ASPIRE•Learn

ASPIRE•Learn provides HISD staff members with a comprehensive online learning experience—available any time, any pace, any place. ASPIRE•Learn offers online courses and tutorials, personalized learning paths, ePortfolios to save data inquiries, culminating projects, and more.

HISD educators can subscribe to an online suite of value-added, assessment and highly effective teacher courses. Or, they can enroll in an ASPIRE Learning Path, which provides a suggested course of study to guide personalized learning. In addition to the courses, the following opportunities are also available:

Value-Added Learning Paths to Accelerate Student Progress
Learn how to apply value-added anlysis to inform instructional decision making.  
Learning Path: Level 1   Enroll
Learning Path: Level 2   Enroll
Learning Path: Level 3   Enroll
Learning Path: Level 4   Enroll

Note: HISD has developed a recognition program to acknowledge the individuals and campuses that earn value-added credentials for completing these learning paths. These professional-development opportunities are not required to receive an ASPIRE Award.

NEW: 2009–2010 ASPIRE Award Program (AS0003)
This optional online course provides employees with an overview of the 2009–2010 ASPIRE Awards, which will be distributed in January 2011. Enroll

NEW: Assessment Learning Path
Learn how to use high-quality assessment practices to improve and differentiate instruction. Take this series of eight online courses (26 hours of learning).

Click here to access a flier and watch a video that introduces these courses and learn more │ Enroll 

NEW: Highly Effective Teacher (HET) Study Learning Path 
Learn about HISD's Highly Effective Teacher (HET) Study and its four principal findings (themes), and how to apply the best practices of HISD's highly effective teachers. Enroll

Click on enroll and then log in to begin your learning journey!

To learn more and to download the ASPIRE•Learn Users Guide, log in under "My ASPIRE" and visit the "Learn" section.