Growth Checks

what's up everybody.

So now we're gonna be diving into growth checks.

So we've taken the diagnostic, we dove into lessons whether

it's my path or teacher lessons now we're kind of

in that in the midst of what do we do

in order to check in with them?

Right. We can we can't look at any growth yet.

The lessons are just telling us per domain or per

topic. So there is a quick way to be able

to check in on growth and measure that and then

plan accordingly.

So we're going to dive into right here.

All right.

So we have a couple of different points that we're

going to talk about.

The first point is going to be, what is it?

Right. What is a growth track about schedules?

What does that look like?

How often should we be giving them uh reporting different

types of reporting using the data for an entire class

but also using the data for individual students.

So let's start here what is a growth chat?

So agro check is going to be a way for

you to see where students are on truck and ideally

you want to do this in between diagnostics right?

You don't want to do it right after a diagnostic.

You don't want to do it too too often.

But for instance here we diagnostic tested in august the

next time we're testing is january.

That is a huge gap.

And even though we've learned about the instructional groupings and

ways you can use that data.

The data from august it's kind of outdated now.

Right we're in october almost at the end of october

we need some new data to run off of and

that's what this is.

However let's not get it confused.

It is also not going to be designed As a

progress monitoring tool for your tier one students.

So for example on your diagnostic, let's say you had

someone who just blew it out of the water every

time you give a growth check and we'll talk about

it. It's not necessarily for everybody because not everybody might

need that.

We'll talk about a little bit more but just keep

in mind if your goal is to gauge whether or

not they're on grade level standards or understanding something at

the whole grade level, that's the diagnostic.

However if the goal is to determine why students may

not understand grade level standards.

Um We will look at standard mastery, this is simply

a check in tool.

Okay? Here we go.

So schedules, let's keep going there.

You have two options, auto or manual.

Now from the Greenbrier piece, I've gone ahead and I've

set up an automated schedule.

Now that's just gonna be for like our overall check

ins okay?

And it's just like the diagnostic, it pops up for

the student whenever they log in I'll show you those

dates but let's just that you have which we do.

We have students that need to be monitored closely.

Um And that might be one every month right?

We need that ongoing data that would be an example

for you to schedule when those students need to take

it outside of the diagnostic testing and these something that

I definitely want to emphasize is you do not want

to give a growth monitor or you'll hear me call

it G.

C. S.

A growth check assessment in the same month as a

diagnostic that's just double dipping data.

Um And it's time consuming.

You also don't want to administer these growth checks.

Um More than once a month.

You can do it every month but just do it

once and then like we said before you also don't

want to use it for everyone unless you're using the

data for everybody.

So for example the people that I've already talked to

it's been a few months since the diagnostics everyone's taking

the growth check because everybody needs that checking to see

okay where we are what's going on.

Um But then the continuous growth monitoring you might not

need that for everybody.

And then as you can see up top in the

green specific students and groups might take a growth check

every so often.

But then everyone would take a diagnostic that sort of

thing. All right so let's dive into reporting at this

point in time.

You should know the purpose of what a growth check

is. It takes about 15 minutes.

Maybe maximum 25 maximum.

They should be able to get it done within the

class period.

So you just reiterate that.

Um And and why we are giving it so just

be aware you're right there.

All right so types of reports I'm gonna walk you

through how to get to the reporting their grocery.

I'm gonna walk you through how to get to these

reports one we're going to click on report to click

on class and growth monitoring.

So your screen should look like this report class and

then you now have two options.

Growth monitoring status or growth monitoring results.

Okay so let's take a look at what a status

give us.

Okay so status is going to give us a status

report. It's going to show you the status of taking

the growth check just like in um The diagnostic.

So looking at this I can see that all of

these students have completed the growth check.

I have 25 daughter in progress but I have 56

that have not started.

So it's really just a status like we said it's

a check to see where we at.

Okay now when we click on growth monitoring results this

little bar graph is going to pop up.

Okay and the bar graph should look familiar.

That's going to be the diagnostic result but there's not

gonna be anything else there and you're gonna freak out

on me like oh my gosh what's going on here

is what's going on you need to click supporting data

which is down here the blue circle when you click

on that platter sign supporting data you will see that

there is a diagnostic and a growth monitoring scale score.

Now standard error.

Your growth monitoring score is going to have a bigger

standard deviation because it's a shorter assessment.

Um So just take it with a grain of salt.

Obviously if it's within the plus or minus of those

points you know that's the range we want to be

in but if we're way beyond those that's something definitely

to notice.

Now these blue arrows that are up here um at

the table those will show up projected growth measures will

show up after they take a second growth check for

the next diagnostic.

They need three sets of data, three sets of data

in any combination of diagnostic or growth checks Before it

projects a growth goal and all that is is at

the beginning of the year with the diagnostic, it gave

you a growth goal right For the students.

It now wants to tell you how on track are

they to make it well they need data in order

to do that and it doesn't come from the lessons

it comes from these little tidbits of assessing.

Okay, last thing creating a plan.

So this is also in reporting and you can use

this to your advantage once a this is an example

because we have not given to growth checks but once

a student takes their first diagnostic I'm looking at um

column BR.

Sorry three.

If I'm looking at the diagnostic and then we have

two more growth monitoring checks.

Now when we look at that bar graph in number

one up here we've got the diagnostic one results.

But it's gonna give us a.

E. O.

I. End of year projected score.

And that's based on how much they're growing or how

they're doing.

This is an excellent tool and this is what I'm

going to be talking to you guys about by december

for january time frame.

When we go into the next diagnostic you want your

students to know a projected goal.

Like wow I've been working really hard.

This is showing me where on that and it's an

idea it's not necessarily concrete because we're not taking the

diagnostic yet.

How great would it be for them to see especially

our baby too.

I have admitted I didn't try my best on the

first diagnostic they are now able to see okay my

hard work is paying off.

I have grown I can do this and move on

from there.

Yeah so again I'm reading from the purple box.

The end of year growth projection only appears after they've

taken to growth checks after the diagnostic or a diagnostic

of growth check and a diagnostic.

So our game plan is to get to growth checks

in before january.

Now things we should not do okay and I'm just

gonna go ahead and put this out there.

Okay these are very very important for us to dive

into um with growth checks.

We should not look into this data as 100% accurate

because there is a standard error and standard deviation because

of how short the assessment is.

We also should not assigned more than one group check

per month and you should also not assign it and

then not look at the data, this should lead a

day to chat.

So we have data chats with diagnostics, you should be

doing some kind of small grouping um and then one

on one talking with those students to show them, you

know where they're at, that motivation piece is going to

happen but you're the keeper of the key, They can't

see the scores on their own, you have to show

it to them and talk to them about it.

Okay, so last things last um using the data for

our class and then for individuals for the class um

we can definitely go in here and you see um

when you're looking at a growth monitoring result for the

class, you're able to break it down for your class

and and really these goals are gonna be helpful or

these reports are going to be helpful after that second

growth check because that data is not going to pop

up unless they have two of them.

Okay. And same thing here for individual students where we

just went over um using your data for individuals, that

bar graph is going to pop up once they have

a second growth check.

So you can pause the video and you know come

back to it after they take that.

Um And then lastly our schedule this is what is

currently scheduled.

Um There is one open for october, I've got one

for november because we have C.

D. A.

S coming up in december, so the november one should

open. Um I might change that for the week after

thanksgiving but then we have one for february March april

and then june just for those that log on during

the summer.

So if you are wanting those dates to move as

a building we can do that or if you want

to give one in between those days you absolutely can

do that.

Just remember the do not in the dues for our

great check and that's it, that's all of your growth

monitoring. There's also amazing um tips on it in your

teacher success God and I'll put those in there as

well and I look forward to helping you out and

diving in with you.

Great job, y'all

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