Science Department Welcome Back Meeting Friday August 19, 2016 H103 – BioHaz Meeting Room
I. Welcome Back!
II. What we did in the summer
a. Summer School – Kimberly Summer Science Coordinator
b. Summer Sabbaticals – Quick share from recipients
c. AP Conference - attendees
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.
III. Important Dates
a. Monday 8/22 Freshman mini-schedule
b. Tuesday 8/23 First day of classes
c. Back to School Nights: Frosh/Soph Wednesday 9/7
Junior/Senior Tuesday 9/13 (6:30-10 pm)
d. NSTA: Portland Nov 10-12 (Regional); Los Angeles Mar 30-Apr 2
(National)
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.
IV. First Day Activities
a. NOS / Active Inquiry
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.
V. PLC’s
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.
VI. Documents to update
a. Open House Flyer
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.
VII. 2015-16 New Schedule
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
a. PD Plans
b. NGSS
c. Department Calendar/Biohaz mornings
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.
Friday August 19, 2016
H103 – BioHaz Meeting Room
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.
- III. Important Dates
- a. Monday 8/22 Freshman mini-schedule
- b. Tuesday 8/23 First day of classes
- c. Back to School Nights: Frosh/Soph Wednesday 9/7
Junior/Senior Tuesday 9/13 (6:30-10 pm)- d. NSTA: Portland Nov 10-12 (Regional); Los Angeles Mar 30-Apr 2
(National)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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.