Academics
Overview
Grading Policies
Grading Policy Information
Language Arts
Fulton County Literacy Vision
All students will be readers, writers, listeners, and speakers in order to learn to their full potential.
Fulton County Literacy Mission
Provide each student with evidence-based, explicit literacy instruction; personalized supports; and resources across all content areas so that each student will achieve above average growth each year.
English Language Arts Georgia Standards of Excellence
Mathematics
The goals of the K-5 mathematics program are to:
- Meet the needs of individual students by providing on-level, advanced, or accelerated placement options;
- Build students’ appreciation of mathematics and its relationship to other disciplines;
- Promote students’ confidence in their own mathematical abilities;
- Assist students in becoming mathematical problem-solvers;
- Provide opportunities for students to communicate their ideas about mathematics;
- Develop students; mathematical reasoning skills;
- Enable students to utilize calculators and computers as problem-solving tools;
- Encourage participation in cooperative learning;
- Develop concepts and skills measured on standardized tests; and
- Enable parents to understand and support the program.
Mathematics Standards of Excellence
Science
Fulton County Schools' goals for science education are :
- Engage and explore scientific concepts through science and engineering practices;
- Experience the richness and excitement of knowing about and understanding the natural world;
- Use appropriate habits of mind and understandings of the nature of science and scientific principles in making personal decisions;
- Engage intelligently in public discourse and debate about matters of scientific and technological concern
Science Georgia Standards of Excellence
Social Studies
Fulton County's School's goals for social studies are:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the fundamentals of social studies.
- Learn to apply the skills necessary for processing information.
- Make informed and reasoned decisions.
- Demonstrate an awareness of and respect for cultural diversity.
- Demonstrate democratic principles and actively participate in civic processes.
- Evaluate the nature of the global community.