Introducing...A Report Card!

With the new Common Core State Standards being taught in our classrooms, we knew that our old report cards needed a change. Starting over summer, teachers, staff, and administration have worked to create report cards for the 2014/2015 year that reflect what students are learning and doing this year.

In the upper grades, you'll see that each main subject is still associated with an overall letter grade - associated with the scores that students earn for classwork, homework, projects, and assessments. The areas of math, reading, and writing are further broken down into subcategories where teachers can communicate with caregivers whether students are meeting grade level expectations.

We also decided to revise our list of skills that we associate with successful students now and into the future. We've titled these Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills, and we used parent feedback to inform the list we created. In this area, teachers will evaluate students on a variety of choices and actions students make every day including how a student demonstrates respect, controls unnecessary talking, accepts responsibility, works independently, returns work on time and more.

There's a lot more to share about these report cards, but I'll save that for conferences.

In the meantime, feel free to get acquainted with the new look.