SOAR Expectations

1. SOAR Expectations • Welcome! • Today we are going to cover • the MHS tardy policy • expectations for the hallways • first semester final exams

2. The tardy policy revisited: Tardy: not being in the classroom by the bell or fewer than 5 minutes. If you are tardy more than 5 minutes, it is considered an unexcused absence.

3. How do you avoid being tardy? • MHS students have produced a short video with strategies to avoid being tardy, including tips for navigating the hallways! • G:\MHSStaff\PBIS\Videos\hallways 24p.wmv What are examples of things you can do to avoid being tardy or positive behaviors that you observed in the video?

4. Suggestions from seniors… • Plan your route + take the most efficient path. Know where water fountains, bathrooms, etc. are located. • Keep to the right + move at a quick pace. • Pull over to the side if you want to talk in groups of two. • Pull over to text/use the phone if you are walking between classes. • Please talk with an inside voice between classes. • Please have a hallway pass with you if in the hallway during class. • Please speak quietly/whisper if you are in the hallway during class.

5. Suggestions from seniors… • Please do not swear. • Put trash in the garbage. • Be modest with displays of affection in the hallways. • **Lunch:Please remain downstairs for lunch in the commons and go upstairs only 5 minutes before your class. • Please do not stand outside of a class that is in session during lunch to talk. Move to another location.

6. Thursday, January 21st: 1st Period 7:35-9:08 2nd Period 9:18-10:51 3rd Period 1st Lunch: 11:01-11:31 Class: 11:41-1:14 (All first floor classes except the 1800’s and 1900’s eat first lunch) 3rd Period Class: 11:01-12:34 2nd Lunch: 12:44-1:14 (All second floor classes, + 1800’s and 1900’s eat second lunch) 4th Period 1:24-2:57 Friday, January 22nd: 1st Period 7:35-9:08 (Study Hall/Early Bird Exams) 5th Period 9:18-10:51 6th Period 1st Lunch: 11:01-11:31 Class: 11:41-1:14 (All second floor classes, + 1800’s and 1900’s eat second lunch) 6th Period Class: 11:01-12:34 2nd Lunch 12:44-1:14 (All second floor classes, + 1800’s and 1900’s eat second lunch) 7th Period 1:24-2:57 Now onto Final Exams… Final Exam Schedule

7. Final exams come in many forms. Teachers will explain the format for their particular exam. Examples include: • Cumulative final exams: • tend to be made of the primary learning targets you’ve been covering this semester. • usually covers material from the ENTIREsemester. • may be in oral or written form, project, performance, or lab based. Teachers will often provide review packet/questions that help students review, which help students narrow down the amount of material they should know. • CANNOT be retaken unless the exam includes material that has never been previously tested.

8. Final exams come in many forms. Teachers will explain the format for their particular exam. Examples include: • Unit Exams: • similar in nature to your other unit tests. • often covers new material that has not been previously tested. • This type of exam would allow for retakes. • Benchmark exams: • Used to determine how you are progressing on the learning targets in your class • Provides information that your techer can use to modify/enhance instruction.

9. Teachers will explain how their final exams impact your semester grade… • This info may also be listed on the course expectation forms from the beginning of the year • According to the school handbook: Final exams can count for up to 20% of your overall semester grade. • Teachers can choose to count your current semester grade and up to 20% for your final (or any percent combinations that total 100%). Staff can also choose to count your quarter one grade, your quarter two grade, and your final as separate percentages. • Teachers can also just enter your final exam as a unit test. If they choose this option, your unit exam will be included in your overall semester or quarter grade. • Teachers can choose to record your final semester grade as benchmark grade, but the score will not count as part of your overall semester grade.

10. Your semester report card is mailed home. • At the end of each semester your report card will include: • Quarter grades • Final exam grades • Semester grades • Semester grade point average (GPA) • Cumulative grade point average (GPA) (all semesters combined) • High school transcripts are a permanent record of: • High school courses • Semester grades • Cumulative grade point average (GPA) • Class rank

11. Your semester grades and your high school transcript… • High school transcripts are required or requested for: • Post-secondary Institutions • Scholarships • Military • Employment • You will be able to view or order a copy of your high school transcript by going to parchment.com after first semester grades have been finalized the second week of February. • If you have questions, please see the Registrar or your High School Counselor.

12. New graduation credit requirements for the freshmen: 23.5 credits

13. Earning postsecondary credits as a 10th grade student • A key component to the ECASD Post Secondary Readiness plan is to prepare students for post-secondary academic work. Part of this plan includes offering college level courses to high school students. • Research shows “freshmen” at post-secondary institutes that have taken college level courses in high school are more likely to continue on to their second year of post-secondary education and earn a high GPA. • We encourage you to look at and consider all of the options available at Memorial . Then we want you to “take a risk” and try one of these post-secondary options.

14. Earning postsecondary credits as a 10th grade student • In Business & IT, transcripted courses available for sophomores: • Entrepreneurship • MS Office Suite • Personal Finance.   • Accounting 1 (non-transcripted), which leads to Accounting 3, which is transcripted • Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) • Parents & Children (9-12) + Careers with Children (10-12) for transcripted credits. • in the process of adding Medical Terminology (not sure of grades yet).

15. Earning postsecondary credits as a 10th grade student • In Technology and Engineering, sophomores may take for transcripted college credit: • Introduction to Engineering Design • Digital Electronics • Civil Engineering and Architecture • You can also earn Advanced Placement Credit: • AP 2 Dimensional Art • AP European History Note: Those students that have been accelerated in any subject area have a large number of post secondary course options as noted in the 2015-2016 Course Registration Handbook.