K-2 Report Card Support

05.October.2007 15:18 Filed in: Assessment
Unlike third through fifth grades, which have a new report card and have made the switch to PowerGrade and PowerSchool, no changes were in store for Kindergarten through second grade report cards. Nevertheless, it has become apparent that many primary teachers feel as if they require help in order to set-up their report card databases in Appleworks. It has also become apparent that District 21 Technology staff are going to be unable to meet this need this year. So, schools continue to have the same range of options for Primary Grade report cards that they have had in the past and that everyone had assumed that they would have for the 2007-2008 school year. To support them, though, in addition to the Appleworks databases in existence at the buildings, we have also created generic Microsoft Word report card templates. These may be easier for people to modify and use due to teachers' increased comfort with word processing programs. View the Kindergarten Word template and the 1st and 2nd Grade Word template. Again, these can be modified, and this is not intended to be a permanent Primary Grade Report Card solution for District 21. Rather, that will come from a process being put in place by the Department of Curriculum and Learning.

In addition to creating these templates to provide K-2 teachers within increased technological flexibility, we have made two quick little videos that provide additional insight. The first is about the Microsoft Word templates, and the second is designed to show people who are using the existing Appleworks databases how to update them for this year.

- Tour of Microsoft Word Report Card templates

*** Taking last year's AppleWorks Report Card database and updating it for this year