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District pilots single K'5 standards-based report card; teachers rate guidance materials highly
Summary
District staff presented a two-year effort to produce a single K'5 standards-based report card with extensive teacher guidance and parent materials. A spring pilot of about 21 teachers returned strongly positive feedback; the district will finalize materials in August and use October PLC time for calibration before implementation in Trimester 1.
Dasha Lynn Spear reviewed a two-year committee process to design a single K'5 standards-based report card for the district and described a spring pilot that involved roughly 21 teachers. Spear said the committee's objective was to produce one report card that could be used for all students, including immersion and students with disabilities, and to create explicit teacher guidance and parent-facing documents to ensure consistent scoring.
Spear described the process: a ThoughtExchange survey to collect teacher and parent input; committee iteration across school sites; analysis of other districts' report-card formats; and development of grade-level teacher guidance tied to the CASEL framework for social-emotional learning. She said subcommittees created two levels of teacher guidance (a high-level overview and a detailed, skill-by-skill rubric) and produced parent guides explaining marks for English learners and students receiving special education services.
In a spring pilot, teachers selected three to five students and completed the new report card for those students in parallel with the existing report card, then completed a survey about usability. According to Spear, most pilot teachers rated the template as "super easy" or "easy" to use; 72% said the teacher guidance materials were "super helpful" and the remainder said they were "helpful." Sample teacher comments included that the new template was "simplified," "more meaningful/measurable," "less cumbersome" and "easier for parents to understand."
Spear said the subcommittees will review about 14 actionable suggestions in August, publish a final packet and use the district PLC day in October for grade-level teams to calibrate scoring before the new report card is used at the end of Trimester 1. She recommended minor edits to teacher guidance but reported overwhelmingly positive pilot feedback.
No formal board action was requested at the meeting; staff proposed final adoption steps in August and classroom calibration in October.
