1. Elementary School Standards-Based Report Cards
Elementary Report Card Committee

2. What is a standards-based report card?

3. Standards-Based Report Card
Informs parents on students’ progress toward specific standards and expectations
Provides detailed feedback to parents about their child’s academic strengths and challenges
Ensures consistent expectations across the district, aligned with national and state standards

4. How does it differ from a traditional report card?
Standards-Based Report Card
Assigns one general grade to an entire subject
Grade calculations can be influenced by non-academic factors (homework, work habits, etc.)
Highest grade (A) is often given for meeting grade-level expectations
Shows student progress toward a specific expectation
Proficiency levels are given, based on academic performance
Highest proficiency level (4) is given for exceeding grade-level expectations
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5. Other Local Districts with Standards-based Report Cards
Paramus
Wyckoff
Riverdale
Chatham
Montville

6. How were the new Elementary Report Cards developed?

7. Report Card Committee Formed
Volunteers were solicited from various grade levels and administrators were included.
The committee examined various examples of report cards from other districts.
They narrowed down the choices to 3 or 4 report cards to use as models.

8. Teacher Feedback
At a grade-level meeting, teachers offered feedback on the sample report cards.
During various points in the process, committee members went back to grade-level colleagues for input.

9. Committee Work
After working with teachers, the committee critiqued sample report cards and came up with a general format for our report cards.
Teachers and administrators worked within and across grade levels to select most important “Behaviors that Support Learning.”
Grade-level teams worked with the Literacy and Math Coaches to use choose appropriate grading categories aligned with the Common Core State Standards. .

10. Community Feedback
Report cards were shared with the school community for additional feedback:
Teachers
Parent Committee
Board of Education Committee

11. Rubrics
Supervisors worked with teachers to develop rubrics for ELA and mathematics.
Teachers met to determine rubrics for Behaviors That Support Learning categories.
Teachers met to discuss how they could best use these rubrics to offer feedback to students and parents.

12. Sample Grade 2 ELA Rubric

13. Sample Grade 3 Math Rubric

14. Student-Friendly Rubric

15. What do the Report Cards look like?

16. Consistent Key Used Throughout

17. Grade 4 Mathematics

18. Behaviors That Support Learning

19. Grade 3 Example

20. Grade 3 Example

21. Progress Report Example
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menu shows:
Adequate progress or
Needs improvement

22. Additional Information

23. How will teachers assign grades?
Teachers will work together to develop rubrics.
Common assessments will be used to determine students’ progress.
Feedback will be given on individual assignments.

24. Help us to help our students!
Grades in the new report cards are not comparable to traditional grades.
Therefore, 4 ≠ A, 3 ≠ B, etc.
Students should be encouraged to work to their highest potential.
For some students, their highest potential is a 3, while others should aspire to a 4.
Students will be progressing toward a 3 throughout the year.

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Sample Report Cards
On the main Pequannock website, the report cards will be posted so that you can see what students are working toward.
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