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Cultivating and Coordinating a School-wide AP Culture

Cultivating and Coordinating a School-wide AP Culture. Erin Thaler AP Teacher, AP Coordinator Osborne High School Marietta, Georgia. Who We Are. Osborne High School Marietta, GA Population – As of March 2010 1711 Students: 45.5% Hispanic, 41.3% Black 80% Economically Disadvantaged

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Cultivating and Coordinating a School-wide AP Culture

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  1. Cultivating and Coordinating a School-wide AP Culture Erin Thaler AP Teacher, AP Coordinator Osborne High School Marietta, Georgia

  2. Who We Are Osborne High School Marietta, GA • Population – As of March 2010 • 1711 Students: 45.5% Hispanic, 41.3% Black • 80% Economically Disadvantaged • No Child Left Behind – Needs Improvement, Year 5 • Title I School in 2009-10 • Average SAT: Critical Reading = 429, Math = 437 • Newsweek Rankings • 391 in Nation, 3rd in County in 2010

  3. Participation in AP Program

  4. Participation by Ethnicity

  5. A Taste of Our Culture

  6. Tyler’s Curriculum Model • What educational purposes should the school seek to attain? • What educational experiences can be provided that are likely to attain these purposes? • How can these educational experiences be effectively organized? • How can we determine whether these purposes are being attained?

  7. Text Study and Initial Reflection Chevruta Study • A shared partnership in learning • Texts spur thought, analysis, dialogue • The relationship as learning partners is far more valuable than the completion of a task • Review the chart “Overview of Educational Philosophies” and the “Curriculum Texts for Consideration”

  8. Administrative Innovations • Advising • Teacher as “AP Coordinator” • AP Parent Night • Experimental “class promotion” – 10th grade • Full-year block classes • AP Section and Skill-Based Section • Paired courses as skinnies

  9. Conjunto Discussion Collection of several Chevruta pairs who synthesize the insight gathered in intense study Discussion, problem-solving, innovation Consider your school’s administrative approaches and brainstorm methods to cultivate a stronger AP culture Reflection and Inspiration

  10. Tyler’s Curriculum Model • What educational purposes should the school seek to attain? • What educational experiences can be provided that are likely to attain these purposes? • How can these educational experiences be effectively organized? • How can we determine whether these purposes are being attained?

  11. Text Study and Initial Reflection Chevruta Study • A shared partnership in learning • Texts spur thought, analysis, dialogue • The relationship as learning partners is far more valuable than the completion of a task • Review the “Learning Experiences Texts for Consideration” • Reflections apply to both Instructional and Student-Driven sections

  12. Instructional Initiatives

  13. Instructional Initiatives • Summer Intellectual Fun • Voluntary • Invitation to all rising Junior and SeniorAP Students

  14. Capstone Project for Sympartium Essential Question: • How do we demonstrate mastery of our AP Coursework? • Symposium: a formal presentation of academic topics by scholars • Party: a celebration • SYMPARTIUM: A celebration and presentation of academic topics by scholars

  15. Capstone Guidelines • Overview • Approval Form • Proposal Guide • Inspiration: Wakefield High School – Arlington, VA • Sample projects • Create a Country • Presidential Candidate information in Spanish • The Calculus of Literature • Life-size Structure of a Cell • Economics of Censorship

  16. Sympartium Day

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  24. Conjunto Discussion Collection of several Chevruta pairs who synthesize the insight gathered in intense study Discussion, problem-solving, innovation Consider your school’s instructional approaches and brainstorm methods to cultivate a stronger AP culture Reflection and Inspiration

  25. Student-Driven Approach • To help ourselves and others pass the AP test • To serve a cause greater than our own and • To leave a legacy of community success

  26. Sin Cera Application

  27. Sin Cera Recognition

  28. Conjunto Discussion Collection of several Chevruta pairs who synthesize the insight gathered in intense study Discussion, problem-solving, innovation Consider your school’s student-driven approaches and brainstorm methods to cultivate a stronger AP culture Reflection and Inspiration

  29. Tyler’s Curriculum Model • What educational purposes should the school seek to attain? • What educational experiences can be provided that are likely to attain these purposes? • How can these educational experiences be effectively organized? • How can we determine whether these purposes are being attained?

  30. Osborne AP Community Cardinal Thinkers • Model our aspirations. • Offer rigorous work to ensure success. • Believe in our capabilities. • Encourage interest driven inquiry. • Utilize our resources. • Provide faculty time and designated student space for students to pursue scholarship. • Nurture ourselves. • Support the community and celebrate our successes.

  31. “Learn & Network” “We do not expect to have other schools literally imitate what we do. A working model is not something to be copied; it is to afford a demonstration of the feasibility of the principle, and of the methods which make it feasible.” John Dewey

  32. Cultivating and Coordinating a School-wide AP Culture Erin Thaler Erin.Thaler@cobbk12.org AP Teacher, AP Coordinator

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