.
Frontline Special Ed & Interventions puts the information you need at your fingertips.
Frontline Special Ed & Interventions was designed by former special educators to avoid those hiccups, by giving you and your staff access to actionable information and data, at the right time, delivered in an easily consumable (dare we say pleasant?) way — so you can make the best possible use of your time.
With Frontline Special Ed & Interventions You Can Answer Critical Questions Like:
Insights to Proactively Manage Timeline Compliance, IEPs & Meetings.
Get a live view of compliance statuses for all your students, regardless of where they are in their special education processes. You can drill into detailed insights for each process and each student.
Insights:
Gain a window into each step of initial evaluations, annual reviews and re-evaluations, and find out where each student is in the process
See which meetings are coming up and quickly pull data to prepare
Find out who needs your attention right now, without digging through data
*Dashboards in Frontline Special Ed & Interventions are built using state-specific timeline compliance guidelines. This is an example of the Ohio view. Your view will be based on your state’s regulations.
Insights to See the Bigger Picture & Take Action.
Proactive insights and easily accessible monitoring — think of your dashboard as a digital base of operations to check up on any aspect of your program, anytime you need to. Pour yourself a cup of coffee (or tea), open your dashboard, and start your day.
Insights:
See an immediate snapshot of how your program is running on any given day
Monitor progress your staff and students are making over time
Identify systemic issues such as a case manager or school regularly missing timelines
Proactively plan PD opportunities tailored to your special education staff
*Dashboards in Frontline Special Ed & Interventions are built using state-specific timeline compliance guidelines. This is an example of the Ohio view. Your view will be based on your state’s regulations.
Insights to See the Bigger Picture & Take Action.
Proactive insights and easily accessible monitoring — think of your dashboard as a digital base of operations to check up on any aspect of your program, anytime you need to. Pour yourself a cup of coffee (or tea), open your dashboard, and start your day.
Insights:
See an immediate snapshot of how your program is running on any given day
Monitor progress your staff and students are making over time
Identify systemic issues such as a case manager or school regularly missing timelines
Proactively plan PD opportunities tailored to your special education staff
*Dashboards in Frontline Special Ed & Interventions are built using state-specific timeline compliance guidelines. This is an example of the Ohio view. Your view will be based on your state’s regulations.
Take the next step.
Frontline Special Ed & Interventions gives you the information and data you need to feel more secure in the decisions you make for your special education program. Find out how it can help your staff elevate support for students with disabilities, proactively manage compliance and coordinate instruction across departments.
It’s important to review and analyze your own data to make sure you’re progressing toward your district’s hiring goals. And the dashboards in Frontline Recruiting & Hiring can help you ensure that your efforts are moving the needle.
With the Institute Report in Frontline Recruiting & Hiring, you can go even further and compare your district’s statistics to others across the country, in your state or region. It’s that extra perspective that helps you gain context for your own district’s data, and what’s happening outside of your district’s borders.
Leveraging national data from over 1,300 districts, the embedded benchmarks are even validated by the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University. We don’t mess around!
With Frontline Recruiting & Hiring you can answer critical questions like:
Are you receiving enough applications to fill positions?
Insights:
Uncover which job postings am I receiving the most (or fewest) applications, and how that compares to the benchmark
Discover how your district’s application volume compares to others
See if there are certain job types where you receive more (or fewer) applications per job posting
Hire competitively.
When is the best time to start recruiting candidates?
Insights:
Dig into which positions take longest to fill
See how the time of year affects your recruiting efforts
Explore if your district is hiring new employees more than similarly-sized organizations
Understand your time-to-fill.
Am I losing candidates to districts with faster processes?
Insights:
Determine the best time to start hiring
Explore trends throughout the year
See how your hiring timeline compares
Take the next step.
Frontline Recruiting & Hiring gives you the insight you need to make strategic decisions. Find out how our solution can help you proactively recruit the best applicants, identify candidates most likely to succeed in your district and save time throughout the hiring process.
