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Complete these actions as you finish your 2024–2025 school year:

  • Generate and save/print reports for the current school year.
  • Set up summer school and/or new school year.
  • Check out the summer learning resources including implementation guides, student engagement kits, and more.
  • Plan and schedule professional learning by emailing your account manager or our scheduling team.
  • If you have Custom Data Integration (CDI), your Data Integration team will contact you for school year start/end dates and other information.
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Using end-of-year resources

For end-of-year instructions and resources, click on the product names below.

Assessment

DnA

Summer school

  1. Learn how to set up DnA for summer school here.

Preparing for the next school year

  1. If you use DnA AND FastBridge, access your rollover information with this article.
  2. If you use DnA but DO NOT use FastBridge, click here for your article for rollover to the next academic year.

Additional rollover resources

FastBridge

Summer school

  1. Learn how to set up FastBridge for summer school here.

Preparing for the next school year

  1. If you use DnA AND FastBridge, access your rollover information with this article: FastBridge Rollover Selection and Overview Learning Guide

myIGDIs

  1. Review the condition of your myIGDIs kits and order additional Record Forms or replacement/additional kits in preparation for next year.
  2. Watch for an email from Renaissance in mid-to-late July with important information about upgrading your iPad application for the 2025–26 school year.
  3. We recommend exporting your data if you would like to be able to manipulate it after the school year rolls over on August 15. Review the article on Rolling Over School Year Data and Archiving for more information.
  4. Give parents some ideas for learning activities to prepare for kindergarten they can use over the summer with their child.

Renaissance Fundamentals

  1. Review the Report Building Guide for assistance with generating reports and accessing data. Student data and reports are available year-round.
    NOTE: The only factor limiting Personnel access to student data is the status of the student’s account within Testwise, i.e. whether the student’s account is deactivated.
  2. No further actions needed from Administrators to close the end of the year for Renaissance Fundamentals.
  3. For summer school help, access the Renaissance Fundamentals Quick Guide for guidance creating your summer settings.
  4. Administrators, remember to reach out to Renaissance at the beginning of the next school year to get your rosters refreshed.

SchoolCity

  1. The SchoolCity team will aim to start the 2025–2026 school year in each district’s instance 1 week prior to the school start date on each district’s website.
  2. If you would like a different start date, please submit a support ticket, with your preferred dates.
  3. For your district’s internal planning:
    • Identify which District tab assessments you plan to copy forward to the 2025–2026 school year. Will these assessments need revision?
    • Consider creating any Pre/Post versions at this time.
    • Note that publishing is the trigger that schedules assessments in SchoolCity. Districts cannot publish any 2025–2026 assessments until after the 2025–2026 roster has been loaded and the active school year in SchoolCity is set to 2025–2026. (Copying or authoring for review and troubleshooting is fine.)
  4. Review the Summer Back to School Guide.

Star Assessments

  1. Some Star reports are designed to be used during the current school year only. After students have finished their last Star Assessments for the 2024–2025 school year, we suggest running the reports listed here.
  2. View the Star Assessments Toolkit (page 8) for end-of-year advice.

Star CBM

  1. Learn about Star CBM Data and review end-of-year progress
  2. Save a PDF or screen capture of the Screening Comparison tab or the last Goal Progress chart for students, if needed, since these views can’t be accessed for previous school years.
  3. Consider generating and downloading the Star CBM Caregiver and/or CAT + CBM Caregiver Report, as these are only available within the current school year.

Star Phonics

  1. To capture data based on current enrollment and class structure, we recommend saving or printing class- or grade-level reports after students have tested and before the school year wraps up.
  2. Set school year start and end dates.The Star Phonics redesign will be released on August 1st, 2025, after the end of the current in-product school year. With the redesign, school year start and end dates can now be set by administrators. These dates will need to be set to start each new school year.
  3. At the beginning of a new school year, administrators can set assessment windows (timeframes), add or edit scope and sequences for a school or the district. District administrators can make changes for all schools; school administrators can make changes for their school only.

Practice and Instruction

Accelerated Reader

  1. Review the Record Book & Goals (for K–2) or run Goals Met Report (grades 3+) before the school year ends. These reports will help you gain insights and celebrate wins as you head into summer and plan for next year.
  2. Reading Snapshots are a great way to share this school year’s reading achievements for the district, school, grade, or class level. You can create Reading Snapshots in a couple of clicks and share them on your website.

Flocabulary

  1. Each year, there are predictable maintenance items to make the most of your rostered school / district Flocabulary account. In this Annual Maintenance for Flocabulary School / District Accounts Help article, we will summarize what account administrators need to do for a successful end of year and successful back to school season, including:
    • Flocabulary archive date
    • Pausing data
    • Adding new schools
    • Updating rosters
    • Changing rostering preferences
    • Changing email domains

Freckle

Rostering through Renaissance, Clever or ClassLink: The student’s grade level will be promoted when the new school year starts and rosters are updated in Freckle.

Rostering manually through Freckle: Grade levels will not be promoted at the beginning of the school year automatically. To make this change, consider using the “Update Class Grades” feature on the rosters page. From the roster page, teachers can click on the gear icon in the upper right corner of their rosters, select the new grade level from the drop-down menu, and click save.

Rostering by bulk CSV upload in Freckle on the Admin Dashboard: The new CSV upload will need to include the updated grade levels and rosters. Once the new upload is completed, the student’s grade level and rostering will update immediately.

Adaptive Levels

We do not clear or reset any student adaptive levels. Students will not need to retake pretests for the new school year. Students’ coin totals will follow them to the next school year as well. If desired, teachers can choose to reset math/ELA levels from the Levels reports.

Hiding past assignments

Assignments created before a cut-off date in the 2023/2024 school year will be “hidden” automatically during the summer prior to back-to-school. Communications will be sent closer to the summer about the exact cut-off date when the assignments will be moved. Teachers can view the hidden assignments by changing the Time Period in the drop-down on the Assignments page.

Admin Dashboard

The filters on the administrator dashboard default to the most recent July 1 through today. This means that on July 2, the report dashboards will show the “upcoming school year.” It will appear blank because students will not have practiced. However, users can simply change the filters to view past data.

Reports to Generate for the End of the School Year

Teacher Reports: Math or ELA Report Cards are printer-friendly overviews of what your students accomplished in Math or ELA this year.

Math or ELA Assessment Reports are helpful if you have given either assessment during the school year.

Administrator Reports: Overview and Growth dashboard – (data on students’ Adaptive Math and ELA Skills Practice).

Usage Overview dashboard – (Usage data for all practice types).

Summer Access

Students will be able to access Freckle over the summer! If your school rosters through your Renaissance site, Clever, or ClassLink, students can continue logging in using their SSO or you can provide the student their Class Code.

How to find my class code: the class code is located in the upper right corner of each roster on the Roster page on your Freckle teacher dashboard.

If your school rosters manually through Freckle students will still have access to their Class Code until the rosters are updated and the old class is deleted from the Roster page.

Lalilo

How do I end my school year with Lalilo?

If you use manual rostering, Lalilo classes will be automatically archived on August 1 if the classes were created before June of this year and have no activity since June of this year.

If you use RGP rostering, Lalilo classes and students are added and edited automatically based on RGP records. Contact your administrator if you need them updated.

IMPORTANT NOTE: As of June 26, 2024, the use of Clever Library as a rostering method for Lalilo has been discontinued. Click here to learn how to keep using Lalilo now that Clever rostering is unavailable.

What reports/data views should I save? How will these reports/views help the teachers next school year?

Data will continually accumulate since there are no designated school years in Lalilo. You can download and print Students Standards Reports, and Admin Reports. For the other reports, we suggest taking screenshots or using a browser’s printing options to print the desired data.

What should I do so my students can continue using this product in the summer?

Depending on your rostering method, your class might not be available during the summer. For example, if you rostered through RGP, your classes and students are added and edited automatically, so please contact your administrator if you need them to be updated or wish to keep them during the summer. Otherwise, your class will remain active until you delete it. This means your students can access Lalilo throughout the summer.

If you want your students to use Lalilo for the summer, make sure you provide them with Home Code. Students can then go to www.Lalilo.com from their home computers, click on “Log In” and “Student at Home,” then enter their code and continue practicing where they left off.

myON

  1. Some myON reports are not designed to be run for previous school years. We suggest running reports before the new school year start date based on the type of data your school needs.
  2. The myON school year automatically rolls over each year on the School Year Start Date. By default, July 1 is the rollover date for all districts unless customized by District Administrators.
  3. Customers who have paused their Clever or ClassLink data feeds over the summer should know that no new students will be added to myON until the data feed updates are restarted and the Renaissance Rostering team is notified that you are ready for a Back-to-School data refresh.
  4. Provide families insights and tips for reading in myON with children of any age during the summer.
  5. Students will be able to access myON over the summer! If your school rosters through your Renaissance site, Clever, or Classlink, students can continue logging in using their SSO, or you can provide the student with their login credentials if you log in directly to myon.com.

Nearpod

Each year, there are predictable maintenance items to make the most of your rostered school / district Nearpod account. In this Annual Maintenance for Nearpod School / District Accounts Help article, we will summarize what account administrators need to do for a successful end of year and successful back-to-school season, including:

  • Pausing data
  • Adding new schools
  • Updating rosters
  • Changing rostering preferences
  • Changing email domains

Insights

eduCLIMBER

  1. eduCLIMBER end-of-year clean up instructions for system administrators
  2. eduCLIMBER end-of-year clean up instructions for interventionists
  3. eduCLIMBER setup instructions for beginning of year:
    • Reminder: Review the “Review/Add School Years” guidance at the top of this Help article.
    • For more tips about setup for beginning of year, access “Setup” under “Roster Visualization” in eduCLIMBER.

eSchoolData

  1. Rollover Overview
  2. Summer School Closeout
  3. Grade Advancement Overview
  4. School Opening Checklist

Additional information for Summer 2025 and beyond

Set up summer school and/or new school year

District administrators are encouraged to learn more about the following topics by searching/browsing our Help Center based on your solution(s) of interest:

  • Tips for using Renaissance software during summer school
  • Adding/editing school years
  • Entering IP addresses and restricting student access (if students will be accessing from a local library or from home)

School administrators are encouraged to:

Plan and schedule professional learning

  • Select Professional Services that will lead you to greater success in the upcoming school year.
  • Schedule summer/fall professional development now. Simply contact your representative or call (800) 338-4204.
  • Visit the Educator Resources page for product-specific, seasonal, and year-round resources.
  • Check out our Smart Start and How-to webinars to watch sessions focused on getting started, interpreting data, enhancing instruction, and more with your Renaissance products.

Additional information

  1. Have there been key personnel changes? Contact your Account Executive or Customer Support. We can help update your account information.
  2. Do you have Custom Data Integration (CDI)? Your Data Integration team will contact you for planning summer use of the program, along with impactive fall plans and school year dates.
  3. Visit the Summer Learning page for one-stop access to summer 2024 resources to learn how to address learning loss and foster student growth this summer.

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