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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First year teacher here so i cant compare to previous years but 40% of my 9th graders failed semester 1 of Honors English 9[/quote]

??? Are you in a low-income neighborhood? [/quote]

I am outside the Beltway.  That is all i will say[/quote]

That's unusually low. If it's in-line with your school's previous achievement, it's not you. If it's not, it's you. Be prepared to document how you did things.[/quote]

It was because of zeros.  We had 12 AT assignments and 12 PP assignments in Q2.  24 assignments.  The kids who failed on average had 18 missing assignments.  I even disobeyed the grading policy and had unlimited deadlines.  Nothing.  Even the [/quote]

12 PP is way too much, given that each one counts for less than 1% of their grade and they could, in theory, skip all of them and still get a 90%, if they were perfect in All Tasks. I recommend going for the minimum allowed: 10 AT and 5 PP. If every teacher did this, they still then have 30 assignments per semester or more like 150 to 200 per semester, which, frankly, is still absurd if you think about it. [/quote]

So does that mean you just don’t grade a bunch of assignments? What are the kids doing every day? I’m not sure what you teach but for challenging STEM classes, doing a good job on multiple practice/prep assignments means you will probably do well on the corresponding All Task assignment. And we work on the practice assignments in class so if students are effectively using class time and not goofing off, then it shouldn’t matter how many Practice assignments there are [/quote]

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