1. Design Considerations when creating a standard-based report card
DO THIS FIRST
Bob Cornacchioli DERO Technical Services

2. www.derotechnical.com for more resources
Agenda/Participants will be engaged in: Brainstorming session Tips and tricks of creating a standard based report card Learning report card language ReportWorks vs Object Reports NOT 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
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3. CEO. - DERO Technical Services
CEO - DERO Technical Services Evangelist/Process Lead- Level Data Marketing/ - ParkBench Software
Trainer
Director of Technology and Media Services – Shrewsbury Public Schools (16 yrs) PowerSchool Administrator ( 6 yrs)
Bob Cornacchioli

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

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

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

7. 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

8. 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!

9. 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

10. 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

11. Attendance Codes & Chasing Ghosts
TEST EARLY & OFTEN - SEPTEMBER 15th
PRINT THEM TOO!!!

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. Hybrid Anyone?
^(stored.by.course.numberlist;8011,IJATut;course_name)Teacher: ^(stored.by.course.numberlist;8011,IJATut; teacher_name)
<tabc 9.9>^(stored.by.course.numberlist;8011,IJATut;T1;grade)
<tabc 10.3>^(stored.by.course.numberlist;8011,IJATut;T2;grade)
<tabc 10.65>^(stored.by.course.numberlist;8011,IJATut;T3;grade
^(stored.by.course.number;8009;course_name) -Teacher: ^(stored.by.course.number;8009;teacher_name)
<tabc 4.37>^(stored.by.course.number;8009;T1;grade)
<tabc 4.78>^(stored.by.course.number;8009;T2;grade)
<tabc 5.15>^(stored.by.course.number;8009;T3;grade)

17. = 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

18. 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

19. Multi-page Reports Duplex Printers - Stapler
Name of student on each odd #’d page!
Check Margins – Edge to Edge is different
on each printer.
Different on Screen vs. Print Out
New Printers.. CHECK REPORTS

20. 21st Century Effort Habits of Mind Essential Skills for Learning Social Demeanor Usually 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

21. 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

22. 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!

23. 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?

24. 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: I have a funky schedule with lots of options for student, what would you use?
A: ReportWorks is dynamic referencing the CC table
PLEASE NOTE- RW pulls data from the PSRW_StandardGrade
which can only access grades in the current year.

25. 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?

26. http://www.parkbenchsoftware.com/ District Pricing : $250 / year
License could be free

27. Design Sign-off Need an example?
What you see is what you get object report writer
Design Sign-off
Need an example?
derotechnical.com/REPORTCARDS/SampleReportCards.html
Coding will have to be changed!

29. The Power of Search and Replace
^(*std.info.name;ELA.3.3) <tabc 4.37>^(*std.stored.transavg;ELA.3.3;T1) <tabc 4.78>^(*std.stored.transavg;ELA.3.3;T2) <tabc 5.15>^(*std.stored.transavg;ELA.3.3;T3)
^(*std.info.name;ELA.2.3)
<tabc 4.37>^(*std.stored.transavg;ELA.2.3;T1)
<tabc 4.78>^(*std.stored.transavg;ELA.2.3;T2)
<tabc 5.15>^(*std.stored.transavg;ELA.2.3;T3)
^(*std.info.name;MA.2.3)
<tabc 4.37>^(*std.stored.transavg;MA.2.3;T1)
<tabc 4.78>^(*std.stored.transavg;MA.2.3;T2)
<tabc 5.15>^(*std.stored.transavg;MA.2.3;T3)

30. 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)
Cautions with numbers too!
(Grade levels and code tabs)

31. No Boxes in My Grids

32. 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. 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!
My Version 2.2b6 – Visual PST FIXES THIS and many more neat stuff

33. Q & A ANY AND ALL DERO RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE
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Q & A
Bob Cornacchioli DERO Technical Services