In an era of educational transformation that challenges the traditional model, schools are re-imagining what it means for students to graduate college and career ready. But how are they re-imagining the structures that report out the growth and progress of every student? This session will take participants through a process used to rethink report cards—their purpose, their design, and their role as a communication tool.
Naugatuck's Vision of the Graduate and its competencies are foundational to this new reporting tool and influenced its design. Participants will have opportunities to discuss Naugatuck's newly redesigned elementary report card, as well as the plan for that model to encompass K–12 in the next 3–4 years.
Participants will have the opportunity to use design thinking as one way to develop and articulate the purpose of a report card and to visualize how they might look in a growth-oriented environment; consider how tools they already use, like PowerSchool, can help in the redesign process; a