Abante Progression™ Toolbox : Data Management with Today's Technology

The toolbox consists of four products:

• Report Card Assistant
• Standard Tracker
• Lesson Plan Assistant
• Administrator Assistant

The Report Card Assistant allows teachers to deal directly with the standards they teach. Mastery levels can be given to a student for a standard for which they have been assessed. The Report Card Assistant also handles the teacher's attendance needs.

...to have an electronic gradebook that manages a standard-based curriculum?

...to establish weighted assessments and calculate final grades?

...to easily manage an assessment that evaluates multiple standards?

...to enter assessments automatically, from Standard Tracker to Report Card Assistant?

That's STANDARD TRACKER

The Standard Tracker goes a step beyond the Report Card Assistant to identify how standards are taught and assessed. A standard might be taught by giving students homework assignments or in-class testing. Each of these individual assessments carry weights that allow the Standard Tracker to automatically calculate a mastery level for the standard.

...to have easy access to "Best Practice" lesson plans that are established from within the district or without?

...to identify key elements that will help support the delivery of instruction such as resources, concepts, or prerequisites?

...to identify lesson plans that are especially effective with different learning styles or that support more than one learning style?

...to link lesson plans to assessments?

That's LESSON PLAN ASSISTANT

The Lesson Plan Assistant allows teachers to collaborate with each other and allows the school system to identify best practices.

To have data analysis tools that help answer the following questions:

...in what areas of the curriculum is our instruction effective and what areas require process improvement strategies?

...are the assessments in the class predicting our results on standardized tests?

...are our teaching strategies broad enough to help students from all backgrounds?

...how are the students performing before and after transitions between grade levels and buildings?

...is our remediation effective and can we show that to our Title 1 auditors?

That's ADMINISTRATOR ASSISTANT

The Administrator Assistant is important for bringing all the information together. It can create district, class, and student profile reports.