Conventional Professional Learning Isn’t Enough To Spark REAL Transformation
Conventional professional development (PD) is designed for delivering information, not inspiring transformation. As a result, traditional PD creates little to no shift in mindset or practice among educators.
LINCspring, LINC’s coaching and professional learning platform, is designed from the ground up around transformative, personalized adult learning. LINCspring provides an array of learning opportunities in several formats to engage educators in the work of re-thinking teaching and learning in innovative ways.
LINCspring echoes our research-based approach to teacher transformation: Spark, Reflect, Tinker, and Grow. Our learning modules (Cycles™) reflect this approach. These modules quickly enable teachers to learn new skills and instantly transfer those to new practices. The complete list of LINCspring Cycles is located here.
A Revolutionary Approach Built on 15 Years of Stanford Research
Spark
Ignite your passions and explore a new idea, strategy, or skill. Spark gets the learner excited to begin by sharing the benefits of learning more about this topic. These quick 3-minute videos begin to shift your mindset.
Reflect
Reflection is critical to the mindset shifts needed to improve practice. LINCspring Cycles guide educators in contemplation of their current practices and envisioned paths. This is achieved through pre- and post-Cycle reflections.
Tinker
Tinkering is all about trying something new in order to push innovation in the classroom. LINCspring Templates provide suggested Lesson Flows and Multimedia Resources to mix and match for job-embedded development of new teaching practices.
Grow
Growth happens when reflection and tinkering lead to breakthroughs and a growing desire to innovate. LINCspring Playlists allow users to personalize their growth path. LINCspring Community provides a space for users to connect & get support from other educators.
LINCspring vs. Conventional PD
LINCspring offers many advantages over traditional professional development.
Here’s how:
- Personalized – designed to meet individual needs and skill-level of each educator
- Impactful – job-embedded and grounded in day-to-day teaching practice while being teacher-driven
- Surprisingly Affordable – you get an entire year of transformative PD, often for the price of a single-day event!
- Localized – you can add your own content to address your school’s specific needs
Using LINC’s proven process, we make it easy for you to implement LINCspring, transition to innovative PD, and see real improvements in teaching and learning.
LIVE Learning is Included in LINCspring!
There’s nothing like a great workshop to get you excited to try something new. With LINCspring, you gain access to our exclusive, live workshops in addition to your favorite LINCspring Cycles and coaching. It’s professional learning– just the way you want it!
A Robust Toolkit of Supports
Make-and-Take Cycles
Try new strategies with our planning templates and resources.
Live 1-On-1 Coaching
Get support from a coach right when you need it via the cloud coaching system.
PLC Groups
Effortlessly organize PLCs through groups and differentiated playlists.
Friendly Community Support
Empower community by discussing cycles and sharing resources with peers.
Personalized Playlists
Customize your professional learning pathways by choosing your cycles.
LIVE PD Events
Participate in exclusive live workshops and synchronous events at no extra cost.
Customizable To Fit Your Needs
Create your own cycles for all your organization’s PD needs.
Accessible To Everyone
For your convenience, our videos are fully captioned, and our app meets ADA Section 508 guidelines.
Convenient Dashboard
Reports and user data are shared through a simple dashboard to support users.
See LINCspring For Yourself!
Take an up-close look at LINCspring, the next generation of online professional learning and coaching.
Recognition & Awards
A Cognia Trusted Partner
Cognia’s Trusted Partner Program supports Cognia’s mission to empower institutions to focus on learning and the learner. Their partner organizations provide resources that meet Cognia’s high standards for educational value. Through selective partnerships, Cognia promotes next generation learning with new solutions in technology, professional learning, and effective improvement. These timely and meaningful innovataions accelerate Cognia member schools’ ability to impact learners and provide them with immediate access while reducing their exposure to risk. Cognia experts carefully select unique solutions, vet them for quality, and support each step of a school experience – from sign up, to onboarding, professional learning, and ultimately, success.
From the ISTE Findings Report:
“LINCspring is an exemplary professional development platform for school communities looking to implement a blended learning environment and integrate 21st Century skills and strategies into classroom practice. The hybrid model of face-to-face, synchronous online support, asynchronous activities, combined with powerful collaboration tools facilitates not only the adoption of new teaching practice, but the creation of a sustainable professional learning community. The consistent organization of ‘cycles’ models best practices in professional development with content that is research-based presented in a supportive, inclusive, nonthreatening structure that promotes the ‘trying out’ of new ideas.The ISTE Standards for Educators and related indicators are both explicitly demonstrated in the activities and tasks, but also in the wording and presentation of content. There is a thread of the ISTE Standards for Educators woven throughout the platform, modeling the indicators while also providing practice in implementing the standards in the participants’ classrooms.”
LINCspring is IMS Global Certified
LINCspring is now certified for the IMS Global Learning Consortium’s One-Roster Standard. This certification demonstrates LINC’s commitment to interoperability in ed tech and to supporting districts and schools in securing interoperability among their tools and platforms. OneRoster is an IMS Global standard that focuses on how digital systems used in schools can capture and integrate student roster data. When districts and their partners adopt OneRoster standards, it becomes seamless for districts to manage digital accounts, as the data supported by OneRoster will simplify the set up and ongoing updates of class creation and user enrollment. If you are currently a OneRoster district, we look forward to the new way we will be able to easily sync user data from your system to LINCspring.
States approve LINCspring for Continuing Professional Education Credits
LINCspring is now an approved provider of continuing professional development in New York, Maryland, Nevada, Massachusetts, and Texas! If you are an educator or leader in those states, you can now earn credits toward your licensure renewal requirements with LINCspring. Our LINC team is available to answer all of your questions! To submit your request for continuing education credits, click on this form.
LINCspring Gets Strong Reviews in EdSurge Report
The Learning Alliance and EdSurge released a report on Learning Management Systems, supported by the Ch
an Zuckerberg Initiative. It explores the essential components of adult learning platforms. Click on the “Explore” links to dive into where LINCspring is highlighted in each area of the report. LINCspring is featured prominently in Active Learning, Connection, and Personalization.
LINCspring Wins Indigo Design Award
LINCspring and our development partners, Koombea, were recipients of a gold award in the 2020 Indigo design competition for website design and a silver award for user experience and navigation. Indigo is an annual, international design competition which highlights the best work in the graphic design and user experience industry. We’re very proud of this achievement by our design partner and we’re proud that our school partners get to enjoy this design experience daily.
LINCspring Included in Sapiens Rankings
Sapiens Research Groups evaluates and ranks schools and universities in Latin America. Sapiens discovered that schools using LINCspring have a distinct advantage in quality of teaching and learning, so it has included bonus points in their school evaluation process for schools using LINCspring for professional development.