A reminder of how our grading structure works:

Yearlong courses have a running grade average throughout the year instead of each quarter.    

• Assessments count as 70% and assignments count as 30% of the total course grade.
• In the past, each quarter was averaged together at the end of the school year along with the final exam.   This year, the quarters are not averaged together, the grade is a running average throughout the school year
• As we progress through the school year, it will become increasingly difficult to see significant increase in a student's current course grade due to the number of assignments from the school year that is included in the average.
• In the past, students that had poor performance much of the school year, could earn a much higher grade in the 4th quarter to bump their grade up to passing for the year with the 4 quarters averaged together.   Now, all assignments are averaged over the course of the school year which could be 50 or more grades included in the averaging making it difficult to see a significant improvement in the overall grade.
• Remediation Plan-we are seeing a significant number of students not taking advantage of remediation opportunities to increase their grade-especially students that are earning failing grades.  
• How does this work:
• Students must complete additional learning as agreed to or determined by the teacher. 
• Additional learning may include, but is not limited to:  attending tutoring, completion of all relevant assignments, completion of online learning (Canvas module, Edgenuity module, etc.).   These activities are not graded but will help them to perform better on the retest.
• These relearning assignments must be completed in order to receive feedback before a reassessment is given. 
• Reassessment will be available for any student who desires to increase an assessment score of 90% or less, not just those that fail. 
• The assessment grade recorded will be the most recent, not an average of multiple attempts. 
• The deadline for completing relearning and reassessing will be determined by department, but will be no shorter than 10 days after the original assessment. 
• Students with IEP's/LEP's will work with staff to develop a remediation plan that aligns with their specific IEP/LEP.