Grand Prairie Youth Todays Needs. Tomorrows Future

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Grand Prairie YouthTodays Needs.Tomorrows
Future
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Preparing Todays Students for a Successful
Future

• Academic Needs
• Career and Workforce Needs

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GPISD Requires 26 Credits to Graduate -
Recommended High School Plan (RHSP)(State
Requirement was 24)

• Beginning with the class of 2005, students have
  been expected to complete the Recommended Program
  or the Distinguished Achievement Program with 26
  credits.
• Students have been required to earn four credits
  in English Language Arts Social Studies, 3
  credits in Math Science .
• Schedules have included increased opportunities
  for courses

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HB1, Passed by the Legislature This Year Requires
26 Credits to Graduate RHSP

• Law affects students who will be 9th graders in
  (2007-08)
• Requires students to earn four credits in core
  areas Math, Science, English Language Arts
  Social Studies.
• Increases number of Math and Science courses for
  all students and sets specific requirements for
  them.
• The intent of the law is that students should
  have rigorous Math and Science courses their
  senior year.
• Students may continue to take Math courses at
  middle school and receive high school credit.

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HB1, passed by the legislature this year requires
26 credits to graduate RHSP

• Principles of Technology added to the list of
  courses for which a physics credit can be earned.
  (Teachers K-12 are currently expected to teach
  Technology TEKS at each grade.)
• Law phases out Integrated Physics and Chemistry
  (IPC) so that schools have time to improve their
  science education programs beginning in the early
  elementary grades so that students are prepared
  for the more rigorous requirements at high
  school.
• 2007-2008 Teachers of Kindergarten through 12th
  grades must educate their students in 12 areas of
  instruction for personal finance.

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Goals for the Future

• "At a time when technology has changed how k-12
  students learn, create, and interact with others,
  schools are behind the curve in teaching the
  skills they need to be savvy consumers and
  producers of digital media." MacArthur Foundation
• "Just as the printing press changed how knowledge
  works, we have hypothesized that these new
  digital media will have the same effect."