[House] ALEKS goals?

[Robin Powell]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 6:30 PM He, Amy via House <house at digitalkingdom.org>
wrote:

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> From: "He, Amy" <hea at sfusd.edu>
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> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 18:28:13 -0800
> Subject: Re: ALEKS goals?
> Hi Robin,
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> I have asked Kai to bring back their completed Unit 6.3 Milestone Test for
> about a week now. They always have some reason, either they forgot, or they
> were too busy. They told me about the ordeal you had on Thursday with
> the therapist, so their excuses always seem valid. Though, I told them that
> they need to finish it by this weekend, and that I would let you know about
> it as well, to help me remind them.
>

OK, I need to double-check: I believe we're talking about Our Collective
Cookbook; from what I'm seeing the "my recipe" and "scaled up and scaled
down" were submitted on Google Classroom, so I want to confirm that you're
*just* talking about the handwritten recipe part, right?


> As for how they are doing in class, things seem to be getting a little
> better. They still play with their hands a lot, and complete maybe one
> question on the classwork every day (better than none). Yesterday, they
> accepted my help on a math question for the first time since the start of
> the school year. We actually worked on 2 problems together on their quiz
> (which they brought home and still need to finish this weekend as well). It
> took them the entire class period to do those 2 questions, but better than
> our usual completion rate.
>

OK, good, I've been trying to encourage them to actually do schoolwork in
class, so that's good to hear.  FWIW, they have exactly the same problem in
their other classes; it's not about you, or even about math.


> On Friday, they started working on ALEKS at the start of class on their
> own accord (which is good, because they usually are just sitting there
> playing with their hands until I ask them to do something productive). I
> don't know how many topics they finished during class on Friday, but they
> were on ALEKS the whole time.
>

They did 2 or 3 ALEKS (3 I think?, I can't remember) in that time.


> Kai does not complete anything in their virtual notebook. They have
> claimed that they are unable to do any work on a physical or virtual
> notebook - that they cannot write or type while paying attention. If you
> agree with this sentiment, we can just drop the notebook requirement for
> Kai.
>

Yeah, their evaluation *definitely* said that writing or typing at the same
time as listening is just not a thing they can do at all; they even
recommended getting Kai a note taker in class.


> Thank you for reminding Kai to finish their unit 6.3 milestone test and
> unit 6.4 quiz.
>
> Regards,
> Ms. He
>
> On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 8:13 PM He, Amy <hea at sfusd.edu> wrote:
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>> Yes, that is correct.
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>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 7:16 PM Robin Powell <robinleepowell at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Kai is saying that the new goal is 10 ALEKS per week; is that accurate?
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>> --
>> *Ms. He*
>> *she/her/hers*
>> 6th Grade Math Teacher
>> Herbert Hoover Middle School
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> --
> *Ms. He*
> *she/her/hers*
> 6th Grade Math Teacher
> Herbert Hoover Middle School
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