Case Study: New England Innovation Academy improves equity and competency-based grading with Otus

New England Innovation Academy enters year three with Otus to support competency-based grading across grades 6–12

New England Innovation Academy, a startup independent school for grades 6-12, needed a learning management system and gradebook that could support its unique, complex grading "mashup" of competency, standards, mastery, and traditional assessments. Finding a platform flexible enough to present this system clearly to students, families, and teachers was a significant challenge before they partnered with Otus.

Otus provided the fully customizable platform needed to implement and clearly communicate the school's competency-based assessment system. The solution enabled data-informed personalized learning, equitable adaptability for individual student circumstances like absenteeism, and continual calibration of grading practices across the school. Using Otus, educators engage in deeper dialogue around student progress, and the school achieves greater consistency and transparency, ultimately using robust data to inform better student learning.

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