Make learning more meaningful
Empower teachers to give actionable feedback to learners and differentiate instruction. Empower students to own their learning and truly master all the skills and habits that promote success. And empower families to support the learning process in the most productive ways.
Together, you’ll shift the conversation to be about learning ― not grades or completion. And then school will become a place where all students have the opportunity to succeed.
The power of standards-based grading
Standards-based grading is a powerful way to make learning the most important outcome ― empowering students to own their learning, ensuring that instruction is relevant, and inviting families to support along the way.
What is standards-based grading?
A traditional approach communicates summative achievement ― as well as participation, effort, and extra credit ― with a single percentage or letter grade. This approach values the completion of work more than learning.
Standards-based grading is a system for measuring and reporting students’ progress toward mastering learning goals. It involves examining evidence of multiple standards over time to determine what students have learned and what they still need to learn.
Does your gradebook support your practice? It should.
When your tools support your practice, your work gets easier, your students get more of your time and attention, and your entire standards-based implementation gets stronger.
You shouldn’t have to wrestle with a traditional gradebook to try to get it to report on standards ― it was not designed to do that and will never do it well.
JumpRope is a standards-based gradebook that helps connect teaching practice with learning standards, making it easier for teachers to implement standards-based teaching practices. For example, JumpRope helps teachers provide descriptive feedback on the standards. And JumpRope makes it easy for students and families to view progress online at any time.
Standards-based to the core
Assess mastery of the standards
Give specific, descriptive feedback to students
Share progress with students and families
Import data from Google Classroom and 20+ SIS ― including PowerSchool and Infinite Campus
Reflect on performance across classrooms and evaluate how well expectations are aligned
Customize the gradebook with your own standards, scoring scales, calculations, and more
Standards-based grading isn’t just good practice ― it’s grounded in neuroscience
Standards-based grading supports the way students’ brains are wired to create the best conditions for learning. Ready for a quick primer on the human brain?
The brain has two primary survival mechanisms: to seek patterns and to seek pleasure.
Seeking Patterns
When presented with unexpected sensory input — such as unfamiliar questions — the brain rapidly scans stored memories to find one that matches the new information. The brain uses patterns like these to make predictions and decide how to act.
Seeking Pleasure
When the brain makes an accurate prediction and acts in a way that gets the desired result, dopamine is released ― promoting a sense of pleasure and satisfaction. The brain finds this so pleasurable that it remembers the actions that caused this response and seeks opportunities to repeat them. As the brain pursues this goal, it results in better attention, motivation, curiosity, perseverance, and memory.
What matters most
+ JumpRope believes in the power of standards-based grading to make learning visible.
+ JumpRope believes in the power of meaningful data to drive actionable feedback and productive conversations about learning.
+ And we believe in the power of educators like you ― as you use standards-based practice to help students learn, grow, and thrive.
+ With compelling data insights in the right hands, students, teachers, and families can communicate about learning. And then school becomes a place where all students have the opportunity to succeed.
At JumpRope, we build software that empowers teachers, students, and families with actionable, standards-based insights
