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A Caregiver Guide to PowerSchool:

How Can I Learn How My Student

is Doing at MUMS?

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MUMS Back-to-School Night

September 25, 2025

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MYP Assessment Grades 6-8 at MUMS

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  • There are four criteria that are assessed in each subject: Criterion A, B, C & D. (These are not letter grades!)

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  • Teachers use common IB rubrics to track student progress toward the four criteria. Based on a 0-8 scale.

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Formative: Practice work that kids receive feedback on during a unit in order to prepare them for the summative.

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Summative: Measures a student’s performance on a set of skills and/or an area of content after an instructional period.

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  • In order to track this progress, teachers use assessment tasks that allow students to demonstrate achievement in a variety of ways. Some examples are:
    • Classwork
    • Debates
    • Hands-on projects
    • Written assessments (tests, papers, etc.)
    • Performances (song, dance, routine, etc.)
    • Reflections

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Teachers also report out on “Approaches to Learning”, or “ATLs”.

The 4 ATLs are:

Collaboration, Organization, and Self-Management

You will see a score of:

Rarely (R)

Sometimes (S)

Usually (U) or

Consistently (C)

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Power School

Google Classroom

  • Can be thought of as the “gradebook”
  • “Official” formative and summative scores
  • “Official” ATL Scores
  • Generates the report card. These are mailed home each quarter.
  • Can be thought of as an “online classroom”
  • Teacher may post assignments, due dates, or resources to access at home
  • While some teachers may “grade” an assignment on google classroom, the official score goes in PowerSchool, not Google Classroom.

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How do you access PowerSchool to check on your child’s progress?

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  • School website: www.mums.acsdvt.org
  • Click “Academics”
  • Select “PowerSchool” from the dropdown menu

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Logging in

*When you have an account, you will click “Sign in.” (6th grade parents will be receiving an email from the school with account information.)

*If you have any trouble logging in, or do not get an email, contact Megan Curran in the Guidance office. Her email is mcurran@acsdvt.org and phone # is 802-382-1295.

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Grades and Attendance View

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Attendance view- scroll down

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Grades and Attendance View

Let’s find out more about a particular class. Click the [i].

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Class Details

Live links to criteria rubrics for the class (A, B, C, D)

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More Class

Details

Helps a family member know what each rubric “looks like.” Answers the question, “What is Criterion __ about? What skills does it measure?”

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Select the View link to see comments for the assignment.

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When we click “View,” you may see more information about a particular task.

Notice this description even has a live link you can click on to see the actual task!

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What else might we learn? Check out the legend below.

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Select the Standards button to see criteria scores

Toggles criteria and scores into view.

Standards button

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Standards score are in the standards tab

MUMS does not calculate a course grade. Only standard scores.

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Some teachers will have ATL scores attached to assignments.

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Thank you for coming tonight!

Michelle Steele

msteele@acsdvt.org

802-382-1243

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