Elementary Progress Report: Communicating Achievement to Parents

Information for Parents

Parent Brochure

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Overview

FCPS is introducing a new elementary progress report that is based on curriculum standards. The new progress report will:

Provide parents with comprehensive information about how their child is learning.
Align with the Program of Studies (POS) curriculum students are learning.
Provide teachers with resources to communicate a more exact and consistent assessment.
Provide parents with comprehensive information about how their child is learning.
Incorporate research-based best practices in student grading and reporting.
Report Life, Work, and Citizenship skills separately from academic achievement.

During the 2011-12 school year, selected elementary schools will be involved in various phases of testing prior to the all system roll out for the 2012-13 school year.

Ten schools that have been field testing the standards-based progress report for the past two years will use the new progress report beginning fall 2011.