Introduction
Welcome to the Symbolstix Educator Implementation Guide. The guide does not need to be completed in a single session; you are welcome to pause and return at any time to fit your schedule and learning needs. Educators who actively engage with the practice opportunities, interactive activities, and reflection prompts will gain the greatest benefit from the experience.
What is Symbolstix?
SymbolStix provides a comprehensive symbol library designed to support communication, literacy, vocabulary development, and accessible instruction. It equips educators with easy-to-use tools to create interactive activities, visual supports, and customized communication boards that help students of all abilities feel included and supported.
Help every learner express, understand, and participate
- Extensive symbollLibrary: Provides exclusive access to over 100,000 relevant, dynamic, and research-based symbols. The library is regularly updated with new symbols to keep up with current events and specific educator requests.
- Universal visual language: The symbols create a seamless, intuitive universal language that is consistent throughout all Everway solutions, helping to spark communication and create meaningful learning connections.
- Customization and diversity: Educators can search for symbols in eleven different languages to support multilingual students. Additionally, users can customize the skin tone of character symbols to accurately reflect the diversity of their classroom or to match a specific student.
- Individual resource creation: Through tools like the "Board Wizard," educators can quickly develop, organize, and share personalized communication boards and activities. These boards can be tailored to meet a student's specific academic, functional, behavioral, or personal interests.
- Student empowerment: By providing clear, visual representations of words and concepts, Symbolstix empowers self-expression, independence, and active participation, particularly for students with unique communication and reading challenges.
Getting started with Symbolstix
- Follow this three-step guided process to successfully implement Symbolstix in your classroom.
Step 1
Plan
Explore planning options to determine the best instructional approach. Begin planning and managing teacher-led instruction and individual student assignments.
Step 2
Engage
Launch customizable communication boards to enhance student participation and engagement while completing instructional tasks.
Step 3
Monitor
Explore data collection methods to track student progress. Analyze completion data to inform instructional decisions as you cycle back to planning.
Additional Resources
Do you want a sneak peak into all the features offered within Symbolstix before starting your three-step implementation process? Explore this self-guided interactive tour to see how educators create symbol-based communication supports that help students understand instructions, share their ideas and engage in learning. Once you open the interactive experience, select the topics that are most important to you to customize your tour!