1. Curriculum Connector Agenda
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Curriculum Connector Agenda
Data Dashboard
Standards Based Grading and Reporting
Instructional Materials Committee
Adoption Update
Shawn/Melissa

2. update TFL SBGR Update: What is SBGR in FWPS? Video Protocol Watch it
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What are the key ideas of this topic?
How will this support scholars, families, and staff with SBGR?
What questions surface for you related to this topic?

3. update TFL SBGR Update: SBGR History Video Protocol Watch it
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What are the key ideas of this topic?
How will this support scholars, families, and staff with SBGR?
What questions surface for you related to this topic?

4. update TFL SBGR PILOT SITES SBGR Updates 2018-2019 2019-2020
Pilot School Sites
Area Community Family Education Forums
Professional Learning for Staff and Principals – Spring
Revise Handbooks & Report Cards based on feedback
Full Implementation System Wide
Community Family Education Forums
Continued Professional Learning
Preparing All Staff

5. Federal Way High School
SBGR Updates
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SBGR PILOT SITES
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Camelot Elementary
Twin Lakes Elementary
Lakota Middle School
Federal Way High School
Purpose of Pilot
Inform FWPS of the implementation of Report Card/Gradebook Revisions (in alignment to Principles of Grading) for the 2018 – 19 School Year
Pilot SITES

6. PILOT School Commitments
SBGR Updates
SBGR Updates
PILOT School Commitments
Sept June 2019
August SBGR PILOT PD
Principals and Teachers
Back to School Night
Parent Flyers
Parent Outreach with Teachers and Staff
Ongoing Professional Learning
Host Community Forum
Each Pilot school hosts and selects a teacher panel
Provide feedback on all key deliverables
Handbooks, Report Cards, Calculations
Survey Families at School Sites
Informing improved practices
SBGR Committee:
All schools ensure representation of one administrator, one staff member, one family member, and one scholar at secondary.

7. Standards Based Grading and Reporting
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Standards Based Grading and Reporting
Grades are more accurate and directly linked to what students need to know and be able to do (standards).
Provides students the practice they need, and more than one opportunity to show success of learning (standards).
Ensure students and families know what the next step is in student learning.
Why Standards Based Grading and Reporting?

8. Grading: No +’s & -’s at the Course Grade
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Grading: No +’s & -’s at the Course Grade
Research tells us…
a decrease in the number of score categories (number of scales/levels – 4 pt, 8 pt, +/-) increases the consistency and validity of grades across classrooms.
Using specific criteria for the letter grade accompanied by a rubric adds clarity, reliability, and understanding on how to proceed next…
“What is it exactly that a C+ thinker can do that a C thinker cannot?”
Why not give a student a plus or minus?

9. SBGR Updates
Common FAQs
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Motivation
The letter grade or percent alone is not what motivates students…
Research says…
use of timely verbal and written feedback to help them learn with an accurate grade that accompanies the feedback
working on a project or activity because of interest (intrinsic motivation) are likely to persevere, even when the task becomes difficult.
sense of belonging and connectedness to a task they would not normally complete, the likelihood of completion increases
Does the current grading system motivate scholars?

10. SBGR Community and Family Forum
SBGR Updates
SBGR Timeline
Pilot School Sites
Area Community Family Education Forums
Professional Learning for Staff and Principals – Spring
Revise Handbooks & Report Cards based on feedback
You are Invited!
SBGR Community and Family Forum
10/30/18 at Lakota MS
1/16/19 at Camelot ES
3/13/19 at FWHS
5/15/19 at Twin Lakes ES
Time Frame: 6:00 – 7:30

11. SBGR Update: SBGR Pilot Website
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SBGR Update: SBGR Pilot Website
Access the latest information regarding the Pilot from our TFL Website: