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RETHINKING GRADING

EPISODE #12: ADJUSTMENTS

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WHY?

  • Focus on being fair, accurate, and helpful

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  • Listening to students, parents/caregivers, and staff

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  • Ready, fire, aim

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WHO?

  • 9 students through focus groups during and after school
  • All teachers during PLCs
  • 7 parents/caregivers through after school meetings
  • All administrators during multiple grading-focused meetings

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WHAT?

  • Work Habits

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  • F0 Grades

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  • Developing

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  • Transcripts

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  • Unsatisfactory

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  • Advanced

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WORK HABITS

Concerns

  • Should Work Habits factor into a student’s F0 grade?

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  • Until all standards are assessed, the Work Habits standard can have an outsized impact on the F0 grade.

Determination

  • Make no change

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  • Look into the data

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  • Explore other ways to record and report work habits

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F0 Grades

Concerns

  • Should we remove the F0 grade to put the focus on standards?

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Determination

  • Make no change

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The Range of Developing

Concerns

  • Currently 65% - 79%

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  • For traditional assessments that still give percentages, is this range too large?

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Determination

  • Make no change

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TRANSCRIPTS

Concerns

  • SST’s transcript currently shows a cumulative GPA.

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  • Should it also display a GPA for each year?

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Determination

  • Continue the cumulative GPA.

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  • Add a yearly GPA to the transcript.

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UNSATISFACTORY

Concerns

  • Power School currently converts a failing grade to a 64%. Last year, a failing grade was converted to a 50%.

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  • A student can have one standard at Proficient, 21 at Unsatisfactory, and still pass the course with a Developing.

Determination

  • Switch the value of Unsatisfactory from 64% to 50%

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  • Implement a month-long “no harm” policy for eligibility purposes

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ADVANCED

Concerns

  • Power School currently converts Advanced F0 grades to a GPA of 3.5.

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  • Should this be moved to a 3.7?

Determination

  • Switch the value of Advanced from 3.5 to 3.7

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WHEN?

  • Friday, 12/8 at 2:30pm

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HOW?

  1. Run a report to gather every student’s F0 grade in every course before making the changes.

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  • Make the changes.

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  • Run a report to gather every student’s F0 grade in every course after making the changes.

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  • Compare the results to measure the impact of the changes.

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THE BIG TAKEAWAYS

  • These changes are about making grades more fair, accurate, and focused on learning.

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  • Most students will not be impacted by these adjustments. Those that do will have a four-week grace period.

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QUESTIONS? CONCERNS?

jscopelleti@ssvotech.org

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(781) 878-8822 x. 317

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Rethinking Grading website