This week marks the first week of Spring, and the buzz of renewal is in the air. Spring is the official name of the season, but GEAR UP members may call this time of year’ APR season.’ It also indicates a renewal, moving from the close examination of last year’s grant performance and looking toward…
“Thank you” is a powerful phrase, which is why we spent November’s town hall discussing several dimensions of gratitude in the workplace. We started by reviewing October’s town hall on the scariest word of all… audit. When you audit proof your program you may uncover lots of things that aren’t working and sometimes it is…
The APR is coming up and you’ve been using SCRIBE to record your students’ demographics, services and participation, test scores and grades so you’re in a good position to complete the report. But what if you run the APR Section IV Student Demographics Report in SCRIBE and notice a larger-than-expected number of UNKNOWN students under…
One of GEAR UP’s main goals is to increase high school graduation rates. Now SCRIBE allows users to track whether their students are on track to graduate high school. The student’s On Track to Graduate status will be displayed in the Report Card portion of their enrollment record as either yes, no or unknown. Users…
Summertime brings sunshine, trips to the pool, and margaritas! It also brings the end of the school year which means student graduate, get promoted, or get retained. What does this mean for student enrollment and data collection in SCRIBE? We recommend that all students are exited at the end of each school year using an…
As part of the 2017 GEAR UP Annual Conference in San Francisco, Xcalibur team members Julie Jaramillo and Tricia Brainard partnered with Becky Young from GEAR UP Maine to challenge participants to Think Beyond the Pie Chart. The group developed the Five C’s to See Your Data as a way to create effective…