Standards Based Grading 

Standards Based Grading (SBG) is a set of teaching and reporting practices that communicate a student's performance against a predetermined set of learning standards. Utilizing SBG helps to ensure students reach their fullest potential while providing structure, expectations, and feedback about the process of learning to students and families. 

Why Standards Based Grading?

• Strengthens communication between home and school
• focuses on mastering content standards instead of accumulating points 
• Reports what students know and are able to do
• Promotes student reflection and engagement in the learning process
• Separates academic achievement from learner qualities or behavior
• Provide students multiple opportunities to demonstrate learning

What Does Grading Look Like?

All of the Kindergarten through Eighth grade report cards use a four point scale to indicate what level of proficiency a student has demonstrated in a given subject and learning standard. Below are the proficiency scales for genaral content areas and English as a Second Language (ESL) you will see on a student's report card.

Four point scale for general content classes:

Four point scale for English as a Second Language (ESL) classes:

Depending on the specific classes a student has, they will get graded on a report card at least every trimester. Students will get graded seperately on social skills and learner qualities. This will include the learning standard, the term, and the proficiency level:

 

 

What are some ways I can see my child's report card?

Report cards will be aviable at the end of every trimester and might be sent to your home and always can be accessed by logging into your parent portal account on Infinite Campus and clicking on "documents." If you do not have a parenr portal account, you can go to Campus.skokie68.org and follow the directions to create one.