6th to 8th Grade Report Overview

The instructional materials reviewed for Grades 6-8 meet expectations for Alignment to NGSS, Gateways 1 and 2. 

Gateway 1: Designed for NGSS meets expectations. The materials consistently incorporate three dimensions for students' use and sensemaking. Assessments, both formative and summative, consistently assess three dimensions related to the learning objectives. However, summative assessments miss the opportunity to assess multiple elements of the unit objectives. Phenomena are most commonly present at the unit level and leverage student sensemaking throughout the lessons. When present, phenomena and problems are presented as directly as possible and are connected to grade-band DCIs. The materials elicit student prior knowledge and experience related to the phenomena or problems but miss the opportunity to leverage it in subsequent instruction.

Gateway 2: Coherence & Scope meets expectations. The materials have an intentional sequence with students' tasks related to figuring out phenomena and solving problems increasing in sophistication across the series. The scope of the three dimensions in the standards is attended to across the series with a few missed opportunities to incorporate singular elements from the DCIs and one SEP. The materials are accurate and do not include significant content from outside of the grade-band appropriate DCIs.