LVMS Staff Newsletter
Excellence In Everything - Coronavirus Edition VI
This Week
One to go...the strangest year I've ever been a part of is wrapping up. I know for everyone it's a mixture of relief and sadness. As always, thank you for being part of an amazing staff. It's been a true joy to work with everyone through this process. And, it was so nice to see a lot of you during our Tour De Teacher on Wednesday. Words cannot come close to expressing the appreciation for what teachers go through in a normal year - and this is not ever close to a normal year!
We are having the Equipment and Athletic drop off tomorrow, so no meetings. We may schedule a meeting on Friday to discuss the end of the year procedures, but I will schedule that if needed. Please fill out the document about our student work so we can keep track of our kids.
Here's the timeline for the end of the year with grades...
Wednesday, May 20th - Final Grades Due by 8 AM
Thursday, May 21st - Online meetings with Holt/Walker/Woodburn to review your grades.
Friday, May 22nd - Final Grades(with corrections) due into Gradebook
Anyway, here are a few things to remember, just so we can be on the same page.
Modules will go live on Monday mornings by 8:00 AM - Don't be late please!
You will take one grade per subject, per week.
So you can grade several things within a module, but ONE GRADE comes from each module and students essentially will have 4 grades that make up their average this nine weeks.
Although they will have a numeric average for the nine weeks (made up of the 4 module grades), their final grade will be one of three things:
I - INCOMPLETE (Will translate to a “0” if missing assignments are not submitted prior to May 15th).
P - PASS (100% in semester calculation, in accordance with weighted table)
F - FAIL (69% in semester calculation, in accordance with weighted table)
It is important to note that work will be considered incomplete if the teacher deems there is not a good-faith effort by the student to correctly complete the assigned work.
There will be no final exams for grades 6-12.
For the spring semester of the 2019-2020 school year only, the second semester average in grades 6-12 will be determined using the nine-week averages only:
3rd Nine-Week Average = 50%
4th Nine-Week Average = 50%
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Here is more detailed info -
End of Year
If you still need to come up to clean up your room, please let me know so I can make arrangements. Thank you!
Accommodations, Etc.
The first thing to do is to review all of your students' accommodations.
All teachers are responsible for providing all accommodations for each module - both paper and virtual versions - we will talk about this more this week. I attached a document below that Coach Fogg and Mrs. Blakely created at the high school to help with accommodations - it's pretty simple and straight forward. I'll also email this out tomorrow - thanks LVHS crew(and Mrs. Bentley for getting it to us)!
Don't publicly display the difference between the regular and accommodated version. For example, DO NOT send out the same module to every student that says, "Everyone do these problems, but if you get reduced assignments, you only have to do the odds."
Our paras will be following their normal schedules(as much as possible) to help with documentation, and will also have office hours to help with students if neeeded.
Document, document, document. Since you don't have hard copies of your accommodation sheets, I would create a google sheet where you document what you provide. You will need to turn this in at the end of the semester.
If you have your own system already, great. If not, here's something you can look at for reference: