Race to the Top with SGS SureView Pro

Race to the top is a $4.35 billion dollar federal initiative focused on improving the educational system by encouraging and rewarding states to implement innovative educational reforms. The target is to achieve improvement in students' outcome by improving teachers' performance. Race to the Top strategies include:

• Adopting internationally benchmarked standards and assessments that prepare students for success in college and the workplace;
• Recruiting, developing, rewarding, and retaining effective teachers and principals;
• Building data systems that measure student success and inform teachers and principals how they can improve their practices; and
• Turning around our lowest-performing schools.

SGS clearly understands the challenges associated with developing and implementing education reform initiatives and preparing America’s future workforce for global engagement. As Race to The Top take hold and states and districts roll-out their education reform initiatives, SGS stands ready to provide solutions that make the roll-out as easy as possible. Based on educator and business leader input, SureView Pro offers an integrated software solution. It helps to monitors teacher performance overtime through the use of aggregated data and select reports and links observations/evaluations and professional growth plans.

Benefits of implementing SureView Pro in your school, district or educational entity

• Practical and innovative solution: SureView Pro automates and observation/evaluation process and serves as a data repository to aid in Data Drive Decisions (D3).
• Feedback is critical to improved practices: A real-time automated system makes review, feedback, planning, and next step execution easy.
• Perfect solution which “Racing to The Top”: SureView Pro is directly linked to Race to The Top’s third strategy “building data systems that measure student success and inform teachers and principals how they can improve their practices.”