Ridgewood couple creates app for educators
Tuesday October 29, 2013, 10:15 AM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
When Hawes School teacher Andy Raupp used an electronic tablet app to give one of his fifth grade students a “red light” – not the best score – for his cooperation skills, the boy decided to make a change.
“He said, ‘Mr. Raupp, we just want to let you know that we’re cooperating now, and we’re being much nicer to each other,'” the teacher recalled. “That had been the catalyst for one child to set an individual goal for that group to cooperate more … I’m not going to show them ‘You have all red for this,’ but when it’s appropriate.”
It was a big victory for Andy and fellow Hawes teacher Ellen Raupp – who is also his wife. The couple recently invented the app, named Chronicle, which helps teachers gauge student progress.
Andy will give a presentation on the app to Ridgewood teachers at a district Professional Development Day in November. He and his wife co-founded Powerhouse Education and hope to offer more teaching tools in the future.
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Hawes is the still the best school in the Village….