Departments
Learning, Curriculum and Assessment
The Curriculum and Learning Office of Provo City School District provides support to teachers, administrators, and parents in enabling students to gain academic skills and knowledge necessary for their successful futures. Local, state, and federal resources directed through our office provide teaching materials for students and teachers, professional development targeted to instructional improvement for new and experienced teachers, analysis of student performance data, tutoring services for at-risk learners, and enriched learning opportunities for students of all abilities. Our key focus is literacy enhancement for all students with additional energy directed to mathematics, science, and other critical areas of learning. We embrace the Utah State Core Curriculum for all areas of instruction and are continually striving to increase our students’ mastery of that curriculum.
Elementary Standards Reports
Provo City School District recognizes the importance of communicating student progress to parents. For this reason, the district has developed an Elementary Progress Report that is based on state curriculum standards. You will receive a progress report for your elementary student at the end of each term. The progress reports are designed to provide important accountability information to parents in a clear manner.
The progress reports show your child’s performance on each language arts and math standard. These standards come directly from the Utah State Office of Education’s Core Curriculum. Schools are responsible for teaching the Core Curriculum, and state and federal tests require us to measure students performance on these standards. Quarterly progress reports will communicate student performance on a regular basis, well before end-of-year accountability tests are administered, and before high-stakes decisions are made.
As teachers mark the progress reports, they consider the many elements of each standard. Each standard has many components, called objectives and indicators, that describe the standard in detail. These state standards, objectives, and indicators can be accessed at www.uen.org/core/ in the state Core Curriculum documents. Each standard is written with M for math or LA for language arts, the number of the standard, the title of the standard, and a description of the standard. Because not every standard is applicable to every grade level, some grades do not report on every standard.
Teachers use a variety of tests and assessments, both formal and informal, to mark progress reports. Reading inventories, writing samples, teacher-created tests, teacher’s observations, and other assessments are used to help teachers understand student performance. Teachers use all this information to make a determination about the achievement of students on specific standards. Parents are welcome to discuss specific tests with teachers to better understand their child’s academic achievement.
Student performance in each area is marked with a 1, 2, 3, E, or NT or S.
- E - Exceeding End of Year Standard
- 3 - Meeting End of Year Standard
- 2 - Progressing Toward End of Year Standard
- 1 - Lacking necessary progress for End of Year Standard
- NT- Not Tested/Taught
- S - See supplemental report
It is important to note that the mark represents the student’s progress towards meeting the end-of-the-year standard. So, students who are making adequate progress may have some 2’s on early progress reports because the end-of-year standard has not been met; it’s not expected that all students would meet the standard before the end of the year. Students who have 3’s on all standards at the end of the year have met all grade level standards.
To help students and parents understand how a student is progressing, the bottom of the progress report has a “forecasting” mark. While a teacher might mark a student’s performance on a standard as a 2, the student might be on grade level and making adequate progress to meet the standard by the end of the year. Considering all assessments and progression, the teacher estimates whether a student is making sufficient progress to meet the language arts and/or math standards by the end of the year. A determination that a student is not making sufficient progress to meet the standards by the end of the year should alert parents, students, teachers, and school support staff to intervene and make plans to support the student in flagged areas. It’s important to discuss your child’s progress with his/her teacher; teachers can explain testing, curriculum, and markings in greater detail and can help make plans to best support student achievement.
These progress reports can be a powerful communication tool for teachers, parents, and students. If you have any questions about the progress reports or your child’s academic progress, please talk to your child’s teacher or principal.
- Kindergarten Standards Report
- First Grade Standards Report
- Second Grade Standards Report
- Third Grade Standards Report
- Fourth Grade Standards Report
- Fifth Grade Standards Report
- Sixth Grade Standards Report
- Estándares Del Jardín De Los Niños
- Estándares Del Primero Grado
- Estándares Del Segundo Grado
- Estándares Del Tercero Grado
- Estándares Del Cuarto Grado
- Estándares Del Quinto Grado
- Estándares Del Sexto Grado
Contact Information
- Ray Morgan - Assistant Superintendent, Director
- Administration Building - Room 6
- 280 West 940 North
- Provo, Utah 84604
- Phone: (801) 374-4807
- Fax: (801) 374-4808
- Email: raym@provo.edu
- Diana Dean - Administrative Assistant
- Administration Building - Room 7
- 280 West 940 North
- Provo, Utah 84604
- Phone: (801) 374-4868
- Fax: (801) 374-4808
- Email: dianad@provo.edu
- Todd Billings - Professional Development
- Administration Building - Room 19
- 280 West 940 North
- Provo, Utah 84604
- Phone: (801) 374-4823
- Fax: (801) 374-4808
- Email: toddb@provo.edu
- Karen Brown - Literacy
- Administration Building - Room 18
- 280 West 940 North
- Provo, Utah 84604
- Phone: (801) 374-4850
- Fax: (801) 374-4808
- Email: karenb@provo.edu
- Ron Twitchell - Math
- Administration Building - Room 32
- 280 West 940 North
- Provo, Utah 84604
- Phone: (801) 374-4924
- Fax: (801) 374-4808
- Email: ront@provo.edu
- Jared Ferguson - Science
- Administration Building - Room 15
- 280 West 940 North
- Provo, Utah 84604
- Phone: (801) 374-4821
- Fax: (801) 374-4606
- Email: jaredf@provo.edu
- Julene Kendall - ESOL
- Administration Building - Room 19
- 280 West 940 North
- Provo, Utah 84604
- Phone: (801) 374-4852
- Fax: (801) 374-4808
- Email: julenek@provo.edu
- Claudia Lauret - Testing
- Administration Building - Room 8
- 280 West 940 North
- Provo, Utah 84604
- Phone: (801) 374-4869
- Fax: (801) 374-4808
- Email: claudial@provo.edu
- Nancy Jones
- Coordinator of Curriculum, Special Education - Farrer Preschool
- 100 North 600 East
- Provo, Utah 84606
- Phone: (801) 374-2003
- Fax: (801) 374-4982
- Email: nancyj@provo.edu
- Debbie Manning - Secretary
- Administration Building - Room 8
- 280 West 940 North
- Provo, Utah 84604
- Phone:(801) 374-4973
- Fax: (801) 374-4808
- Email: debbiem@provo.edu
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