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\"Information<\/a>I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about report cards since I read Hot on the Paper Trail<\/a><\/i> about the power of receipts by Baratunde Thurston <\/a>in Fast Company. Thurston opens with a question posed by and Twitter<\/a> cofounder Jack Dorsey<\/a>, \u201cWhat if we see the receipt more as a publishing medium? A product unto itself that people actually want to take home, that they want to engage with, be fully interactive with?”<\/p>\n

It got me thinking: What if we saw the report card as more than a static report? Could it become a tool that children want to take home, a tool that could be fully interactive for students, parents and teachers?\u00a0 I started pushing my thinking. What if we \u201cbadged\u201d report cards? Parents could put a bright chart on the fridge and students could bring home stickers every time they hit proficiency on a learning objective.\u00a0 What if school sent an email or tweet to parents every time a student hit the proficiency mark, which could be easily retweeted to grandparents?<\/p>\n

Richard Murphy<\/a>, a mentor, colleague and friend to many of us in education and youth development, used to carry a roll of Lifesavers around, asking why we couldn\u2019t have as much information about students and communities as companies have about their products. I can tell how many calories, how much cholesterol and what type of sweeteners are in a roll of Lifesavers. Why can\u2019t we tell if the course or unit was structured for Level 3 or Level 6 in Bloom\u2019s, and whether it had performance assessments and an opportunity for creative work? And pace and progress…. Don\u2019t get me started. Why can\u2019t parents get a sense of distance, depth, effort (school\u2019s and student\u2019s) and rate of learning?<\/p>\n

My nephew is at a school where student received iPads. Dashboards would be great. But he sure loves those video games \u2013 he\u2019d be much more interested in getting points to be able to get a new tool or weapon to tackle a challenge in a video game. Memorizing the countries in South America \u2013 boring! But if he got some points in a game for the same knowledge, he\u2019d have them down in five minutes. Writing an essay about how the rivers in two countries shape their economies \u2013 no problem if he could get that golden apple (that seems to have significant powers in Assassin\u2019s Creed).<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m totally jazzed about The Foundation for Excellence in Education<\/a>\u2019s My School Info Design Challenge<\/a> (#SchoolInfo).\u00a0 It is a competition to reimagine school report cards. Winners will be announced November 21 in Washington, D.C. at ExcelinEd\u2019s Annual Conference<\/a>. And there is a prize purse — $35,000.\u00a0 Check out the brief for more information: My School Information Challenge: Building a Better School Performance Report Card for Parents & Students<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

What I hope more than anything is that our big SIS vendors jump into the Info Design Challenge. They\u2019ve figured out that standards are important but haven\u2019t jumped on the personalized, student-centered, competency-based bandwagon yet. 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