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Eagle Point high school leaders explain gradebook behavior, plan software reconfiguration for next year
Summary
High school administrators and teachers told the Eagle Point School District 9 board that Synergy’s current standards-weighting caused interim grades to appear misleading; the district plans an “alternate standards grading” setup and will implement the change next school year after teacher and middle-school input.
Heather Marinucci, principal of Eagle Point High School, and teachers told the Eagle Point School District 9 board during its April work session that the district’s gradebook (Synergy) was calculating student grades as it was configured, but the configuration made interim grades confusing to teachers and students.
"It's not broken. It's working the way that we designed it to work. But the interpretation of what the grade book was doing, that was the big question mark," Marinucci said, summarizing findings after teachers raised concerns. Robert Elliott, an economics and government teacher, presented examples showing how adding a new standard with process work but no performance assessment…
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