Manage Student Growth

With Manage Student Growth, districts can organize student growth information from a single location in Strive. Users can manually enter or import all student growth data, no matter how it is collected, into Strive to be available for the TIA Export and the TIA Correlation Report.

Note: District Aware managers can customize the labels attached to student growth ratings. For districts that manage student growth ratings with only two labels, Aware managers can customize labels such as Did Not Meet Growth, Met Growth, and N/A. Percentages can be entered in two increments of 100%. In these districts, Student Growth Rating may appear as 20% Does Not Meet Growth, 80% Met Growth, N/A 0%.

District-Level Users

School-Level Users

Limited Evaluators

Users with the Manage Appraisal Settings right can manage student growth. This right is typically connected to the Appraisal Administrator role but can be assigned separately if needed. This right is usually assigned to district managers or someone at the district level.

Users with the Manage Appraisal Settings right can import Student Growth Scores by three methods:

Manually enter a staff member’s scores.
Import scores from a teacher-created student portfolio (if available).
Upload a spreadsheet with the required fields.

School-level users with the Appraise Staff right and View Appraisal right can manage student growth. Within the Manage Student Growth table, they can view all teachers at their assigned schools who have an Evaluation Method set for them. You can add any teacher to the table by changing their Evaluation Method from Not Set to an available Appraisee Type.

A school-level evaluator who has access to a single school only sees the Year and Appraisee Type table filters. However, they can perform the following methods to import Student Growth Scores:

Manually enter a staff member’s scores.
Import scores from a teacher-created student portfolio (if available).
Upload a spreadsheet with the required fields.

A school-level evaluator who has access to a single school only sees the Year and Appraisee Type table filters. However, they can perform the following methods to import Student Growth Scores:

Manually enter a staff member’s scores.
Import scores from a teacher-created student portfolio (if available).
Upload a spreadsheet with the required fields.

Note: If the spreadsheet upload includes staff members to which a limited appraiser isn’t assigned, those staff members won’t be added to the Manage Student Growth table.

Selecting Staff

Step 1: Select Settings from the main menu. Then, select Manage Student Growth.

Settings menu displaying options for managing student growth.

Step 2: Filter the list by Year, Appraisee Type, and School or by typing a name in the search bar.

Overview of student growth management for the 2024-2025 academic year with staff details.

Step 3: Select the desired staff member.

List of teachers with their schools and performance percentages highlighted for review.

Entering Scores Manually

Step 1: Select the staff member's growth percentages to enter each number.

Manually entering a teacher's percentage numbers

Step 2: Type a percentage for the student growth rating or use the arrow buttons to move the percentage higher or lower. Percentages can be written in whole numbers or decimals.

Step 3: Be sure the total percentage is 100%.

Appraisal data showing teacher performance and a warning that student growth percentages must equal 100 percent.

Importing Scores From a Portfolio

Step 1: Click on the three vertical dots at the end of a row and select Import from Portfolio.

Table displaying staff evaluations with options to filter and import data from portfolios.

Step 2: Click the radio button next to the portfolio you want. If more than one portfolio exists, select only one. To preview a portfolio, click the View icon.

Import student growth scores from a teacher's student portfolio with visibility options.

Preview of a student portfolio.

Step 3: Click Import to import a selected portfolio.

Import student growth scores from a teacher's student portfolio.

If no portfolio exists, a message with instructions and links for further action appears as a pop-up window.

Instructions for importing student growth scores from portfolios with troubleshooting tips.

Note: The day after the last instructional day of your district's instructional calendar, Student Portfolios become inactive, preventing users from importing data to Manage Student Growth in Strive. To continue making Student Portfolios active, you can extend the instructional calendar end date, but be mindful of how such an extension can affect other processes, like Planner days in Beacon. Student Portfolios automatically archive 15 days before the beginning of the next school year.

Uploading a CSV File

Step 1: Select the arrow button to open the upload modal.

Upload a formatted student growth score CSV file.

Step 2: Drag and drop a file to upload or select Choose File to import a correctly formatted CSV file.

Note: Click Download template from the file upload modal to access a CSV template with preset columns to ensure a smooth upload process. When filling in data, do not append a percent sign (%) to the numbers entered in the Did Not Meet, Met, and Exceeded columns.

Interface for importing student growth scores with file upload options and instructions.

To import student growth scores by file upload, use a CSV file containing the following columns (required columns are bolded):

First Name
Last Name
School
Teacher ID
Email Address
Did Not Meet (%)
Met (%)
Exceeded (%)

Caution: Do not add a percent sign (%) to the numbers entered in the Did Not Meet, Met, and Exceeded columns. Including the percent sign with numerical data may result in error.