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** Friday August 19, 2016 ** ** H103 – BioHaz Meeting Room **
 * Science Department Welcome Back Meeting **


 * 1) I. Welcome Back!


 * 1) II. What we did in the summer
 * 2) a. Summer School – Kimberly Summer Science Coordinator
 * 3) b. Summer Sabbaticals – Quick share from recipients
 * 4) c. AP Conference - attendees
 * 5) d. Registration- More Physics C, AP Bio, APES

Andrew – 3 conferences: JSM with a group of people from LHS met with videographer from others schools, etc. Went to ISTE – maker space projects 3D printers, etc. C3 conference at LMU had a lot on blended learning and flipped classrooms. Learning glass ready to go if you want to schedule to do some filming with Andrew.

Robb – leadership conference in Redondo (educational leadership with Ken Robinson); Europe – started building a sustainable hydroponic garden, EU conference in London for 3 days – a lot of professors presenting research on published papers. Online Chemistry course to prep for Chemistry through UC Berkeley.

AP Conference – Kimberly & Paul – went through the exam, AP Capstone presentation (research program) – some issues with it in terms of our curriculum. Fawzia – AP Chem debrief. Garry – Physics debrief from the Exams.

Registration – seems like we might need more Physics C, and Juniors are hungry for more AP Bio. Push for rigor on transcripts is real – colleges want to see the rigor on the transcript. On Monday Andrey will tell students that we still have your petitions and no need to contact dept. chair.

Junior/Senior Tuesday 9/13 (6:30-10 pm) (National)
 * 1) III. Important Dates
 * 2) a. Monday 8/22 Freshman mini-schedule
 * 3) b. Tuesday 8/23 First day of classes
 * 4) c. Back to School Nights: Frosh/Soph Wednesday 9/7
 * 1) d. NSTA: Portland Nov 10-12 (Regional); Los Angeles Mar 30-Apr 2

Fawzia will share the Google calendar with us – be aware of the BTSN nights, coming up quickly NSTA – plan accordingly – let Fawzia know if you are going.


 * 1) IV. First Day Activities
 * 2) a. NOS / Active Inquiry
 * 3) b. Course Documents (syllabus and safety)

NOS Activities – Physics: build towers out of marshmallows and spaghetti. Bio – Junior year mystery tubes. Chemistry – Inquiry cubes pattern identification. Seniors? Gary does with one with the rulers and washers – build a cantilever.

Be sure to email Fawzia your syllabus and first day documents.


 * 1) V. PLC’s
 * 2) a. Groups/Leaders/Topics

PLC’s – Groupings – freshman Physics (Lee leader), Bio group (Stefan leader), Chemistry group (Kimberly leader).

Fawzia spoke with Rick – he indicated that the guidelines are for depts. without certain visions. As long as you have a plan and document it – you can go off script just be sure to document it and have a clear plan.


 * 1) VI. Documents to update
 * 2) a. Open House Flyer
 * 3) b. Science Department Handbook (shared Google doc)

Copies of last year’s open house flyer – take a look and at the next meeting we will talk about changes we want to make for it. Next meeting Sept 1st – before school

Science dept handbook – Google doc make changes as needed.


 * 1) VII. 2015-16 New Schedule
 * 2) a. AP Scores and ACT scores – same within margin of error

ACT scores – final results will be on the website – Fawzia has copies of the ACT score data. From AP and ACT scores nothing has really been affected – still waiting on the SAT scores.

VIII.Coming up
 * 1) a. PD Plans
 * 2) b. NGSS
 * 3) c. Department Calendar/Biohaz mornings
 * 4) d. Next meeting Thursday September 1st

Coming up – Fawzia will be sending copies of PD plans will need to update them for this year. As a part of Fawzia’s doctoral program she will be working on something with NGSS and effective PD for NGSS.