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Reading the Growth Report

The Growth Report shows how a single student is progressing over time. In Spark it’s scoped to the students assigned to you, so you won’t see students outside your assignment. Open it whenever you want a longer-term view of how a student is trending, beyond a single session or assessment.

Before You Start

  • You need at least one student assigned to you. If you don’t have any yet, see How students get assigned to me.
  • Growth signals build from student activity over time, so a brand-new student may have little to show until sessions and assessments accumulate.

How to Open a Student’s Growth Report

The report is per-student. Three ways in:

  • From a Group’s Details tab. Open the group, then on the Students table each row has a View link in the Growth Report column that opens that student’s report in a new tab.
  • From a Group’s Student Performance tab. Each per-student column header has a small external-link icon that opens that student’s Growth Report in a new tab. Same in the Assessments and Activities views.
  • From the School Growth Report. Reports -> Growth -> the school view lists your students; clicking a student’s name opens their Growth Report.
  • From Reports -> Growth -> Student. Pick a student from the filter row.

Programs

The top of the report lists the programs the student has been part of. Each row shows:

  • Dates - the program’s start and end.
  • Student Grade - the grade the student was enrolled in for that program.
  • Curriculum - Reading, Math, or both.
  • Sessions Finished - how many sessions the student completed within the program.
  • Attendance - the attendance percentage across those sessions.
  • Location - the school (or district) where the program ran.

Multiple rows mean the student has been in Spark long enough to see across programs.

Our Impact at a Glance

A summary card sits alongside Strengths & Challenges. It gives the quick read on how the student has grown across the program - pre-assessment score, post-assessment score, and the delta between them.

Strengths & Challenges

Beside the impact card, Spark surfaces the areas the student is doing well in and the areas they’re still working on. These come from the group-level observations you and other Instructors have recorded across sessions.

Learning Journey

The Learning Journey section is the heart of the report and has a Braintrust / Standards toggle in the top right. The two views answer different questions:

  • Braintrust - what the student is doing inside the Braintrust curriculum.
  • Standards - how the student is pacing against their enrolled grade level.

Braintrust View

The Braintrust view shows per-assessment performance in a table you can flip to a chart with the Table / Chart toggle. Each row is one assessment the student has taken (typically Reading, Spelling, Rhyme & Patterns, and Color Assessment) with the student’s pre-assessment score, post-assessment score, point growth, and percent growth. Below that is a Lessons Remaining card - the count of curriculum lessons still ahead of this student in the program.

Every student has a full performance record here; you won’t see “N/A” in this view.

Standards View

The Standards view lays out how the student is doing against their enrolled grade:

  • Grade-Level Snapshot - the summary numbers: enrolled grade, currently working-at grade, lessons remaining in the enrolled grade’s learning plan, and sessions attended over sessions planned.
  • Pacing Toward Grade Level - a bar showing the student’s start point, their current position, and the enrolled-grade target as a dashed line at the right.
  • Standards accordion - collapsible groups showing performance against the standards the student has been assessed on. Reading rows show categories like Reading Standards: Foundational Skills and Speaking and Listening Standards; Math rows are organized by domain and cluster.

What You’re Looking At

Because your view is scoped to your assignment, every number and trend belongs to a student you’re responsible for. Use the report when you want the longer-term picture - which students are trending upward, where progress has slowed, and where they’re pacing against their enrolled grade.