Expectations & Policies

Communication

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Classroom Expectations, Policies and Procedures

Common High School Rules

Behavior Grades:  Learning habits like tardiness, neatness, names on papers, hand raising, submitting parent signatures, and completion of homework can count for up to 10% of your grade in this class.  The rest of your grade will be based on your performance and mastery of the material.

Cellphones and other electronic devices - must be silenced and remain in backpacks, unless the teacher has given permission to use them.  Headphones may only be used with teacher permission.

Late work:  On daily or weekly assignments like homework and classwork, if the work is graded it can be completed and graded within one week of the due date unless otherwise specified. If assignments of this nature are beyond one week late, students should still complete the work in order to master the material for the assessments and should plan to attend at least one tutoring session. 

Tardies: After 10 minutes, these are unjustified absences.  Students late to 1st period must get an office pass first.  Work missed during the first minutes of class can’t be made up. No extra time will be given on assessments.  Work due at the beginning of class will be graded as late work.

Justified Absences: Students have one school day for each day missed to make up work.  The student is responsible for establishing communication to schedule make-up work. For “On Campus Absences”, students should still hand in work and do assessments on the same due date, by the end of the day. 

Unjustified Absences: Assignments will receive a 0%, even if completed before the absence. 

Spoken Spanish vs English in classes - Teachers may include language use in the course grades.

Exempting Exams: The Social Studies department does not offer semester exemptions.

Academic Dishonesty: Unless otherwise specified by the classroom teacher, all work handed in by a student needs to demonstrate one’s individual performance and knowledge.  The following issues will cause a student to receive a zero on any type of assignment, project, or assessment. 

• Cheating

  • Copying graded work from another student

  • Using material that is not authorized such as unauthorized reference sheets, and online or paid homework services. These are not allowed because paid online services tend to be “answer oriented” whereas in-person tutoring tends to be “procedure oriented.”

  • Sharing information in person or electronically without teacher permission

• Plagiarism

  • Using another person’s work, language, or ideas without giving formal credit. 

  • Giving your work to others so that they can use it to help complete their own tasks.

• Collusion

  • Unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing work and passing it off as independent work.

  • Students will not give or ask for questions or answers from an assessment with the intention of gaining or providing an advantage on that assessment

Grade Categories

10%: Community Contributor 

20%: Effective Communicator 

25%: Purposeful Learner 

25%: Critical and Creative Thinker 

Tests, Projects, Essays and Quizzes

Students are encouraged to retake or redo larger assessments for a higher grade. In order for the redo to be graded students must:

• Be attending class and completing work regularly

• Attend at least one tutoring session to go over the assessment they'd like to redo

Assessments can only be redone within the quarter they were given before the date specified in class at the end of each quarter. Students are HIGHLY ENCOURAGED to do their redos early and often! There will occassionally be projects or assessments that are not eligible for redos.