This presentation shares the Grade cam software to all teachers and administrators who are interested.

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

3. Inside the Black
Box
By Paul Black and Dylan
William
• Learning is driven by
what teachers and
pupils do in
classrooms.

4. Inside the Black
Box
By 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.

5. Inside the Black
Box
By 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.

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

9. Teachers have too
much 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.

10. Paperwork Load 4th Grade
Teacher

11. Paperwork Load 4th Grade
Teacher

12. Per week
Paperwork Load 4th Grade
Teacher

13. 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.

14. • 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

15. Brevard County Florida
8th-Grade Benchmark Testing 4/23/09
Time Savings

16. Brevard County Florida
8th-Grade Benchmark Testing 4/23/09
Time Savings

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

18. Grade 30 exams
in 1 minute
Time Savings

19. Save Time
Input grades into
gradebooks by
pressing one button

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

21. Save Money
GradeCam
Is much less expensive than old assesment systems.

22. The Old Way Burning
Money
Hypothetical Example District
60,000 students
75 Schools

23. The Old Way Burning
Money
$5,625 OMR machine x 75 schools
$421,875

24. $0.15 ea x 60,000 students x 4 tests/yr
$36,000
The Old Way Burning
Money

25. $1,100 maintenance plan x 75 schools
$82,500
The Old Way Burning
Money

26. The Old Way Burning Money
$421,875 Scanners
$36,000 Test Forms
$82,500 Maintenance Plan
Total: $540,375

27. The Old Way Burning Money
And this does nothing to
improve student outcomes.

28. GradeCam Savings
• Free test forms
• No maintenance costs
• Uses inexpensive
Web or Document
Cameras

29. GradeCam Savings
GradeCam Introductory Price
$2.00
per student/year
Savings over
OMR machines
$420,375

31. “Do I really know enough about the
understanding of my pupils to help
each of them?”

32. Arne Duncan
U.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.”

33. 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…

34. 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.

35. • 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

36. Summative
Assessment
Occurs at the end
of instruction and
determines if the
content being
taught was
retained.
This is the
traditional practice.
Formative vs. Summative Assessment

37. Formative vs. Summative Assessment
Formative
Assessment
Using feedback
from learning
activities to adapt
teaching to meet
the learner's needs.

38. 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

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

40. • 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

41. The GradeCam Classroom
Feedback Cycle

42. Response to Intervention
GradeCam is a highly effective at:
• Tracking results from interventions
• Helping to evaluate interventions
• Providing required documentation to
satisfy RtI requirements.

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

44. Your Data is Safe

45. • 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

46. • Access requires biometric
hand scanning in addition
to a security card.
Your Data is Safe

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

48. • 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

50. Working with You.
GradeCam is not a large
corporation.
We have nine employees and
about 500,000 users.

51. If you need support,
we’ll answer the phone.
Working with You.

52. We can customize
GradeCam
to meet your needs.
Working with You.

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