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Measuring Your Portrait of a Graduate
You defined the competencies. LearningPulse measures them from the essays, labs, and projects students already produce, per student, per criterion, and over time.
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Educators reviewing student work together
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Looking at Student Work to Assess Learning
How administrators and instructional leaders can use LearningPulse to analyze authentic student work at scale and uncover real evidence of learning growth.
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Student writing in a notebook
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What Are Our Students Writing, Thinking, and Communicating?
How ELA coordinators can use LearningPulse to support school-wide literacy growth.
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What Is Student Work Analysis?
Understanding learning by analyzing what students actually produce.
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Shifting to student-centered technology
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Shifting to Student-Centered Technology
Why K-12 needs to shift from teacher-centered LMS platforms to student-centered Collaborative Learning Systems.
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Capturing student learning as it happens
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Capturing Learning as it Happens
Capturing and curating learning evidence throughout the learning cycle, not just at the end.
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2,295 sources of qualitative learning data
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2,295 Sources of Qualitative Learning Data
One teacher's realization: 2,295 daily sources of qualitative learning data, and the platform built to manage them.
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The importance of learning conversations
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The Importance of Learning Conversations
The learning conversation, the back-and-forth after the lesson, is where the real teaching happens.
Mike Rutherford
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Introducing gotFeedback
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gotFeedback: A New Platform for Student-Centered Learning
Introducing gotFeedback: a platform built in the K-12 classroom to meet the instructional needs of every student.
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Articles, books and research that guide us
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Articles, Books and Research That Guide Us
The articles and books that have shaped how the gotLearning team thinks about feedback and learning.
Mike Rutherford
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gotLearning and Universal Design for Learning
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gotLearning and the Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
How gotLearning supports Universal Design for Learning: multiple means of representation, expression, and engagement.
Colleen Dawson
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Snapshot vs. photo album
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Snapshot vs. Photo Album
Snapshot or photo album? Why capturing learning over time beats a single point-in-time assessment.
Mike Rutherford
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Growth-producing feedback
Growth-Producing Feedback
Effective feedback describes progress, not praise or blame, and gives students a clear path to mastery.
Bruce Oliver
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It's a feedback world
It's a Feedback World
A GPS is the perfect metaphor for growth-producing feedback: clear, ongoing, and recalculating when students go off course.
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Formative assessment FAQ
Formative Assessment FAQ
A plain-language FAQ on formative assessment: what it is, how it differs from summative, and strategies to use it.
Bruce Oliver
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Feedback in the mathematics classroom
Feedback in the Mathematics Classroom
Applying the tenets of effective feedback in the math classroom, with assessing and advancing questions to guide student thinking.
Heather Clayton
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Ten reasons teachers are heroes
Ten Reasons Teachers Are Heroes
Ten reasons teachers earned the title of hero, from reaching every child to putting social-emotional learning first.
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