Reporting

Report Cards

We are in the process of revising our report cards across the schools. Our big goals were to:

• align report cards with our reporting measures, proficiency scales, and curricular updates

• incorporate more visual information into the format of the report cards by including color coding and progress scales

• be able to articulate clearly if a student’s proficiency level is appropriate for that time of year (example: a class just started a unit on fractions the same week as report cards come out. In that case it’s appropriate for students to be at a 1 or 2 as the learning hasn’t really progressed to mastery yet)

• improve the amount of relevant information for learners and families

Updates will be posted here as we go. We’re currently working with our report card software company to incorporate the feedback and revisions we’ve centered on.

Proficiency Scales

Proficiency scales are an essential part of our instructional and curricular design. Proficiency scales function with the goal of ensuring clarity about what students need to know and be able to do by the end of a grade level or course. It’s a tool for describing a standard in a progression of knowledge. It provides information about the most critical knowledge and skills encompassed within a standard.

A proficiency scale operates for everyone in a learning scenario.

• Educators use scales to plan units, understand where students are the progression of learning, and to know where certain elements of instruction occur in a student’s educational journey

• Proficiency scales are used to develop assessments that help students, parents, and educators understand a students proficiency

• Proficiency scales provide students and families a clear understanding of the knowledge and skills they need to demonstrate to show proficiency

• Proficiency scales also help explain and add value to school reporting measures