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Alaska State Standards Overview
This post is a follow up to the presentation at the March 26, 2013 administrator meeting.
We will continue to provide training and resources to schools, teachers and administrators as we transition to the new state standards and the assessments as they become available.
Here is the presentation:
Effective Leadership and Collaboration
This post is a follow up to the presentation from the March 26, 2013 administrator meeting. Please note that the foundation of our collaborative culture is from DuFour and his Learning by Doing book. Also, the study referenced in this presentation is from APQC located at:
Look for the study titled: 01-9300 – Final Report – Evaluating Professional Learning Communities
Below is the presentation:
Effective Instruction Update 2.21.13
Revision of Effective Instruction teacher evaluation system – meeting the needs of the new State regulations. These are proposals at this time.
New Math Curriculum Course Flow Chart
Math Curriculum and Placement Information
Hello Principals and Counselors…with the adoption of new Math courses by the curriculum committee there will be a new procedure needed for placing high school students into pre-algebra which will be re-named to Algebra Readiness.
The entry base level expectation for math placement in grade 9 is Algebra. Obviously we will have students who have taken Algebra in middle school and those students will move on to Geometry in grade 9. When it is the recommendation of the math instructor in middle school that an exiting grade 8 student is not ready for Algebra a student may be placed in Algebra Readiness (formally Pre-algebra) with the recommendation of the IEP team (for a special education student) or the recommendation of the Intervention Team (for non- special education students). As high schools start building schedules in February it is important to anticipate these new placement procedures.
Middle School Math courses will consist of:
-7th Grade Math
– 8th Grade Math
– Algebra I (high school level) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
High School Math Courses include:
-Algebra I (year-long) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
-Geometry (year-long) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
-Advanced Algebra (year-long) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
-Pre-Calculus (year-long) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
-Calculus or Advance Placement Calculus (year-long) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
-Personal Finance (semester long course)
-Business Math (semester long course)
-Algebraic Modeling (semester long course) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
-Statistics (semester long) —Alaska Performance Scholarship Approved
-***Algebra Readiness (formally Pre-Algebra IEP or I-team placement only)
PLEASE PASS ALONG THIS INFORMATION TO YOUR MATH TEACHERS, INTERVENTION TEAM, AND SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS.
KPSAA Borough Tournament Workgroups
Hello High School Principals,
I am sure that you are all quite aware of recent discussions and issues pertaining to high school Borough Cross Country, Track, and Nordic Ski meets. At last year’s final KPSAA meeting the Executive Board charged me with forming three separate committees to examine the following questions for each meet:
1) Should KPBSD and KPSAA continue to offer a Borough wide meet at all?
2) If they continue should the current language in the KPSAA handbook remain or should language be modified to make attendance compulsory
3) Possibly develop a philosophy statement/rationale for why we host Borough Tournaments since there is language about Borough music festivals.
All High schools are encouraged to have representation on each committee.
The following dates/times have been scheduled for our committee meetings:
-High School Borough Track & Field on January 15, 2014 from 1:00-3:00PM in the Warehouse Conference Room
– High School Borough Cross Country Running on January 17, 2014 from 1:00-3:00PM in the Warehouse Conference Room
– High School Borough Nordic Skiing on January 22, 2014 from 1:00-3:00PM in the Warehouse Conference Room