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C3 · Feedback loops
Short loops. Real data. Same day.

Exit tickets, formative checks, and the same-day action that closes the feedback loop before the next lesson begins.

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You can't iterate on a lesson you don't have data about. The agile teaching loop depends on one thing above everything else: accurate, timely information about what students actually understood — not what the teacher thinks they understood based on the hands that went up.

Most classroom assessment collects the wrong data, collects it too slowly, or collects it in a form that can't be acted on until next week. This cluster fixes that. Three articles covering the three practices that produce accurate student data in under 5 minutes every lesson — and the same-day action workflow that connects that data directly to tomorrow's teaching.

C3 is the data collection layer that feeds C4 (iteration) and C8 (AI tools). Everything in the agile teaching loop starts here.

🔁 Where C3 sits in the agile loop: C2 (Reading the room) gives you real-time in-lesson signals. C3 gives you end-of-lesson structured data. C4 (Lesson iteration) uses that data to improve tomorrow's lesson. C8 (AI tools) compresses the time each step takes. If you haven't read C4, start there — it gives C3's data a destination.
Articles in this cluster
C31
A1SchoolsTeachers~8 min
Exit Tickets That Actually Tell You Something Useful
5 exit ticket formats that generate actionable formative data in under 5 minutes.
C32
A2SchoolsTeachers~8 min
The 3-Question Formative Check: A Field Guide
Building formative checks that reveal thinking, not just recall.
C33
A3SchoolsTeachers~7 min
How to Act on Formative Data the Same Day
The 15-minute workflow that closes the feedback loop before the next lesson.
C2 · Reading the room
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