•  All students can learn when provided adequate time and support.

•  The purpose of assessment is to support and guide student understanding of the curriculum standards.

•   Assessments form a body of evidence collected over time that shows mastery of
    performance.

•   Providing students with on-going, specific, timely, and descriptive feedback about their
    work improves their performance.

•   A final grade reflects the most consistent, more recent pattern of student performance in
    relation to the standards.

•   Understanding can be demonstrated in different ways, hence students will be provided a variety of
     opportunities to demonstrate learning.

•   Students are given the opportunity to demonstrate understanding of the standards through
    performance tasks that provide complex challenges that mirror real world issues.

•   Student involvement in the learning process is critical to increased student motivation,
    understanding of expectations, ownership, and responsibility.

•   The practice of reflection clarifies and deepens understanding and leads to continuous
    improvement.

•   Models and samples of student work communicate standards and accelerate student 
    growth.

•   On-going professional learning supports what we believe to be essential about student learning and
     achievement.