Desert Rose Tech Center Grading Guidelines

The following are Desert Rose grading guidelines to be implemented during the 2023-2024 school year that will adhere to the newly revised CCSD guidelines currently in effect. The Desert Rose Technical Center offers a traditional Carnegie unit curriculum with grades determined per quarter. Please review the following practices that will be implemented throughout the 23-24 school year. 

Students and parents who have questions regarding the guidelines below should contact their assigned counselor or administrator to have your questions answered. 

DESERT ROSE SECONDARY/ADULT GRADING SCALE AND GRADE POINT AVERAGE

A = Excellent 90 - 100%                      4.0 

B = Above Average 80 - 89%              3.0

C = Average 70 - 79%                          2.0

D = Below Average 60 - 69%              1.0     

F = Emergent  50 - 59 %                      0.0

INFINITE CAMPUS GRADEBOOK CATEGORY WEIGHTING

 Formative: 20% - Grades to monitor learning

 Summative: 80%- Grades that reflect learning after a unit or a class

The student quarter grade for each semester will be equally weighted with 20% formative grades and 70% summative grades completed with a final summative grade of 10% for each completed course. 

Formative grade (20% of the course grade) will be earned daily when students participate in daily designed twenty-minute Tier I instructional lessons designed to focus on Nevada Academic Content Standards (NVACS) and College and Career and College Ready Standards (CCRS). These grades will be determined by each student’s mastery of the content standards, meeting the syllabus objective and identified benchmarks and the demonstrated ability and skill of the student. 

Summative grades (not including 10% final assessment) will be earned daily when students participate in their assigned APEX or CANVAS instruction and complete daily assignments, quizzes, or unit tests that show mastery of the area taught as the students progress through the course. Regulation 5121 requires that students earning a summative grade below 50% will have their grade overwritten to reflect an emergent grade of 50% per below emergent grade earned. 

Semester exam score (Summative grade - 10% grade earned at the conclusion of the course) will be earned when the student completes their final course examination.  As stated in regulation 5121, the final course examination grade will reflect the grade that occurred. For instance, if the student earns a 34%, this grade will be recorded and not overwritten.  Students who wish to retake the final exam course may do so according to the policy below. 

REASSESSMENT POLICY FOR STUDENTS WHO DID NOT MEET/MET STANDARDS.

Students who did not meet standards and received an emergent grade or below will be encouraged to retake the assessment. Students who decide to do so will be expected to do the following:

1- Request for a reassessment appointment within 5 days after receiving the grade by completing the attached link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_Z0LQ7R431T71aCEQYwnlNKjOM3eqehfsiHz2ZMXdyM/viewform?edit_requested=true 

The teacher will set an appointment for a reassessment and notify the student’s parents or guardians (high school and career tech students) of the request and the assessment appointment. Parents or guardians will be notified of the student's results upon the conclusion of the assessment. Students who have not met standards and have earned an emergent grade of 59 or below may retake the assessment up to three times with the highest grade entered into the student gradebook. 

2- Students who are requesting a reassessment will be required to participate in reteaching and review. The students will need to to correct assignment mistakes, explain the reason for the correct answers, and correctly respond to similar questions prior to taking the reassessment. 

3- Students will have the opportunity to reassess, completing multiple tests available or personal communication. Students completing assessments will be given the opportunity to answer questions not completed, re-write essays, or complete a variation of multiple assessments. Personal communication assessments can be offered using the Socratic method or one-to-one interviews.

4- Students will only be required to retake the following: standards needing correction or standards missed.

Students who did meet standards with a below average grade of 60% or above but wish to improve their assessment grade will be given one additional assessment opportunity to do so within 5 days of receiving their grade. Students need to follow steps 1 - 4 outlined above.

LATE WORK RESULTING IN MISSING GRADES:

A late grade of “L” will be given whenever a student does not submit their assignment upon the required date (as determined by an established competency based contract or traditional Carnagie timelines). Students will have 5 assigned school days to submit their assignment to their teacher to prevent their “L” from changing to an “M”or an emergent grade. Students have ten assigned class days to submit their missing assignments for a grade.

CITIZENSHIP GRADES AND PARENT/STUDENT COMMUNICATIONS

Citizenship grades will be issued to all high school and Career Tech students either when progress reports and or report cards are issued or when a student grades out of a competency-based course. Academic grades cannot be based on student behaviors or learned practices (ie- coming in late, attendance, submitting assignments late etc.) Instead, a student’s citizenship grade will be based on the measurement of social/emotional practices based on the rubric below. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14NCygUEk6wRExiUDNcESVZ1HhtMDgvncnKhFI3a46m8/edi

Teachers and other personnel will ensure that each student will receive the social and emotional support needed to properly measure each student's growth identified in schoolwide act               

Communication Policy:

Teachers will be required to upload at least three grades per week to Infinite Campus so students and their families can access their current standing in the class.  Additionally, teachers will distribute progress grades halfway through each academic calendar quarter and semester. 

Reporting Behaviors:

Teachers will compile any behavior information in the parent/teacher contact log located in Infinite Campus.  Additionally when they are entering information to the parent/teacher contact log they will notify the parent or guardian via email or phone call.