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1. CRYSTAL BALLS AND TAROT CARDS: THE DISTRICT'S FUTURE PLANS
2. +1: OUR NEW LOCAL DISTRICTS
3. SUMMER SCHOOL: WHAT'S THE HAPS?
4. SS04: THE SCHEDULING MADNESS HAS BEGUN
5. MIDDLE SCHOOL REPORT
6. HIGH SCHOOL REPORT
7. WAITING ON MATH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE
8. ELECTIVES & PE
9. THANK YOUS
9. THANK YOUS
10. WHAT'S NEXT?
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1. CRYSTAL BALLS AND TAROT CARDS: THE DISTRICT'S FUTURE PLANS
After going to all the district meetings with counselors and APs, there are some major shake-ups with our district's requirements.
- The district is looking to lower its credits requirements from 230 to 170/180ish.
- The district is planning to raise the high school course requirements to the A-G Requirements which means 3 years of Math and 2 years of Foreign Language for the Class of 2016 and following.
- The district is planning to get rid of "Ds" for high school for the class of 2017 and above. Should we start a year earlier and get rid of Ds altogether? As a pilot school, we can. That's something to discuss as a group.
- Because the amount of credits (G: College Preparatory Elective = 10 credits) are going to be dropped, the amount of electives needed will drop.
- The Common Core Standards is looking to be adopted in the next few years obseleting the CSTs. I was in a professional development with Jeanne Fauci and the Linked Learning team from the LA Small Schools and she reported that a new Common Core Assessment which is closer to what our practice is as a small school. There will actually be writing in the new Common Core Assessment.
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2. +1: OUR NEW LOCAL DISTRICTS
Local District 4 will longer exist next year. We are scheduled to be a part of "Local District +1," which is scheduled to be the district for "options" school like pilots, charters, and magnets.
I'm not sure how I feel about us being in this +1 Local District as we are lumped in with the charters. However, that might only change the public's perception of pilot schools, it would not change our own mission and vision and our burgeoning practices.
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3. SUMMER SCHOOL: WHAT'S THE HAPS?
From the word on the mandatory meetings that I have gone to, here is the happening for summer school:
- This is the last summer school EVER... apparently...
- It is only available for credit recovery or make-up of Ds for A-G purposes
- It is only available for current 10th graders (class of 2014) and above
- Students can only make-up 1 class
- Non-graduating seniors are to be prioritized
- We only have 15 spots. Over 50 students have turned in summer school applications... All will not be able to get in to summer school...
4. SS04: THE SCHEDULING MADNESS HAS BEGUN
The tedious task of inputting all 500+ students have begun. While the middle school students are not that hard to schedule, it becomes increasing difficult for high school students.
In order to course request enrollment data in the next PD, I will need to push and make sure that I am able to put in schedule requests into SS04.
5. MIDDLE SCHOOL
For the most part, 7th and 8th graders have been scheduled. Because of the overwhelming amount of 7th and 8th graders (approximately 170+), the electives are super impacted.
I have not scheduled any incoming 6th graders. I am waiting for the feeders from 6th grade NOW and other elementary schools, in order to schedule the students. Mr. Ortiz will be helping me get datas from elementary. I have already e-mail Michelle Hernandez, my counseling coordinator to provide me with the "other" elementary feeder database. From what I have received from Mr. Ortiz, we are scheduled to receive the following:
- 95 6th graders
- 12 of the 95 students are special day self-contained students (SLD)
- 4 of the 95 students are resource students (RSP)
- 37 of the 95 students are classified as ELD
- 3 of the 37 ELD students are classified as Level 1 or 2
- The majority of the 37 ELD students are classified as LEvel 3, 4, and 5. Many are ready to be reclassified.
- 26 of the 95 students scored BB or FBB in the 2011 ELA CSTs. This does not include the SPED SLDs.
- 26 of the 95 students scored BB or FBB in the 2011 Math CSTves. This does not include the SPED SLDs.
6. HIGH SCHOOL
For high school, it will take longer to schedule them because of all the different electives, math levels and foreign language that I have to review. I will literally have to review all students and check what they need versus what they chose.
I am scheduled to finish as much as possible by the week's end. Here are something's that I will need:
- I need the 8th Grade Culmination Team to meet and look at which 8th graders with Culminate to the 9th Grade.
- I need Foreign Language to look over the selection data and look at the 9th graders students who did not choose anything and to place them into a Foreign Language.
7. WAITING ON MATH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE
I am waiting on the following data from Math:
- Intervention List for future 7th and 8th graders.
- Students ready for Algebra 1 for future 7th and 8th graders
- Intervention List for incoming 9th graders
- End-of-the Year Exam Results for Algebra 1 and for Geometry. We have 3 8th graders in Algebra 1, 1 7th graders in Algebra and 1 8th grader in Geometry.
- I need Foreign Language to look over the selection data and look at the 9th graders students who did not choose anything and to place them into a Foreign Language.
8. ELECTIVES & PE
- Because of the increase of students in Middle School for next year, we will need a total of 6 sections of Middle School Electives (170+ / 30 students = 6 sections). So far, we have 1 section of Art, 1 Section of Digital Imaging, 1 Section of Drama, and 1 Section of Math Lab. It looks like we will need more.
- Because of the increase of students in Middle School for next year, we might need another section of PE. Middle School (280+ / 55 students = 5 large sections or 6 smaller sections) and High School (unknown until we get our feeder data)
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9. THANK YOUS
- Thank you Ms. Chang for helping me with the Senior Survey.
- Thank you Ms. Chang for helping me with scheduling Foreign Language
- Thank you Ms. Alvarado for helping me alphabetize and notate students requesting honors classes.
- Thank you Mr. Ortiz for getting me 6th grade data.
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10. WHAT'S NEXT?
We will be reviewing course selection data on Monday and this will help us determine, how many sections of what will be needed and then departments can begin to finalize teaching assignments. Also, our administrators will have data to see what new staff if any will need to be hired.
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