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2. Obtaining Your Driver’s License Ms. Harcourt

3. Steps for Earning a Driver’s License • Take and pass the “book” portion for driver education certification. DEC-1 Card will be issued. • Obtain your permit at 15 years 6 months. Take test at DMV • Hold your permit for 9 months • Enroll in Behind the Wheel (at school or private lessons) • 45/15 Hour log must be submitted to BTW instructor • At 16 years 3 months you will be issued a “temporary license”, TDL 180. Within 6 months you will go to court and get your “permanent” license.

4. CLASSROOM PORTION • OFFERED 1ST SEMESTER OF 10TH GRADE YEAR. This is free. If they don’t pass the class they will need to take it privately. Privately costs up to $300 BEHIND THE WHEEL • Offered throughout the year - Mr. King • Cost is $219. Privately costs up to $300+ • You may take B-T-W at any time during the course of the year. • You must have your permit to get in B-T-W. You must be 15/6 years old to get your permit.

5. Cyber-Bullying Officer Graziano

6. CyberbullyingMPO Paul GrazianoVirginia Beach Police Department

7. Cyberbullying & Criminal Behavior Bullying nor Cyberbullying are specifically defined in the Code of Virginia. However, the acts that are most often associated with bullying and cyberbullying are criminal offenses, including:

8. Criminal Acts Most Often Associated with Bullying & Cyberbullying • Threat means a communication that threatens to kill or do bodily injury to a person or any member of his or her family and places the person in reasonable fear of death or bodily injury. • Harassment means to repeatedly annoy or attack a person or group in such a way as to cause anxiety or fear for safety. Several different types of harassment are against Virginia law. • Extortion means obtaining property from another person by using or threatening to use violence or other criminal means to cause harm to a person, a person’s reputation, or a person’s property.

9. Criminal Acts Most Often Associated with Bullying & Cyberbullying • Assault and battery means physical, harmful contact. • Robbery is defined as the taking, with intent to steal, of the personal property of another, from his or her person or in his or her presence, against his or her will, by violence or intimidation. • Hazing means to recklessly or intentionally endanger the health or safety of a student or to inflict bodily injury on a student in connection with admission into a group.

10. Harm from Cyberbullying Bullying has often been dismissed as a normal part of growing up. That isn’t the case. The harm caused by bullying and NOW cyberbullying is seriously underestimated. IT IS A BIG DEAL! For victims of cyberbullying: • Grades may suffer because attention is drawn away from learning. • Fear may lead to absenteeism, truancy, or dropping out. • If the problem persists, victims sometimes feel compelled to take drastic measures, such as vengeance in the form of fighting back, bringing a weapon to school, or even suicide.

11. Bystanders • May be afraid to associate with the victim for fear of lowering their own status or for fear of retribution from the bully and becoming victims themselves. • May fear reporting bullying incidents because they do not want to be called a “snitch.” • May experience feelings of guilt or helplessness for not standing up to the bully on behalf of their classmate.

12. Bullies • Studies have found that bullying in childhood may be an early sign of the development of violent tendencies, delinquency, and criminality. • One study found that boys identified as bullies in middle school were four times as likely as their non-bullying classmates to have three or more criminal convictions by age 24.

13. Cyberbullying Bullying is an aggressive behavior that is intentional, involves an imbalance of power or strength, and is usually repeated over time. In recent years, technology has given children and youth a new way to bully each other, which can involve: • Sending mean, vulgar, or threatening messages or images. • Posting sensitive, private information about another person. • Pretending to be someone else in order to make that person look bad. • Intentionally excluding someone from an online group.

14. Cyberbullying Cyberbullying can occur through: • E-mails • Instant messaging • Text or digital image messages sent on cell phones • Web pages • Blogs • Chat rooms or discussion groups • Other information communication technologies

15. Cyberbullying • 18% of students in grades 6-8 said they had been cyberbullied. • 11% of students in grades 6-8 said they had cyberbullied. • 19% of regular internet users between the ages of 10 and 17 reported being involved in online aggression. That is almost one in five. • 17% of 6-11 year-olds and 36% of 12-17 year-olds reported that someone said threatening or embarrassing things about them through e-mail, instant messages, websites, chat rooms or text messages.

16. Cyberbullying • For 6-11 year-olds, about one in six had been a victim. • For 12-17 year-olds, over one third reported being a victim of cyberbullying. • In a recent study of students in grades 6-8, girls were about twice as likely as boys to be victims and perpetrators of cyberbullying.

17. Key Questions • Do you agree with these statistics? • Do you think a third of your classmates have been a victim of cyberbullying? • Do you think that girls are more than twice as likely as boys to be victims and perpetrators of cyberbullying?

18. THANK YOU! Helpful Resources: www.enough.org www.virginiarules.org MPO PAUL GRAZIANO Virginia Beach Police Dept. School Resource Officer Ocean Lakes High School School: 757.648.5550 ext. 57791 Precinct: 757.385.4377

19. Being in the OLHS Tech Loop Ms. Harrell

20. School Website • Daily Announcements • Faculty Websites & Information • Parents Resources • Parent Portal • Listserv • AlertNow • Homework and Class Resources • SharePoint • Homework Live

21. Parent Portal • How to Sign Up • Verification • Receive verification email code • Bring copy of email code and picture ID to main office or guidance office • Alerts and Updates • Help Resources

22. Listserv • How to Sign Up • Weekly Updates for School Events • PTSA Announcements Alert Now • How to Sign Up • Important School Information • Inclement weather closings • Emergency information

23. SharePoint • Main Page Resources • Student Pages • Class Pages • Adding to “Trusted” Sites Homework Live • How to Sign Up http://www.homeworklive.com • Parent Account and/or Student Account • Add Classes to Account

24. PTSA Website • Links • Parent Resources • Information from this event • PTSA Announcements

25. Planning with College in Mind Ms. Guy

26. Planning Ahead for College By Nancy D. Guy Quest for College, LLC

27. The most important factors in the College Admissions Process • Strength of Curriculum • Grades (in Core Area Courses) • Standardized Test Scores • Recommendations • Extra-curricular Activities

28. Strength of Curriculum • Ranked the #1 factor in admissions decisions by college admissions officers in the NACAC survey • Ranked by the Guidance Counselor on every student’s School Report Form (Most Demanding, Very Demanding, Demanding, Average, Below Average) • The comparison is with “other college preparatory students in your school” • The “Advanced Studies” diploma requirements under Virginia SOLs are a MINIMUM and anything less is “below average.

29. What does “Demanding/Very Demanding Require? • Four Years of English at Honors and above, and at least one AP for “Very” • Mathematics through at least Math Analysis/Pre-Calculus and AP Calculus for “Very” • All three lab sciences: Biology, Chemistry and Physics and 1-2 APs for “Very” • Four years of Social Studies with at least one AP and more than one for “Very” • Four years of a foreign language • The only non-core electives that really help are any AP or Computer Science

30. Grades • All of your grades in high school matter • What matters most are grades in core area subjects • Upward trends are better than downward trends • Your child’s “job” in high school is school

31. The Whole Alphabet ofStandardized Tests • PSAT/NMST • SAT • SAT IIs • APs • AMC • TOEFL • SOLs

32. Letters of Recommendation • Your Guidance Counselor always has to fill out at least a School Report Form, so get to know your Counselor • Recommendation Forms ask teachers to rate: Intellectual Promise, Quality of Writing, Class Discussion, Originality of Thought, Work Habits, Respectfulness, Maturity, Motivation, Leadership, Integrity, Initiative, Reaction to Setbacks and Concern for Others. So everything you do matters. • Typically recommendations have to come from core area teachers who teach a student in their junior or senior year

33. Extra-curricular Activities • Least important factor (except for recruited athletes) • BUT this is something that needs to start early in high school • What is important: dedication, passion and leadership. Activities are reported by average number of hours per week, weeks per year • Community service is important and, again, it is reported by average hours per week, weeks per year • Summers matter!

34. Gifted Resource Services Ms. Graves

35. Gifted Resource & Think Tank • Click Here For Prezi Presentation Online

36. Thank You