eUREKA! Reporting provides a data analysis platform to meet LPS’s analysis needs.  Information is integrated from LPS’s Powerschool® Student Information System and state and internal assessment files.   eUREKA! Reporting was able to automate all of the requested reports from the Teacher survey.  This provided teachers with critical snapshots of prior year’s student performance and current year student performance in order to inform instruction and plan for the new school year.

In addition, eUREKA! Reporting’s interactivity features allow teachers and counselors to easily get answers to follow-on questions that might arise, and view the information in both data and chart form.   Teachers can also drill into individual student records to find influencing factors.  LPS can now focus more effort on meeting user requirements for data, rather than data extraction and manipulation.

Relationships that schools form with their students is key to student success.  eUREKA! Reporting provides LPS with data-driven evidence to help advisory and classroom teachers quickly identify students that need intervention, determine the best course of action and measure the outcome of these interventions, allowing for higher graduation rates and better assessment results

Leadership Public Schools (LPS) has four schools in the San Francisco bay area that provide a rigorous college prep curriculum for students in low achievement neighborhoods.  Because many students are behind their grade level by the time they reach high school, LPS provides intensive support for its students.  One source of support is the student’s advisory teacher.  When students enter LPS, they are assigned an advisory teacher who follows the student throughout their high school career, providing mentoring as needed.  In this way, each student has at least one teacher who is concerned with all of the factors that may affect their academic performance.  

LPS needed a data analysis system to support its advisory and classroom teachers by helping them identify which students need intervention and how best to intervene.   Teachers were surveyed and a number of reports were requested that would help them identify and meet the needs of students that required intervention.

Without eUREKA! Reporting, these reports would have required extracting data from their Student Information System and assembling the information in Excel and Filemaker.  This would have resulted in a time consuming and error prone process that could not be automated.  LPS needed something more automated and flexible.

Identify Math and English Intervention Targets.  Intervention rosters are created for students who have not passed both sections of the CA High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE).    Assessment results are provided at the summary and detail level and includes historical information.  The analysis helps advisory teachers determine where students need help in order to pass CAHSEE.   It also looks at the relationship between CAHSEE and CA Standards Test (CST) performance, classroom performance and attendance.  Looking at all student information together allows teachers to accurately identify root causes that underlie student performance, and plan relevant interventions. Teachers can tell whether assessment results are a function of subject matter mastery or other external factors, such as attendance or motivation.

Monitor Attendance Patterns. Weekly Attendance rosters help identify potentially problematic student attendance patterns.  This analysis provides year to date and weekly attendance summaries, to help advisory teachers quickly spot students who have absence and tardy problems, or who habitually miss certain classes.

Get Student Academic Snapshots.   This summary helps advisory teachers rapidly spot students who are not on track for graduation, or who fall below the school’s attendance goal.  Early intervention benefits students by providing them with ample opportunity to graduate on time.

Classroom teachers at LPS also benefit from eUREKA! Reporting.  CST assessment summaries are provided for all subjects.  This enables classroom teachers to analyze prior years’ student scores to help inform instruction for the new school year.  Teachers can also get a snapshot of grades, grade point average, attendance and assessment scores for this year’s students to give them a holistic view of their new students’ subject mastery, and other factors that may affect their classroom performance.

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With eUREKA! Reporting. Discovery Solutions was able to develop a reporting system for the school that allowed advisory teachers to: