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** Friday, February 19, 2016 7:20 am ** ** H103 – BioHaz Meeting Room ** Remind students to register and pay for AP Exams! Email will be sent out regarding assignments for Career Day – Spring ACT prep course with Fawzia and Jason Schmidt – open to Juniors (sophomores only if space is left) – great for students taking the April ACT. Right after lunch 90-minute homeroom period from 12:50-2:20pm – meetings and kids will immediately register at that time. We will also meet again with restricted course teachers to go over course lists. Stefan’s birthday March 17! Fawzia, Andrew, Jim and Stefan going to NSTA Nashville Eddie’s daughter is coming soon!
 * Science Department Meeting **
 * 1) I. Important Dates
 * 2) a. Thursday, Feb 25 - AP Exam Registration and Payments due
 * 1) b. Friday, Mar 4 – Career Day / ACT Prep Class
 * 1) c. Mon, Tue & Wed, Mar 7, 8 & 9 – Pre-Reg Meetings (Homeroom 12:50 – 2:20)
 * 1) d. Wednesday, Mar 16 – Science Department Meeting
 * 1) e. Thursday, Mar 17 – Midterm Grades Due
 * 1) f. Saturday, Mar 19 – Interchange
 * 2) g. Wednesday, Mar 23 – Retreat/Easter Break
 * 3) h. Thursday Mar 31 – NSTA Nashville
 * 1) i. April 6 – Parent Teacher Conferences
 * 2) j. Birthdays

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 * 1) II. Registration Reminders (Refer to Handout for Timeline)
 * 2) a. Last week’s info meetings - feedback
 * 3) b. Pre-Registration Meetings Mar 7, 8 & 9 (Talking Points Handout)
 * 4) c. Top 100 – guaranteed in AP or Honors
 * 5) d. Bottom 100 – not admitted into AP or Honors
 * 6) e. Restricted Course lists due to Fawzia by 8:00am on Wednesday, April 13
 * 7) f. Restricted Course lists will be posted on Canvas on Friday, April 15
 * In terms of the meetings – turnout was good for the Honors Chem meeting, day two was the Junior level courses, good turnout. Day 3 – Physics, Day 4 – Oceanography, Robotics and Anatomy and Physiology – low to no turnout – perhaps combine with the Physics/Honors Astronomy day next year.
 * March 7-9 – Pre registration meetings – note your location and be there, if your name is not on there they are backup. Monday is sophomores, Tuesday is Sophomores, Wednesday is for Juniors.
 * Talking points – freshman should know – pre register for Honors Chem if interested – otherwise you will be placed in regular Chemistry – there is no essay section
 * Sophomores – AP Bio, AP Chem, APES – if they do not apply for any of the restricted courses they are placed in regular level Biology.
 * Juniors – have a bigger selection, refer to the handout for course options and talking points. – AP Chem – really encourage them to take it their Junior year. AP Chem left off of Naviance – if interested they can talk directly with Fawzia. Honors Chem is NOT officially a pre requisite for AP Chem – but generally highly recommended to enter from Honors Chemistry – regular level students would need a special summer assignment to prepare.
 * CalStates and CalPoly require life sciences, but we had two seniors admitted early to MIT and Princeton without a life science – but it does give them more options.
 * Top 100 are admitted to AP/Honors – bottom 100 not admitted. We do not have a lot of non-restricted science courses anymore – our “regular” science courses are jam-packed. 60-70 students who want to take anatomy – and he can only take 27 students. If we can open up the restricted courses a bit more that would be helpful. 3 sections of oceanography and 1 Anatomy/Physiology – we have seats left open in AP courses – if we could take more students in AP courses that would be ideal. AP Program at Loyola has grown dramatically – class sizes are rather low school wide. Generally average class size is high teens to low twenties class size.
 * Ideal class size is 24 – manageable class size – this would reduce strain on the regular senior science courses.
 * We will have a meeting for restricted course teachers prior to April 13 – submit your lists to Fawzia by April 13 – very hard deadline.
 * March 14 – is the preregistration deadline for the students – remind students of their options for next year in your classes.
 * 1) III. PLC’s for next year
 * 2) a. Subgroups
 * PLC’s for next year – very good groups! Organized in our subgroups – foundation for next year’s schedule is the PLC groups – much more intentional PLC groupings. Fawzia will email out that list.
 * We need to align our courses with the NGSS standards and have this as a written document – mid year WASC review – PLC project will be to work on the NGSS standards and our handbook – everything aligned with the NGSS standards.
 * 1) b. Alignment with NGSS
 * 2) c. Summer Sabbaticals


 * 1) IV. Other
 * 2) a. BioHaz Mornings
 * Try to keep BioHaz mornings going – if you need to change the date, totally fine, just email everyone to inform them of BioHaz