This static page has been up since May 5:
Today is May 30. In addition to that exhaustive instructional post, these Google Classroom instructions were posted on May 10:
On Monday, May 22, you will need to return to this Google Classroom assignment, whether it’s buried in a hundred updates or not, and attach copies of everything you’ve done to prepare for the Regents Exam. The only thing you won’t attach are the handwritten, exact copies of anchor papers. Everything else requires you either to scan or photograph or copy your work. You’ll need it all organized and uploaded here, online, as an archive and checkpoint on May 22. We can then safely ignore it for three weeks or so, until the week of the Regents itself.
The full instructions were edited on May 15 to extend the deadline to May 25. The specific requirements remained clear, as did the 11-part checklist for your exam-driven folders.
Well before May 30, which is today, you should have filled a folder with exam-specific data and analysis. You should have uploaded the indicated “archive and checkpoint” through Google Classroom. Those artifacts should have been ready for review on Thursday, May 25, at the latest.
Your statistics:
- No. of prepared folders: 0 (out of 67)
- No. of online archives: 27 (out of 67)
- No. of complete online archives: 15 (out of 67)
The lack of hard-copy folders is one thing. The directions are clear, and the checklist says “printed copy” or “handwritten” nine times; you are absolutely responsible for missing that. But I can look at the 27 online submissions and see what work was done. Some of you even scanned the hard copies, which was helpful.
Again, it’s okay to miss details. It’s not okay to miss entire sets of directions, deadlines that were already extended once, exam-specific requirements, etc.
Mind the GAP
Your GAP scores for Q4B will be online before midnight tonight. The formative work for this Anti-Procrastination Protocol assignment was part of Q4B, because that’s when you worked on it, which required me to wait until now. It’s the process that matters, which you know. You just finished responding to an instructional post on in-class focus and feedback.
More statistics:
- No. of responses to In-Class Focus and Feedback: 36 (out of 67)
That response was due on May 26. Again, today is May 30, and without feedback from you, I can’t complete the loop and help you. And that means you lose out later on:
- Top 10 Skills We Wish Were Taught in School, But Usually Aren’t
- Top 10 Skills You Need at Work That Have Nothing to Do with Your Job
- Why Grade Grubbing Valedictorians Never Get to Rule the World
That’s why we do what we do, and the last one is just a few days old. Perhaps they are worth a discussion? At the very least, those of you doing the right thing need to know that it will pay off. It’s not just that the final grades in here are based on those real-world skills and traits, but that you are developing the habits of mind that will translate into long-term success.