TrueNorth Student Voice App

Student Learning Journal Goal Setting

Personalize Learning to Accelerate Student Growth
Differentiate instruction and accelerate student growth by identifying individual student learning needs and the support each student requires to move their learning forward. Through collecting and analyzing the student data provided through the TrueNorth Student Voice App, teachers can:

• Understand and leverage the instructional strategies that have the greatest impact on student learning 
• Design interventions and scaffold lessons based on student feedback 
• Identify how students are feeling as well as their level of engagement with each learning experience
• Create student peer groups, lesson plans, and activities that are equitable and meet each student where they are 
• Enable meaningful connections and interactions between students that reduce isolation and increase their level of engagement
• Monitor and adjust the level of challenge in each lesson to set consistently high expectations 
• Foster the development of critical self-reflection skills and agency in their students
• Form more authentic relationships and stronger credibility with their students

Classroom Dashboard Tracking Student Learning, Engagement and Well-being

Support Teacher Growth and Development 
Give teachers the formative assessment, collective efficacy, evidence-based instruction, and personalized learning tool they need to supercharge their professional growth and exponentially accelerate learning for ALL students. Through regular use of TrueNorth, teachers can:

• Review and reflect on student feedback to understand their impact and inform their next steps
• Collaborate with peers, mentors, and coaches to share student feedback and identify the high impact teaching strategies that will collectively improve student learning
• Select professional development focus areas and evaluate their own evidence of growth within each of those focus areas
• Customize their own professional development pathway based on their learning goals, student feedback, peer observations, and self-reflection exercises. 
• Define what effective instructional practice looks like in each of their classrooms based on student data and peer feedback. 
• Use the evidence collected to inform PLC, coaching, and teacher evaluation conversations.
• Engage parents in data-centered conversations about their student’s learning and well-being

Classroom, School, and System-Level Accountability 
Set new standards of accountability by equipping students, teachers, school and system leaders, and parents with consistent, real-time, and actionable data to demonstrate student learning, student well-being, and teacher growth over time. TrueNorth gathers and analyzes evidence to produce easy-to-understand reports around:

• The degree to which students understood and mastered the learning within any given lesson
• Student well-being and social emotional learning needs
• Classroom strategies and teaching practices that students identify as most impactful in helping them learn more effectively
• Level of challenge and rigor present within a lesson
• Level of student agency and teacher collaboration within a classroom, school, and/or system 
• Changes in tier two and tier three vocabulary usage by students over time 
• Progression in student learning and changes in student emotional well-being by grade level, subject, and/or school 
• Growth in teacher professional practice over time

School Impact Dashboards