Math and Science: Moving our Students for Postsecondary Success

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Math and Science Moving our Students for
Post-secondary Success

• Eric Hansen
• Kristin Slade
• Sahra Tanikawa

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Math What has changed?

• Pre-Algebra only offered at 7th/8th
• Algebra 1 elimination of two year sequence
• Companion courses offered for student support

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Math What has changed?

• Intermediate course offerings expand
• Currently in pilot for the following
• Intervention 7
• Algebra Readiness
• Intervention Math 9

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Math What has changed?
Intervention 7
Pre-Algebra
Algebra Readiness
Algebra 1
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Math What is required?

• High School Graduation
• Pass CAHSEE Math
• Requires 3 years of math
• Must pass Algebra I to graduate
• State Mandate
• Meeting A G
• Requires a C or better and students must
  complete Algebra II
• Three years are required, four years are
  encouraged
• Inclusion classes
• RS math has been eliminated

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Math How do we meet the requirements?

• What is available after Algebra II?
• Statistics and Trigonometry (semester courses)
• Advanced Algebra and Trigonometry
• Pilot at GGHS, Los Amigos
• Pre-Calculus
• AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics

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Math AP Data
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Math AP Data
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Science What has changed?

• 7th Grade Life Science became a semester course
  to allow for the 2 periods of ELA, no CST
• 8th Grade Physical Science CST began
• in 2006
• 7th and 8th grade advanced courses have come and
  gone depending on sites choices

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Science What has changed?

• Elimination of HS Life Science 06-07
• Elimination of HS General Science 08-09
• All students are required to take Biology

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Biology Success
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Science What is required?

• High School Graduation
• Requires 2 years of science
• 1 year of life science (Biology)
• 1 year of physical (Earth, physics or chemistry)
• Meeting A G
• Requires a C or better
• Two years are required, three years are
  recommended
• 1 year of life science (Biology)
• 1 year of physics or chemistry (CSU UC)
• Physical (Earth Science- CSU only)

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Science How do we meet the requirements?

• Students can take these college prep courses at
  any time during their high school career
• Students who are in multiple interventions can
  delay a year
• Beginning of science inclusion classes
• There are no longer any SDC- or RS-coded science
  classes
• SE science classes now indicate the more
  restricted environment
• Mainstream or Inclusion classes

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Science What do we offer beyond the requirements?

• Course offerings beyond requirements
• Anatomy and physiology
• AP Environmental
• AP Chemistry
• AP Biology
• AP Physics B C

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Science AP Data
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The Intermediate Science Story

• Kristi Harjo
• Doig Intermediate

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7th Grade Science Pre-AP

• What is Pre-AP?
• Based on two Premises
• 1. Students perform at rigorous academic levels
• 2. Prepare every student for higher intellectual
  engagement by starting the development of skills
  and acquisition of knowledge as early as possible
• Highly rigorous course based on inquiry

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7th Grade Science Pre-AP

• How are students selected?
• Based on CST scores for Math and English and 5th
  grade science
• How was your staff trained?
• Attended the Pre-Ap conference for inquiry based
  labs
• What impact has it had on your student success?
• Students are using higher levels of thinking and
  are forced to think through problems to get their
  results
• They are more prepared for the high level of
  rigor in 8th grade Advanced science and biology

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8th Grade Science Advanced

• Ten years ago we had one 8th grade advanced
  science class this year we have five.
• How are students chosen?
• CST English and Math scores
• Emphasis on the math scores
• District 7th grade science tests, grades, and
  teacher input
• 1/3 of the classes contain AVID students

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8th Grade Science Advanced

• How do you differentiate the Advanced curriculum?
• More rigorous curriculum with more true inquiry
  based labs where students instead of being given
  the directions have to figure out they would test
  something, what materials they could use, what
  data would they need to record
• Example first two days of school they had to
  improve on the Styrofoam cup to make it keep
  liquids hotter, longer. They had to figure out
  how they would do it, what materials would be
  useful, and how they would show it was better
  using data

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8th Grade Science Advanced

• How are the regular classes impacted?
• Although there might not be as many high level
  students in the regular classes we still maintain
  a high level of expectation and rigor for all of
  our students
• What successes have you had with your advanced
  classes?
• Overall our science scores improved by 30 in all
  clusters with our averages being equal to or in
  most cases better than the states average
  minimally proficient

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FINAL STATEMENT

• At Doig we firmly believe that ALL students are
  capable of reaching and achieving a high level of
  rigor that will help prepare them for life
  experiences. We are dedicated to helping our
  students achieve that rigor through scaffolding
  and differentiation.

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AP Statistics La Quinta High School

• Cork Snider

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AP Statistics History

• Started in 2000. One student during reading
  break.
• Challenge
• Dont compete with other AP.
• Be rigorous but dont kill them.
• Easy sell, stats is like the Spanish of the
  1970s, we all know we should be exposed to it.
• Department chairneed to build other courses as
  well.
• Went to 2 sections immediately. Then three, then
  four.

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AP Statistics Curriculum

• Curriculum was hard to develop.
• College board workshops.
• Colleagues.
• Internet lessons plans.
• How to handle homework.
• Staying current.
• TI
• College board.
• You must constantly reinvent self.
• AP Readerbest deal ever.
• Key is efficiency. My goal is teach less and less
  each year and have the kids learn more. Also, I
  cut out any and all busy work. If it doesnt
  work, throw it out.

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AP Statistics The Impact

• Kids have a home their senior year. Great for A-G
  deal.
• Youll find that the Trig/Stat class now becomes
  great. That stats portion needs to be taught in
  an exciting manner.
• Set a west of the Mississippi record for most
  kids passing test for schools under 2000 kids.

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Q A

• What questions do you have?