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Grading & Report Cards

Grading Practices

GMSD believes that academic grades are intended to provide an accurate and equitable measure of a student’s mastery of TN Academic Standards as evidenced by demonstrated abilities, skills, and understandings.

These grades serve to:

  • offer students, parents, and teachers appropriate feedback on progress towards standards- based mastery
  • communicate specific areas in need of remediation or enrichment
  • reveal student progress towards appropriate readiness measures for student promotion and post-secondary life

In support of these purposes, our grading practices will:

  • ensure consistency for all stakeholders
  •  focus primarily on student growth and achievement
  • minimize the effects of non-academic factors
  • offer students multiple differentiated opportunities to show growth or mastery
  • be supported by evidence-based and current promising practices
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Grading Guidelines

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