Glow and Grow Notes Editable

About this resource

A Glow and Grow note is one short, two-part feedback note — one GLOW (a specific strength or win to celebrate) and one GROW (one specific thing to work on next, with a step for how) — built for quick home-school communication, peer-to-peer feedback, teacher-to-student feedback, and a student's own self-reflection, in six different formats so the note matches who is writing it and who is reading it, plus a tracker, a phrase bank, a folder organizer, and a filled, invented example.

WHAT IS INCLUDED - 18 pages, 204 type-in fields

• Start Here - three steps: pick a format and print a few, keep every note to one Glow and one Grow, then log it and look back
• Six Glow and Grow note formats, same two questions, different shapes - Picture and Short Words (a 4-icon word pick, 3 short lines each for the Glow and the Grow, a "how we'll celebrate" checklist); Sentence Starters (a sentence-starter prompt and 5 lines each, a next-step field, a 3-row check-back-in plan, a 4-item tip list); Open Response (5 open lines each for the Glow and the Grow, a one-step field, and 5 lines for an optional note back); Peer Feedback (one classmate writes to another: 4 lines each for the Glow and the Grow, a 4-item "words that help" list, a 2-item before-I-give-this checklist); Self-Reflection (a student writes their own Glow, Grow and one-line plan, with a 4-item feelings checklist)
• Glow and Grow Note Home - a ready-to-send family version with 5 fill-in blocks: today's Glow, today's Grow and the school's next step, how families can help at home, an optional reply, and a short note on what the note is not
• Glow and Grow Tracker - a 4-field "this term at a glance" summary and a 14-row log (date, student, Glow, Grow, format used, sent home)
• Sentence Starters for Glow and Grow Notes - 30 observable-language starters in 6 groups (a Glow, a Grow, a plan or next step, a peer or self note, a family reply, celebrating together), every one ending in a blank
• Glow and Grow Folder Cover - a cover with 4 fields, a 4-step how-to list, a monthly check (5 items), and a cut-and-slip spine label
• A filled example for an invented fourth grader (Priya): a 2-row tracker excerpt, both notes shown in full, a filled family reply, and the starters actually used

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF. Type into a line or a box, or print it and use a pen or a crayon; nothing requires a subscription, an account, or an internet connection. It is NOT a Google Docs file, a Google Slides file, a Google Sheets file, or a word-processed file.

It is not a grading rubric and not a behavior plan. No page here scores or ranks a student against a standard or against classmates; a Grow is always one specific, actionable next step, never a general weakness or a label. It is not an ongoing progress-monitoring data sheet (that is this store's Student Self-Assessment of Goal Progress or Family Engagement IEP Goal Home Implementation Log instead). No real student's information is pre-filled anywhere; the example student is invented and says so on the page.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers, general education teachers, counselors and paraprofessionals who want a quick, specific feedback note ready to write instead of starting from a blank page; families using the home version to hear a Glow and a Grow from the same week; and students using the peer and self-reflection versions to practice naming a strength and a next step in their own words.