Semester Ends on Thursday the 28th

I hope you have all had an enjoyable and peaceful long Memorial Day weekend.

I just wanted to remind everyone that my grades are due the morning of Thursday the 28^th this week. That means that online work will need to be completed by Wednesday evening. I will check Edgenuity on Thursday morning to make sure I have the latest and most up to date grade for each student before I upload grades.

A reminder of how this is going to work. The students all completed three full nine weeks grading periods prior to Spring Break. Those three report card grades are set in stone and will not be changed. The fourth nine weeks grade will be either the Edgenuity online learning average OR the third nine weeks average (used again), whichever is higher.

If your student did not do well on the third nine weeks, it is imperative they complete and do well on the online lessons. Otherwise, I will have to use that poor third nine weeks grade again. 

The clock is ticking and time is running out. I would really like it if none of my students had to attend summer school (by the way, summer school will be conducted virtually and online). 

I will be monitoring Edgenuity more often over these last few days (I usually check it three times per day). I will check twice in the morning hours, twice in the afternoon, and once in the evening (likely around 7:00-7:30). I want there to be as short a delay as possible should a student need me to unlock a quiz or have a question. Should anyone have a question, emailing me via Edgenuity is going to be the fastest way to get a hold of me.

Stay well,

Coach

Weekly Update: Grade Calculation and Summer School

Hello, I hope everyone out there is doing well and staying healthy. I hope you have not been bothered by my lack of updates over the past couple of weeks. The fact of the matter is there simply has not been much of anything new to pass along to you. Having said that, I will try to do better and at least reach out and touch base once a week.

Two things to discuss today:

I would like to make absolutely sure that everyone is clear as to how the end of the year grades will be calculated. It will work like this: the first three report card grades (unaffected by the Covid-19 closures) will be used. For the fourth nine-weeks grade, I will use the online Edgenuity average IF it is higher than the third nine-weeks grade. If the online Edgenuity grade is lower than the third nine-weeks grade, I will count the third nine-weeks grade again (as the fourth nine-weeks grade. Here are a couple of examples that I hope will make this clear.

Student #1

1^st Nine weeks grade:     76                            In this case, I would throw out the 55 and use

2^nd Nine weeks grade:     80                           the 74 from the 3^rd nine weeks again. I would

3^rd Nine weeks grade:      74                           average these four grades and the final grade

Online Edgenuity grade:  55                           for the year would be a 76.

Student #2

1^st Nine weeks grade:        70                         In this case, I would use the online/Edgenuity

2^nd Nine weeks grade:       72                         grade of 75 as it is higher than the 3^rd 

3^rd Nine weeks grade:        65                         nine weeks average. I would then average those 

Online/Edgenuity grade:   75                           four grades and the student would finish the 

                                                                         year with a: 71.

On a different note, there is a rumor swirling about that there will be no summer school this year. I have been told there WILL be summer school. The summer session will be conducted virtually and students will have to complete online lessons in order to receive credit. The bottom line is that a program similar to Edgenuity will be used for the summer school curriculum and students will have to complete the work from home. At this time, I do not know any details regarding what students without access to technology will do. I assume that a check-out of laptops or tablets will be available similar to what was done for the current grading period, but I do not know that for sure. I just need to make sure everyone understands that there WILL be summer school for students who failed for the year AND that it WILL be conducted via an online curriculum.

I will update again next week or sooner, if something should come up. Until then, stay well.

Coach