Common use of Skyward Family Access Grading Program Clause in Contracts

Skyward Family Access Grading Program. Section 6.12.1 The District acknowledges that mandating secondary teacher use of the Skyward Family Access grading program will require a significant level of support to be successful. This program will not be mandated for classes where individualization of curriculum makes the use of the program impractical for meeting the interest of keeping parents informed of student progress. The District will address glitches experienced during the year by repairing Skyward program problems if possible and forwarding complaints and requests to software developers that can not be fixed at a District level. An initial paid training will also be provided to employees who are required to use Skyward for grading and have not received any previous training. SKEA may bring suggestions for improving training and Skyward support to the monthly SKEA/SKSD communication team meetings for discussion and response. Each teacher may communicate to parents the format of grades for his/her class. The District will publish to parents an explanation of how to read progress reports from the Skyward system and an explanation of reasonable professional expectations for how quickly scores and grades will be entered, determined by the shared decision making process at each building, but no more than two (2) weeks for most work and four (4) weeks for major projects. Section 6.12.2 Grades Due End of the term grades (quarter, semester, or trimester) are due on the beginning of the fourth workday after the end of the grading period. Year-end grades are due either three (3) school days before or three (3) school days after the last day of school as determined by a shared building-level decision involving the staff and principal. This process will be completed by October 31 of each year.