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

Regular engagement

Did you engage consistently with your coursework and the Daily Discussion Forum throughout the week?

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, and graded activities. This is the largest single category in your grade.

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

Can you explain, defend, and discuss what you actually learned in your weekly meeting? This is the most important category in Tier 2 and the one that cannot be faked.

30% of grade

What your overall grade looks like

Here is a simple way to see how all six categories add up to 100%.

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

Understanding the weights

The Curriculum Grade carries the most weight at 40%. This includes your digital textbook quiz and test scores. It is the largest single category because academic performance in your coursework is still central to your education.

The Meeting Content — Learning Verification category is the second largest at 30%. Even though it is smaller than the curriculum grade on paper, it is arguably the most meaningful category. It is the one place in the model where your genuine understanding is proven live, in real time, directly to your teacher. An AI tool cannot sit in that meeting for you.

Together, the curriculum grade and learning verification account for 70% of your overall grade — rewarding both consistent academic performance and the ability to demonstrate that you actually learned what the coursework was teaching.

The remaining 30% recognizes the whole student: how you show up, how consistently you engage, whether you do your assigned work, and how you live out your values every week.

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

Proverbs 22:6