Last year, we moved to a Standards Based Report Card for kindergarten through fifth grade students. These report cards provide information on a student’s growth and progress in attaining the learning expectations in each subject as defined by the NYS Next Generation Learning Standards.
Reporting student progress is an essential part of the communication and partnership between home and school. The standards-based report card gives us a tool to communicate to parents/guardians the progress that your child is making on the learning standards for each grade level.
“The greatest benefit is that we can effectively communicate to parents/family members what their child is learning,” said Assistant Superintendent for Educational Services Dan Martinelli. “It is also helps us determine what a child may be struggling with so we can provide the proper academic intervention.”
This also ensures more consistency of expectations from teacher to teacher and elementary building to elementary building.
Elementary report card conferences will be held on December 7 and 12 at the elementary schools.
Here is a list of Frequently Asked Questions to help you better understand the new Standards Based Report Cards.
Here are examples of what the new report cards will look like.