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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The last several PPs are totally incorrect. ES is exceptional at the grade level standard, not above grade level. All students, simply be being in the classroom, have an opportunity to earn an ES. Read the standards (visit the CCSS website for reading/writing/math or Mdk12.org for science/social studies. Those standards tell you how to get a P. Demonstrate the standards, as set by the state, not MCPS, and you will get a P. Are teachers still learning how to grade in this way? Sure. Do some reading on standards-based grading. It is research-based and MCPS did not make it up. It is far less subjective than the old system. Teachers will have a learning curve for implementation, but that is to be expected and in the meantime, just ask your child's teacher how his/her grades are being determined. Ask to see their data. They are required to keep multiple pieces of data for each child before submitting report card grades....and if your child is only being graded on yes/no worksheet type assignments, that is another problem entirely.[/quote]

Can you please provide a specific link that has info about "how to get a P".  I looked briefly at what you referenced, but these are only the objectives for each grade.  It doesn't specify what level of performance gets P or ES.  If the standard is adding and subtracting thru 20, what differentiates P from ES.  How can kids be "ES" at adding/subtracting thru 20.  You either can or you can't.

We have asked our teacher how grades are being determined at back to school night.  The answer was ... "I don't know.  We don't have any work samples yet, so we don't know yet what is P and what is ES."

I would have thought MCPS would have figured out this before they rolled out the curriculum thru some kind of pilot program, but instead it certainly seems like they are making it up as they go along.

Neither will our school any longer be conducting pre-assessments that find out whether or not the kids already know/can demonstrate the standards at grade level.  (If you don't pre-assess kids, then none of the kids demonstrate knowledge of the grade level standards and therefore no one needs to be accelerated!)

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