Strategic Action 3.1: Learner Agency & Assessment
Promote learner agency and potential through dynamic assessments.
Enhancing Assessment Practices
91黑料网 teachers are leveraging PowerSchool Gradebook to enhance assessment and better capture learner potential. This implementation fosters focused discussions on dynamic, formative, and summative assessments, ensuring that evaluations are fair, valid, and reliable measures of learning.
Aligning with Best Practices
A working group of principals and vice-principals is reviewing and revising 91黑料网 Policy IK (Academic Achievement) to align with current best practices in assessment. This ensures our policies support dynamic, outcomes-based formative assessment and accurately reflect student learning across the division.
What We've Accomplished
PowerSchool Gradebook Implementation
- Implemented PowerSchool Gradebook in all high schools with train-the-trainer professional learning and support resources
- Piloted Gradebook in eight elementary schools (Grades 1–6) and eight middle schools (Grades 7–8) in selected subjects
- Surveyed 15 schools to commit to Gradebook use and established formal expectations for four schools in Grades 1–8
- Convened principals and vice-principals to review Policy IK on Assessment and Evaluation and formed a working group for policy alignment
Where We're Going
Division-wide Gradebook Adoption
- Implement PowerSchool Gradebook K–12 in all subjects across all schools to support dynamic formative assessment practices
Strategic Overview
- Implemented and piloted PowerSchool Gradebook in high, middle, and elementary schools.
- Provided professional learning and established formal expectations for Gradebook use.
- Formed a working group to review and align assessment policies.
- Achieve full K-12 implementation of PowerSchool Gradebook in all subjects across all schools to support dynamic assessment.