This four-minute video provides a brief beginning-of-year review for leaders returning to Forefront. Learn how to review prior-year implementation and results, prepare reports and dashboards for upcoming data meetings, and access professional learning resources.
Review Configured Programs and Data Collection
Drill down to the Pacing page to review the programs and assessments configured for your schools and grade levels. Drop back to a prior term to see which assessments were completed and where data was collected during the previous school year. This can help you:
Confirm which programs and assessments were in use
Review implementation across schools, grades, or classrooms
Identify gaps in data collection
Prepare for conversations with teachers and instructional teams
You can also navigate into a classroom to review results in greater detail.
Prepare Reports and Dashboards
Explore saved reports in your Resources folder, or navigate to Dashboards to revisit the prior year's assessment results.
Reports and dashboards can help teams look back at prior results while planning forward. If you have not created these resources for your school or district, consider creating and saving the reports or create dashboards you will need for:
Grade-level or department meetings
Unit assessment reviews
Screening-result discussions
PLC, MTSS, or school improvement meetings
District-created dashboards may also include discussion prompts or protocols to help teams interpret results and connect them to instructional planning. Learn more about:
Plan for Data Review
Put dates on the calendar for when teams will review unit and screening assessment results. Planning these conversations in advance can help ensure that data collection leads to reflection and instructional response.
You may also schedule a data check-in with your Forefront representative. A check-in can provide additional structure and accountability as your team establishes its data-review routines for the year. Learn more about data check-ins.
Access Professional Learning
Open Professional Learning from the left-hand navigation to view courses available to your district.
Select a course to enroll and begin learning. Available courses may support the use of Forefront, specific assessments, scoring practices, or the interpretation of results.
If you do not see Professional Learning in your account, contact [email protected] to ask whether the module can be enabled for your district.
Continue learning
Forefront also offers webinars, professional development, and expert coaching to help leaders use assessment information in collaborative meetings, instructional planning, and implementation monitoring. Find some of those resources linked below:
Getting Started for Leaders (30 min): Understand how Forefront can be used to support data collection processes, the most valuable tools for teachers, and how to easily access the Reporting Suite to look at instructional trends.
Help Doc: Understanding Proficiency in Forefront: Learn how Forefront calculates standards proficiency for students, both for what is visualized in the student wheel and overview page.
Help Doc: Entering Data: Learn how teachers enter data as well as tips and handy tools to expedite data entry.
Intro to Forefront Reports (Part 1): This webinar is for teachers and leaders that are new to the Forefront reporting suite. Gain a basic understanding of how to navigate to access and generate reports, the main categories of visualizations available, and how Forefront can support data-driven instruction more generally in this 30-minute webinar.
Getting Deeper with Forefront Reports (Part 2): Dig deeper in the Forefront reporting suite and start thinking about growth! In this 45-minute presentation, you will learn how to generate more complex reports, particularly reports that focus on growth. Teachers and leaders with data from multiple assessments will be able to follow along and create reports that give a deeper understanding of student learning as it evolves over time.
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