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P.U.S.H. Parents United for South High

P.U.S.H. Parents United for South High. Course information night; Monday, January 10, 2010 Cecilia Saddler, Principal Jackie Mosconi, Counseling Department Chair Eric Loichle, AP Coordinator AP teachers. South High Graduation Requirements and Recommended Course Sequencing.

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P.U.S.H. Parents United for South High

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  1. P.U.S.H. Parents United for South High Course information night; Monday, January 10, 2010 Cecilia Saddler, Principal Jackie Mosconi, Counseling Department Chair Eric Loichle, AP Coordinator AP teachers

  2. South High Graduation Requirements and Recommended Course Sequencing

  3. 504’s/IEP’s case managers • Follow the same guidelines for graduation, with accommodations made as appropriate to student need • Federal laws supporting students with special needs • 504’s are managed by the counselors • IEP’s are managed by the Special Ed case managers

  4. Academic supports • Teachers are always the first resource • Other resources are available: • NHS tutoring • Hennepin County/Minneapolis Public Libraries • Community agencies • Peer supports • Supplemental Educational Services (SES)

  5. PSEO/CIS/AP/PLTW • Dual Credit classes offered during high school • PSEO is usually at the college campus; books and tuition are covered by the state. • College in the Schools (CIS) offered at the school by certified adjunct faculty. Costs the schools to offer these classes. • Advanced Placement (AP) are rigorous college level courses offered here. College credit is not guaranteed. Pay a “token” amount for the test. • Project-Lead-the-Way (PLTW) are college level engineering courses taught be adjunct faculty. College credit is not guaranteed. Test has a cost associated with it.

  6. My Life Plan Overview • Graduation requirement • Done in classrooms/CCC • Helps students explore: • Themselves (learning styles, personality, career interests) • Careers • Process for getting from Here….. To….. There • Uses Naviance as a virtual “folder”

  7. My Life Plan Example – 10th Grade

  8. Naviance • Is the “virtual folder” where students hold their MLP items • Career information • College Representative Visits • College searches • Scholarship List • Class ranking/GPA • Available to families for info on their students’ progress • IS NOT: Parent Portal or Classroom for Success – academic tracking sites

  9. Resources • http://south.mpls.k12.mn.us/Counseling.html • Curriculum guide • Graduation requirements • Teacher support schedule • Credit recovery options • PSEO links • Events and info • Hennepin County Library homework hub http://www.hclib.org/pub/info/homework.cfm • Connection.naviance.com/shsmn • College Entrance Tests • Accuplacer – contact college (e.g. minneapolis.edu) • Actstudent.org • Collegeboard.org

  10. Overview of Process for Selecting Courses for Next Year • February 16 – materials handed out to students in English classrooms • Students talk with teachers, family, counselors about choices • February 24-March 4 – window of time where students (with their English classes) will meet in the computer lab to input their choices into the computer • There are NO guarantees of receiving classes requested. (# of requests, budgeting, staffing, etc ) Alternatives MUST be provided. • Schedules for next year are not final until the end of August (just before school starts)

  11. Benefits of Advanced Placement Research says: • It’s imperative for average students to get a chance to experience the challenge of demanding college reading lists and long, analytical college examinations. • Studies by U.S. Department of Education (1999, 2005) showed that the best predictors of college graduation were not good high school grades or test scores, but whether or not a student had an intense academic experience in high school. • Such experiences were produced by taking higher-level math and English courses and struggling with the demands of college-level courses like AP. *Behind The Rankings, By Jay Mathews

  12. Benefits of Advanced Placement • In the latest Texas study, even low-performing, low-income students who got a 2 on an AP test did significantly better in college than similar students who did not take AP in high school. (Hargrove, Godin, and Dodd, College Board, 2008; Dougherty, Mellor, and Jian, 2006) • A recent ACT policy report, Rigor at Risk, suggests that students today do not have a reasonable chance of becoming ready for college unless they take a number of additional higher-level courses beyond the minimum core.(ACT, 2007) • Those taking 1+ AP exam, when in college are more likely to maintain B average, graduate with honors, graduate in 4-5 years regardless or racial/ethnic or gender groups. (Willingham and Morris, 1986; Morgan and Maneckshana, 2000; Morgan and Kleric, 2007)

  13. Advanced Placement at South High • We currently offer 57 AP sections • AP Literature & Composition • AP Language & Composition • AP Spanish Language • AP Calculus 1 • AP Calculus 2 • AP Statistics • AP US History • AP Human Geography • AP Chemistry • AP Biology • AP Environmental Science • Next year we will also be offering AP Physics

  14. What the 10th Grade students are saying…

  15. What the 10th Grade students are saying…

  16. What the 11th & 12th Grade students are saying…

  17. What the 11th & 12th Grade students are saying…

  18. In their own words…

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