Navigating
the Teacher
Toolbox

1. When training with your designated EPM, you will be given a link to navigate to Flashlight's Teacher Toolbox. 

2. When you receive your link, you will be greeted with the Teacher Toolbox in your Google Drive. From here, there are seven folders in which we break up informative resources to help with your instruction using Flashlight360. Click above or keep scrolling to learn what you can find in each folder!

Standards & Alignments

3. Within the Standards & Alignments folder, you can find discover the ways that Flashlight360 correlates to the various ELD State Language assessments. Dive in to your respective state's ELD assessment to find helpful sample images, grades, goals, and indicators that the ELD standards align with in the product.

Rubrics & Indicators

4. Inside the Rubrics & Indicators folder, similar to the Standards & Alignments folders, 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. 

Supplemental Materials

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

• Student Videos that provide supplemental instruction for students getting started using Flashlight360.
• 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.
• Scoring Guides to provide resources for Offline Scoring, Self-Assessment Rubrics for students, and a breakdown of all the Goals for Speaking and Writing.
• Lastly, the folder provides Student Certificate printables to recognize students for their hard work and achievements!

Professional Learning

6. The Professional Learning folder consists of:

• Webinars: subfolder provides webinars that you can watch back that we have completed within our ML community!
• Research: If you would like to dig in more, we have completed research that provides case studies regarding different ELD assessments and how Flashlight aligns to these standards. 
• Training: We have added a one-stop shop for teachers (along with the Help Desk Articles found here) to get acquainted with Flashlight, such as the Quick Start Guides and Bite-Sized PD slideshow with links to short videos that walkthrough the product. 

Educator Beacon

7. 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!

Printable Supports

8. The Printable Supports 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! 

Pathways

9. 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).

The printable supports for Pathways that are linked in this folder can also be found in the Printable Supports folder in the Teacher Toolbox.