Student success hinges on many factors, but school support is an essential aspect. A pupil’s personal and academic development is massively dependent on their school; it is crucial that students are learning in empowering and supportive environments. ECINS is helping schools with setting students up for success from day one by ensuring that they are equipped to reach their full potential.
Schools can make steps towards nurturing academic and personal success by creating the optimum environment for development.
There are many variables that push for student success from day one. Schools can support a student in reaching their potential by:
| · Promoting organisation | · Prioritising mental wellbeing |
| · Goal setting | · Monitoring progress |
| · Monitoring attendance | · Creating an accepting environment |
| · Promoting meaningful teach-student connections | · Encouraging participation in extracurriculars |
| · Meaningfully involving parents |
When a school has these measures in place, students receive the supported necessary for reaching their personal and academic potential. Implementing these factors gives schools the ability to change the trajectory of a student’s life.
How ECINS Helps
ECINS understands the importance of setting students up for success from day one. Systems have been developed to support schools in helping students and maximising success for school staff and young people.
There are various modules and tools that facilitate schools preparing for student success.
CMM
- Monitoring progress: The Case Management Module has all necessary assessments pre-loaded for staff to carry out with students. Wheel assessments, charts and graphs can be produced from the data gathered. Different data points can be visualised to aid a student’s progress. For example, if a student has been set the target of attending every maths lesson, their past and current attendance scores can be compared. This data visualisation allows staff to monitor progress.
SEM
- Goal setting: ECINS’ task-setting feature on the Student Engagement Module can be personalised by trusted staff members. Whilst students can complete self-set goals, teachers can also upload tasks tailored for each student. For example, a teacher can set a quieter student the task of raising their hand in class. This is an excellent tool for aiding student growth and success.
- Mood journaling: An outlet for students to disclose their emotions and concerns. Selecting an emoji that corresponds with their mood and writing a short entry encourages students to de-stress. The exercise indicates that a young person’s feelings are accepted and valid. In one study, 87% found journaling as a form of self-therapy.
- Attendance tracker: The ECINS attendance tracker incentivises attending classes by providing students with a visual of how much learning time is missed when they are absent. Students can also see their progress if they have a goal of improving their attendance. Moreover, attendance can be logged by scanning the QR code provided for each session. Students tasked with attending extra-curricular sessions – such as after-school sports or revision workshops – can confirm their attendance and take an active role in improving themselves.
- Help + advice documents: Educating students on equality and diversity is invaluable. The help + advice documents on the SEM can provide informative resources on issues of equality and contact information for reporting discriminatory behaviour. Informing students of how to be respectful and reach out for help is essential in creating an accepting environment for all students to thrive in.
- Calendar: The calendar feature works in collaboration with tools like the task-setter to give students the resources to reach their goals. Presenting responsibilities like social worker meetings and homework deadlines allows students to organise their academics and succeed.
PEM
- Meaningfully involving parents: The SEM can also be presented as a PEM (Parent Engagement Module). Users will still have access to the mood tracker, task-setter, attendance-tracker, chat function, calendar and help + advice documents. The difference is, these features will be at the disposal of parents. ECINS’ PEM can be tailored towards parents that are collaborating with schools to better themselves and improve the lives of their children. For example, court dates can be put in the task-setter and help + advice documents can support struggling parents. Supporting parents enables students to gain more from their education and home lives.
