Parent/Student Handbook - PA Leadership Charter School

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Academic Information Embracing Student Individuality 51 Curriculum and Course Selections 51 Grading Policy 51 Transfer Credits 55 Graduation Requirements 55 Senior Project 56 Off-Campus PE and Arts & Humanities Courses 57 Local College and University Enrollment 57 College Applications, Letters of Reference and Transcripts 58 Standardized Testing 58 Special Education Overview 60 Performing and Fine Arts Program Overview 60 University Scholars Program Overview 61 Student Academic Support System and 61 Intervention Program (SASSI) C.A.R.E. Team 63 PALCS Parent and Student Handbook 2012-2013 Page 50 of 74
Embracing Student Individuality At Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School (PALCS), we believe in a parent’s right to school choice. We strive to embrace every student’s individuality beginning at orientation and continuing throughout their education at PALCS. PALCS is committed to helping its students reach their highest possible level of achievement. Once a student is enrolled, there are many options available for individualized assistance and/or instruction to help students achieve. Some of them include: daily personal contact with teachers, evening homework help hours, individual or group chats, academic advisors, Elementary and Middle School Response to Intervention (RTI) program, and Student Assistance Program (CARE Team). Through our partnership with faculty, staff, and parents, every student can achieve and reach his or her potential. Our goal is for each student to achieve and be successful at PALCS and after PALCS! Curriculum and Course Selection PALCS strives to provide the best educational materials available to our students. To achieve that goal, our teachers are encouraged to review curriculum from many different publishers and select the materials with the finest content that work optimally in our cyber environment. Our curriculum meets all Pennsylvania state standards and materials are selected from multiple publishers: Glencoe, Harcourt, Holt, Houghton Mifflin, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, Pearson/Prentice Hall, and Scott Foresman to name a few. Students receive physical textbooks, storybooks and novels, and, in many cases, access to the identical books online. Special kits are provided for our art and science courses. Additionally, our courses utilize the fullest extent of supplemental educational resources available on the Internet. Our curriculum materials serve as the foundation at PALCS, but the greatest strength of this curriculum resides with the teachers who work with this material - they develop their own unique courses, deliver instruction, make and grade assignments, and interact with students on a daily basis. Grading Policy I. INTRODUCTION AND STATEMENT OF PURPOSE The purpose of this policy is: A. To encourage students and faculty to create and sustain a positive learning environment; B. To create consistency of grading in academic courses in those areas where such consistency is beneficial to students and to the school; and C. To provide some flexibility in grading practices which are reasonable and consistent with the intentions of the PALCS Grading Policy. PALCS Parent and Student Handbook 2012-2013 Page 51 of 74
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