Data-driven decision-making is vital in tracking student achievement by targeting and identifying individual student needs, and collecting the information needed for resource allocation. The more educators know about each student, the more focused the learning can be to the needs of that student. With a vision of “If we can measure it; we can improve it,” Achievement Gateway is a tool designed to provide a consolidated view of daily operational data coming from multiple disparate sources. It is a productive portal for staff to access student data as well as a resource for the statistical analysis of historical test scores and grade data tied to curricular objectives and standards.
The Achievement Gateway can help your school district:
- Increase Student Performance: Give teachers and administrators a clear picture of student performance at an individual, or group level so they can adjust instruction accordingly.
- Meet Reporting Requirements: Quickly and easily generate the reports you need for your school board and local, state, and federal requirements, such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
- Increase Student and Parent Engagement: Gives teachers an easy way to connect with their students and their parents to get them more engaged in their classes. Bringing parents into that collaborative environment gives students the support they need to perform at their highest levels.
- Make Better Decisions: Enhance routine decisions and long-range strategic planning across all school functions with accurate, readily available data presented in intuitive and familiar formats.
- Let Faculty Focus on Instruction: Streamline operational tasks and make it easier for your faculty to find instructional resources, assess students, record and track grades, and communicate with their colleagues, students, and parents. They will have more time and energy to facilitate meaningful learning experiences that meet the unique needs of individual students.
- Bring Data Together from ALL of your Databases:The data warehouse collects data from ANY system in your network and consolidates that information in a convenient format. This serves as more than a student information system by not only incorporating student data, but also data from Special Education, Assessment, Transportation, Food Service, HR-Finance, and Directory Services applications. Data from outside sources can be made available to your staff providing a results oriented approach to data driven decision making.
The Portal Allows Teachers and Administrators to:
- Access individual score and sub-score data from multiple assessments to make decisions on the need for individual student intervention decisions.
- View reports and comparative data to implement instructional decisions by the teacher for individual students or groups of students.
- Disaggregate data by district, schools, subgroups, grades, classes and special groups to identify and analyze gaps in performance.
- Identify strengths and challenges in various schools, subgroups, grades, classes for purposes of school improvement.
- Monitor student performance and progress toward meeting state or district benchmarks through the use of longitudinal data.
- With one mouse click, access the IEP or 504 Summary, accommodations, behavior plans, and transition plans for students. Acknowledge having read and commit to implement a student’s IEP or 504 Plan for accountability purposes.
- Provide feedback to the Case Manager of an IEP student regarding progress toward achieving goals.
- View data from various assessments quickly to review the results and take actions such as curricular modifications, interventions, differentiation of instruction, etc…
- Access information for use in parent/teacher conferencing.
- View data to identify staff strengths to match with student needs as well as monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of staff development and other programs.