1 Year Summary of Madison's Implementation of "Standards Based Report Cards"

• 28K PDF Cover Memo from Teaching & Learning Director Lisa Wachtel and Pam Nash, Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Schools
• Teachers' interpretations of standards-based grading and reporting: Learning a new language and culture - 511K PDF by Sara Hagen. Hagen will speak at the District's upcoming leadership conference [100K PDF]:

  [She] recently completed a Master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For her Master's thesis project, she interviewed and surveyed MMSD middle school teachers about the first semester of implementation of standards-based grading. Ms. Hagen is a National Board Certified Teacher of Spanish, which she taught at the high school and middle school levels in Bloomington, Indiana, and Chantilly, Virginia, for eight years.

• First Year Implementation Issues and Continual Improvement Efforts [300K PDF] by Teaching & Learning Director Lisa Wachtel.
• Survey responses & comments [1.4MB PDF] by Melissa Sherfinski, who is working on her PhD. at the University of Wisconsin School of Education

Notes and links on "Standards Based Report Cards" here. Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 8, 2009 2:03 AM
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