Wouldn’t you like to know where your child is right now — not just physically, but academically? With Skoodat, you will be able to do both. In addition to knowing what class your child is in at any given time of the day, you will also know where your student stands relative to requirements for mastery at each grade level, for every subject.
Just because a child has been promoted to 7th grade does not mean that child is reading or doing math at a seventh grade level. We all know this, but until now, we have not had the means to move beyond this general classification system to a more meaningful one — a system where every parent knows how well their child is doing relative to state benchmarks in every subject.
By the time you see a report card, your child may already have fallen behind. Even if your student receives a passing grade, do you really know what this means? It’s time we moved beyond grades and began measuring success according to mastery. Based on research, we know that every child can learn, but each child learns differently, at a different pace.
Skoodat is building a better path to success. With our cloud-based education platform, a parent will be able to log in and view a complete record of a student’s goals, progress and history. Parents will see much more than grades. Imagine being able to view state standards and curriculum objectives, student assignments, tests, and rubrics. Instead of waiting for a report card and wondering what those grades mean, you will be empowered to become an active participant in your child’s education.
Every child is a gift, and every child has a gift. As a parent, you want to help your student achieve mastery in all subjects, but you also want them to excel in areas where they may have special abilities. If it is possible for your child to read at a fifth grade level in second grade, then there is no reason to hold that child back simply because of age. If your student can do college level math as a high school sophomore, then together, we should find a way to make that possible.
At Skoodat, we want to raise the roof on student learning, doing away with the old limitations of antiquated systems. Together with your help, we can make it happen, leveraging cloud-technologies to make transformational tools available to ever-greater numbers of teachers, parents and students.