Demonstrating School-wide Improvement with Showbie

Accessing Insights & Evidence

Creating an easy-to-navigate digital learning environment is the first step to improving access to evidence. Fewer clicks and less sifting through paper workbook pages means more time focusing your story on key assignments, feedback and student progress over time.

In practice:

• Establishing consistent structure and naming for Classes, Folders and Assignments across your school will guide viewers and make it easier to retrieve key work from previous years, or across year groups and subjects.
• The document scanning feature on iPad makes Showbie the ideal digital repository for work, allowing teachers to maintain the use of physical books while building a single and accessible record of student work.
• Flexible assignment settings enable educators to tailor visibility of posted documents, such as curriculum standards and learning objectives, alongside activities so teachers and students can reference them as they work.
• Easy video uploading allows teachers to record and revisit modelling and instructions, and enhance lessons shared with a class while making all teaching resources accessible for review later.
• Auditor Accounts provide leaders with transparent access to the entire digital learning environment to monitor teaching and track student progress.

Building a Record of Teacher-Student Interaction

With consistent practices, Showbie can be the single stop for school leaders and stakeholders seeking deep insights into how teachers engage individual learners, the effectiveness of school improvement strategies, and an overview of student success against key standards.

In practice:

• Developing a verbal feedback policy will empower your educators to engage students more effectively and consistently. It will also enable learners to share their thinking aloud, providing deeper insight into student comprehension and misconceptions. Download our free resource to learn more: https://learn.showbie.com/feedback-policy-ebook
• The student Assignment Timeline is the best place to demonstrate how instruction, teaching supports and feedback can be personalised to each student to close feedback loops faster, and more effectively. As a digital repository, the timeline captures engagement, tracks iterations of work, and shows teacher-student interactions over time.
• Build a consistent practice around formative assessment with the Socrative integration in Showbie. Embed minute-by-minute knowledge checks, get instant feedback, and use reports to keep a detailed record of progress against key metrics.
  

Assessing Student Progress

All that student work adds up over a school year. The ability to zoom out across classes and zero in to individual students means your leadership team can quickly find the most important work to best exemplify teacher impact and student progress, track trends, and show evidence of your school improvement strategy.

In practice:

• Digital Portfolios in Showbie highlight a student’s most exemplary work. Flexible portfolio settings provide opportunities for students to highlight progress, and for teachers to flag work to share with leaders or families.
• Integrated Summative Assessment in Showbie via the Socrative app allows heads and digital leaders to share and leverage standardised assessments across your organisation. Shared quiz libraries and simple tools to create and import quiz content make it easy to gain deeper insights into student understanding, and track quiz results while preparing for key examinations.
• The Assignment Overview is the complete window into progress, highlighting student and class-wide progress in key subjects over the term. Combining alphanumeric grading, quiz results and emojis all in one place, teachers and school leaders can easily view results, track progress, guide next steps, and target supports for individual learners. At the end of the year, easily export the entire overview of student progress.

Creating a Transparent Learning Environment

Finding, crafting and sharing your school improvement story is easy when everything you need is just a few clicks away. Showbie offers several tools to make sure you can keep stakeholders across your community up-to-date with relevant information on teaching and learning across your organisation.

In practice:

• Use Parent Accounts and Groups to manage a window into the classroom that provides timely and transparent communication, and supports family engagement in the learning process. Flexible parent account settings provide access to student work, portfolio, modelling and instructions.
• Auditor Accounts let you stay on top of everyday instruction, feedback and assessment across your schools, and enable quality assurance processes.
• Professional Services: Showbie offers bespoke CPD sessions to upskill and empower your team in their digital learning journey, ensuring staff can do their best work with the tools provided to them and their learners.