Cooper High School

Grading Committee Meeting

School Mission and Vision

Cooper Mission Statement: To provide a caring and vibrant community where all members are respected, we will educate students
to become active, compassionate, principled critical thinkers who understand that other people, with their differences can also be right.
Cooper Vision Statement: To have compassionate, engaged students exceeding our high expectations with a 21st century,
internationally minded, rigorous curriculum.
Creation and Charge
Purpose of Committee
The purpose is to evaluate grading practices and
bring forth recommendations for improved student
grading at Cooper High School.
Focus Question(s)
What is the effectiveness of our current student
reporting system?
Do we have deadlines that make sense without
harming students
What is our current redo-retake procedures
Are we getting students ready for Career,
College and Community?
How does it align with current assessment
practices and the work?
Task Force Charge:
Create Feedback loops
Set Building wide Standards around the
following:
Grade book standards
Support MYP Criterion Based Grading
for grades 9 and 10
Standardize the grading percentages
Create guidelines between homework, common
formative and summative assessments
Set timelines and deadlines for work
Others as determined by the task force

Force Outcomes
The task force will assess and
reflect on current and best practices
in student progress reporting.
The options created will:
identify deadlines for each
grade around unit work,
formatives and summatives
MYP Criterion Based
foundation for grades 9 and 10
Define the redo/retake
procedures/process for each
grade level
Plan for professional
development and organizational
support for communication and
or recommendations for our
reporting system
Set Building wide Standards
around the following:
Grade book standards
Support MYP Criterion
Based Grading for grades
9 and 10
Standardize the grading
percentages for and ensure
alignment with trending
scores.

Parameters (Unacceptable Means)

In creating options it is unacceptable
to:
work in isolation without collecting
feedback from various members of
groups such as parents, students,
faculty, and administrative team
not align with best practices and
research
violate law, policy, or negotiated
agreement
not incorporate MYP criterion based
grading practices for grades 9 and10
not link reporting data to our
Student Information System using
Schoology and Campus
to reflect non-academics
(promptness, effort, participation,
experience with siblings,
responsibility, etc.) in the academic
grade
not regularly inform parents and
students about student progress.
create a plan that does not include
all grade levels.
design a plan that requires more
than the currently available
resources.
develop a plan that does not include
an examination of our system,
identifying current initiatives and
alignment with our school
improvement plan.

Task Force Members: T. Cornillez, T. Darsow, D. Pulling, C. Kennedy, N. Nelson, R. Farid, A. Johnson, K. Christenson, C. Dahlstrom, C. Opel, T. Esnough, E.
Delaney, F. Herman. T. Knutson, W. Howard, E. Norby