"Fox Chapel Area SD has found the new 4Sight Benchmark Assessment Item Analysis Report available on EdInsight to be very valuable.  Our teachers are currently using it to set goals related to attainment of the PA Academic Standards/Assessment Anchors and preparation for the PSSA for our students.  Item analysis data is used at the department, grade, class and individual student levels to target our interventions to areas of relative weakness indicated by the data.

Ongoing assessment, including additional benchmark assessments, diagnostic assessments and formative classroom assessments, enable us to monitor attainment of the goals, and to adjust them or set new goals accordingly.  Since the Item Analysis Report gets down to the Eligible Content level, it is easy to focus our efforts in a way that will improve outcomes for our students."

"EdInsight gives teachers the opportunity to see each student as an individual and look at specific needs for each student. As far as a principal is concerned, it puts all of the information on a student in one package, so we can research the student's difficulties and relay that information to parents. Teachers in our building have used it to research students and adjust teaching strategies, and used it to confirm areas of strengths and weaknesses. It is a powerful package and only has room to grow."

"As an IST teacher, I am charged with assisting students who are in danger of being placed in a learning support program. I develop special interventions, lessons, resources, etc. and then work with these children and their teachers to help them become successful in the classroom.

We try to work with children that are close to being identified as learning disabled and prevent that from happening. Having the necessary data to determine what students are in need of additional instruction is absolutely essential to that process. "

"Shaler Area is hiring over 45 new teachers. Classroom management is a very difficult skill for new teachers to develop. Our goal is to add techniques and best practices around classroom management to the Edinsight resources to aid the new teachers. A key component of our teacher induction program this school year will be training teachers in the use of the Edinsight system."

"In my classes, if I see that there is a struggling student, I'll invite them to my room during QRT.  I'll pull up their grades for 3-4 years back and talk to them about their strengths and weaknesses over the past few years, and see how it could possibly relate to their current achievement/struggle.  We'll pull up attendance and talk about tardies and how important it is to attend school (if attendance is an issue).  I ask them the same questions that I ask myQRT students:  What are they proud of? What can they improve on? How I can help?  Sometimes it's one student, and we'll work on study skills and test taking strategies. Sometimes, all that it takes is a little work on the student's self-confidence issues."