Navigating
the Teacher
Toolbox

1. Log in to Teacher Dashboard:

app.flashlight360.com or via Clever / ClassLink

2. Once you're logged into Flashlight360, you will see your landing page. From here, select the Toolbox tab on the navigation menu.

3. From your Toolbox page, select the Teacher Toolbox widget. 

Understanding the Teacher Toolbox

4. From your Teacher Toolbox homepage, you will find all the resources you need, including 2,500+ ready-to-use instructional resources like mini lessons, graphic organizers, and language and content scaffolds. From your homepage, you will see the following folders: 
 

• Sparks Mini Lessons
• Sample Pathways
• Printable Resources
• Language Assessment Practice and Luminate Toolkit
• Instructional Supports
• Standards and Scoring Rubrics
• Educator Beacon
• Supplemental Supports
• Research

On the top navigation menu, along with your homepage, you will also find helpful How-to Videos, as well as the Toolbox where all of the resources from this home page are held and accessed.

Sparks Mini Lessons

5. These ready-made, high impact mini lessons target instruction exactly where your students are ready to grow from the data given by Flashlight360 (see Accessing Teacher Benchmark Data)

• Match your Flashlight indicator data to a Spark (while using the helpful tags at the top of the page to filter by indicator and grade level) and you are ready to teach.
• Each lesson contains 2 Mini Lessons (A and B), and are comprised of:
  • A Lesson Overview, Teacher Instructional Slides, Student Activity Slides, and Resource Booklets 

With these lessons, you will be armed with all the things you need to match the rigor and interests of your students when you Create an Assignment.

Sample Pathways

6. The Pathways folder provides core learnings that are grade level and subject level specific (ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies) for students based on learning themes found within their school year (available in English and in Spanish).

Printable Resources

7. The Printable Resources portion of the Teacher Toolbox provides supplemental instruction that is grade level specific that you can print off and complete for various subjects with your students (available in English and in Spanish).

These can help build upon what your students are speaking and writing about in their assignments and benchmarks, and allow them to write out what they know! 

Language Assessment Practice and Luminate Toolkit

8. This resource delivers a unique opportunity for students to practice the types of tasks they'll encounter on a state-language assessment.

Instructional Supports

9. Unpack loads of tools to support language learners in your classroom! In here, you'll find graphic organizers, a transition-words organizer, Spanish/English cognate lists, and student/teacher data chats.

Standards and Scoring Rubrics

10. Inside the Standards and Scoring Rubrics folder, you will see ways that the respective ELD assessments match Flashlight360's 5 Speaking Indicators and 3 Writing Indicators.

Below the indicators, you will also find a helpful rubric for each ELD type that matches our 1-5 scale (or 1-4 scale for TELPAS) and what each score means for that student. These Rubrics & Indicators can also be found in Spanish. These rubrics can serve as a helpful reference when Scoring an Assignment or Scoring a Benchmark, as well as a guide to inform your students of what these scores mean to them. 

Educator Beacon

11. The Educator Beacon folder provides links to all of our past emailed weekly newsletters.

This newsletter is where we share exciting examples of images, prompts, sentence starters, and word banks that you can use directly in your class! We also share exciting product updates on new features that will make you and your students' experiences that much better within Flashlight!

Supplemental Materials

12. The Supplemental Materials folder provides teachers many tools and printables to aid in your instruction. The folder includes:

• Editable Login cards for all of your students to easily login to their account
• Parent Letters for teachers to handout to parents and give a greater understanding of what Flashlight360 is and how it is a powerful tool for their children's learning.
• Student Ring Cards to provide step-by-step visual supports to guide early speakers and writers through language tasks and the writing process. 
• Student Posters for Speaking and Writing to encourage them in their work
• Lastly, the folder provides Student Certificate printables to recognize students for their hard work and achievements!

Research

13. The Research folder contains resources that explain how Flashlight360 aligns with evidence-based educational strategies from researchers such as Hattie and Marzano to support student achievement. 

How-to Videos

14. Lastly, you will also find helpful videos, or courses, designed to support you throughout your entire experience with Flashlight. These resources cover a range of topics, including Getting Started, Student-Facing Videos, Students, Classes and Groups, Assignments, Benchmarks, and Admin Training.

Each module includes:

• A step-by-step guide that relates to each topic
• A helpful video that walks you through the topic you are learning more about
• A final "check" to help you confirm what you've learned

Remember, if you still have questions around any of these topics, you are always welcome to reach out to [e-mail] for further assistance!

Video Walkthrough