Data Dashboard can be an incredible tool for analyzing and viewing students assessments, benchmarks, and progress monitoring.   By accessing your class, you have all the district collected data for each student in your class.  There are various display options that allow you to focus and view specific forms of data.  Luckily, at Quail Hollow Elementary, we have the privilege of working cross grade level with the educators from the previous year.  We get their collected data and have the opportunity to vertically team.  Vertically teaming provides several forms of insight that correspond with the scores accessed through Data Dashboard.  This tool can be invaluable when starting out a year and attempting to group students for instruction.

The digital storytelling was a great opportunity to create a video for my future class(s).  Sadly, due to footage showing activities in my class with students, I cannot post this video publicly on YouTube.  If i were to post this video privately, it would be futile to embed this on the blog.  I suppose screen shot of the beginning of the digital story will have to do for Weebly.  Below you will see the script and storyboard for the video.