10/16 - Hixson, Report card, 8th grade

Started the day with a group of teachers wanting to start the journey of standards-based grading. We discussed

• How we are doing?
• What we are doing?
• How parent teacher conferences went
• What student work is looking like

Met with Ms. Evans to discuss plans with SS moving forward.  Discussion included conversations about Common Core, NCHE and NCSS.

I stuck around and walked around Hixson popping in and out of classrooms.

I met with Dr. Heisserer at 9:30 to discuss:

• MAP data
• 7th SS Friday Curriculum Day
• "vision"

At 12:00pm I attended the New teacher report card training at Central Office.  Topics included:

• CLICK APPLY!!!!

• Show Term
• Click content
• Show rosters
• Input BDS score (B2 or A,B,C)
• Click kids
• Input "x" for Behavior and Social Skills (Beginning/Meeting/Exceeding and why)
• Drop down curriculum objectives
• Type teacher comments - Reminder Typing a comment shows on the last page.  Using [RL] will print a comment at the bottom of the content page
• Apply and verify

Or

• Show Term
• Click content
• Show rosters
• Input BDS score (B2 or A,B,C)
• Click View/Maintain
• Click student curriculum Marks
• Input Drop down data (if needed use ACTION "Mark all student with selected cell")
• Edit specific info for students that do not meet criteria
• APPLY!

Helpful Resources:

• Teacher Instruction for viewing Individual Student Reports

• Teacher Instruction for viewing class reports

• K-5 Checklist for Grading and Reporting

After School met with 8th grade science, shared:

• Shared how to log in to server
• Shared 8th grade summary, excel sheet and 5th grade MAP data