WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.940 In this video you'll learn how to read the growth metric report, and why growth, not 00:10.940 --> 00:18.820 raw score, is the fair way to compare schools that started in very different places. 00:18.820 --> 00:21.760 Open reports, then growth metric. 00:21.760 --> 00:27.520 Set your schools, grades, and subjects, then choose the two periods you want to compare. 00:27.520 --> 00:30.960 Ascend opens with a written key takeaway. 00:30.960 --> 00:34.720 Select one school to focus, or several to compare. 00:34.720 --> 00:38.640 Each school appears as a card with its growth position. 00:38.640 --> 00:44.840 Everything here rests on the growth metric scale, at its five vans, beginning, developing, 00:44.840 --> 00:48.040 approaching, proficient, and advanced. 00:48.040 --> 00:53.040 Growth over time plots each school's score progression across assessment periods, against 00:53.040 --> 00:54.960 the district average. 00:54.960 --> 00:57.120 Read the shape, not the height. 00:57.120 --> 01:00.920 A school starting low and rising steeply is improving. 01:00.920 --> 01:03.960 A school sitting high but flat is not. 01:03.960 --> 01:08.480 These need different conversations, and raw scores would tell you the opposite. 01:08.480 --> 01:13.720 The completion panel warns you when there isn't enough completed data to draw the trend. 01:13.720 --> 01:15.720 Treat sparse data with care. 01:15.720 --> 01:20.920 Below, the grade wise table breaks the same story down by grade. 01:20.920 --> 01:27.480 Growth, beginning of year average, end of year average, growth, band, proficiency, and 01:27.480 --> 01:28.880 an action link. 01:28.880 --> 01:34.400 A great showing little or no movement between periods is your intervention target, whatever 01:34.400 --> 01:36.440 it's absolute score. 01:36.440 --> 01:39.560 Use the action link on that road to take it forward. 01:39.560 --> 01:42.280 Growth tells you whether teaching is working. 01:42.280 --> 01:45.000 Or alone only tells you where a cohort started.