Online Grade Book (parent portal)
You can periodically check your grades through the Wilmette 39 Parent Portal. Your login is the same as your school computer login.
What is graded?
There are 3 categories of work that are graded:
The reason for weighting the grades is due to how the curriculum is structured. Our curriculum is divided into 4 units. Each unit only has one or two assessments. Therefore, these assessments cover a large amount of information and concepts. By having students complete more frequent reflections, allowing corrections, and by weighting the reflections higher, students can build a solid grade foundation before taking an assessment. Thus, if the student does poorly on an assessment, it will not impact their overall grade as much. In addition to this, assessments tend to have many more points. Weighting the assessments less makes the assessments less impactful on the overall grade.
- Reflections: homework that is correctable. Worth 60% of your grade.
- Assessments: quizzes, tests, and projects. Worth 30% of your grade.
- Other: exit slips, binder checks, etc. Worth 10% of your grade.
The reason for weighting the grades is due to how the curriculum is structured. Our curriculum is divided into 4 units. Each unit only has one or two assessments. Therefore, these assessments cover a large amount of information and concepts. By having students complete more frequent reflections, allowing corrections, and by weighting the reflections higher, students can build a solid grade foundation before taking an assessment. Thus, if the student does poorly on an assessment, it will not impact their overall grade as much. In addition to this, assessments tend to have many more points. Weighting the assessments less makes the assessments less impactful on the overall grade.
Corrections and Revisions
Students are welcome to submit corrections and revisions to all reflections and other graded work. Students may not correct assessments. If you would like to submit corrections, please write your new answers to the questions you want to improve on a separate sheet of paper. Staple your new answers to the original sheet and submit it to Mr. Ower.
Doing corrections is entirely up to the student. If a student does not submit corrections by the announced deadline, the initial grade is finalized in the online grade book.
Doing corrections is entirely up to the student. If a student does not submit corrections by the announced deadline, the initial grade is finalized in the online grade book.
