Standards: Broad learning statements, published by state and national organizations, that describe what students should know and be able to do based on content and grade level.

Learning Targets: Specific objectives for describing expected student outcomes within the broadly stated standard.

Target-Based Grading (TBG): Grading which indicates a student’s current level of proficiency on each learning target. The descriptors used to describe student progress are proficient, approaching, or beginning.

Formative Assessments: Formative assessments are used for the learning process to help the teacher and student understand how a student is progressing toward proficiency on the identified learning targets and to determine the next steps for instruction. Formative assessments are important but are not used in grade calculation.

Summative Assessments: Summative assessments provide evidence of student learning to determine a student's proficiency on the learning target. Summative assessments are used within grade calculations.

Proficiency Scale: A proficiency scale is intended to clarify a progression of learning.

Work and People Skills: Work and People Skills are non-academic skills that are viewed as essential by parents, teachers, employers, and community members.

Reassessment: Reassessment allows students additional opportunities to demonstrate proficiency of identified targets.