The Learning Bar

The Learning Bar Inc. (TLB) is a research-based education company that provides you with tools and solutions designed to inform educators, guide school planning, and give a voice to students, parents, and teachers. Drawing from current educational research, TLB provides two solution-focused systems, the OurSCHOOL|TTFM (Tell Them From Me) school improvement system and the Early Years Evaluation (EYE). OurSCHOOL|TTFMis a powerful evaluation instrument that provides a complete solution for measuring, assessing, and reporting insights on your school. These insights are based on reliable and meaningful measures that are known to affect learning outcomes. OurSCHOOL|TTFM has become the largest national school survey in Canada. It is currently being used in nine of Canada's ten provinces, including the Northwest Territories and Yukon. Over 3500 Canadian schools are actively using these survey instruments, data analyses, and reporting solutions. To date, over 2.5 million students have added their voices to our rich data set. OurSCHOOL|TTFM solutions are also being used in the United States and Australia, and are in the process of being implemented in other countries around the world. The Early Years Evaluation (EYE) is an assessment framework that helps children, parents, and schools with the transition from home to school. The motivation for the creation of the EYE assessment tools came from a World Bank project in 2002, which required an instrument that was suitable for assessing the early years outcomes of children as they entered school. The EYE team developed an instrument that assesses the five domains associated with early childhood development. Over the years, the instrument has been updated and revised to meet the needs of teachers, governments, and parents. The EYE has been used across Canada and internationally. Founded in 2005, TLB is led by internationally renowned researcher, Dr. J. Douglas Willms. Dr. Willms is a Professor and Director of the Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and holds the Canada Research Chair in Literacy and Human Development. He has achieved numerous honours for his research on school effectiveness, as well as the design and monitoring of local and national education systems. A core element of our work is the measurement of student engagement. Dr. Willms led the development of questions on engagement for the OECD PISA and subsequently wrote the international report for the OECD. This research is incorporated into the intellectual property of all TLB solutions, and is central to our many successes. Previously, we also collaborated with the Canadian Education Association and Galileo Education Network on a three-year project entitled, "What Did You Do In School Today? This work was further advanced through collaboration with Alberta Education in their three-year pilot study on student engagement. Our customers describe our technologies and online applications as second-to-none. The technology backbone supplied by The Learning Bar has proven to be reliable, easy to use, and robust with features that provide tremendous accessibility for using results data.