Meeting+16+-+May+'13

** Thursday, May 23, 2013 ** ** H103 – BioHazard Meeting Room ** ** 07:15 – 08:00 ** Attendance: All, except, Jackson
 * Science Department Meeting **

Underclassmen Science Final (8:30am) / Department Luncheon (1:oopm) Monday, June 17 – Summer School Begins
 * 1) Looking Ahead – Important Dates to Note
 * 2) Monday, May 27 – Memorial Day
 * 3) Tuesday, May 28 – Senior Science Finals (8:15am)
 * 4) Friday, May 31 – Baccalaureate Liturgy (7:00pm)
 * 5) Saturday, June 1 – Graduation (9:00am)
 * 6) Tuesday, June 4 – Happy Birthday Paul! / Birthday BioHaz Celebration
 * 1) Thursday, June 6 – Final Day of Classes


 * 1) Summer Plans
 * 2) Take 2-3 minutes to share your growth plans for the summer
 * AP Institute- Chemistry- Qazi
 * ISTE Institute, develop Bio course with Picard- Uy
 * Focusing on the Cloud, Digitalness- Cacnio, working with Lee Jackson- practicing and documenting
 * Vacation- Bouma
 * Vacation- Gatfield
 * Vacation and meet with publisher- Ramon
 * Summer school- essential questions, work with Bio with Uy
 * Conference in August, summer school- Utley
 * ISTE conference, AP conference, Golf certification, meet with environmental engineering-High Tech High
 * Moving, packing up, getting ready, meeting with Qazi for transition- Kwan
 * AP Computer Sci Conf-USD AP Computer Science- all digital, screencasting, vacationing in Europe

>> i. Proposal
 * 1) Registration Debrief
 * 2) Common Questions / Problems?
 * 3) Revamp Restricted Course Acceptance Procedures
 * 1) No more teacher ratings / comments until after initial lists
 * 2) Top 100 get into a restricted course
 * 3) Bottom 100 will not be considered for a restricted course
 * 4) Middle “Bubble” who petition will be discussed as a dept.
 * 5) Final lists will be a “department decision”
 * 6) Other ideas to streamline, etc?

Ideas:
 * List from one teacher to another (ex. Lew looking at Kwan's acceptance list to verify one by one) via email
 * Make things simpler
 * Consider HSPT test
 * Consider Midterm grades and not rush acceptance until midterms grades are in
 * Consider admissions test into restricted courses
 * Have the tests be a part of a cadre of measures


 * 1) Professional Development Plan Update (Due at the August ’13 Department Meeting)
 * 2) Review your PD Plan and assess your progress

Shoot it to Gorr at the end of the school year.

i. “Completed” – Means to reach objective was completed ii. “Not Completed Sufficiently” – Means to reach objective was not completed iii. “In Progress” – Means to reach your objective in currently being completed


 * 1) 2013-14 Teaching Assignments
 * 2) Aristov – 1 H Astro
 * 3) Bouma – 3 APES / 2 Phy-9 (//1 Team with Jackson//)
 * 4) Cacnio – 4 Phy-9 / 1 AP Phy B
 * 5) Gatfield – 3 Ocean / 1 Phy-12
 * 6) Gorr – 3 APES / 1 Env Engineering
 * 7) // Hairston – 4 Chem-10 / 1 Phy-9 //
 * 8) // Jackson – 3 Phy-9 (1 Team with Bouma) //
 * 9) // Laveson – 2 Bio-11 (Hope to get him teaming w/ ?) //
 * 10) Lew – 2 AP Phy C / 2 Phy-9 / 1 AP Comp Sci
 * 11) Picard – 3 AP Bio / 2 Bio-11
 * 12) // Qazi – 4 H Chem / 1 AP Chem //
 * 13) // Simon – 4 Chem-10 / 1 H Chem //
 * 14) Utley – 1 A & P
 * 15) // Uy – 4 Bio-11 / 1 Robo //

Department Luncheon (Tuesday, June 4 @ 1:00pm)


 * Yardhouse- LA Live