Sophia Thomas, teacher, explains how the class developed visual dashboards to show individual and team progress against goals in order to engage students, celebrate growth, and stay on pace.

Transcript: Sophia Thomas: Purple is in the moment on that particular day. It's just to give you a sense of how productive you are being as a team during that time. There's something around the positive competitive atmosphere that exists that really pushes kids to be a little bit more motivated and a little bit more engaged with what they're doing. We started with the team idea in the first semester but we built the dashboard. I was trying to track stuff on the wall and just trying to do it manually. The moment we made this digital where they could see a visual, it transformed the energy of what was happening in the classroom.

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