March 16, 2012

I cannot believe that it is March and the weather has been this warm!!  I hope that this weather trend continues through our Spring Break.   


Please visit the Woodlawn PTO WEBSITE LINK AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE!!!!!!!!!!!


The incoming 6th grade parent night has been moved to Monday, April 23rd at 7:00p.m. in the Woodlawn Gym.  All current parents of 5th grade students are welcome to watch, listen and participate in the presentation by Mr. Murphy and myself.  If you know of a current 5th grade parent who would like to attend, please pass this message along.


A standards based report card is going to look a little different...
Last week, we shared that a standards-based report card reports student learning by specific curriculum targets. Currently, our end of term reports share only the overall grade and a brief comment. A standards-based report card will give you much greater details.


This is what the current District 96 report card looks like:

Comments follow the percentage on the right hand side and usually give you a one sentence description of how your child is progressing.


The new standards-based report card will give this much information for each content area for each quarter. This example shows what could appear for 7th grade Advanced Math for Trimester 1:

As a parent myself, this type of reporting will give me a much more detailed picture of how my child is performing. The overall course grade is still there, and there is a spot to report on student learning related to each target within each content area. This provides parents with detailed information, much greater than our current report card.


The Middle School Standards-Based Report Card Parent Information Night will be coming up on April 18 @ 7:00 pm in the Woodlawn Gym. We will present information on that evening that will clarify questions surrounding Standards Based Report cards.