How G10 Innovations Helped District 65 Turn Paper Assessments Into Actionable Insight

Before building G10 Innovations, I spent years involved with World Wide Marriage Encounter — helping couples strengthen communication and deepen understanding. That experience shaped how I approach educational technology. Clarity builds trust. Shared visibility creates alignment. Meaningful feedback drives growth.

When I first sat with districts like Evanston/Skokie 65, I saw the same pattern: people working incredibly hard without a shared language or shared visibility.

Teachers were creating their own assessments — different formats, expectations, and interpretations of “proficient.” Leaders couldn’t see across classrooms. Even teachers struggled to understand which standards students had mastered. Online assessments didn’t solve it; they added new frustrations: too much time to build, unclear wrong answers, and lost visibility into student thinking.

In WWME, misunderstandings create distance. In districts, data misunderstandings create inequity.

G10 Innovations was built on the same principles: give people clarity, shared visibility, and feedback that moves learning forward. G10 helps districts communicate clearly about learning, align around standards, and see student thinking — not just scores.

The Turning Point

District 65 found G10 Innovations.

We didn’t ask them to abandon what worked. We gave them a way to keep paper assessments and get the clean, instant, standards-based data they’d been missing.

What Changed

• Teachers and admin build assessments in Google Docs — fast and familiar.

• G10 converts them into scorable versions and maps items to standards.

• Students take paper assessments aligned to D65 Learning Targets.

• Teachers score by hand, adding real feedback directly on student work.

• Completed assessments are scanned — a 30-second task per class.

• The G10 scanning app reads rubric bubbles, verifies unclear marks, and sends scores straight into PowerSchool’s PowerTeacher Pro.

• Assignments and learning target scores appear automatically. No manual entry. No spreadsheets. No guessing.

The Impact

District 65 finally got what they’d been missing:

• Instant visibility by standard, subgroup, grade level, and classroom

• Every scanned assessment stored digitally for team discussions and student review

• Grade-level teams aligned on what “proficient” really means

• Teachers and parents see student work, making conversations clearer

• Most importantly: the district stopped reviewing scores and started reviewing student thinking

G10 didn’t replace teachers’ judgment — it amplified it. It gave District 65 a system where paper and digital work together, turning authentic student work into actionable insight.

As David Wartowski, Director of Mathematics, said:

We’re not just reporting performance — we’re using data to drive equitable, standards-based instruction across the district.