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Preston School District committee outlines redesigned middle-school report card with 50-point floor
Summary
The Preston School District Curriculum Committee on Sept. 17 described a redesigned middle-school report card that will remove individual standard grades in favor of subject-area summative grades based on standards-aligned assessments, with a minimum grade of 50; the district will pilot the system and may make adjustments.
The Preston School District Curriculum Committee on Sept. 17 described a redesigned middle-school report card that removes individual-per-standard grades and instead reports subject-area summative grades based on assessments aligned to the standards. The committee recorded that the lowest possible grade on the new report card will be 50 and that the summative grade will reflect all standards in a subject area.
Committee minutes note that Chris Pickett provided a graph of expectations intended to help teachers apply the new grading approach consistently across classrooms. The minutes say the changes required substantial reworking of the report-card software but that the underlying standards remain part of the report card design even though they will not receive separate numeric grades.
The district plans to pilot the new report card; minutes state the pilot may produce modifications as teachers and administrators gather data. The committee did not record a formal vote adopting the new report card in the text of these minutes. The next procedural steps in the minutes are to run the pilot during the coming school year and return with any needed adjustments for further committee consideration.
