"Due to our strategic, controlled rollout, by the time [Grow] was mandated across the network, all eight schools were prepared and on-board with the platform. Our most hesitant schools were ready because we’d gotten really good at overcoming the pain points.”
“Relay helped us put more structure around coaching and teacher growth. We took that structure (aka, rubrics) and put it into the [SchoolMint] system and that let us simply and honestly link what was happening in the classroom to the components of the rubrics. Linking observations directly to the rubrics was powerful for our teachers.”
“Because the [SchoolMint] team was so familiar with the Relay framework, it was seamless to adopt both the [SchoolMint] platform and the [Relay] practices. It made it easy for users to adopt.”
“The joy of being able to see parents who were unaware of their options, now find their home and place at STRIVE Prep—thriving and hearing their feedback has made this SchoolMint partnership worth every penny.”
“Before, during, and after enrollment, SchoolMint has you covered. Attracting, enrolling, and retaining students is easier now. They are easy and fun to work with. Customer service is efficient and it has been a pleasurable experience the whole way through. I believe you get what you pay for, and SchoolMint was a worthwhile investment.”
“[SchoolMint] provided a way for chief school officers to look for trends across schools and create effective region-wide PD.”
“I 100% recommend using [SchoolMint] and don’t see why any middle school wouldn’t.”
“Whetstone [by SchoolMint] created school-wide action steps to better target PD throughout the year.”
“We are building a culture of success grounded in feedback, and that kind of culture transfers well to any learning environment. I’m proud of the progress we’ve made thus far.”
“We’ve been getting a large number of compliments on how easy it is to use the application and how well it works.”
“There was an urgent need to transform the culture. We were looking for interventions for students something that would allow us to get to the root cause of the issue.”
“Hero has helped us focus our efforts on helping things go right instead of reacting to things that have gone wrong. Instead of being reactive, we’re spending the majority of our time being proactive and recognizing the positive. People are focused on the good things, and what you’re focused on is what you do more of.”
“What we haven’t done enough of is to recognize those 1,500 students who are doing what they should be doing (and) we’ve been trying to change that narrative.”
“I told the superintendent there was no need to be in the office because we can handle this entire process remotely and more time to support families needing additional support."
"If students are not showing up to do the work, that's just the symptom. That's not the problem. It could be that a student didn't have a computer or their hotspot broke. We [educators] have a responsibility to dig into these barriers to learning early on and Hero helps us do just that."