In the 2017-18 school year, Elizabethton City Schools introduced a standards-based grade card in kindergarten and 1st grade. This reflects each student’s mastery of specific standards, rather than an overall rating of satisfactory or unsatisfactory. For each standard, the grade card indicates a number, 1-4, indicating the student’s understanding from (1) below level to (4) above level.
The new grade cards are aligned with the revised standards in English Language Arts and Math. The purpose is to help communicate with parents the standards that we are teaching and evaluating and hoping students learn and master before they leave kindergarten and first grade.
Sample Grade Cards: