Notes from Board of Education Work Session, 3/26/18

The Board of Education Work Session on Monday, March 26 will be re-broadcast on Comcast Channel 96, Verizon FIOS Channel 12 and is available via webstream at http://www.ccboe.com/ . To view the full agenda and the various reports, please visit BoardDocs .

The below notes are my personal notes and are not intended to be all-inclusive or official minutes for the Board of Education meetings and are provided as a request from my supporters and the general public in a personal effort to be more transparent. Although I have diligently tried to make these notes as unbiased and accurate as possible, I am only human and do make mistakes.

The following is a meeting agenda and is subject to change.

Call to order – 6 p.m. - Pledge of Allegiance

Public Forum - None

Work Session

• Eligibility
• Option 2 all the way down is the staff and committee recommendation
• Chair called for a consensus on each item.
• 9th grade waiver - Abell recommend dropping requirement for middle school and first quarter of 9th.
• consensus is yes
• GPA - Kelly recommended Option 1 (2.25 GPA and no F's).
• Abell, Kelly, Lukas, Crawford agreed
• McGraw -Option 2 (2.25 GPA and 1 F)
• Consensus is Option 1
• Attendance - Abell recommends another option.  5 absences no notes; 5 absences with notes but allow parent notes
• Consensus agrees.
• Staff will prepare a draft policy recommendation to present to the board based off of our consensus for the April board meeting.
• Block scheduling
• Kelly requested sample schedules
• Would cost over $5M to implement.
• Grading Policy  Report
• Additional articles
• The Case Against Zero
• Source Page
• Leading to Change/Effective Grading Practices
• Abell 
• Parent Vue grades and daily assignments vs quarter grade
• parents will see actual grades.  change will only be on quarter grades not individual assignments.
• NHI = 0; Equity?
• NHI will still be a zero but quarter grade will be changed to 50%.  Could not answer the equity question clearly.
• Currently, two illegal absences = failing for the quarter.  
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• Lukas 
• How is final grade composed?
• 1 & 2 Qtr Avg; 3&4 Qtr Avg; both semesters AVG
• Stats needed on Failing by attendance vs grade & subject
• Recovery progams in MS & HS; not greater than a 60;how are students chosen
• McGraw
• Trying to have an open mind but a complete change in thinking.
• Kelly 
• were parents included on committee
• next step to get parent feedback
• behavior/citizenship grades
• should not be graded; grades for academics
• CCPS Mission statement; this new grading policy would not follow our mission
• If a student were to earn 0,0,70,70 in the 4 quarters, but we give them 50,50,70,70, they can pass the class overall for only doing half the work.
• Crawford
• Are we being asked to be unfair?  Same as grade inflation.  What is the economic factor?
• Professional Development will need to be done no matter what to enforce consistency.
• Abell
• based on Ms. Kelly's analogy with the 0,0,70,70.  What prevents students from taking advantage of this and only doing half the work.  Why not 70,70,0,0.
• Palko
• Students forced to complete work was mentioned in an article but not mentioned here.
• Additional information needed.

Adjournment