2gnō.me (“To know me”) is a technology platform that identifies teachers’ strengths and gaps in knowledge to address those gaps with personalized professional development.
2. Did You Know?
Soft skills determine up to 80% of professional success.
The skills gap in
Education and Business is
astonishing, impeding
ability to recognize blind
spots and achieve
success.
“To Know Thyself Is the Beginning of Wisdom”
– Socrates –
3. Soft Skills in Teaching
It’s the difference between knowing what you teach and being a good teacher
Professional success
Up to 80% of success depends on soft skills, especially
in knowledge-sharing industries like Education
Failure of PD
Less than 46% of teachers report any change from
professional development in their classroom practice
Student Impact
An increase in a student’s lifetime income level in an
average teacher's class over a sub-par teacher's class.
80%
<46%
$250K
Good teachers create
substantial economic
value and test score
impacts are helpful in
identifying such teachers.
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”National Bureau of Economic Research
5. Summary
2gnō.me is a skills intelligence platform that connects skillset to
learning resources.
Participants enhance self-awareness about their skill readiness to
learn, collaborate on projects, and start working.
Instructors gain a baseline of skills and competencies to personalize
learning, at scale, and measure change in skills over time.
Organizations move decision-making from the realm of subjective
to objective to improve retention and student outcomes.
7. Watch this 5-min demo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jZTybWwRu4&
8. Example: for K-12 Teachers
Ed-tech teaching competencies aligned the ISTE Standards for Educators
10. Communication
11. Digital Workflow
12. Student Collaboration
13. Technology Integration
1. Authentic Tasks
2. Collaboration
3. Content Knowledge
4. Creativity
5. Reflection
6. Assessments
7. Personalization
8. Relevancy
9. Technology
14. Accessibility
15. Communication
16. Cross-Cultural Collab.
17. Digital Etiquette
18. Safety
19. Community Collaboration
20. Leadership
21. Professional Growth
22. Risk Taking
9. Enhanced Self-Awareness
Self Perception
Actual Proficiency
Peer Feedback
Question Details
Personalized So What?
Context Relative
to Others
Three Dimensions of Self-Knowledge for Each Skill
10. Professional Development – Personalized
Optimize Training Resources for Every Teacher
So What?
Relevant So What content from internal
and outside learning resources
Measure Engagement
Relevant media based on interest
and expectations
Development Plan
Address skill gaps with Individual
Development Plan (IDP)
Track Compliance
Provide data to justify training allocation and track
compliance with PD requirements
11. 3D Awareness Across Groups
For Platform Admins
Skills and Competencies
Overall and by each component
Views
Visual & Quant Analytics
Group-Level Awareness
Nuances of self-perception, actual
proficiency and peers’ feedback
Question-Level Detail
Same breakdown across ever
performance indicator
Compare Across Relevant Factors
Skill Strengths and Gaps
Understand skill readiness by any
benchmark or relevant criteria.
13. Upfront awareness about critical skills and personalized learning leads to
better talent-related outcomes.
How It Works
Methodology 2gnō.me TechnologyUser Design
14. Define Each Skill
How do you measure abstract competencies and
behaviors that matter for professional success?
Context & Actions
How do you immerse people into relevant situation-
rich context to understand their actions?
Question
How do you design engaging questions that can be
easily understood by participants and their peers?
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Methodology
Move decision-making from the realm of subjective to objective
15. Engagement
Questions that examine commonplace situations and
behaviors without bias or judgment
360-degree feedback
Confidential and anonymous feedback from peers
whose opinion matters
Trust
Transparency and reciprocal feedback increases
accuracy, promotes trust and motivates to improve
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User Design
Extracting meaning from data and personalizing content delivery
16. Customization
Customize virtually every element of user experience
to your school, district or organization
Personalization
Tailored professional development for every teacher
based on any framework or competency
Affordable
Our award-winning solution helps break down
economic barriers to adoption while enhancing value
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2gno.me Technology
At scale, with data to back up important decisions
18. Elements of a Successful PD Program
Consult with
Teachers
Measure
Readiness
Offer
Choice
Leadership from
Within
Experiential
Learning
Ongoing
Support
19. Elements of a Successful PD Program
Consult with
Teachers
Measure
Readiness
Offer
Choice
Leadership from
Within
Experiential
Learning
Ongoing
Support
2gnō.me approach & platform
Decide on standards
What are the frameworks for your
professional learning initiatives?
Align to learning
Compartmentalize learning
resources to levels of competency
Pathway
Connect individual teachers to
tailored learning resources
SchoolDistrict’sRole
20. Partner Example
• Leading Educator in the South
• Launched PD Academy for teachers in 2010
• 91% report positive impact on teaching
• Awarded $12M grant from the Dept of
Education in 2015 to expand nationwide.
21. Partner Has High-Quality PD Content
Aligned to a learning framework and organized by skill proficiency
23. 2gnō.me Solution Watch 1-min video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
kDWMCTAZCes
“2gnō.me is the missing piece to
our professional development.”
Evelynn Bragg
Director, CORE Academy
Jacksonville State University
• Skills readiness assessment, based on the ISTE
Standards for Teachers & Admins
• Results aligned to partner’s PD themes
• Coursework optimization for each teacher, at scale
with data to back it up
• Scaling partner’s PD to thousands of teachers
nationwide!
24. School District Example
Year 1
• Baseline based on 50% of all district teachers (280 of 540)
• Results used to determine from 3 PD year-long pathways:
• Instructional Design with Technology,
• Project Based Learning, or
• Technology Development
Year 2 (this year)
• 3 teacher groups taking the assessment:
• New teachers - to assess strengths and gaps
• Mentor teachers – to pair with new teachers
• Internal leaders – to teach EdTech PD in the district
• New teachers will get personalized induction program with
co-ed and mentor pairings, data-supported
25. Visit 2gno.me/demo or email teachers@2gno.me for your guided tour and no-cost pilot.
Editor's Notes
The mission of the TO KNOW ME project is to enhance awareness… about skills, issues, innovations or anything else that is important in real life but also really hard to standardize and measure.
To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom - Socrates
The gap in soft skills is the #1 challenge to business growth.
Also, the area that is least understood.
It is really hard to standardize and structure soft skills, resulting in billions in economic losses and personal heartaches.
Underinvested area… 70%...
In 2016, we validated the concept, established product-market fit, made first sales and established sales channels.
2gno.me is a cloud platform that identifies gaps in soft skills and helps address gaps in knowledge through personalized learning resources.
2gno.me platform segways into offerings from hosted market professional learning and development programs such as Edulance, and
Can be a way to measure the need and performance of course material.
If you are a teacher, you get a personalized dashboard that guides you through a deep reflection on your professional practice using classroom situations to enhance your self-awareness
K-12 Problem: teachers are fundamentally struggling with how technology changes their classroom, while the $3 billion K-12 Professional Development market is ineffective and overlooked. We took as baseline the most widely accepted group of standards focused on technology education in the world, developed by ISTE.org, and developed methodologies for 23 targeted skills, grouped into five Standards.
We have only started to innovate, but initial success is in putting the right pieces together. 2gno.me is the tool for creating new knowledge about critical skills, and using this knowledge to upgrade overall success by lifting up individual skillset.
We have only started to innovate, but initial success is in putting the right pieces together. 2gno.me is the tool for creating new knowledge about critical skills, and using this knowledge to upgrade overall success by lifting up individual skillset.
We have only started to innovate, but initial success is in putting the right pieces together. 2gno.me is the tool for creating new knowledge about critical skills, and using this knowledge to upgrade overall success by lifting up individual skillset.
Sources-
1. 2014 Summit sponsored by CommonSense Media, LEAD Commission, and Annenberg Retreat
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/pd-digital-classroom-empower-educators-shira-lee-katz
2. Center for Public Education Report- Teaching the Teachers
The literature tells us these are the elements a PD program needs to have for success,yet many districts don't have all of them and are destined to fail.
From the 6 elements of success, 2gnome does the heavy lifting while giving the ultimate control over standards, content, accountability and ongoing support to you the district. You can see that in the grey .
Heavy lifting meaning inspiring teacher deep reflection, choice, measurement data,and identifiying leaders from within
PAUSE
Anything in particular that you want to focus on next?
2gno.me is scaling CORE educational model to a national audience