Starting today

Starting today.1. Save teachers time.2. Save your district money.3. Increase the quality of

education for your students.

Inside the Black BoxBy Paul Black and Dylan William

• Learning is driven by what teachers and pupils do in classrooms.

Inside the Black BoxBy 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.

Inside the Black BoxBy 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.

But How?

• What tools do teachers have to help in the classroom?• How do teachers get the tools they need?

SAVE TIME!

Teachers have toomuch 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.

Paperwork Load 4th Grade Teacher

Paperwork Load 4th Grade Teacher

Per week

Paperwork Load 4th Grade Teacher

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.

• 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

Brevard County Florida8th-Grade Benchmark Testing 4/23/09

Time Savings

Brevard County Florida8th-Grade Benchmark Testing 4/23/09

Time Savings

Time Savings

That’s 7 ½ hours that could have been used improving student test scores.

Grade 30 exams in 1 minute

Time Savings

Save Time

Input grades into gradebooks by pressing one button

Save TimeYou can grade:• Multiple Choice• True/False• Credit/No Credit• Point-Based (10pt/5pt)• Scored Assignments (Essays)• Benchmarks

Save Money

GradeCam Is much less expensive than old assesment systems.

The Old Way Burning Money

Hypothetical Example District60,000 students 75 Schools

The Old Way Burning Money

$5,625 OMR machine x 75 schools$421,875

$0.15 ea x 60,000 students x 4 tests/yr$36,000

The Old Way Burning Money

$1,100 maintenance plan x 75 schools $82,500

The Old Way Burning Money

The Old Way Burning Money$421,875 Scanners$36,000 Test Forms$82,500 Maintenance Plan

Total: $540,375

The Old Way Burning Money

And this does nothing toimprove student outcomes.

GradeCam Savings

• Free test forms• No maintenance costs• Uses inexpensive Web or Document Cameras

GradeCam Savings

GradeCam Introductory Price

$2.00 per student/year

Savings over OMR machines$420,375

Increase test scores.

“Do I really know enough about the understanding of my pupils

to help each of them?”

Arne DuncanU.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.”

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…

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.

• 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

Summative AssessmentOccurs at the end of instruction and determines if the content being taught was retained.

This is the traditional practice.

Formative vs. Summative Assessment

Formative vs. Summative AssessmentFormative AssessmentUsing feedback from learning activities to adapt teaching to meet the learner's needs.

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

Benchmarks play a critical role in informing administrators as to how students are performing against the standards.

Benchmarks

• 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

The GradeCam ClassroomFeedback Cycle

Response to Intervention

GradeCam is a highly effective at:

• Tracking results from interventions• Helping to evaluate interventions • Providing required documentation to

satisfy RtI requirements.

Your Data is Safe

GradeCam’s servers and network infrastructure exceed security “best practices” administered by banking, healthcare, and the education industry.

Your Data is Safe

• 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

• Access requires biometric hand scanning in addition to a security card.

Your Data is Safe

• Our CEO is the only person who has access to student data aside from you.

Your Data is Safe

• 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

Working with You.

Working with You.

GradeCam is not a large corporation.

We have nine employees and about 500,000 users.

If you need support, we’ll answer the phone.

Working with You.

We can customize GradeCam

to meet your needs.

Working with You.

Working with You.

Together we can enhances education and fulfill our shared goal of creating better lives for the students we serve.