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    The Cooper High School grading committee was tasked with evaluating the school's grading practices and recommending improvements. The committee will assess the effectiveness of the current student reporting system, redo/retake procedures, and alignment with career and college readiness. They will create guidelines for grade book standards, homework/assessment percentages, and deadlines while supporting criterion-based grading for grades 9-10. The committee cannot work in isolation, violate policies, or reflect non-academic factors in grades. Their recommendations must be informed by research, incorporate best practices, and include examination of current initiatives and the school improvement plan.

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    The Cooper High School grading committee was tasked with evaluating the school's grading practices and recommending improvements. The committee will assess the effectiveness of the current student reporting system, redo/retake procedures, and alignment with career and college readiness. They will create guidelines for grade book standards, homework/assessment percentages, and deadlines while supporting criterion-based grading for grades 9-10. The committee cannot work in isolation, violate policies, or reflect non-academic factors in grades. Their recommendations must be informed by research, incorporate best practices, and include examination of current initiatives and the school improvement plan.

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    Cooper High School

    Grading Committee Meeting

    School Mission and Vision


    Cooper Mission Statement: To provide a caring and vibrant community where all members are respected, we will educate students
    to become active, compassionate, principled critical thinkers who understand that other people, with their differences can also be right.
    Cooper Vision Statement: To have compassionate, engaged students exceeding our high expectations with a 21st century,
    internationally minded, rigorous curriculum.
    Creation and Charge
    Purpose of Committee
    The purpose is to evaluate grading practices and
    bring forth recommendations for improved student
    grading at Cooper High School.
    Focus Question(s)
    What is the effectiveness of our current student
    reporting system?
    Do we have deadlines that make sense without
    harming students
    What is our current redo-retake procedures
    Are we getting students ready for Career,
    College and Community?
    How does it align with current assessment
    practices and the work?
    Task Force Charge:
    Create Feedback loops
    Set Building wide Standards around the
    following:
    Grade book standards
    Support MYP Criterion Based Grading
    for grades 9 and 10
    Standardize the grading percentages
    Create guidelines between homework, common
    formative and summative assessments
    Set timelines and deadlines for work
    Others as determined by the task force

    Force Outcomes
    The task force will assess and
    reflect on current and best practices
    in student progress reporting.
    The options created will:
    identify deadlines for each
    grade around unit work,
    formatives and summatives
    MYP Criterion Based
    foundation for grades 9 and 10
    Define the redo/retake
    procedures/process for each
    grade level
    Plan for professional
    development and organizational
    support for communication and
    or recommendations for our
    reporting system
    Set Building wide Standards
    around the following:
    Grade book standards
    Support MYP Criterion
    Based Grading for grades
    9 and 10
    Standardize the grading
    percentages for and ensure
    alignment with trending
    scores.

    Parameters (Unacceptable Means)


    In creating options it is unacceptable
    to:
    work in isolation without collecting
    feedback from various members of
    groups such as parents, students,
    faculty, and administrative team
    not align with best practices and
    research
    violate law, policy, or negotiated
    agreement
    not incorporate MYP criterion based
    grading practices for grades 9 and10
    not link reporting data to our
    Student Information System using
    Schoology and Campus
    to reflect non-academics
    (promptness, effort, participation,
    experience with siblings,
    responsibility, etc.) in the academic
    grade
    not regularly inform parents and
    students about student progress.
    create a plan that does not include
    all grade levels.
    design a plan that requires more
    than the currently available
    resources.
    develop a plan that does not include
    an examination of our system,
    identifying current initiatives and
    alignment with our school
    improvement plan.

    Task Force Members: T. Cornillez, T. Darsow, D. Pulling, C. Kennedy, N. Nelson, R. Farid, A. Johnson, K. Christenson, C. Dahlstrom, C. Opel, T. Esnough, E.
    Delaney, F. Herman. T. Knutson, W. Howard, E. Norby

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