Brands and Products
ESS takes a unique approach to the education industry and is committed to supporting school districts. Our family of companies aim to improve student achievement and ensure that every student receives an excellent education every day. We work solely in the education sector, and we believe that the care and instruction of students should always be the primary focus. This focus sets us apart and allows us to offer a variety of programs and services to support students and schools.
Live, Virtual Certified Teachers
Our Proximity Learning division connects the most highly qualified, certified teachers with school districts in need through a virtual synchronous model.
It has pioneered virtual learning by connecting highly qualified certified teachers to school districts in need through an interactive instruction model. This live, online instruction has helped schools nationwide overcome the teacher shortage by surpassing geographical location boundaries.
The company employs over 1,200 certified teachers and has access to more than 15,000 college graduates and qualified instructors. Proximity Learning uses an interactive and rigorous curriculum that supports state standards while providing a quality education program through innovative technology. Proximity Learning offers three programs.
Virtual Instruction
Through high-quality, blended, online learning, students can receive virtual instruction in a classroom setting. Proximity Learning creates course content that helps students succeed while customizing the daily schedule to coincide with school bell schedules and calendars.
Virtual Tutoring
Proximity Learning offers flexible, scheduled, and on-demand tutoring for students of all ages. These services empower struggling students to achieve academic success and beyond. These tutoring schedules can occur in weekly live tutoring sessions, virtual on-demand sessions, and chat-only on-demand sessions. Students will also have access to the Proximity Learning Educational Support System.
Virtual School
Proximity Learning’s technology-based platform allows school districts to offer educational opportunities outside of the traditional classroom setting, allowing students to receive a quality education from a certified teacher while meeting their needs.
Ensuring Every Student’s Academic Success
Proximity Learning provides highly qualified teachers who are content certified and content experts teachers in a variety of subjects and grade levels.
Core Subjects
- Reading
- Math
- Science
- History
Languages
- English
- Spanish
- Latin
- French
- German
- Japanese
Advanced Placement
- Calculus
- Physics
- Languages
- Psychology
- Statistics
- US Gov and Politics
Supporting the Whole Child, the Whole School, and the Whole Community
ESS’ division, PSI/Academic Staffing, aims to support the whole child. It offers various services to school districts, such as school health, social, emotional, and behavioral health, and special education support.
PSI/Academic Staffing provides high-quality personnel and services to help students improve their grades, attitudes, health, and behavior. The company is committed to delivering tailored solutions to each school and child's unique educational and health service needs.
Personalized Programs
Customized learning paths meet individual student needs, enhancing engagement and outcomes.
Highly Qualified Staff
Trained therapists, clinicians, and behavioralists provide comprehensive supervision and efficiently manage educational and mental health services and caseloads.
Extensive Employee Support
PSI/Academic Staffing provides comprehensive support, professional advancement, employee benefits, and mentorship programs to help employees thrive personally and professionally.
Dedicated Leadership Team
Committed to meeting school districts' evolving needs, all PSI/Academic Staffing directors, coordinators, and supervisors possess extended education certifications and licenses in the areas they manage to deliver a personalized and tailored program.
Maximizing Student Support
PSI/Academic Staffing helps school districts provide maximum support to students so they can reach their full potential by delivering fully licensed professionals and education support services.
- Behavior Specialists
- Intervention Specialists
- Licensed Practical Nurses
- Registered Nurses
- School Medical Assistants
- Speech-Language Therapists
- Occupational Therapists
- Physical Therapists
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Special Education Teachers
- Title 1 Teachers
- ASL Instructors
- ELL Teachers
- Foreign-Language Instructors
Enriched Schools
Enriched Schools provides guest teachers to charter schools throughout the country. The company was established to bring more enriching moments to students and quality educators in schools. This passion empowers Enriched Schools to make every day count for all children by tapping into the power of community.
ESS developed two advanced web-based absence management software solutions, willSub and willsub+, to offer school districts additional options and simplify the absence process for administrators, school staff, and substitutes.
- Fill Absences Faster: Easily post absences and streamline your absence approval processes through intuitive interfaces and free smartphone apps.
- Make Management Easier: Empower your administrators with management tools, automate time-consuming management decisions, and customize the system to meet the unique needs of your District.
- Increase Substitute Quality: Connect with your favorite substitutes easily with preferred lists and automation. Easily communicate lesson plans, instructions, and information between staff, subs, and administrators.
Administrators
- Customize schedules for each employee on a day-by-day basis, including unique start times, end times, and break times.
- Assign specific GL codes per employee and per absence type, ensuring each absence is funded from the correct source.
- Establish approval processes for supplemental substitute requests in addition to requests for absence coverage.
School Staff
- Always get your favorite substitutes with dynamic preferred lists – if a teacher’s preferred substitute isn’t available, the system automatically moves to the school’s preferred list.
- Allow your school staff to see their remaining PTO balances broken out by PTO type, or choose to only display PTO that’s been used so far.
- Give teachers the full picture of their absences by displaying canceled absences in addition to regular absence information.
Substitutes
- Increase fill rates as your substitutes accept more positions through free smartphone apps.
- Notify substitutes about assignments via text, email, online alerts, and mobile notifications with convenient options to accept positions to increase the chances of coverage.
- Let substitutes see the positions and locations they want with job type filtering and favorites, so you can be sure you’ve got a confident, capable substitute in every assignment.
