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Steve McCracken: Secondary Principals' Council Chair on the new school reporting system · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: School report cards are getting in government make over. It's
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  Speaker 1: rolling out a standardized system for years zero through ten
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  Speaker 1: covering reading, writing, Mass reports have used five clear markers emerging, developing, consolidating, proficient,
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  Speaker 1: and exceeding. Steve mccrack and his Secondary Principals School Council
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  Speaker 1: Chair and joins us now Steve, good morning, Mordan Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: how are you very well? Thank you? Does that sound
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  Speaker 1: all very simple and easy to understand?
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  Speaker 2: Look from a parent's perspective, absolutely, and there's no doubting
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  Speaker 2: there's a need for that national consistency to ensure that
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  Speaker 2: we know, as parents are selves where our students are
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  Speaker 2: at exactly. And I suppose the biggest concern is the school. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: starts the timing once again in this announcement. It seems
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  Speaker 2: to be quite quite rush strong.
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  Speaker 1: But this is talking about a mid year progress report,
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  Speaker 1: so you wouldn't have to do that till the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the year presumably.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit unclear on the exact timing
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  Speaker 2: as yet, so we're eagerly awaiting a little bit more detail,
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  Speaker 2: but once a year in that there's no doubting the
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  Speaker 2: need for it, and once of course the students get
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  Speaker 2: through some of their curriculum work, and particularly in English
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  Speaker 2: and Mathematics. Then yeah, it's only obvious that we report
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  Speaker 2: to parents on their progress.
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  Speaker 1: Why haven't we had a national standardized one until now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a really good question. The legislation is still saying,
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  Speaker 2: and the fact that schools still have to report two
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  Speaker 2: times a year formerly to parents. Yeah, but it's going
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  Speaker 2: a question around than the need for it. Yeah, just
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  Speaker 2: to develop that consistency, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you do hear from parents they say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's too confusing. I don't really understand where they're at.
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  Speaker 1: Although in saying that emerging, developing, consolidating, proficient, and exceeding,
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  Speaker 1: I guess you can understand all of those words. Consolidating
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  Speaker 1: is an odd one, but there we go. I suppose
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  Speaker 1: you've got to have some nerdy words in there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously, but there is a bit of a risk
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  Speaker 2: in the detail, right, and it's not too bad in
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  Speaker 2: terms of putting five key descriptors in there. But we
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  Speaker 2: know into yet nine and ten, for example in the
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  Speaker 2: English and Mathematics curriculum, which we're now expected to report against,
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  Speaker 2: far more nuanced and detailed than what just for example,
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  Speaker 2: in the English curriculum in English assessments, where it says
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  Speaker 2: around our text and language studies. There's a lot more
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  Speaker 2: in the English curriculum than just putting things into five
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  Speaker 2: broad categories.
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  Speaker 1: What about a box that just is must pull finger
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  Speaker 1: another one that says get tutoring. You know, why don't
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  Speaker 1: we make it really really brutal, quite simple.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, that sounds like my report card when I
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  Speaker 2: was at school, Ryan, But in all seriousness, it's further
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  Speaker 2: in the detail that we've looked overnight. Then. Yet it
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  Speaker 2: does say that there's expected comments and things for individual students.
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  Speaker 2: And if you look at a learner or a student
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  Speaker 2: with individual learning needs and maybe some discrete learning challenges,
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  Speaker 2: then there's a whole lot more intricousy that needs to
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  Speaker 2: go into this in five forward categories.
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  Speaker 1: Steve McCracken, Secondary Principal, School Cheer, I appreciate your time
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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