Communication commonalities are NPA practices that drive student success. They range from parent/family communication, to collegial communication and ultimately, create an environment of support for both teachers and students.

General Stakeholder Communication

The expectation for staff, teachers, and administrators at NPA is a regular and consistent communication to families. Consider the following:

• Respond to emails or phone calls within 24 - 48 hours, even if it is to relay that you need a little more time to respond fully.
• Positive behavior/grades to families Use the Message Center in Infinite Campus to achieve this through a class message or a grades message
• Negative behavior/grades to families Use the Message Center in Infinite Campus to achieve this through a class message or a missing assignments message

<aside> 💡 Positive, strength-based communication home always helps build trusting relationships with families and often makes tough conversations much easier.

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Check out the following communication tips in Infinite Campus

NPA_Message Center_Class Message in IC

NPA_Message Center_Grades Message in IC

NPA_Message Center_Missing Grades in IC

Integrated Learning Strategies (study hall)

These classes serve as an important component for our student’s overall success. Please see the ILS guide to clarify your role and process. Tutorials and FAQs exist at the bottom of the ILS guide - check it out.

Grade Turn Around and Grade Book Expectations

Grading and keeping IC up to date is very important to help many other systems at the school. Up to date grade books can either help or hinder SPED, Athletics, ILSs, Counseling, families, and students. Therefore, we have the following practice in place.

<aside> <img src="/icons/scooter_blue.svg" alt="/icons/scooter_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Formative Assessments

The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning

Read this first chapter of Embedded Formative Assessment - pretty cool

Chapter 1_Embedded Formative Assessment.pdf

Check out **these 56 examples** of formative assessments

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<aside> 🦮  Summative Assessments The goal of summative assessment is to measure student ability against a standard or benchmark as a result of their learning experience

formative practice acts as a summative predictor

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• Update any grades on the docket weekly. This includes transferring grades from Google!
• Use a one-week window to grade and return smaller assignments