SEVENTH GRADE

Below are the Mastery Learning Targets, or priorities for all students to be successful when they advance to 8th Grade. Mastery (M) of these skills means the student has met the grade-level standard and is independently performing on grade level. Mastery takes time to develop and may take the full school year.

Learning each skill progresses and builds on current learning. Teachers use a variety of assignments and assessments to measure learning, and students have multiple attempts to show mastery. However, the goal of assessments and projects is to show mastery of a learning target, not earn a grade. 

Within each concept that is taught, teachers have created student scales, written as “I can” statements. These scales show the progression students need to learn to reach mastery. 

English
Math
Algebra Path
Science
Social Studies

Communicating Progress

Teachers use Infinite Campus to document and communicate about student learning. Within Infinite Campus, there are two types of student work reported: Foundational Evidence and Target Evidence. 

  • Evidence is the work students do to show their learning and understanding and may be in the form of a traditional test, questions, demonstrations, group assignments, self-checks, or projects. As skills are taught, some work is checked at the foundation level. This is labeled as Foundational Evidence, and students will not score higher than partial mastery, because the skills assessed are building toward the overall learning target. Foundational evidence is a documentation of the student work, it is not calculated for a score.

  • After students have had the opportunity to build on foundational skills, teachers will assign work to determine if students can independently meet the grade level standard. This is the Target Evidence, and Mastery is the goal for all students. Target Evidence is used by teachers after building on foundational skills and may not be assigned, or reported every week. Target Evidence is used to calculate the overall score.

REPORT CARDS
At the end of each quarter, report cards will include Learning Targets and correlating scores for English, Math, Science and Social Studies. For each target that is assessed during the quarter, students will achieve a score on the Mastery Scale to communicate where students excel or need improvement. 

  • Mastery means the student is independently performing on grade level. 


    * Mastery may take time to reach, as learning progresses throughout the school year.

Scores from Related Arts Courses or courses for high school credit are not included on the Standards Based Report Card until the 26-27 school yea

Mastery Scales

Excels (E): I can demonstrate learning above and beyond what was taught.

Mastery (M): I have mastered my learning.

Partial Mastery (PM): I can sometimes do it by myself.

Beginning (Beg): I need help to do it.

Scores with a + indicate the student is growing between two levels.