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This helps students and parents know what bookmark a student needs to complete for this assignment.

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This access to parents will provide them with information of how their child is performing without having to need to call and speak with teacher.  This also allows teachers to leave comments with particular grades as for why they earned what they did.  I know that this will also assist with teachers posting grades and not falling too far behind with student progress reports.

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Flags are good for letting parents know why an assignments has a low grade.

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The concept now that parents and students have real time access to grades allows them to exactly why a student's grade is what it is.

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School leadership administration visibility, analysis of summative data and individualized instructional interventions were all successful components in improving student performance thus attaining higher test scores.

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A detailed explanation of why they received this specific grade.

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Since it is easy for parents to have all of their students on one account, it makes it easier on them to check on all their kids without having to rely on their kid's word or wait for a report card.  It helps with time management.

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With the transparency of information between teachers and parents now with Powerschool Pro, unless a parent or student has no phone or internet access, it will be harder for them to use the excuse "I have no idea that my kid was failing..." excuse parents could use in the past. (Now, this works if the teacher is plugging in grades like they are supposed too). This puts more responsibility on the parents and the students than ever before.

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This would help a parent/student to know what he/she needs to correct.

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The multi-tiered approach described in the case study was imperative. Each intervention played a significant role in the overall performance and success of the students from Jane Bryan Elementary. Speaking from the prospective of an administrator, I appreciated the prioritization of being visible to students and staff throughout the day. This is often extremely difficult, but we do what we feel is most important. Regarding curricular interventions, I appreciated the implementation of 'weekly triage' in order to inform decision-making moving forward. It is a great way for all involved parties to discuss performance and methods for improving in those areas. Lastly, the idea of student-kept binders is ingenious. When students take responsibility for their performance and learning, improvement is concomitant. Moreover, graphing and producing visual representations of progress is a strategy most learning styles respond to.

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Parents often use mobile devices to be engaged in the world, and it is the responsibility of the staff and school systems to communicate with parents in ways that are accessible with them. For parents/guardians to be in the know, schools need to set an expectation for how and when they will communicate with the community at large.

As for the case study, their success in passing rates could also come down to renewed staff engagement with their own growth and data.

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Flag absent work and comment for due date

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How do parents access grades and comments immediately?

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As a school counselor, what do I have access to seeing on Power Teacher Pro? How can I see the "big picture" to collect data and help my school counseling program?

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As a working single parent, having the ability to access real time communication with my child’s teacher adds impactful effectiveness in their success.

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definitely more collorborative

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Regardless of socio economic status it seems that  most parents and students have cell phones.  Add in free wifi in many locations and real time communication has multiplied.     

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Regardless of socio economic status it seems that  most parents and students have cell phones.  Add in free wifi in many locations and real time communication has multiplied.     

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Collaboration is not just something that exists between student teams or teacher teams. Collaboration needs to exist between the teacher, student, and parent....much as it always has. Now, however, collaboration can leverage technology to provide an additional level of real-time communication and accountability with regards to student performance.

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Keep Parents informed and encourage engagement with their student and teachers.

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Quick and accurate access to benchmark performance and individual student weekly progress on specific essential skills.

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it also gives ownership to parents keeping them involved

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change class name

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Grade assigment

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create assigment

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Where the grades should show

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Reading selection

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Access/Accountability      Many parents truly want to hold their student accountable because the student usually is more tech savvy.  However, there are several ways for parents to be aware of what their student is doing academically.  Parents can create a contract with their student to visibly login to their PS accounts and show their parents their ACTUAL grades on a selected date each week or randomly each week.  Or schools can create a 'contract' for parents to sign stating that they will be held accountable for viewing their student's grades.  For those that don't have computer access or actually don't have a cell phone or other type of device, a contract can be made between the parent, teacher, and student to bring home a printout weekly of any changes in the student's academics.  There is truly no excuse for a parent or student to state they have no access to the academics.

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Access/Accountability      Many parents truly want to hold their student accountable because the student usually is more tech savvy.  However, there are several ways for parents to be aware of what their student is doing academically.  Parents can create a contract with their student to visibly login to their PS accounts and show their parents their ACTUAL grades on a selected date each week or randomly each week.  Or schools can create a 'contract' for parents to sign stating that they will be held accountable for viewing their student's grades.  For those that don't have computer access or actually don't have a cell phone or other type of device, a contract can be made between the parent, teacher, and student to bring home a printout weekly of any changes in the student's academics.  There is truly no excuse for a parent or student to state they have no access to the academics.

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Our school has a table set up for back to school for parents to sign up that night. We also have a 2nd open house when the 1st progress reports go out.

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The "top ten" is a great illustration of a solution for total accountability for teacher, parent, and student for managing progress.

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Staff, parents and students were able to get on the same page with areas of need and ways to correct. The program takes away grey areas and allows staff to target specific need. All guess work is eliminated. Students and parents are kept up to date and in the loop with where students stand with their grades. Parents can access grades and feel they are a member of the team as students get older and are more independent. 

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Staff, parents and students were able to get on the same page with areas of need and ways to correct. The program takes away grey areas and allows staff to target specific need. All guess work is eliminated. Students and parents are kept up to date and in the loop with where students stand with their grades. Parents can access grades and feel they are a member of the team as students get older and are more independent. 

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Please investigate the feature that will allow teachers to attache PDFs or Doc.x attachments in descriptions.

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This takes away any question od subjectivity, guess work

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How much time does it take to keep your documentation up to date for each class/ student you work with?

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How much time does it take to keep your documentation up to date for each class/ student you work with?

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I am loving this list of 10 reasons! I would love to share this with parents.

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Real time info with the platform of your choice is amazing. I am also impressed that in our global society powerschool pro offers 19 different languages.

Case Study
I was especially impressed by the stat that 26 students achieved over 100 points of growth (combined between math and reading) between 2012 and 2013. 21 students achieved between 50 to 100 points of growth.

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My biggest frustration is that a large number of parents don"t look at the Parent Portal and if they look at it they don't read everything. With that being said, I like the fact that in Power Teacher Pro I can communicate many things to help parents be more informed.

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We have a problem at our school with parents simply not following through with their kids. Even though I write comments, the parents still pretend like they were never informed. In an attempt to head off phone calls, I feel even more burdened to make the phone call because the parent simply does not check and follow through. Suggestions?

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I might have some questions later when we are not blocked anymore! :)

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Biggest takeaways:

1. Different language options for parent who do not speak English.

2. Parent and student involvement and participation in Power School will positively affect the growth of that student.

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Easy to flag students individually and communicate with parents.

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I was impressed on how Parent Portal can be accessed using mobile devices. In today's society almost everyone is using or have a mobile device. It allows for instant and real-time feedback for parents and students.

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Student growth was affected positively bu the use of PowerSchool bu allowing real time feedback and communication with teachers.

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Take-away number Two

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Is the set up remain up to each district to decide the weight for each category or will teacher have some input in the future?

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The ability of the parents and Student to have access to their assignemts, assestment and grades in the gradebook is a positive transparency tool too help increase communication between all parties... There should no longer be any surprises when progress reports or report cards come out.

The challenge for utilization of theis communication method is that is requires technology that my not be available to 100% of students and families all the time

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Power School allowed Bryan Elementary to put ownership of their students academic progress and success in the hands of the parents and student.

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The combination of PBIS, data analysis, RTI, communication, and focus resulted in great results for this school.

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The fact that the parent can choose their own language will be very helpful at my school as we have a lot of esl students.
Also, the fact that we can add more details to homework assignments will make it easier for students to make up missed work.

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My top two takeaways are the convenience of sending automated progress reports and the 19 language translations that are available within  the Portal. I used to have to remember to  e-mail progress reports of specific students, and I would forget due to the many tasks of an educator. The automated system makes it a lot easier for me to remember and keeps parents in the loop.  The fact that a parent can have the information translated in their language makes for a more inclusive and less intimidating feeling.

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Through this case study I can see how all stakeholders in education process can easily keep information both transparent and in real time to impact the student, teacher and parent in many positive ways.
Thank you for your efforts!!

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One of my biggest takeaways was from the case study. I saw how the results could be influenced so much by the various strategies put in place to help students succeed but, what really stuck with me were the CLT's and planning out the next two weeks' lessons. I can see how analyzing data that was established by a team as a team can help teachers better reach their students.  My second takeaway was from the infographic.  I felt that this is an exceptional device to help demonstrate the importance of Parent Portal to families.

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It was very interesting to be able to read about the instructional strategies and how the school was able to improve student performance on the state assessment. I was able to garner an understanding of the importance of administrators being visible throughout the school day to offer support, encouragement, and to contribute to the instructional day. Additionally empowering teachers with the data provides them with the opportunity to garner a level of understanding to what is taking place in their classroom, what areas they need to target through remediation and how to structure conversations with parents when reviewing the academic progress of their students.

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This promotes communication because it lets parents, students, administration, and teachers know which categories are included with the gradebook and the weights for those categories.

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The Ability to use power teacher pro allows students to also be accountable with their grades and help teachers be accountable. Being teachers, we are humans, and sometimes we forget to put a grade in. I have had a few students come up to me to explain I missed putting the grade in when they did show it to me. I was able to go in and then fix their grades. Also, I like the ability for kids to see real time how their grades are. For Example, I usually make sure my tests are put in by the time the kids leave my class on test day. After I grade their tests, I'm able to put their grades in and they can see real time, how they have done on the test and the affect on their grade!

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* Students taking an active role in their success by checking in.
* Schools tracking students' progress and providing supplemental training

*Infographic #7--positive benefits fo tracking and involvement

* Infographic has great layout and easy to read.  Makes info very accessible.  How is this available for the schools/classroom?

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Task 7! The description portion is fantastic for parent reference. Even attaching a rubric here might be helpful.

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This promotes communication because it lets everyone know what the assignments are, expectations, point total, etc. This helps clear up any misunderstandings of what is expected.

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Creating a description of class lets the parent and the student know what will be covered during the semester as well as each week.

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This promotes communication because it saves teachers time by having duplicate assignments for multiple classes. This ensures that every student in each class is being graded with the same level of consistency and expectations.

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Transforming this elementary took a culture shift where instant analysis of data was important to identify struggling students and allow standards-based immediate remediation.

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I'm glad they updated the options for this particular feature. It will be helpful for parents and the teacher to be reminded why the child is missing the assignment (ie late, absent, etc...)

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This is fantastic for quick check assignments where children most likely should or do score similarly

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Task 1- This will let parents and students know what to expect each week.

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I mentioned to you about possibility of having a contact log for each class or through portal.

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What made this work was that students had buy in and were able to monitor their own progess and communicate it through student led conferences

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If we do not have a data manager at the school level, who/ which personnel at the district office can help with getting parent codes out to families?

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If we do not have a data manager at the school level, who/ which personnel at the district office can help with getting parent codes out to families?

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Weekly updates on student learning is a great help with reaching long term goals. I think that this would allow teacher to target issues and avoid time wasting on subjects or topic student already know.

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Take Aways:
1) Real-time communication and the ability for students and parents to be part of managing their progress.
2) Push notifications and translations into 19 different languages for parents to be ablt to read teacher input.
My school needs to do something similar as the case study school because we are experiencing similar challenges. We need to get our parents and students plugged in to help with grade accountability.