Here is a link to the recording admin Freckle training. Just a heads-up.. the trainer spent the majority of the time showing teacher reports in Freckle, and did not talk about the admin dashboard until the end of the session. It is good information to help better understand how to leverage Freckle, so I would still recommend watching certain parts of the recording when you have time. I've provided timestamps below with cliffsnotes. If you would like, you can just read the cliffsnotes and fast forward to that part of the video if you want to see the trainer's explanation. I put a star emoji ⭐ to show which parts of the recording would be most beneficial to watch. Hopefully that makes it a little easier to navigate the recording in an efficient way.

To speed up the video a little, you can click on Speed in the video player and select 1.25x and just go back to Normal when you need to Normal speed when needed.

8:30: - What is Freckle?
There are two main components of Freckle. Freckle has an adaptive path in which our students learn at their own level at their own pace, and Freckle has an assignable, focused practice component.

10:20: - Freckle and Renaissance Star Screeners

Star Screener helps place students at the student's level in Freckle. This overview does a better job explaining how Freckle and Renaissance Star assessments work together.

13:30: Student view in Freckle

Students will see assigned practice from the teacher in their "backpack" and ELA and Math practice that's always available (teachers can change this default). Students will see

15:15: ⭐ Math Fact Practice

Fact practice works like digital flashcards, but they adapt to the student's level. Students need to complete the entire fact practice exercise (24 questions) in order for it to save their data. Students can only practice math facts twice a day. After they complete math facts practice two times, they will not be able to do it again until the following day.

17:25: ⭐ Adaptive Math & ELA Practice

Students are working at their own level at all times they come to the screen, and they could pick from different math domains. All domains are available to the student by default, or the teacher can choose to only show certain ones.

22:03: Student view - report card

Shows students their starting level, where they are now, levels grown, and correct answers today.

23:47: Question from a principal: Can the teacher assign practice that they feel the student needs even if the Star Screener did not represent that? Answer from trainer: Yes, there is a particular report you can go in and reassign a diagnostic test for the adaptive practice. (Not in the video: You can also assign the skill by itself outside of the adaptive practice).

24:40: Student support tools

Students have hints, instructional video, and a pen for annotations for all math practice. (highlight & workout a problem).

26:25 ⭐ Teacher Reports (We have a virtual Freckle teacher reports training on Dec. 8th at 3:30)

(23:41) Levels report: overview of all the domains on which my students are working and shows their growth (28:23) expand domains in the level reports to see starting leve, current level and growth. (29:50) Click on edit to reassign a skill in the adaptive practice. This is when a teacher feels they need more practice on a skill even though they mastered it in the Star Screener. Teachers can also manually move the student up a level if they feel the student has already mastered a skill even though they did not do well on the skill on the Star screener.

(31:57) Performance by Standard Report: It shows all the standards that are specific on that grade level and the students' progress on the standards. Click on the drop down next to a standard to see lists of students broken down in groups (below 50%, 50-79%, 79%-100% mastery). Teachers can assign the standard to give additional practice to the students. They can assign by mastery group or assign to individual students.

(36:03) Report Cards Reports Overview how individual students are doing in different areas. Provides trend lines, adaptive growth across domains. Teachers can also assign practice directly on this page.

42:45 ⭐ Admin Dashboard

Click here for screenshots and a more detailed overview

43:08: ⭐ Dashboard Tab: gives an overview of how many teachers, students, and classes are using Freckle. Teachers tab - (You cannot invite new teachers even though the trainer says you can in the training). You can click on the blue arrow button to impersonate a teacher and view teacher reports.

45:33: ⭐ Growth Data Tab: Toggle between math & ELA. Use filters at the top to narrow down to campus, grade level, unit (math)/domain (ELA), and date range. This page shows students who are growing vs. students who are not growing. The Average Grade Level Growth represents growth over one school year. How Is Growth Calculated? The Growth Data page follows students' progress through the adaptive levels in each domain within a given date range. Once a student has practiced four sessions within a domain, that practice data will be used to calculate their growth. If a student is successfully completing material and moving up in level within the date range, they are "growing." If they are not successfully completing material and moving down or staying at the same level, they are "struggling."

(49:20) Grade Level Growth is the number of grades a student has progressed within a domain. Decimal values represent the percentage of material covered in the grade they are practicing in. As an example, growth of 1.2 for a 3rd-grade student would mean that they have completed the third grade material, are now practicing at the fourth grade level, and have already covered 20% of the fourth grade material for that domain. The numbers an administrator sees in the dashboard are an average of growth across domains. For example, if a student moves up 0.4 grade levels in one domain, and 0.2 grade levels in another domain, their overall growth would be 0.3 grade levels. To get a more detailed look at a student's grade level growth for a specific domain, simply double click the student's name on the "Growth by Student" chart. (50:05) Scroll down to view growth by grade level and domain. There are also four charts that compare growing vs. struggling students for the average number of questions answered, number of completed sessions, accuracy of sessions, and minutes of practice. (50:44) Growth by teacher, student, and school. Use this to view which teacher has the highest amount of growth and accuracy scores.

53:04 ⭐ Usage Data Tab: Total sessions and minutes across subjects, grade-levels. Use colored squares on charts to filter domains. You can also see which teachers and students are using it the most and least.

56:36 ⭐ Proficiency Data

This report is only based on Math Adaptive Practice data. The Math Adaptive Grade Level Report gives insight into how each school/grade level/student is performing within a given learning domain on Freckle's adaptive math practice. By allowing administrators to view data at both a high level and drill down into individual students, this report ensures they have the data needed to make decisions that will drive student growth. You can select a grade level and domain at the top and expand a school's data by clicking on the blue carrot/arrow. The data shows students that are below, within, and above mastery for the selected domain.

1:00:25: School Assessments Tab

The trainer wasn't able to show much about this tab. You can view benchmark assessment data that teachers assign in Freckle. Admin can also assign an assessment for select students, but there isn't much information on what the assessment looks like.

1:02:47 The trainer spent some time showing how teachers can view reports by standard and assign practice or assessments by standard. She also showed how teachers can select an option to show Focus Skills (1:03 in the video). The Focus Skills were chosen by Renaissance based on their research, however I would caution teachers to also pay attention to Readiness standards. While the Focus Skills filter does include most of the Readiness TEKS, it doesn't have all of them. I wouldn't rely solely on the Freckle's Focus skills. I would suggest looking at all the standards without the Focus Skills filter.