JumpRope helps teachers, schools, and districts move beyond traditional grades towards standards-based feedback on mastery. Use our planning tools and gradebook to transform your classroom today! More+
Schools often face a difficult decision between innovation and maintaining order. Without the proper technology to support innovation great ideas fizzle. JumpRope has got your back.
We give teachers the support they need to establish a standards-based classroom while not losing focus of what’s important: engaging students with active pedagogy, purposeful planning, and authentic learning experiences.
JumpRope can generate anything from a standard report card to a comprehensive report based entirely on standards and growth. To ease the transition from old to new-school, hybrid report options help students and families learn the new format, and learn to love standards-based grading.
Teachers wear a lot of hats; instructor, mentor, mediator, hall monitor. With JumpRope you don’t have to put on your techie hat as well. Our intuitive interface is easy for anyone to learn and leaves no room for error. We know that technology is at its best when it becomes an extension of ourselves, supplementing and filling in for that which we lack.
With honest, transparent and timely feedback about their progress, students begin to connect success with learning instead of success with grades. Students who are accustomed to failing begin to see areas of strength and weakness that are honest and manageable. Students who are accustomed to excelling can identify areas where they can still improve. Teachers can tailor planning and instruction to their students’ needs with more precision and purpose than ever.
JumpRope eliminates the guesswork when it comes to evaluation: is it more helpful to be a C-student or a student who needs to improve in their ability to "make conclusions by analyzing context clues?" Students are hungry to improve, and too often they're never given the necessary feedback to do so. That’s why JumpRope frees up teachers and administrators to do what they do best: create, inspire, and propel.
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JumpRope helps educators implement standards-based grading in every classroom through innovative assessment and feedback. We provide the web-based platform that great teachers and schools need to engage students with active pedagogy, purposeful planning, and authentic learning experiences. With the tools to make standards-based grading easy, teachers are freed to create, propel and inspire, and students become life-long learners. More+
We've been working in public, private, and charter schools for years. If your school or district wants a product that simultaneously pushes classroom innovation and empowers teachers, look no further. Empowering teachers with useful data and helpful technology is what we love to do. When teachers can collaborate across the boundaries of curriculum, backed by data that shows what their students know, learning is at the forefront, instead of grades.
Rules of Thumb is a series in which we share best practices for JumpRope and standards-based grading in general. Jesse taught for five years and has helped dozens of schools and thousands of teachers implement standards-based grading, but knows very well that these aren't one-size-fits-all. Take a look, and let us know in the comments if you agree or have other related suggestions!
More+"JumpRope is a part of the daily conversation here at MELS, with parents frequently contacting teachers regarding JumpRope assignments, teachers using JumpRope to develop common learning targets and assessments, and students logging on to monitor their progress."
Pat Finley
"I have yet to find another software backed by a group of creative, accessible, open minded and technologically savvy professionals who understand the teacher side of things. In creating this flexible, innovative software they have truly aligned themselves with the national move in education toward outcomes and competencies."
Laura Mitchel
