Engaging students and families in expanded learning

We all know that engaged students and involved families are the key ingredients to unlocking extraordinary student achievement and creating unforgettable school experiences. Expanded learning programs are uniquely positioned to achieve such engagement with both students and families! 

But here is the real question: Are we tapping intogivingempowering students agency to shape their own out-of school adventures? Could our students and their parents together choose from a wide range of topics like music, art, chess, theater, dance, programming, robotics, math games, creative writing, public speaking, sewing, carpentry, game design, and a variety of sports? 

Are these great topics and learning accessible broadly to both students in extended care and those who are not?  

Are expanded learning staff bogged down in the complex and heavy logistics work to make this happen? 

It takes a complex operation to achieve choice-driven expanded learning from program organization to family registration to daily safe operations because it involves many stakeholders, from district staff, to school site staff, to teachers and vendors that teach enrichment, to extended care staff, to families and students!

We from 6crickets can help!

With 6crickets modern tools and solutions tailored for expanded learning, you can be freed from heavy logistics and focus more on students, families, programming, and engagement. 

Check out how 6crickets has supported districts from large to small, and from urban to suburban to rural all across California. Some examples are Mt. Diablo USD,  Chula Vista ESD, Inglewood USD, Twin Rivers USD, Visalia USD, and Chowchilla ESD. It’s been exciting to witness these districts making history–innovating and reinventing expanded learning to bring choice-driven enrichment and best expanded learning programs to every student in every school. 

Some of these districts are using 6crickets’ expanded learning management platform to modernize and digitize the expanded learning operations so that they can continuously evaluate and improve program quality, student outcome, and operations efficiency.

Other districts are leveraging 6crickets’ turn-key enrichment solution to organize special-topic enrichment vendors to provide choice-driven enrichment to students and families, such as STEM, music, art, dance, theater, chess, world languages, finance, sports, and more. Expanded Learning now makes such enrichment learning accessible to every student in California!

For rural districts where community partners are few, we innovated with our district partners to create a new model that combines local instruction aides with live, virtual enrichment programs tapping into remote resources.

So, what do districts say? 

“6crickets’ passion for equitable education is apparent and reflected in its service design and implementation.”

“6crickets reduced 90% of our workload!”

“6crickets provides user-friendly online management dashboards at the district level, school level, vendor level, and instructor level. This way, each stakeholder has real-time student data, significantly streamlining the workflow.”

“I am so grateful to partner with 6crickets to bring enrichment to my students and their hardworking families.”

“We have found that the management dashboards are easy to navigate and are very intuitive. We have had good feedback from our parents in regards to the parent dashboard and ease of enrollment.”

“I have been impressed with the level of professionalism provided by the 6crickets team and their promptness in addressing any concerns or issues we bring up.”

“We have definitely found an outstanding partner in the delivery of expanded learning options for our students.”

Are you ready to join the ranks of visionary districts who are trailblazing with 6crickets’ platform? It’s your turn! Time to unlock the full potential of your expanded learning programs and propel your districts!

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