Blue Ribbon School goes for mastery minus the grades
Gamaliel Elementary teachers rely on standards-based grading system, collaboration.
Miles Elementary goes to standards-based grading
For the second year in a row, students at Miles Elementary School (Erlanger-Elsmere Independent) won’t receive grades. Yet teachers and the principal say students and their parents are better informed about what the children know – and what skills and information they still need to master. Bryant Gillis, in his seventh year as principal, said he never figured out in his 36 years in education what an A really means.