NEWS: The 2023-24 school year will be the first year all school districts in B.C. will implement a provincial proficiency scale instead of letter grades on student report cards from kindergarten to Grade 9.
VIEWS: I have been fascinated by this issue since it was first piloted in 2016-17.
Instead of letter grades, the scale uses the terms emerging, developing, proficient and extending to describe student learning.
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