Maximizing the Effectiveness of Exit Tickets
Last month’s blog featured Hanna Jadin, Founding Dean of Students at Milwaukee Excellence Charter School, which is in its second year of serving 6th and 7th graders. In March, we highlighted their seven step process for using data to inform academic and cultural changes. They’re doing so much cool stuff with data that we couldn’t stop with […]
Making Adjustments for Real Impact
Hanna Jadin is the Founding Dean of Students at Milwaukee Excellence Charter School, which first opened its doors in the 2016-2017 school year and currently serves 240 6th and 7th graders. Milwaukee Excellence is located in 53206, an area featured in the documentary, “MILWAUKEE 53206” as the highest incarcerated zip code in the country. Their school […]
Sync Assessments From Google Classroom Into Your Electronic Gradebook in Seconds!
Do you LOVE Google Classroom? Contact us to learn more! Do you spend precious time manually entering quizzes, homeworks, and essays from Google Classroom into your gradebook? Learn how Schoolrunner’s new integration with Google Classroom eliminates the need for double-entry, saving valuable time and allowing you to focus on student achievement. Click here to see how […]
How Can Data Promote Equity in Education?
Throughout the last few decades, the “achievement gap” – meaning the difference in academic performance between different student groups defined by race, gender, native language, learning disability, etc. – has come to the forefront of the national education discussion. The Bush administration’s No Children Left Behind Act (NCLB), the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and […]
Using Insights From Today to Make Changes for Tomorrow
Forte Prep is a tuition-free middle school open to students in grades 5 through 8 in Queens, New York, founded and led by Graham Browne. Forte Prep is driven by a philosophy of achieving excellence in all facets of life and learning, and using the power of education to transform the lives of students […]
Using Standards-Based Grading to Drive Deeper Learning
Stephanie Gallegos, Principal of Lake County Intermediate School, wanted to get her school ahead of the curve with standards-based grading, but did not want to burden her already busy teachers with more paperwork. Stephanie was noticing inconsistencies in how her teachers integrated standards-based instruction and grading into their classrooms. The school did not have […]
#NationalTeachersDay Round Up
All over the Internet people are sharing their appreciation of teachers. Here at Schoolrunner we focus everything we do on how we can help make their daily lives easier and better through the right data. Here are some of our favorites from #NationalTeachersDay! Here in Colorado, you can tag your favorite teacher online with the hashtag #thankateacherco. You […]
The Importance of Integrations and APIs with Kirk Gray
Every day schools are adopting new technologies across their classrooms. Whether it be a math-focused learning app, a learning management system, or a all-in-one system like Schoolrunner, managing and utilizing the data is a big task – especially when those tools don’t talk to one another or make it easy to get the data you […]
What Makes a Great Data (and Schoolrunner) Expert?
Chris Hines, COO of partner Crescent City Schools in New Orleans, recently presented at our annual Schoolrunner Data Institute on the role and importance of having the right person managing data and data tools at your school. If you’re invested in giving teachers reliable and actionable data, in addition to the right tool or platform, […]
