Royse City ISD Case Study

MOBILEMIND EVENTS - A NEW WAY

MobileMind Events is an intuitive scheduling and registration solution for live PD events, such as face-to-face training, webinar events, or even district conferences. Some of the face-to-face training topics for which Royse ISD used MobileMind Events include:

Additionally, the district's professional learning facilitators created online learning paths for some of their face-to-face training sessions. Teachers then got to choose if they wanted to complete the in-person or remote training - giving them a voice and choice in their professional learning journey.

EASE OF USE

When using MobileMind Events for scheduling and registration for in-person training, Royse City's leaders could not say enough about Events' ease of use. As the person responsible for building the events, Dana recalled using MobileMind Events as, "Super intuitive and user friendly, a place for everything I could think of before or after an event."

Cody, Executive Director of Learning Technology, stated "From my perspective, it's the integration with everything. I used to manage 3-4 different things just to get PD sign-ups. Now we have it all in one place."

Royse City is also leveraging MobileMind to create learning paths for their Grow Your Own program in order to prepare paraprofessionals to become classroom teachers.

Dana stated, "We needed a dependable system where we would have all the bells and whistles to create interactive micro-courses and larger learning paths for them."

Cody used a mix of MobileMind virtual learning and MobileMind Events for Instructional Learning Specialists who have been preparing for the Google Certification exam. They have been leveraging Events for in-person study sessions and the virtual PD components of MobileMind as a prerequisite; self-paced micro-courses were required in order to attend the sessions. Every piece of this was scheduled, completed, and tracked in MobileMind, making the process seamless for educators.

Royse City educators and staff were totally new to MobileMind when the district started leveraging Events, but adult learners easily navigated and utilized the full-service PD scheduler with little instruction. Dana commented, “Accessing it [MobileMind] is so easy. The Chrome extension feels like it is a part of our workspace already. It fits in perfectly with how we work.”

As Dana explained, when asked about ease of use, "Early adopters can go in with zero guidance at all. I think that's the great thing about MobileMind. You can just jump in and go!"

When asked about his favorite part of Events, Cody reflected, "It has a really nice calendar view, and it's really straightforward."

WHAT'S NEXT?

Royse City Grow Your Own Program

Since the district rolled out MobileMind in April 2022, they have achieved the following accomplishments, and it continues to grow every day!

• 637 digital badges earned
• 1,467 Micro-courses completed
• 2,254 Hours spent in MM
• 1,884 PD credit scheduled, earned, and tracked in MobileMind Events

The partnership between Royse City ISD and MobileMind is just beginning. The district has big plans for the learning hub in the 2022 - 2023 school year, including their version of the Texas Education Agency's Grow Your Own initiative, which has the goal of developing, "high quality courses for college credit that will be completed by paraprofessionals working in an accelerated bachelor’s degree and alternative certification program that is paid for by the district.”

In addition to the amazing PD work Royse is already doing through MobileMind, their paraprofessionals will now use MobileMind to complete learning paths to earn college credit, accelerating their learning and, ultimately, careers.

The MobileMind educator team will continue to work closely with Royse City leaders to ensure they are reaching their goals for high quality professional learning throughout the district; The MobileMind team is excited to see what the future holds as we continue to transform PD for Royse educators and staff.