Proficiency Based Learning & Flexible Pathways

As a district, we’re also moving towards what is known as standards-based and proficiency-based grading and reporting.  From K-12, students will be assessed based on end of year standards in each grade, with frequent opportunities to show their learning in a variety of ways.  Standards-based and proficiency-based teaching and learning reflects a national and international shift in education, and our teachers are working hard collaboratively to make this transition smooth for students and parents. 

Springfield High School staff are thinking creatively about how students can graduate via multiple pathways by offering unique, interdisciplinary courses called Innovation Labs to keep students engaged while earning proficiencies.  For example, a student can take: Food Justice; Art as Control, Art as Rebellion; Your Brain on School; A Walk on the Wildside: Nature, Community, and Environmental Research; Cryptology: The Study of Secrets; Brains, Bones, & and Bodies: Human Evolution; Locked up - The History of Mass Incarceration in the United States; Pack your bags - Immigration and Migration in the Americas.