11/10 Parent Info Session on Standards-Based Grading

On Thursday, 11/10, we hosted a virtual information session to help our families learn more about standards-based grading at Lexington’s middle schools.

Here is a link to the slideshow we used for the presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15oA2dwSdf54vEyBIijI566RAXo4RYYaLQDHcMgErCDc/edit?usp=sharing

Here is the link to the video of that event: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1byHFvYYYZkZJtarxQWTJrQ2f_Uwv9vml/view?usp=sharing

At the presentation, Jane Hundley (Lexington’s middle school social studies department head) and I discussed the following topics (with time stamps for the video):

• Overview of our standards-based grades (4:12-8:00)
• Why did Lexington’s middle schools transition to standards-based grading? (8:00-13:45)
• The equity and communication challenges of traditional grades (20:35-31:00)
• What is communicated in our standards-based report card (41:10-51:40)
• How do we as parents and educators support our students’ learning within this grading model? (51:40-56:30)

In between each of these sections, we paused to answer folks’ clarifying questions about our presentation and our standards-based grading system, in general. Thanks to everyone who was able to attend and ask thoughtful questions!

After watching the presentation, if you have next-level questions about standards-based grading not covered in the presentation, please use this link: https://forms.gle/f4byUxonVVZR1Wa29

We will use these questions to inform our upcoming parent communication about standards-based grading. Thank you!