Why Elevate?
Students are more engaged and successful in class when key conditions are present. Elevate helps educators optimize those conditions through:
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Shared language for student engagement.
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Realtime, actionable feedback for teachers.
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Guides & protocols for collaboration.
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Disaggregated data for monitoring impact.
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Access to a growing, national collaborative.
We’re finally getting data that is helping us improve our instruction, along with helping the kids understand that we truly do care about them. It's been a great journey.
— Jennifer Maichin, learning specialist and educator
How does it work?
Elevate is a unique professional learning program for teachers. Over multiple Elevate cycles, teachers partner with students to create conditions that catalyze motivation, accelerate learning, and foster social-emotional development.
1. Elevate Student Voice
A 5-10 minute, customizable survey shows how students experience each class.
4. Improve & Repeat
Implement the selected strategies. Then start a new cycle to assess impact & keep growing.
Cycle
2. Reflect on Feedback
Timely reports reveal the learning conditions in each class and how they are changing.
3. Select New Practices
Consult practice guides and protocols to decide what new practices to test out.
Cycle
1. Elevate Student Voice
A 5-10 minute, customizable survey shows how students experience each class.
2. Reflect on Feedback
Timely reports reveal the learning conditions in each class and how they are changing.
3. Select New Practices
Consult practice guides and protocols to decide what new practices to test out.
4. Improve & Repeat
Implement the selected strategies. Then start a new cycle to assess impact & keep growing.
The Elevate Community in Action
First launched at Stanford in 2017, today Elevate is used in over 160 schools across more than 25 states. It’s always improving through the tireless efforts of a diverse collaborative of educators, researchers, students, and educational organizations.
A Few Elevate Superstars
Over $8 Million Invested
Supporting Educator Mindsets
Elevate is not something that's additional. It's something that gives you a framework… to put into action things that you're probably already doing as an educator.
Shan Carter
SEL Specialist, Instructional Coach
Guilford Co. Schools
Our partners are implementing Elevate in > 25 states
Selected Research
Elevate builds on decades of research which shows that positive learning conditions catalyze engagement, accelerate learning, and create more equitable outcomes. The Elevate community is working together to apply this research across the nation.
Learning Conditions Are an Actionable, Early Indicator of Math Learning
Evidence-based guides for nurturing engagement
The learning condition guides introduce key principles and practices for nurturing student engagement.
Measure Learning Environments, Not Just Students, to Support Learning and Development
Elevate in Action Case Study Series: West Buffalo Charter School
Ready to get started?
Sign UpI wanted to get authentic feedback from my students to help better my craft, and to better help them in the learning process.
— Staci Durnin, 6th grade teacher
Questions?
The Elevate knowledge base answers dozens of common questions, including about:
About PERTS
The Project for Education Research That Scales (PERTS) is a nonprofit research and development institute that translates insights from psychological science into cutting-edge tools, measures, and recommendations that educators anywhere can use to foster healthy and equitable academic engagement and success.