Welcome back, educators! The new school year is officially here and we’re excited for a new season of learning and growing. Check out the updates we have in store and find out how you could be the lucky winner of a $250 Amazon gift card…👀

Monthly Mantra for a Successful School Year

As exciting as the new school year is for students, we know that it can come with challenges for educators. To help you kick off the year on a positive note, we want to not only provide you with the physical tools to streamline your work, but also the mental tools to help you remember how important your job is as an educator and how valued you are. Say it with us and repeat it whenever you need a little boost as you move through the upcoming school days:

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

And some fun to kickstart your back to school season!

What building has the most stories? Keep reading to find out!

Bumper Sticker Contest

Calling all creatives! Submissions for Eduphoria’s Annual Bumper Sticker Contest are now being accepted. Past winners have included “No Coffee, No Teachy”, “I came, I taught and I’m still at school” - funny, inspirational, whatever strikes your fancy!

Enter for the chance to win not only bragging rights (which are worth it by themselves) but also a $250 Amazon gift card. Imagine being able to clear your 2022 Amazon wish list for the start of school.

The deadline to submit your slogan is September 25, 2022 and the winner will be announced on October 10, 2022.

We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

September Webinars

September 14, 2022: District Chat: Thinking Out the Appraisal Process

Every district is unique, shouldn’t your evaluation process reflect that? Hear from practitioners in the field who are guiding how their district supports and engages educators in a collaborative evaluation process. Participants will learn practical and strategic ways to engage Strive in their professional coaching conversations.

September 28, 2022: Spotlight Series: Klein ISD Leading Online Testing Professional Development

Need strategies to support educators and classrooms with online testing expectations? Join this dynamic assessment adoption of Aware interactive items to facilitate Klein ISD’s first annual Assessment in Action Conference. Participants will learn how they too can impact online assessment practices.

(Free!) Teacher Units

Q: What is the “Eduphoria Educator Experience”?

A: Great question! The Eduphoria Educator Experience (“3E”) is a comprehensive curriculum built to support educators with the integration of Eduphoria systems into local district practice. It also supports campus and classroom leaders with the integration of Eduphoria applications into their own practice and pedagogy.

Strive Design Updates Overview

We’ve been busy this summer updating Strive to make room for some amazing new features for Appraisers! Strive now offers a landing page to help answer the question, “what do I need to do right now?” Whether you need to sign an evaluation, approve a goal or start a walkthrough, the overview provides visuals that give insights into the status and potential need to complete steps in your evaluation processes.

In addition, we have a new Activity Tracker Table view that will display the status of the Evaluation Process for your entire school and allow appraisers to filter the information to find the specific details of any appraisee type, task or staff member.

New TEKS

New Health and PE TEKS are now available. Visit our site to learn more about the updates.

New Student Login URL

We are dedicated to optimizing the student testing experience and have released a redesigned Student Testing Portal. In addition to taking an online test, students can now verify their test scores and score summary.

As a result, student login URLs have changed! If you haven’t already, please make sure you update your district’s Eduphoria Student Login URL links. For a limited time, old URLs will still redirect students to online testing to give you time to update your links.

Be sure to check out our News & Announcements article for steps to find the link and replace your old student login URLs.

Featured TEI

Aware has released Multipart questions to include Multiple Choice, Multiple Selection and Constructed Response questions. This question type allows the test author to link up to 4 questions and introduces the opportunity to engage dependency scoring.

Multipart questions include:

• Ability to include up to 4 questions

• Multiple scoring options to best align to question types

• A new scoring type specific for Multipart: Dependency Scoring

Be sure to check out Multipart on our interactive question card.

Support Hours

Support Hours of Operation are:

Monday: 8:00am - 5:00pm CST

Tuesday: 8:00am - 5:00pm CST

Wednesday: 8:00am - 5:00pm CST

Thursday: 8:00am - 5:00pm CST

Friday: 8:00am - 4:00pm CST

Now about that riddle…

A: What building has the most stories? A library 📚(of course!)