October is National School Principal Month. We want to thank all our amazing principals who go above and beyond to build and care for their school communities. Welcome to the latest Superintendent Snapshot. To submit a question, send an email to supsblog@graniteschools.org
Building Security and Safety Reminders
Welcome to the latest Superintendent Snapshot. Superintendent Nye talks about building security and safety reminders. To submit a question, send an email to supsblog@graniteschools.org
Question – Future of Formative Assessments?
Question – Will we be using Acuity next year or the SAGE formative assessment piece?
Response – Granite District will not be using the Acuity delivery platform at all this coming year – neither for universal screening assessments nor district quarterly benchmarks. Our district-created quarterly benchmark assessments will be housed as a Granite specific library of assessments on the state SAGE Formative platform. Information and training in support of this change will be provided for both administrators and teachers as the school year begins.
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Question – Standards Based Report Cards
Question – Is there any plan for the District to move to a standard based report card?
Response – Several elementary schools in Granite District have pursued various versions of standards-based report cards during the past decade. Over the past three years, a district committee has met fairly regularly about the possibility of implementing standards/proficiency-based grading at the secondary level. More recently, the Utah State Office of Education convened a task force to make recommendations to the State Board of Education regarding graduation requirements; one of those sub-committees made detailed recommendations in support of a statewide grading policy based on student proficiency in state standards. Granite District has not moved to create our own such policies as we have waited to see the direction that might be pursued by the USOE. Since no requirements have yet been prescribed by the state, Granite is likely to begin implementation of such an approach in the near future.