2. Starting today.
1. Save teachers time.
2. Save your district money.
3. Increase the quality of
education
for your students.
3. Inside the Black
Box
By Paul Black and Dylan
William
• Learning is driven by
what teachers and
pupils do in
classrooms.
4. Inside the Black
Box
By Paul Black and Dylan
William
• Learning is driven by
what teachers and
pupils do in
classrooms.
• Standards can be raised
only if teachers can
tackle this task more
effectively.
5. Inside the Black
Box
By Paul Black and Dylan
William
• Learning is driven by
what teachers and
pupils do in
classrooms.
• Standards can be raised
only if teachers can
tackle this task more
effectively.
• What’s missing from
these efforts is any
direct help with the task.
6. But How?
• What tools do teachers have to help
in the classroom?
• How do teachers get the tools they need?
7.
8.
9. Teachers have too
much paperwork!
Data entry and paperwork
tasks eat up a teacher’s
time which can be better
spent planning more
effective lessons,
differentiating instruction,
or any number of other
ways to help students
learn.
13. Paperwork Load Junior High
Teacher
A junior high school
teacher with 6 classes
and 30 students per
class can easily have
over
1000 pieces of paper
to grade and post
every week.
14. • GradeCam dramatically reduces the
amount of time required by educators to
collect & analyze data from the classroom.
• GradeCam is a data collection and analysis
tool
Time Savings
31. “Do I really know enough about the
understanding of my pupils to help
each of them?”
32. Arne Duncan
U.S. Secretary of Education
November 17, 2010
“ Technology can play a huge role in
increasing educational productivity,
but not just as an add-on or for high-
tech reproduction of current practices…
we need to change the underlying
processes to leverage the capabilities
of technology.”
33. Pressures From Above
• No Child Left Behind
• Data Drive Decision Making
• Formative Assessment
• Differentiated Instruction
• Response to Intervention
• Annual Yearly Progress
• Benchmarks & Standards
• Just to name a few…
34. Data Driven Decision Making
• Data Driven Decision Making (DDDM) was part of
the No Child Left Behind Act.
• It is a system of teaching and management
practices that gets better information about
students into the hands of teachers &
administrators.
35. • Without the proper tools, pressure to do
formative assessment translates to more
grading, more data entry, and more work
on teachers that are already stressed.
Data Driven Decision Making
36. Summative
Assessment
Occurs at the end
of instruction and
determines if the
content being
taught was
retained.
This is the
traditional practice.
Formative vs. Summative Assessment
37. Formative vs. Summative Assessment
Formative
Assessment
Using feedback
from learning
activities to adapt
teaching to meet
the learner's needs.
38. Formative Assessment
” Firm evidence shows that formative
assessment is an essential component of
classroom work and that its development can
raise standards of achievement.
Indeed, we know of no other way of raising
standards where such an evidence-based
case can be made.”
British professors Paul Black
and Dylan Wiliam
39. Benchmarks play a critical role in informing
administrators as to how students are
performing against the standards.
Benchmarks
40. • By the time benchmark results are
available, it’s largely too late to influence
the classroom process of teaching and
learning.
• Teacher’s need a method, on a day-to-
day basis, to know how their students are
doing, in order to modify instruction and
improve benchmark and standard scores.
Benchmarks
42. Response to Intervention
GradeCam is a highly effective at:
• Tracking results from interventions
• Helping to evaluate interventions
• Providing required documentation to
satisfy RtI requirements.
43. Your Data is Safe
GradeCam’s servers and network
infrastructure exceed security “best
practices” administered by banking,
healthcare, and the education industry.
45. • Servers are hosted at a
dedicated location in
Silicon Valley.
• Guards are on site 24 hrs a
day,
7 days a week.
Your Data is Safe
46. • Access requires biometric
hand scanning in addition
to a security card.
Your Data is Safe
47. • Our CEO is the only person who
has access to student data aside
from you.
Your Data is Safe
48. • At the age of 15 Rob was
hired by the Department of
Energy (DOE) to develop
software to protect the
nations nuclear facilities
from the threat of hackers.
Your Data is Safe