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District presents standards‑based instruction and grading pilot, outlines training and gradebook changes
Summary
District staff and teachers described a multi‑year rollout of standards‑based instruction and grading, pilot sites, rubrics and training strategies; presenters also discussed moving the official gradebook back into Synergy and concerns about inconsistent adoption across classrooms.
District staff and classroom teachers led a work session April 22 for the Bend‑LaPine Administrative SD 1 Board of Directors on the district’s multi‑year effort to implement standards‑based instruction and grading.
Steven Duvall, executive director of middle schools, introduced the session and said teachers and instructional coaches are “doing the work in our system” to implement standards‑based grading and instruction. He and teacher‑leaders outlined training, pilot sites and classroom examples used to support the change.
Katie Lyons, science teacher at Cascade Middle School and a part‑time grading TOSA, described a “roadmap” for rollout and said the district is roughly at “level 3” of progress toward full implementation,…
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