1. Course Report
Revision
Reporting What Matters

3. Semper Reformada
--St. Augustin
...always reforming...

4. Beginning in
Inquiry
Our students educational endeavor
should begin and end in inquiry...
What am I good at?
What do I value?
What am I committed to?

6. ...or...
Who am I?
Whose am I?
To what am I called to do?

7. With these kind of high level, whole person questions
we need to adopt a Reporting System, a Catholic values
based system that adequately expresses that whole person
experience.

10. Our current system consists of an inventory of
courses and of grades. This system encourages a gradecentric education system and encourages
departmentalization.

11. What we report and how we report it should be an
expression of our most critical values.

14. Objectives
To communicate (each term) each
student’s academic experience in a
and
achievementfocuses on courseacademic
in a given MC’s
mannerand our Catholic Mission.
that
values

16. Objectives
To communicate student academic
experience and enterprise relative to
achievement as a
developmental standards in regard to
defined, formal
habits of scholarship, skills attainment
and refinement, and content
understanding.

17. Objectives
To communicate as a reflective
academic experience
and achievementstudents use their own
endeavor where
words and thoughts to express that
experience.

19. Objectives
To ensure that specific courseclearly designed
teachers have outcomes
and published of scholarship, skills
regarding habits refinement, and content
development and have been vetted by both
understanding that
department colleagues, the for Curriculum
department chair,
and the Assistant Principal
and Instruction.

21. The new reporting system we are proposing
will consist of six components which represent
a more complete expression of the student experience.

22. Components
• Attendance Record
• Course Expectations
• Student Self Evaluation
• Teacher Student Evaluation
• Final Course Grade
• Christian Service Progress

23. Attendance
Students presence in class matters. There is no making up a
classroom experience. An emphasis on attendance makes
clear the correlation between students presence and
academic achievement.

24. Course Expectations
• Need to reflect “values” like habits of
scholarship, effort, and engagement.
• Need to be concise, clear, and missiondriven.
• Need to be no more than five.

25. Student Self Evaluation
Students should give voice to their
experience. This section of the course
report would be the publication of a
students reflection on what they did well,
what they need to work on, and their basic
evaluation of the course. Reflection is a
critical step toward “knowing”.

26. Teacher Student
Evaluation
Teachers write a brief narrative of the
student’s achievement relative to the
course expectations. These of course are
values based course expectations.

27. Christian Service
Progress
Everything we value should be on the report card.
Christian Service is applied Theology and should be
prominently acknowledged on the same report as any
other aspect of the student growth experience.

30. Guiding Premise of this
Proposal
Course Reports arestudent achievement and
the school’s primary formal
communication of and therefore have significant
student experience Catholic’s culture. Course
influence on Marin influence student, parent, and
Reportsperceptions of our institutional priorities
profoundly
teacher learning best occurs.
and how

31. Guiding Premise of this
Proposal
The academic and experiential information we
report and how we report that information are
critical expressions of our values. Therefore, as a
Catholic College Preparatory, our reporting system
should be a more precise and faithful reflection of
what we fundamentally value as a Catholic school
and as Catholic educators.

32. Catholic Education
A spiritual vision of education that is humanizing,
a curriculum that educates for life for all.
--Thomas Groome