Tools & Resources
Leverage a variety of resources and customized support to create a continuous improvement journey that fits the needs of your institution.
Propel your institution
Gather evidence
Evaluate your progress
Empower your teams
Support accountability
The Cognia Improvement Platform: A comprehensive digital toolkit
Whether preparing for an engagement review, establishing a benchmark, conducting an internal evaluation, or providing leadership with meaningful information, your team will be ready—equipped with unmatched tools and resources available only to members of the Cognia global network. Our online platform includes:
Observations
Effective Learning Environments Observation Tool® (eleot®)
See the impact of classroom instruction by focusing on your most important and revealing stakeholders: your students. View Instrument Showcase: eleot >
Environmental Rating for Early Learning
Ensure a brighter future for the next generation by observing learning environments to gain insights on practices and behaviors of your youngest learners and the essential elements affecting their health, safety, and education.
Teacher Observation Tool
Strengthen instructional practices with short, formative observations focusing on teacher behaviors that support learner-centric classrooms. View Instrument Showcase: Teacher Observation Tool >
Diagnostics
You and your team are the experts about your school and system. Our standards guide you to identify areas of strength and opportunities to elevate the quality of your school.
Workspace
Facilitate team collaboration with a centralized online location to store files and assemble evidence.
Surveys
Do you know whether your efforts at engagement and outreach are hitting the mark? Use our surveys for students, teachers, families, and community members to find out.
Strategies and the inFocus guide
Lead your team to think more strategically and employ feasible tactics to achieve visible and sustainable improvement.
myJourney™ dashboard
Choose the data that’s most important to you and view a high-level snapshot of your institution, to monitor and demonstrate progress. Log into myJourney 
Cognia Home: A launchpad to improvement and professional learning
This online portal provides opportunities for educators to enhance professional practice and connect with peers in the same building or around the globe. Extend your PLCs online, take online classes, watch recorded webinars, and join educator groups focused on specialty topics. This growing resource currently includes:
Learning community
An innovative, high-quality professional development system that is personalized to meet the needs of adult learners. Leaders and individual staff choose learning labs from timely topics, reach out for coaching from instruction leaders, and convert learning into classroom practice.
Communities of practice
Engage in rich conversation, spark fresh ideas, and explore new practices. Connect in a private community for your school or break geographical barriers in a special interest group that is open to the entire Cognia global network.
Leadership Circle communities
Opt into a specialized learning and support community dedicated to the unique needs of education leaders, differentiated by superintendents and their executive teams or principals. If you’re a fan of the Cognia Leader Chat podcast, watch the video recordings here.
Schooling Today webinar library
Join experts from multiple disciplines to discuss issues faced by education leaders and staff members, students, and parents.
Cognia Insider newsletter
Jump right to the latest issue of the Cognia Insider, a member-focused newsletter sharing the latest announcements, product tips, upcoming events, and voices from the network.