Grading Practices Team Notes, December 7, 2012

During our HPT meeting today we created our Roll Out Plan. Additionally, we planned for our next few HPT meetings. On January 18th we will be creating the strands that will make the life skills standards. February 15th and March 8th we will be creating rubrics to accompany the strands to ensure consistent grading. April 19th we will formate our core standards and the life skills standards. While this is our tentative plan, we all agree that we would prefer quality over the timeline. These are goals for the meetings, but we know it may take longer to develop the formate and standards. Roll Out Plan 2012-2013 Trimester 2 Completion of the Life-Skills Standards and Rubrics Trimester 3 Inform shared faculty and noncore faculty members of Life-Skills Rubric and timeline of implementation of curriculum standards Informative meeting/open house before PTA Carnival to give parents a heads up 2013-2014 Trimester 1 Grading with Citizenship Standards Letter Grading Parent Meeting Trimester 2 Letter Grading Citizenship Grades and Curriculum Standards Grades Trimester 3 Pilot New Standards Based Grading System 22014-2015 Implementation of New Standards Based Grading System. Have a great weekend! Amy Bessen 6th/7th Grade Mathematics Bigfork Schools