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About the Award

The Brandon Hall Awards recognized Click to Begin, the New Teacher and Leader Onboarding Series, across three categories, reflecting the program’s approach to custom learning, innovative learning design, and new-hire onboarding.

Award: Brandon Hall Awards
 Recognition: Gold
 Categories:
 Best Custom Content
 Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Program
 Best New Hire Onboarding Program

Program: Click to Begin, New Teacher and Leader Onboarding Series
 Client: Stride/K12
 Learning Partner: Straive LearningMate

Why We Won

Click to Begin was designed around the realities of joining an online school. Instead of treating onboarding as a single event, the program supports new teachers and leaders through key stages of their journey, from their first day and first week through their first month and first semester.

The learning experience combines animated storytelling, real educator insights, interactive scenarios, and practical activities connected to educators’ classroom and leadership roles.

By aligning learning to the challenges educators encounter at different stages of onboarding, the program helps new hires build knowledge, confidence, and readiness as they move into their roles.

Results

98.5% learner satisfaction

24% increase in perceived readiness after completing the series

Three Gold Brandon Hall Awards

Recognition across custom content, innovative learning and development, and new-hire onboarding

Insights

Designing Onboarding Around the Educator Journey

Effective onboarding is not simply about delivering information at the beginning of employment. New educators encounter different questions and challenges as they progress into their roles. Click to Begin addresses this by organizing learning around key stages of the onboarding journey:
  • First day
  • First week
  • First month
  • First semester
The program uses storytelling, educator perspectives, interactive scenarios, and practical learning activities to connect onboarding content with the situations new teachers and leaders encounter in their work. The three Gold awards recognize this combination of structured onboarding, custom content, and learning design.

FAQs

Straive LearningMate’s work with Stride/K12 on Click to Begin, the New Teacher and Leader Onboarding Series, received three Gold Brandon Hall Awards: Best Custom Content, Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Program, and Best New Hire Onboarding Program.
Click to Begin is Stride/K12’s New Teacher and Leader Onboarding Series, developed in partnership with Straive LearningMate. It supports educators across their first day, first week, first month, and first semester.
The program combines animated storytelling, real educator insights, interactive scenarios, and practical activities. Learning is aligned with the challenges teachers and leaders encounter at different stages of their onboarding journey.
Early results showed 98.5% learner satisfaction and a 24% increase in perceived readiness after learners completed the series.
Click to Begin received Gold recognition in three categories: Best Custom Content, Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Program, and Best New Hire Onboarding Program.
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