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2. Design Considerations when creating a standard-based report card DO THIS FIRST Bob CornacchioliDERO Technical Services bcornacchioli@gmail.com get2bobc@gmail.com www.derotechnical.com

3. Agenda/Participants will be engaged in:Brainstorming sessionTips and tricks of creating a standard based report cardLearning report card languageReportWorks vs Object ReportsNOT DYNAMIC so it’s all about real estate. Exploring the curriculum side of standards Parkbench Visual PST (object report writer) Listen to announcements of how these will be given away!Target Audience – Admins/Curriculum/Lead Secretaries www.derotechnical.comfor more resources

4. CEO - DERO Technical ServicesEvangelist/Process Lead- Level DataMarketing/ - ParkBench Software Trainer Director of Technology and Media Services – Shrewsbury Public Schools (16 yrs)PowerSchool Administrator ( 6 yrs) Bob Cornacchioli

5. What’s your role in the district? Trained in Object Reports? Created Standard Based Report Cards?

6. CURRICULUM/ADMIN DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND TECHNICAL

7. Design Considerations • Years & Terms • Semester – Trimester – Quarters • Landscape vs. Portrait • More space for standard text (65) • Larger Font- Landscape • Headers vs. Standards • Graded or not • Shading • Lines • Gray Boxes • Code vs. Text (Code & Text) • ^(*std.info.name;02.LA.01) • You or someone else

8. Location-Location-Location The subliminal message do you send to your community by the placement of your subjects? UPPER LEFT of page #1 is BOARDWALK

9. Summative - Student Records All comments- 1 report card in Student Record Folder Better Identifier?? ^(*std.stored.comments;ELA.4.50;T1) ^(*std.stored.comments;MA.4.17;T1) Stay inside the lines Teachers will write TOO MUCH! Set Max Width to keep text in the box SOMEONE must inform teachers of character max count!

10. Version 7.03 Comment Length can be set at the District-List Standards-for all your comment standards Requires Teacher Log in Enter Sample Comment Print Report Cards Establish CC & Set Value

11. Content Specific Comments • Typically reserved for MS Level • Requires considerably more Real Estate • If space is not available, tech team must change code as needed ALWAYS SMALLER ^(*std.stored.comments;02.LA.50;Q4) Do elementary PE Teachers write comments? To stay within lines Max Width needs to be set for each comment area. Object Reports – FIXED BOUNDARIES ReportWorks – Dynamic

12. Attendance Codes & Chasing Ghosts TEST EARLY & OFTEN - SEPTEMBER 15th

13. Chasing Attendance Ghosts SPECIAL NOTE – IF THE CODE WORKED LAST YEAR BUT NOT THIS YEAR Check Code to Day Conversion Values “sometimes” the EOY process does copy these values from last year and you’ll find this page blank! SPECIAL NOTE – IF THE CODE WORKS FOR MOST STUDENTS BUT NOT ALL Check Transfer Info for FTEid Value If Full-Time Equivalency can be BLANK especially if you IMPORT new students and forget to bring in that value

14. Which code to use/what will it display? ^(*std.stored.high;ELA.5.1;T1;2010) = highest stored grade for standard T1, 2010 ^(*std.stored.num;ELA.5.1;T1;11) = average stored grade for standard T1 in Grade 11 ^(*std.stored.transavg;ELA.5.1;T1) = stored number grade for standard T1 ^(*std.transhigh;ELA.5.1) = stored number grade for standard DO YOU HAVE THE POWERSCHOOL CODES?

15. = Not Assessed This Term – Strategies! Teachers will have to either:1) leave standard blank 2) select a conversion scale choice of NA 3) All standards will be seen by teacher even if correct term is selected – no element refers to term ID UNLESS someone changes the Enable selection Not Recommended as this will be a repeatable labor cost

16. BE ON THE SAME PAGE Key/Assessments Avoid confusion with homebound papers: Curriculum/Admin issue NOT Technical! Sending Home Letter Grades and Percentages will confuse Parents and Students

17. Multi-page Reports Duplex Printers - Stapler Name of student on each odd #’d page!

18. 21st Century EffortHabits of MindEssential Skills for LearningSocial DemeanorUsually associated to a HR Elementary – One teacher – all subjects Middle School – Multiple teachers – individual subjects Standard for each, spacing code is significant for the section below

19. Not Dynamic – space for everything Have admin consider limiting standards in each content area! Battlegrounds between core academics and special subjects Generic Standards for all Performance Groups (BCO) and Foreign Language (F,S,C,L) G e t R e a d y t o R u m b l e Strategy: Less standards if class doesn’t meet daily

20. Corrections on screen or print? Create a comment only report for teachers rather than printing entire report cards Sample available on DERO Technical Website- Report Cards!

21. So what about ReportWorks? • ReportWorks is a next-generation custom report development solution: • latest version to handle grades and attendance • delivering all the benefits of anywhere, anytime web-based access • feature-rich environment rivaling the capabilities of third party reporting apps • meets the needs of experienced report developers and beginners • files listing standards grades are available, however; sharable traditional report card resources limited at this time Can I convert my Object Reports?

22. ReportWorks vs. Object Reports Object Reports are based upon legacy code that is not compatible with ReportWorks! My Best Guess Q: Are Object Reports going away? A: Not anytime soon, $$$$ and time (MOST LIKELY NEVER!) Q: If I need a report card for this fall, recommendation? A: Go with what you know, no experience – contract Q: Are you planning to create them with ReportWorks? A: NO, as I prefer to teach clients remotely and find it far more difficult to teach REMOTELY. Personal Choice Q: I have a funky schedule with lots of options for student, what would you use? A: ReportWorks is dynamic referencing the CC table

23. Report Tools for the Future? • Traditional – Handwritten • Traditional – Electronic • Standards • Anchor Standards • Common Core • Rubric Assessments by Term • Graphical Progress on Standards • Online/Web-based • Push Technology • Audio • Video • Cumulative K-12 with yearly progress on Graduation • Local/State and National Comparisons What is your Best Guess?

24. http://www.parkbenchsoftware.com/ District Pricing : $250 / year Demo Codes Available Upon Request Session 12 and 13- Thursday AM

25. What you see is what you get object report writer Need an example? http://www.derotechnical.com/REPORTCARDS/SampleReportCards.html

26. Search and Replace in VST Exciting feature, but! ^(*std.stored.transavg;ELA.5.1;T1) can easily become ^(*std.stored.transavg;RE.5.1;T1) Changing RE to Math could result in ^(*std.stoMAd.transavg;MA.5.1;T1)

27. Search and Replace in VST Cautions with numbers too! (Grade levels and code tabs) <tabc 4.02>^(*std.stored.transavg;02.LA.02;Q1) <tabc 5.20>^(*std.stored.transavg;02.LA.02;Q2) <tabc 5.97>^(*std.stored.transavg;02.LA.02;Q3) <tabc 6.78>^(*std.stored.transavg;02.LA.02;Q4) If a tab measurement contained a portion of the identifier or visa versa, use punctuation to help delineate the difference!

29. Oracle Sequencing Error Oracle handles page numbers as text fields and has trouble sequencing object reports greater than 9 pages. A sequence error will occur on your print outs... page 10 will be printed as the 2nd page - page 11 as the 3rd page. Work-Around is to re-order your pages in the file. In my 12 page example which prints as 1, 10, 11, 12, 2-9. I had place ELA as the 10th page as client wanted it printed second. Math became the 11th page and so on. Email me if you have any questions Of course if your report ( standard-based report cards is less than 10 pages, you have nothing to worry about!

30. ANY AND ALL DERO RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD, TWEAK and USE FOR YOUR DISTRICT! Q & A Bob CornacchioliDERO Technical Services bcornacchioli@gmail.com get2bobc@gmail.com www.derotechnical.com