{"id":14589,"date":"2019-12-10T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/?p=14589"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:54:15","slug":"mentoring-minds-acquires-schoolspire-to-fuse-their-curriculum-with-a-digital-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/mentoring-minds-acquires-schoolspire-to-fuse-their-curriculum-with-a-digital-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentoring Minds Acquires SchoolSpire to Fuse Their Curriculum with a Digital Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 10, the Tyler, Texas-based Mentoring Minds announced it had acquired SchoolSpire, which is located just 100 miles away in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentoringminds.com\">The former<\/a> provides a variety of standards-aligned curriculum packages to schools aimed at fostering critical thinking skills among students. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolspire.com\">The latter<\/a> provides what they call an Instructional Management System\u2014a digital platform that hosts digital content, delivers assessments, and provides analytics for a K-12 context. Details of the deal were not made public.<\/p>\n<p>Both companies were founded in the early aughts. Mentoring Minds serves over 1.3 million students annually. SchoolSpire has been deployed widely in the U.S. and internationally. Outside of the U.S. alone, the company has been used by over 3 million learners.<\/p>\n<h2>A Mutually Beneficial Deal for Mentoring Minds and SchoolSpire<\/h2>\n<p>The acquisition marks another chapter in a trend that has continued to fuel the edtech sector. As teachers begin to bring more of their instruction online, and as devices become more available to students, more stakeholders have sought to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/should-companies-build-internal-digital-capacity-or-outsource-with-benchprep-mcgraw-hill-did-both\/\">bolster their traditional instruction methods and products with online delivery and digital tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognize that digital instruction has made incredible advancements in the past decade,\u201d said Mentoring Minds CEO Shad Madsen. \u201cTo prepare for the future of education, we sought out solutions to improve upon our current online platform. Bringing the SchoolSpire team on board plays to both of our organizations\u2019 strengths.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14596\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14596\" src=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/acquisition-integration-infographic-scaled-e1575992031252.jpg\" alt=\"An infographic detailing the Mentoring Minds SchoolSpire merger.\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Mentoring Minds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe SchoolSpire product has already demonstrated success in the market, and their team brings industry experience that will enable us to build new solutions at an accelerated pace. Together, we\u2019ll develop a platform that hosts all the capabilities expected of a modern learning management system while also delivering the full suite of our educator resources, curriculum, and instruction at an affordable price. Our team will also be equipped with the technology and expertise to evolve as education trends emerge and the needs of teachers and students evolve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mentoring Minds plans to bring the entire SchoolSpire team into the fold. SchoolSpire founder and CEO Muhammad Wasay will take on the role of CTO.<\/p>\n<h2>Critical Thinking Skills Aligned with Standards<\/h2>\n<p>Mentoring Minds\u2019 ThinkUp! Standards Mastery System provides a suite of curriculum supplements for teachers, including accompanying assessments, to bring critical thinking skills to core subjects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany educators recognize the benefits of critical thinking, and are successful in nurturing these skills in students through recognized teaching and learning strategies,\u201d Madsen said. \u201cHowever, critical thinking in practice is not consistently and broadly developed to support standards-based content with meaningful application. At Mentoring Minds, we believe that a district-wide critical thinking culture elevates achievement among all students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The addition of SchoolSpire\u2019s platform and analytics dashboard will bring these efforts to the next level. It will allow teachers to see the results of ThinkUp! themselves, while deploying it on the same platform as the rest of their instruction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith SchoolSpire technology, we will offer a complete digital solution that supports educators as they plan lessons, guide instruction with built-in tiers of support, deliver assessments, and gain insight through advanced analytics,\u201d Madsen said. \u201cUltimately, our solution enables all educators to deliver critical thinking in a more meaningful and practical way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured Image: Glen Carrie, Unsplash.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 10, the Tyler, Texas-based Mentoring Minds announced it had acquired SchoolSpire, which is located just 100 miles away in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The former provides a variety of standards-aligned curriculum packages to schools aimed at fostering critical thinking skills among students. The latter provides what they call an Instructional Management System\u2014a digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,17536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-industry-news","category-k-12"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mentoring Minds Acquires SchoolSpire to Fuse Their Curriculum with a Digital Platform - eLearningInside News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mentoring Minds announced on December 10 it had acquired its fellow Texan edtech provider SchoolSpire to join their critical thinking skills curriculum with a digital platform.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/mentoring-minds-acquires-schoolspire-to-fuse-their-curriculum-with-a-digital-platform\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mentoring Minds Acquires SchoolSpire to Fuse Their Curriculum with a Digital Platform - 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