Year 2: Innovation-Change for the Better

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I am rocking it!

Child's pose

What's right?

• innovative instruction
• new initiatives in PBL, EX
• compassionate faculty
• national recognition in academic, athletic, and arts arenas

What's wrong?

• chronic absenteeism
• student dishonesty
• senior apathy
• missed deadlines

How can we improve?

Increase Student Agency

Changes to the Playing Field

• MISSED FORMATIVES
• MISSED SUMMATIVES
• EXCESSIVE ABSENCE
• CHEATING/PLAGIARISM

MISSED FORMATIVES

• If a student has not made up a formative assessment by the end of the unit, the teacher has emailed parents, and there are no other extenuating circumstances (illness, school trip, etc.), the grade will remain an irrevocable NS

FORMATIVES

• Assessment FOR learning
• About 1 per week
• Requires re-learning proof from student prior to reassessment
• 50pts formative/100 pts summative

MISSED SUMMATIVES

• Made up within 7 calendar days o
• Teachers email parents, admin, counselor, SASS
• Different version/proctored environment /may miss class for make up
• Cannot participate in school sponsored extracurricular activity until the assessment is complete

EXCESSIVE ABSENCE

• Students who accumulate 25 or more attendance points (missing days) in your course during a semester will have the comprehensive summative assessment at the end of that semester count as 50% of their grade for that course. Students who score less than 70% on this assessment for the semester will not receive credit for the semester/course.

E-O-S ASSESSMENT

• This end-of-semester assessment should be an individual assessment of a student's competency on all skills of the semester and may differ from other students' end-of-the-semester projects.

CHEATING/PLAGIARISM

• After cheating or plagiarism has been verified, a student is given a 0 on the assessment until end of semester or interim, at which time, if the student has maintained a clean record, he or she can earn back 50-75%, at the teacher’s discretion. If a student cheats or plagiarizes a second time in any class, the student receives two irrevocable 0s.

Your Part:

-bring any incident of cheating to Dr. Thompson
-email parents&admin
-create different summatives

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FIX THE EXAM SCHEDULE

EXAM SCHEDULE

• All traditional exams will be 70-minutes (5-min set up). Students with and without testing accommodations (such as 50% or 100% extended time) will be tested in the same room and dismissed accordingly. Students with 100% extra time will make arrangements with teacher to come early or stay late.

Your Part:
-adhere to student accommodations
-create different versions of exams for each period

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SECOND SEMESTER SENIORS?!?

SHARK CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE-Year 2

SHARK CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE

• April 29 to May 16, out of school
• All Seniors/no AP exemptions
• 9 checkpoints-Oct through May
• Reviewed b Senior Advisor
• Graded by Senior English teacher
• All projects must connect to community
• No faculty or parent mentor

Your Part:
-Save the Date: May 16th 5-8:30 pm

Faculty Goals 2018-2019

Focus on Authenticity

Create, document in a UbD, and implement a unit of PBL, inquiry-based learning, or experiential learning before May 1, 2019.

Experiential Learning, often called "Hands On Learning" is the process of learning through experience, and is more specifically defined as "learning through reflection on doing."

Project-Based Learning is defined as teaching with an emphasis on content standards, "a strong driving question, student voice and choice, and an authentic audience such as business professionals and/or members of the local community.”

Inquiry-Based Learning is a form of active learning that starts by posing questions, problems or scenarios—rather than simply presenting established facts or portraying a smooth path to knowledge.

Be Present

Take a Risk

We've got your back

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