the shape of an upk day, however the district runs it
some rooms follow a public-school bell schedule, some follow the flow of a cbo daycare. the writing at the end is the same: a family note, a running observation, an incident that needs to be careful, a conference twice a year.
language for gold, cor, or work sampling
the write up helper does not replace the assessment platform. it writes the sentences around the ratings, in the language the tool uses, without pasting rubric text into a family's inbox.
handoffs and conferences a family can actually read
the daily handoff writes in the language a family reads at home. the conference write up asks the questions a family actually asks and produces a one page draft, not a blank template.
small districts, one teacher per grade
in a small nys district, one upk teacher might be the whole grade level. the site does not require a district contract to open, and there is nothing an administrator has to sign before a teacher tries it for a week.
what stays with the teacher
class list, drafts, and observations live against the teacher's account. ratings, attendance, and district reporting stay in the systems the district already uses.
what teachers actually open
these are the pages a classroom teacher reaches for on a normal week. nothing here is behind a paywall, a sales call, or a demo request.
- today, the one screen a teacher checks first
- assessment, prompts and language for gold, cor, and work sampling
- conference write up, a one page draft in about fifteen minutes
- handoff, one minute end of day note in the family's language
- incident, careful, structured, ready for a family conversation
- behaviors a to z, situation-first support, no labels on the child
programs that share this stack
the same writing helpers fit these classrooms too. if the page you are on is not quite the room, one of these might be.
- nyc pre-k for all, the nyc version
- nyc 3-k for all, the three-year-old side in nyc
- nys birth-to-five, the age band below
- head start, shared assessment stack for many upk-cbo partners
forward this to a teacher
the fastest way to know if tiny signals fits a classroom is to put it in the hands of the teacher in that classroom. the button below opens a blank email with a short note already written, so it takes one click to send.
prefer to look around first? the home page shows what a teacher sees when they sign in.