Training for Premium Customers

Welcome to our community! We’re excited to show you how GoGuardian, Pear Deck, and Pear Assessment will help you create more effective, engaging, and safer learning environments.

Training Sessions by Product

Browse the training sessions below and select the ones relevant to you to get started.
If you are unable to attend at the hosted time, you may register and receive a recording of a session to view asynchronously.

Mondays, 8 a.m. PST (11 a.m. EST)

GoGuardian Admin

Eligibility: Anyone from your GoGuardian Admin users

Let’s begin the important work of improving reporting and filtering management in your school environment. In this session, you’ll review:

  • student reports
  • overview of policies
  • Smart Alerts and Triggers

GoGuardian Teacher

Eligibility: Anyone from your staff

We’re excited to show you how you can foster effective learning experiences and student connections with GoGuardian Teacher. In this session, you’ll observe:

  • creating and starting classes
  • taking commands
  • setting classroom Scenes

Pear Deck 101

Eligibility: Anyone from your staff

Rooted in active learning and formative assessment, Pear Deck makes it easy for teachers to engage learners of all ages and abilities — join us to learn how! In this session, you’ll learn:

  • how to install the Pear Deck Add-on
  • adding interactivity to a slide deck
  • the student interactivity experience

Please note: These webinars are for Google Suite users only. If you are a Microsoft user, please refer to the self-paced learning resources.

Tuesdays,  12 p.m. PST (3 p.m. EST)

Pear Assessment Teacher 101

Eligibility: Anyone from your staff using Pear Assessment as a teacher

Let’s get to work creating accessible and easy-to-use assessments to get every student on a path to success. In this session, you’ll learn:

  • how to find resources by standards
  • how to find and assign assessments
  • reviewing assessment results
Wednesdays,  7 a.m. PST (10 a.m. EST)

Building Pear Assessment Assessments

Eligibility: Anyone from your staff using Pear Assessment as a teacher or Admin user

In this session, you’ll learn:

  • how to filter and find assessments in our library
  • how to create an assessment from scratch
  • how to upload existing PDF as an assessment using our Snapquiz feature
Wednesdays,  11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST)

Pear Assessment Enterprise for Assessment Leaders

Eligibility: Anyone with Pear Assessment Enterprise who will be assigning common assignments

Assessment leaders, this Pear Assessment session is for you! Learn how common assessments are made and how to view functional data trends to measure student growth. In this session, you’ll learn:

  • how to create custom collections & buckets (District Admin)
  • how to create and assign common assessments
  • how to analyze assessment data

Pear Practice 101

Eligibility: Any educator

Pear Practice is a gamified learning experience that helps you easily facilitate collaborative and differentiated practice using standards-aligned content. In this fun, interactive session, you’ll learn:

  • how to engage students in a collaborative Live Practice game 
  • how to use real-time data to easily assign differentiated Practice Sets to students  
  • how to save time using Pear Practice features 

These times will be hosted weekly, but if no participants join within the first 10 minutes, we reserve the right to end early.

Meet Your Trainers

Our product trainers have a cumulative 60 years of K-12 experience,
and they bring that perspective to every training session.

Photo of trainer Sara Kuntz

Sara Kuntz

Photo of trainer Mary Ellen Yorker

Mary Ellen Yonker

Photo of trainer Kayla Bilodeau

Kayla Bilodeau

Photo of trainer Elizabeth Navarro

Elizabeth Navarro

Photo of trainer Jackie Grummel

Jackie Grummel

Photo of trainer Melissa Serio

Melissa Serio

Can't make one of the above times? Want asynchronous options? Check out our resources here: