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Standards-Based Grading and Reporting Overview

Osseo Area Schools is in a three year process of implementing a new grading and reporting system for all students. “Standards-Based Grading” (SBG) means that students are graded on what they know and have learned how to do after they were taught a specific concept or skill (a “standard”). In standards-based grading systems, students, parents, and teachers have more accurate information about exactly what students should be learning and what they actually have learned as a result of instruction.

District 279 teachers and administrators have been studying standards-based grading and reporting for several years, examining local and national research and gathering input from teachers, administrators, parents and students. Parents/guardians and students will see gradual changes in our grading and reporting practices, leading up to full implementation in 2013-2014.

Standards-Based Grading & Reporting 2012-13

Standards-Based Grading Resources for Parents/Guardians

Video Resources

The resources below provide additional information about standards-based grading.

A new way to report on student progress in ISD 279 – Osseo Area Schools (August 2011)

Una nueva forma de informar sobre el progreso del estudiante en ISD 279 – Escuelas del Área de Osseo (Agosto 2011)

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For more information about standards-based grading, please contact Wendy Biallas-Odell, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Educational Standards at 763-391-7143.