• Progress Reports

    Your child may receive up to 4 interim reports throughout the year depending on progress; 1 possible every quarter. They will only be sent if there is an area of concern and should be viewed as a valuable form of communication, letting you know how your child is performing at school.

     

    Report Cards

    Report cards will no longer be printed but will be available through the Genesis Parent Portal every quarter. This year, 2nd grade is moving to a standards-based report card, similar to what you have seen in kindergarten and 1st grade.

     

  • District Grading Policy (taken from the Elementary Student Handbook)

    Homework is corrected for accuracy, providing feedback to the student and informing instructional decisions for the teacher. Homework is tracked for effort and averaged into the final grade no more than 10%. No student can fail a course based on homework. Homework should be differentiated based on each student’s ability.The following symbols are used to represent grades:

    Homework assignments should challenge students through exercises in drill, study, recreational reading, written exercises, math problems, compositions, outlines and research. 

    Teachers are asked to keep parents informed about homework assignments and to alert parents when assignments are repeatedly neglected. Homework assignments are designed to be challenging, not discouraging, and varied in order to create and maintain interest.

    Students should keep a notebook for homework assignments and know what each day's homework assignment is before leaving school for the day. Please use the agenda book.

    It is suggested that parents require students to go to bed at a reasonable time and to limit screen time in order to allow adequate time for homework completion, social interaction, and to reduce the negative impact on sleep patterns. Parents are urged to contact teachers if their child never seems to have any homework, or if their child appears to have extreme difficulty completing the work assigned.

    Homework is an important part of each pupil's educational program. It is assigned routinely to reinforce classroom instruction. Each child's efforts in completing homework assignments are directly applied as part of the report card grade. Therefore, parents are advised to check with their child's teacher during the scheduled parent conferences or at any time to discuss concerns.

    Grading Rubric / Breakdown

    Our grade breakdown is as follows:

    HW- homework (10%)

    CW- Class work, quizzes, and participation (60%)

    T/P- Tests and Projects (30%)

     

  • Grading in Room 13

    Following district guidelines, classwork and homework is tracked, graded, and used to inform instruction. Every effort is made to differentiate work for each student / group to target skills that students need additional practice with. 

    Classwork- I track classwork for each content area daily with a grading tracker/rubric. Every day, students get a CW grade based on participation, effort, completion, and accuracy. I use this daily tracker to assign a weekly classwork grade in Genesis. The scale I typically use for this grade is  Outstanding-Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory (O-S-U). Grades will be listed in Genesis as CW1 (for week 1), CW2 (for week 2) etc. Grades for classwork usually start no later than the first week of October.

    Homework- HW is tracked much like classwork. Students hand in homework every morning as part of their morning routine. I look for EFFORT, COMPLETION, and CORRECTNESS when grading homework. Opportunities for corrections are offered before the grade is finalized in Genesis. Each student is given this option because I believe in nurturing a growth mindset, a positive attitude in relation to mistakes, and a strong work ethic. Mistakes are opportunities to learn and grow, and I hope to teach students to celebrate their mistakes instead of being afraid of being penalized for them. Learning is the goal. They receive a grade for each page or packet they turn in, as described above.

    • Math HW Grades- students receive a cumulative hw grade at the end of every quarter. For example, if I assign 20 homeworks over the course of the quarter and the student completes 15 of them, they will get a grade of 15/20, or 75%.                                                                                                     
    • Reading Packets- students receive a grade for every reading packet based on effort, completion, and correctness based on check system scale ranging from exceeds expectations to far below expectations. 

     

    *Some productive struggle is expected; please provide them with guiding questions to help them get to the answers as independently as possible. If you try to help them by giving them the answers, they lose the opportunity to practice skills and to develop perseverance and grit. Ultimately, I want to see what each student knows. This is how I plan for instruction and how I gauge who may need more help with a skill we are learning BEFORE we assess.