SHS Competency-Based Assessment
Rochester students can relearn topics under new grading system
New competency grading system should help college-bound students
Grading System where nobody fails
The American High School: A call for change – John Shea
The American High School: A call for change
More depth, less breadth in curriculum
Going from isolation to immersion – tear down the walls
Create a grading system that tells us something
Graduate when one is ready: Not sooner, not later
In sum, it all adds up to getting results
Improvements at Spaulding will go forward despite Big Step on hold
Project to transform Lilac City school system set aside
BIG STEP FORWARD – John Shea’s Competency Based education plan
In Foster’s on 7/27/01, Rochester School District finalized a new curriculum. The new curriculum was to span Kindergarten to grade 12. This entailed new materials, specifically textbooks.
Also in Foster’s on 7/21/01, we hired Richard Towne and Eric Ross as new administrative teacher evaluators. Their job was to evaluate new teachers and those in need of assistance.
In Foster’s on 3/25/2002, the School Board successfully amended the means of determining class rank at Spaulding High School.
Another Foster’s article dated 9/5/02 – A Short History of Spaulding.