SuperEval Blog

First-hand observations of professional practices are a long-standing tenant in conducting performance evaluations. This is especially true in the field of education. This foundational concept is challenged when school administrators work in online environments. This situation occurred this past school year and there is reason to believe it may occur again. Join Dr. Michael Horning […]

Steve Barkley Beings New Teacher-Centered Podcast! For the past 40 years, our PLS Classes partner, Steve Barkley has served as an education consultant to school districts, teacher organizations, state departments of education, and colleges and universities nationally and internationally, facilitating the changes necessary for them to reach students and successfully prepare them for the future. […]

How can school leaders help facilitate a seamless transition back to learning this fall while making up for lost time? Studies show that over the summer months, when children are not in school, “those from under-resourced communities tend to lose roughly 30 percent of the gains they made in math during the school year and […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to close their doors, not only did the necessary safety effort separate teachers from students, but it created a void for millions of students who rely on school-assisted meals. Every day, The National School Lunch Program serves over 30 million children, the School Breakfast Program feeds over 14.7 million […]

Together with CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) we are pleased to announce the addition of their Chief Technology Officer Evaluation Rubric to SuperEval. This is the first rubric available in SuperEval that helps district administrators in evaluating technology leaders. It helps answer questions such as: What should CTO jobs entail exactly? How should they […]

You have most likely heard the age-old question, “If a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one around to hear it, did it make a noise?” Here is a new one: “If you set a goal, and in the end, have nothing to show for it, did you truly make any progress?” […]

Digital transformation. This phrase has become as synonymous with our nation’s response to COVID-19 as social distancing. It is an all-encompassing phrase that refers to the shift to digital service and solution adoption to enable business continuity in the wake of nationwide shelter-in-place orders. Municipalities are rapidly migrating from paper-based to paperless citizen delivery models. […]

With school closures due to COVID-19, not only are students trying to adapt to working from home, but school leaders, so accustomed to traditional, productive, in-person meetings, are working hard to learn video conferencing technology to maintain administrative continuity until schools can reopen their doors. While most video conferencing platforms are built to be intuitive […]

A New Podcast for Parents, Distance Learning Educational Videos for Teachers and More In response to COVID-19 related school closures, school districts have gone through a complete transformation. With everything turned upside down, we’re here to help. You may be aware that SuperEval is a division of PLS 3rd Learning. PLS 3rd Learning is also […]

The SuperEval development team is excited to share some new features with you. Sarah put together a short video to demonstrate the new capabilities that are available within SuperEval. We’ve also outlined the changes under the video. We hope you find the updates useful and if there is ever anything you’d like to recommend, please […]