Over the past five years, Rutland City Public Schools has sharpened the focus on teaching essential skills across all subjects and at all grade levels. Last year, Rutland High School teachers initiated a school-wide effort to teach and assess students in reading and writing.  This year, departments will begin to target our remaining school-wide academic goals: critical thinking, speaking & listening, research, and the creative process.  This is an interdisciplinary approach, at the core of which are our school-wide rubrics.  Our objective is to facilitate student learning by reinforcing essential life skills in multiple disciplines.

Each department has taken responsibility of teaching, assessing, and reporting out on 1 to 2 school-wide goals.  Starting in the fall of 2012, your child will periodically receive scores for each of the six school-wide academic goals, and a final summative set of scores at the end of his/her courses. By the spring of 2014, although not reporting out on all of the goals, all teachers will be teaching and assessing them in their classes.

As teachers record them, your child’s scores will be visible in Infinite Campus when you log on.  This data will enable you to track your child’s progress, and enable teachers to provide specific feedback to students, allowing them to adjust instruction and assessment practices based on individual student need.
Currently, you can access copies of the RHS Reading and Writing Rubrics on the Rutland High School website.