The holistic grading model

Your grade is no longer based on one thing. It is built from six different categories that together give a complete picture of who you are as a student. Here is how it all fits together.

Two tiers that work together

The model is organized into two tiers. The first tier covers things that apply to every class you take. The second tier covers what happens inside each specific class. Together they make up 100% of your grade.

Tier 1 — Holistic (applies to all your classes equally)

Meeting attendance

Did you show up on time and fully prepared for your weekly teacher meeting?

10% of grade

Daily Discussion Forum participation

Did you post a genuine, thoughtful response in the daily devotional forum each school day?

5% of grade

Faith-based community values in practice

Did you put your values into action this week — serving others, building community, living with integrity?

5% of grade

Tier 2 — Class-specific (graded separately for each course)

Curriculum grade

Your scores in the digital textbook — quizzes, tests, activities — plus how consistently you engaged with the material and how much of your assigned work you completed.

40% of grade

Assigned work completion

Did you complete the assigned journals, worksheets, essays, projects, and other work for each section?

10% of grade

Meeting content — learning verification

The most important category. Can you explain, defend, and discuss what you actually learned in your weekly meeting? This is the proof that your learning is real.

30% of grade

What your overall grade looks like

Category	Tier	Weight
Meeting content — learning verification	Class-specific	30%
Curriculum grade	Class-specific	40%
Assigned work completion	Class-specific	10%
Meeting attendance	Holistic	10%
Daily Discussion Forum	Holistic	5%
Faith-based community values	Holistic	5%
Total		100%

The big idea behind the model

Notice that the largest single category — 30% — is Learning Verification. That is the weekly meeting where you talk through what you learned with your teacher. An AI tool cannot sit in that meeting for you. Your teacher is looking for real understanding, real thinking, and real growth.

The Curriculum Grade (40%) still matters — it includes your digital textbook scores, how often you engaged with the material, and whether you completed your work. But even within that 40%, your textbook scores are only 80% of the category, and the other 20% comes from how regularly you worked and how much you completed.

The holistic tier (20% total) recognizes that you are more than your academic scores. Showing up, being prepared, participating in the community, and living out your values are all things a person of character does — and they deserve real credit.

“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

Proverbs 22:6