My favorite question to ask educators is “What’s the good news in your (school or district)?” I rarely hear good news. I think that we have to celebrate more when our students learn a standard goal successfully through technology. We should shout with joy through posting to our classroom website/blog, emailing parents about the learning gains of the students, sharing the successes with department heads, principals, the Superintendent, Board of Education and the community through brochures, data tables, graphs of scores, etc.
What are some things to celebrate?
All students in your class have shown proficiency in a certain goal.
All students have shown improvement in their learning progress.
All students have done work at the analysis or higher level of thinking.
How can you show it?
Show the class average pre-assessment score and the post-assessment score as long as all students have been successful through a bar graph.
Show a checklist of the skills that students had entering the project and the same checklist with all the new skills that all of the class can demonstrate now.
Show a pre-assessment non-proficient writing and a post-assessment proficient writing (math problem, science lab, DBQ, etc.). side by side in a word processing document.
Post exemplary work in the classroom and explain what makes it an exemplar.
How else do you celebrate learning successes?
Education with Technology Harry G. Tuttle 
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