Learners are more than just a number!
NewGrade will provide a fun, easy, informative tool to help teachers learn how to map curriculum with standards and skills from start to finish. NewGrade will seamlessly provide teachers a platform for academic planning, tracking, grading and reporting of standards-based formative and summative assessments aligned to the teacher-created curriculum. Teachers can also track and assess non-academic, important skills like social-emotional functioning, timeliness, behavior, organization, and executive functioning skills that provide essential feedback but do not provide a grade. NewGrade will integrate rich databases of skills, assessments, and lessons, making planning and grading a breeze. Teachers will also be able access step-by-step, intuitive tutorials on all aspects of the planning, grading, and reporting process with links to rich, useful additional content for further growth and enrichment.
Students will receive timely feedback on their learning, allowing for real-time adjustments and improvements. Students will find in NewGrade a user-friendly, live dashboard that clearly and meaningfully presents student progress towards mastery of the standards-based skills. Students will customize their own welcoming, cloud-based platform on which to build, curate, and report their portfolio of work that reflects and embodies their learning journey. These portfolios can be shared with teachers, students, employers, colleges, and vocational schools to demonstrate a holistic picture of each student.
Parents will find an easy way to partner with their student and teacher through clear, comprehensible communication. Through our simplified interface, parents will find an easy snapshot of their child’s skills-based strengths and challenges with specific steps for improvement each semester. Parents can access multiple views of their student’s feedback and assessment, including progress bars towards specific skills, helping them to assist their students in specific, targeted ways to ensure growth and success.
Administrators will find NewGrade an efficient, useful, and descriptive tool in communicating each student’s learning journey to parents, colleges, and all shareholders in order to support student goals in learning and growth. NewGrade will also help administrators to analyze data on student progress at school to help improve equity and outcomes for all students. Administrators will be able to break down academic and non-academic skills by grade, class, teacher, and student for multi-level analysis and trending to ensure targeted action points for improving learning outcomes for every student.
Eitan Pessah
Mohammad Khalil