{"id":"wri-tch-explain-grading-scale-parents","audience":"teachers","category":"explaining","technique":"audience","title":"Explain a 1-4 grading scale to parents in plain words","free":false,"task":"Parents are confused by the new 1-4 report card scale. Explain it in exactly 4 numbered lines, one per score, each starting with the score and an equals sign ('1 =') and under 14 words, in plain everyday words. Make it clear which score is the goal. Avoid school jargon ('proficient', 'mastery', 'standards-based', 'benchmark'). Write a prompt that gets that.","materialLabel":"District memo (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"DISTRICT MEMO - Elementary report cards, 2026-27 (Pine Valley Schools)\n\nScale for each learning goal on the report card:\n4 - Exceeds: consistently goes beyond grade-level work, independently. Rare; we expect few 4s, especially early in the year.\n3 - Meets: shows grade-level understanding without help. THIS IS THE GOAL for every student by the end of the year. (Earlier drafts called this \"Proficient\". The board changed the label to \"Meets\" in August.)\n2 - Approaching: understands parts of it, still needs help sometimes.\n1 - Beginning: just starting; needs a lot of support.\n\nTalking points for teachers:\n- Many parents see 3 out of 4 and think \"75%, a C.\" That's the biggest misunderstanding.\n- Example goal: \"Adds and subtracts within 1,000.\" A student who does it correctly on their own gets a 3.\n\nReport cards go home Friday, Nov 21.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":4},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not setting the shape","why":"The AI writes a long letter with a table and an FAQ.","fix":"Show it: \"Exactly 4 numbered lines like: 1. 4 = goes beyond grade-level work.\"","checks":["numberedItems","r0"]},{"title":"Leaving out the goal","why":"The AI explains each score but doesn't say 3 is the target, so parents still see 3/4 as a C.","fix":"Add: \"Say clearly that 3 is the goal. Don't compare to letter grades.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Teacher jargon","why":"AI explains scales with \"proficient\" and \"mastery\", the words that confused parents.","fix":"Ban them: \"No proficient, mastery, standards-based or benchmark. Only the 4 lines. Plain text.\"","checks":["r2","plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says who it's for","patterns":["parents","families","plain (words|english|language)"]},{"label":"Sets the number of lines","patterns":["\\b(4|four)\\b.{0,15}(lines|items|numbered)","numbered"]},{"label":"Names the goal","patterns":["3 is the goal","goal","target"]},{"label":"Bans jargon","patterns":["jargon","proficient","mastery"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no headings"]}],"hint":"Parents read 3 out of 4 as a C unless told otherwise. Tell the AI the line shape, that 3 is the goal and which words to avoid.","rubricLabels":["Has 4 numbered lines that start with '1 =', '2 =', '3 =' and '4 =' and explain each score in plain words (4 goes beyond grade level, 3 can do it on their own, 2 needs some help, 1 is just starting)","Makes clear that 3 is the goal for every student (not 4), and does not compare the scores to letter grades or percentages","Uses none of these words: proficient, mastery, standards-based, benchmark, and has nothing before or after the 4 lines"]}