Eight years ago, Mike Rutherford returned to the classroom as a middle school English and Social Studies teacher after many years in the education private sector with Blackboard and Just ASK Publications & Professional Development. Prior to his time in the private sector, Mike was a middle school teacher and technology training specialist in Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia, and an EdTech Director for the City of Manassas Public Schools. Mike created gotLearning as a classroom teacher to manage the constant barrage of student learning data coming from so many different sources. Mike lives in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania with his educator wife, Elizabeth, and two dogs, Luna and Bella, who are two of gotLearning's four official office dogs.

Other resources

• Capturing Student Learning As It Happens (blog post for TG2)

• Growth Producing Feedback by Bruce Oliver (just ASK Publications website)

• Blog posts on gotLearning website

  • Classroom Platforms - CLS vs. LMS vs. SIS

  • The Collaborative Learning System: Telling the Story of Learning

  • 2,295 Sources of Qualitative Learning Data

  • Articles, Books and Research That Guide Us