Meeting 16 - May '13

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

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

Monday, June 17 – Summer School Begins


  1. Summer Plans
    1. 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

  1. Registration Debrief
    1. Common Questions / Problems?
    2. Revamp Restricted Course Acceptance Procedures

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


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

  • Yardhouse- LA Live