Grading Practices for 2025-26 School Year
Homework is expected to be completed nightly and handed in on time.
Weighted Categories
Learning Activities (formative assessment) 30%: The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning and gather feedback and evidence to improve teaching and learning. Formative assessments help students and educators identify strengths and target areas that need work throughout the learning process. These “Learning Activities” can be graded for accuracy, understanding and/or completion based on the type of assignment. Learning Activities are smaller scale assessments/activities that assess students’ skills and/or progress towards attainment of concepts. They lead up to performance assessments.
Examples:
Classwork assignments
Practice problems
Checks for understanding
Mini-Quizzes
Progress Checks
Other formative assessment measure as identified by departments
Performance Assessments (summative assessment) 70%: The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit or series of lessons by comparing it against standards or benchmarks. The “Performance Assessment” category contains various types of summative assessments that bring together multiple skills/concepts and look for mastery. Performance Assessments typically involve opportunities for students to apply and demonstrate mastery in multiple ways.
Examples:
Performance Tasks (PTs)
Performance Based Assessments (PBAs)
Projects
Essays (summative)
Final Products
Tests
CER’s
Quizzes that cover multiple skills/concepts
Other summative assessment measures as identified by the department
JFK'S CELL PHONE POLICY
Students may bring a cell phone/electronic device (watch, etc.) to school, however, it needs to be always silenced and cell phones must be put away during the school day. Students may not use their cell phones in the classroom for any purpose. All students must store their cell phones in a teacher assigned location, classroom pocket chart, as they enter the classroom. Students are not to leave the classroom with a cell phone unless they are being dismissed.
If a student uses a cell phone/electronic device without permission, the student will bring it to the office. If the cell phone/electronic device is brought to the office, the student can pick it up at the end of the day the first time. At the second (and beyond) offense, the parent must come to school to retrieve the cell phone/electronic device (it will be locked in the vault).
JFK'S Handbook
Update on plagerism policy:
Conduct such as the use or copying of academic work done by another individual and presenting it as the student’s own work without proper attribution is subject to disciplinary consequence. Any other form of academic dishonesty such as cheating is also subject to disciplinary consequence (i.e., detention). In the first instance of cheating/plagiarism, the student will be given an opportunity to meet with the teacher at a mutually agreed upon time and offered another opportunity to show knowledge acquisition (can be in the form of a reteach) for credit. For subsequent violations, the student will be referred to the office for additional disciplinary consequences.