Benefits For You: Overview

Many students engage at a deeper level with video and interactive materials than through print-based media. With Espresso, teachers enliven lessons with the wide variety of creative, multimedia resources available at their fingertips. What can Espresso do to support you?

Benefits For You: Principals

• Makes best use of your interactive whiteboards, broadband and network
• Provides excellent value for money with weekly updates and constantly growing subject modules
• Supports a standards-based and cross-curricular teaching approach 
• Offers teachers high-quality materials that are firmly grounded in the curriculum, with no worry about appropriateness or relevance
• Delivers resources that will assist in teaching strategies such as scaffolding learning, differentiated instruction and developing of higher order, critical thinking skills

Benefits For You: Teachers

• Offers resources that support the delivery of more effective lessons
• Saves valuable time in resource gathering and lesson planning; more time for focus on teaching
• Facilitates truly cross-curricular teaching and learning
• Delivers validated and appropriate resources with accurate leveling
• Supports a variety of learning scenarios - from whole class instruction to using Espresso independently or in groups, Espresso can support children of different needs 
• Enriches the learning process by supplementing traditional teaching methods
• No content is removed from the service which allows teachers to plan lessons with confidence while receiving new and engaging materials for use on a weekly basis

Benefits For You: Learners

• Provides one-stop access to imaginative and stimulating curriculum resources
• Helps them understand the importance and significance of events that happen in the world around them
• Engages the less able student and stretches the more able students
• Empowers students by allowing them to discover resources, record their learning journeys and research facts for themselves - allowing them to take control of their own learning
• Delivers a rich experience for children in a safe environment, in school and at home
• Supports the development of 21st century computer skills
• Makes learning fun and enjoyable

Benefits For You: Districts

• Makes the most out of your investment in interactive whiteboards and technology
• Helps to meet national priorities such as the National Education Technology Plan and implementation of Common Core standards
• Is a "no-worry" experience with no ongoing hardware or maintenance costs
• Online delivery means Espresso can be responsive to curriculum changes
• Serves the many needs of a district including libraries, pre-Kindergarten, Head Start centers, after-school programs, ELL, Special Education, and Healthy Living
• Trustworthy resources - developed over 13 years by educators for educators
• Includes a fully supported online professional development course

Benefits For You: Parents

• Strengthens school-to-home links by bringing additional learning opportunities into the home
• Enables parents to get more involved in their child's education and see what they are doing in school
• Delivers a rich learning experience for children within a safe environment

Benefits For You: Communities

• Prepares children for more formal education with fun, yet leveled, curriculum-based activities
• Promotes school readiness by teaching essential life skills such as healthy living and eating
• Promotes cultural awareness with resources that allow children to explore their family and heritage as well as other families with different backgrounds