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Changes in No Work Left Behind
I want to thank everyone for the significant contributions that have been made to our new No Work Left Behind homework policy. Our goal was to instill excellent work habits in our students so that Mabry has a work culture in which homework was expected, valued, and meaningful to the learning process. We have seen a significant increase in timely homework completion.
Since we have successfully implemented this program for 9 weeks, we are hopeful that our students have developed strong work habits that will persist in helping them reach our school goal: maximized student achievement. In an effort to maximize our teachers’ planning time and to minimize classroom disruption in PE and Connections, we are now transitioning the No Work Left Behind program.
Essentially, the goals for the program remain the same. The structure, however, will be slightly altered beginning on Monday, October 24, 2005. Students who do not turn in satisfactorily completed homework on the same day the assignment is due will:
- Be issued a slip to go home to the parent informing them that the child did not have satisfactory homework completion from the night before and are
- Required to attend an 8:15AM morning homework session in the theater on the next school day.
- Students who attend this session and turn in their completed work by the end of the session will be given at least half credit for the work.
- If a student does not attend the morning session and does not turn in the completed assigned work by the end of the morning session at 8:45AM, the student will receive a zero for the assignment.
- In order to avoid getting the zero for the work that was not completed on the day it was due, the student must have done two things: attend the morning session and turn in the completed assignment to the morning homework session teacher by 8:45.
- Work turned in after the 8:45 bell will not be given credit.
- Students who fail to complete homework 3 times in a given 9 weeks will not be able to participate in the grade level block parties which reward students for good behavior and homework completion.
At the teacher’s discretion, the student may be required to come to the teacher’s classroom for instructional assistance rather than doing the work in the theater with the morning homework session. In our effort to encourage greater responsibility for our students and have a less intensive intervention, students will no longer miss any classes as part of No Work Left Behind.
We look forward to your continued support of our efforts to maximize student academic achievement.
Posted by Dr. Tyson
