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Elementary Standards-Aligned Report Cards (SARCs) in New Hope-Solebury Honoring the Achievement and Growth of Every Individual Child

Our Path Toward New Elementary Report Cards Collaboration with General Parent Survey and Revision of Dr. Tom Guskey Dissatisfaction Staff Focus Elementary Report (University of with Report Cards Groups Cards Kentucky) Professional Parent Focus K-5 Elementary Development for Groups Report Card Pilot Staff Parent and Staff Sustaining New Focus Groups for Reporting Feedback Practices

That was THEN…This is NOW! Standards-Based Report Cards Standards-Aligned Report Cards 2013-2014 and Before 2014-2015 and Beyond • Students are assessed and scored • Students are assessed according based on grade level standards to their instructional and • Focus on standards, not students independent levels in conjunction • 4 point scale with grade level standards • Most gifted education students • Focus on students over standards received primarily 4s • 3 point scale • Most learning support students received primarily 1s • Letter grades in reading and math • Letter grades are not included for grades 3-5

Telling Each Individual Child’s Story…

Understanding our New Reporting Scales Relative to Individual Students’ Levels • Academic and Learning to Learn Targets (Including Special Area Classes) 3 Consistently demonstrates success with the skill/standard 2 Working toward demonstrating success with the skill/standard 1 Needs improvement to demonstrate success with the skill/standard N/A Not assessed • Grade Scale for Grades 3-5 Grades/Percentages A: 90-100 B: 80-89 C: 70-79 D: 60-69 F: 0-59

Our Kindergarten SARC Second, Third, and Fourth Marking Periods First Marking Period • Focus is on both academic and learning to learn behaviors • Focus is on learning to learn behaviors (i.e. what it means to be • Academic areas a student in school) • Literacy • Academic assessments and • Reading — phonics, comprehension student work will be shared at • kid-writing and word study November conferences (or before) • Math — math concepts, problem- solving • Science and Social Studies

Our Primary Grade SARC (Grades 1 and 2) Academic Targets • Literacy Learning to Learn Targets • Reading — phonics, accuracy/fluency, comprehension, word study/spelling • Respect — including interpersonal • Writing — narrative, informational, skills and opinion writing; writing process, application of word study/spelling in • Participation writing, grammar • Assignment completion — including • Math — math concepts, problem classwork and homework solving, fact fluency, problem- solving • Science and Social Studies — understanding and applying key concepts

Our Intermediate Grade SARC (Grades 3, 4, and 5) Academic Targets • Literacy • Reading — accuracy/fluency, Learning to Learn Targets comprehension, word study/spelling • Writing — narrative, informational, and • Respect — including interpersonal opinion writing; writing process, application of word study/spelling in skills writing, grammar • Participation • Math — math concepts, problem solving, fact fluency, problem-solving • Assignment completion — including • Science and Social Studies — classwork and homework understanding and applying key concepts • Students will receive a percentage in reading and math plus scores on standards/skills

Question and Answer Session