Dear 7th Grade Parent,
As we reach the final stretch of the 2021-2022 academic year, it’s time for your student to register for next year’s courses.
Course registration opens March 25 at 3:00PM and closes on April 8 at 3:00PM.
Please read this communication carefully to learn the two important components of course registration:
- How to access the PowerSchool Portal, which is where your 7th grader will select their courses for 8th grade
- Guidance to help with their course selection
PowerSchool Portal
Your 7th grade student will use the PowerSchool Portal to select their classes. Beginning tomorrow at 3:00PM, you can access the portal by going to lnc.powerschool.com and selecting "Student Sign In" in the lower left of the screen. Enter your 7th grade student's confidential user name (Student ID) and select "Go." On the next screen, enter your student's password and select "Go." Your student recently created these credentials, so they should be familiar and able to access them.
If your student has difficulty remembering their credentials, their unique student ID and password should follow this convention:
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MS Student User Name: Unique Student ID number
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MS Student Password: First 7 numbers of Student ID + "."(period) + 2-digit DAY of birth + "!Lnc"
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Example: ID is 1234567, birthday is Jan. 30, 2010. Password is 1234567.30!Lnc
Prior to noon Friday you will receive a second email from LNC with instructions on how to create a PowerSchool parent account for those who do not already have one. You can also use your PowerSchool parent account credentials to access the LNC PowerSchool portal to select your student's courses. Please note: PowerSchool will not allow you to create a new parent account using an email address that is already associated with an existing PowerSchool parent account.
Either way, you will choose “Class Registration” on the left menu bar and proceed to select courses. For 8th grade, students select only their elective courses as their core courses are predetermined. We determine math placement later, based on other factors, and that is completely independent of course registration.
The course registration process is straightforward and simple, however this video will step you through the process if you need it. Once your student has made their final selections, they should take a screen shot and keep it for their records.
Course Selection Guidance
As a rising 8th grade student, your child will have additional elective opportunities, including yearlong courses such as French, Spanish, chorus and art. Just like in 7th grade, semester-long electives and quarter-long electives are available. When a student chooses a yearlong elective, their remaining elective choices are another yearlong elective, two additional semester-long electives or four additional quarter-long electives.
Students earn high school credit for French and Spanish, but they do not count toward their high school GPA. Your student must have taken the semester-long version of these classes in 7th grade to select these HS credit courses. For students interested in band, keep in mind that 7th grade band is a prerequisite for 8th grade band.
It is very important to choose elective alternates that are different from your top choices. We do our best to schedule the student’s top preferences, however if we cannot, we want to avoid scheduling an elective that they absolutely do not want, and their alternate choices help to avoid that.
The MS Curriculum Guide, which can also be found in the Resources of the LNC2MSP and the class of ’30, '29, '28, ’27 groups in Schoology, will help guide you with your selections.
If you experience issues connecting to the LNC PowerSchool Portal, please complete THIS FORM. You may reach out to your counselor, Ms. Hayes at jhayes@lncharter.org, if you have questions related to selecting courses.
Finally, if any of your contact information has changed, please use the Student Information Update form to tell us. It is especially important that we have accurate email addresses, mobile phone numbers and mailing addresses for both of your student’s parents or guardians. If your student will not be returning to LNC next school year, please email MS Registrar Jennifer Wolfe at jwolfe@lncharter.org to let her know.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
