5124P Reporting to Parents (1)

5124P

                                                                               STUDENTS

                               REPORTING TO PARENTS

Reporting to Parents

The Board of Education encourages good communication between parents and teachers
and shall promote frequent and varied reporting of student progress. All forms and
methods of communication, such as parent-teacher conferences, mail, telephone,
email, on-line parent portal and school visitation by parents will be utilized.

The school district will provide an opportunity for parents/guardians to have one
personal conference each fall with teachers and other school personnel. Opportunities
also exist for a spring conference, as requested by the teacher and/or the
parents/guardians.

THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGE WILL CREATE A REGULATION:

On-line Parent Portal

The district maintains a secure parent portal integrated with its student information
system. The parent portal tool provides parents password-protected access to the
following information:

       All Students:
            ● Attendance
       PreK-5:
            ● Homework assignments (posted daily) and completion data (posted
               weekly).
            ● Universal Screen/Benchmark Assessment results (each trimester teachers
               will enter results when assessments have been scored).
       Grades 6-12:
            ● Assignments
            ● Grades on assignments
            ● Quiz and test grades
            ● Project grades
            ● In all subject areas a minimum of one graded assignment will be posted
               every two weeks.

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Report Card

Written reports on student progress will be issued to parents every marking period. The
reporting dates will be determined annually and placed on the school calendar. Parents
will be advised no later than March 1​st​ of a student’s potential failure and the possibility
of having to repeat a grade or a course.

Report cards should reflect the educational growth of the student in relationship to
each student’s conduct/citizenship, effort, and achievement, in relationship to
standards for his/her age and grade.

Teachers also will report on student progress at regularly-scheduled parent conferences.

If the parents of a child are separated or divorced, both have equal rights to be
informed of their child’s school progress unless there is an order from the court to the
contrary. Non-custodial parents shall receive written reports and notification of
conferences upon an annual written request to the school principal.


POLICY ADOPTED:        July 9, 2002
REVISED:               September 13, 2011
REVISED:               March 9, 2021

COLCHESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Colchester, Connecticut




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