Ms. Sharma Class Information

Quarter 4 started on April 18. If you student has an I then you would have received the ILP from me via email. Please sign it and send it with your student to school.

Q3 Individual Learning Plan Deadline: May 30. students have six weeks after the quarter 3 to complete an individual learning plan (ILP) and convert the “I” to a letter grade. If no action is taken the “I” will revert to an “E” grade on the transcript. Deadline to submit all the missing assessments for students with ILP is May 30.

Office Hours: After-school, Advisory, recess, lunch by appointments only in exceptional cases
Please encourage your student to reach out, clarify their doubts, and take the makeup test.    
Contact me via Talking Points or by email at masharma@seattleschools.org.   

Math Grading Policy:

The final grade is based on Quizzes/Tests only.
If your student has E/D, you will receive a grade notification from me every 2 weeks. Please check the grades on Source for missing assignments.
Missing quiz with a comment means the student has not met the math standards for that quiz yet. The comments indicate the student scores for that quiz.
Quiz scores are final after 2 weeks.
Revision: Students will have 15 days from the day of quiz to make up and improve their grade on quiz/test by doing revision.
Only one attempt is given to improve the quiz/test grade.
Students can earn up to 100% of the lost points. The higher grade is entered.

Plagiarism:

Students will earn 0 and will be referred to the counselor and an email will be sent to the principal and counselor. Please advise your students on the importance of academic integrity and its repercussions later in higher grades and beyond.

Do you notify families if my student is at risk of failing?

If a student is at the risk of receiving a D or an E, I communicate it to the parent about it. The communication is based on their cumulative score and not on the individual quiz score. I notify families biweekly.

Families need to check the student grade on Source. I update grade each week and the grades are current mostly.

Why is my student failing and how can they improve their grade?

Please check grading policy on improving grades.

I want more practice problems for my student to do at home, What can they do?

Success Maker everyday minimum of 20 minutes for 5 times each week.
envision is the first recommended support. Following practices are available to students on it.
Family Engagement – which lists the topics and videos based on the standard and the math skills.
Interactive Additional Practice – can be assessed on e-book which has extra problems in addition to the Practice and Problem Solving, Example and Try Its! It can be printed or solved in a notebook by looking at the screen.
If they do the practice problem and interactive problems in addition to Success Maker, it should be enough for a week. Please let me know if you would still like any more assignments to practice. I feel that it is more than enough for them to do. Students should try to finish online assignments otherwise their inbox gets cluttered with to do assignments.

If my student will miss school due to absences, how can they access the work online or make up their work?

We work on envision workbooks. Students are encouraged to take their workbooks and notebooks home every day and have them every day in school.
Please go over the newsletter for the topics covered and quizzes given that week.
Please go over the videos for each topic available on Family engagement and the e-book.

Please encourage your students to reach out if they need help.