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Eastern York SD middle school rolls out standards-based grading, separates behavior from academic scores
Summary
Eastern York SD presented a district effort to bring its "Portrait of a Graduate" into classrooms by separating habits-and-behavior marks from academic grades at the middle school, using a 90/10 academic-to-behavior weighting tracked in LiveSchool.
Bill Ackerman, middle school principal, outlined a shift at the districtmiddle school to separate students' habits and behaviors from academic scores and to bring the district's Portrait of a Graduate into daily routines.
"Our theme for this year is built for growth," Ackerman told the board, and described a change that makes 90% of a student's overall grade academic achievement and 10% tied to behavior categories he identified as integrity, growth mindset and citizenship. "So now your overall grade is 90% academic achievement, but 10% of that is your habits and behaviors," Ackerman said.
The district will track behavior through LiveSchool, awarding "armor points" for positive behaviors and recording "dents" for missteps. Ackerman said teachers will record…
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