Lexia Certificates

A principal from an elementary school sent this email message.

I have a question from several of my teachers.  The certificates are confusing to print out for the students.  When the teacher gets an email signaling that these certificates need to be printed, this information is not stored.  The teacher will get duplicating emails asking her to print certificates for students.  Then the students complain that they have already received that certificate.  It is a management issue.  My teachers feel they need to keep a spreadsheet and check off certificates that are printed and distributed.  I feel that is a poor use of their time.  Can this glitch in the software be improved?  Please let me know your thoughts and I will get back to my staff.

This is something Lexia will be addressing in a new release.  In the meantime the Product Development Team provided several ideas on tracking from from the field.

1. Print two copies of the certificate, one to be sent with the child and one to be hung on a bulletin board or kept somewhere for a student portfolio. This could help the teachers in knowing which they have printed without having to use an excel spreadsheet.
2. print one copy of each of the levels, hang them, and put the kids names on sticky notes. Once a certificate is handed out, the sticky note with the student's name is moved to the next level to indicate their progress as well as the distribution of the certificate.
3. Another way teachers could track is to print off the Class Skills Report and mark each level off for each student with a "c" in the appropriate box as the certificates are printed and given to students.

Here is another cool way teachers are keeping track and sharing Lexia Core5 certificate information with parents.  A 3rd grade teacher at CLK Elementary school uses the digital portfolio, Seesaw, to capture a snapshot of the certificate for each child.  It is how he keeps track of the certificates given.  Parents are notified when anything new is added to the portfolio; Way cool!

This ides came via Suzy Evans, 9/9/2016
A teacher taught me a trick.  She told her kids she will be having an “awards ceremony’ once per week for Lexia certificates. She could never remember either, so she cleaned up everything on the list, then started a new plan. She committed to every Monday or Tuesday.  All she had to do was sort the certificate column in the last column and just print out the ones from last week.  She was a stickler on the ones that might have arrived  Monday or Tuesday  - they would have to wait for their 15 seconds of fame!