By: Mr. Burgess
thomasb@isb.ac.th
After phasing out letter grades last year in our multi-year process of moving to a standards-based grading system, the Middle School will be fully implementing assessment and grading practices based upon academic standards this year. Students and parents will see these changes very soon in our PowerSchool reporting system. However, we ask for your patience as we have upgraded our PowerSchool software to version 7.0 and are currently loading all of our standards into the system as well as testing the system at the same time. Our teachers have already started instructing and assessing based upon standards as they await the changes that are being made in PowerSchool.
We will be holding upcoming parent information meetings about our implementation of standards-based assessment and grading this year, so keep reading the ISB Parent Portal MS E-News to find out the dates and times of these meetings. We hope you will join us at the upcoming Middle School Parent PTA meeting on Tuesday, September 4th at 9:30 am to learn more about PowerSchool, standards-based assessment, and our other MS initiatives for 2012-2013.