Flexible Credit

Northmont City Schools recognizes that a superior educational program is one that allows each student the opportunity to individualize learning around needs and interests. Flexible credit is one method to motivate and increase student learning as it shifts from seat time to performance. The intent of flexible credit is to meet increased expectations for high school graduation in response to globalization, technology, and the demand for 21st century skills. If a student wishes to participate in a flexible credit opportunity, that student must complete individual flexible credit plan paperwork in which the student will identify the flex credit intent, total credit requested, the learning objectives that will be mastered once the plan is completed, and a timeline for plan completion. This paperwork will be available in the Northmont High School Counseling Center. Earning of flexible credit may take on a variety of experiences; therefore, there is no single method of final evaluation. Students have the responsibility to state how credit is to be earned. This may include a panel presentation by the student, a research paper, a demonstration, a final project, a portfolio, a performance, and/or an acceptable score on an end of course assessment. However, earning credit is not limited to any one or combination of these ideas.

Deadlines for submitting plan paperwork will be May 1 for summer and first semester and November 1 for second semester. Once submitted, a review panel consisting of the principal or his designee, a representative from the content area of the learning opportunity, a counselor, and other staff as appropriate, will review the flexible credit plan proposal to determine if it meets the rigorous, measurable expectations for high school credit. Students are responsible for any cost incurred by participation in a flexible credit plan.

All flex credit classes must be added and dropped within the same timeline of adding and dropping courses as other standard classes at Northmont High School. The student is responsible for completing all assignments or projects agreed upon in the flexible credit plan, and completing demonstration or mastery assessments by specified times to receive grades and resulting credits. The review panel will determine if the student has met the requirements of the plan and award credit when earned. It is the student's responsibility to complete the approved credit plan, and the student's responsibility to meet any checkpoint dates. Failure to finish the approved plan will result in a grade of F for the flexible credit course.