Why Headrush for re-engagement and continuation
Smaller, more flexible environments are designed for students who do not fit comprehensive high school structures. Headrush helps teams personalize learning while maintaining visibility and accountability.
How Headrush supports re-engagement and continuation
Let students lead (but give them a map)
We know learners do better when content is relevant and interesting to them, but student-led does not always mean independent. Headrush empowers learners to explore their own interests to meet competency standards and build on existing credit, while scaffolding tools help teachers guide them along the way.Give credit where it's due
Your students come to you with an existing academic history. With fractional credits, Headrush lets you honor work students have already done. They can enter a course at any point, and progress is tracked to the tenth of a credit, so they can see how far they have come and how much they have yet to go in real time. And when they are done, they are done - no need to wait until the end of a semester.Collaborate across disciplines
The real world is interdisciplinary, and when students are catching up or reclaiming lost credits, every learning moment counts. With Headrush, teachers can work together to assess student projects so one big presentation or paper can earn credit in multiple subjects. Teachers themselves are not confined to their own classrooms and a watercooler, giving them a chance to learn something new from their colleagues.Flexible graduation pathways need systems that can keep up with each learner's pace and progress.
Not your typical LMS.
Traditional schools were not built for your learners, but your LMS was built for traditional schools. Headrush gives learners the power to propose and design their own projects using individual task boards and timelines with easy access for facilitators to check their work and offer support. But each student-led learning project does not have to start from square one. Facilitators can curate a warehouse of content, from components to full learning pathways, that they can share with students and with colleagues across disciplines.That great spreadsheet is cool, but it has its limits.
Your competency tracker spreadsheet might work for just a few courses, but when this learning model is all you offer, creating new spreadsheets for each individual course becomes untenable. Headrush can map competencies to student-driven projects and assess tasks based on those competencies, so awarding credit across disciplines for individual projects is a matter of a few clicks, not an administrative nightmare.One size doesn't fit all.
When learners lead the way with their unique interests, abilities, and potentials, working with traditional systems of accountability becomes challenging, if not impossible. Headrush works with you and your students, not against them, while they discover and explore topics that are meaningful to them, earn competency-based, cross-disciplinary credit for a single project, and create reports they can take with them into their future, whatever it might look like.Over 100 schools have chosen Headrush
"Personally, I appreciate the user-friendliness of the system and the relative ease in setting up the school. Making adjustments and changes has been fairly seamless as well, which has been another really helpful feature of the system. "
Principal —Abraxas High School
"I like the usability and flexibility of Headrush. I love how we can show student learning through another lens other than letter grades. "
Lead Teacher —Anthony Acres School
"I really like the capability that Headrush has to track standards by student and not by class. Also, I really appreciate how Headrush is so user friendly for students and on the back end with grading. "
School Counseling Administrator —American Academy of Innovation
"Headrush is such a great all-in-one place where I can generate innovative projects, lesson plans, and seminars. Seriously, this is a program that turns teachers' heads when I pull it up at a conference! "
High School Teacher —Garrett High School
"It is very easy to use for both the student and teacher. I have used many different platforms from the student side and a lot of them are not very user-friendly. I also love how flexible it is and you can use it for so many different things, tailoring it to your needs. "
Social Studies Teacher & Student Success Coordinator —Paladin Career Tech
"Love the software, organization, company. I really love how responsive you are when something is needed to be changed or added. "
iLEAD Teacher —iLEAD Charter School