Bisbee High School is a - Bisbee Unified School District

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Raised Expectations 5 General Information 7 Graduation Requirements 7 Senior Exit Project 9 Grading/Class Rank Calculation 10 Registration and Scheduling 11 Activities 16 Discipline 18 Course Offerings for 2012/13 24 Bisbee High School Contact Information 38 5
Bisbee High School 2012/2013 Raising Expectations The following policies were enacted to focus attention on the value of academic achievement and to increase accountability. Please note that the raising of expectations applies to ALL stakeholders as there is a required commitment to excellence that addresses not only the students of Bisbee High School but the faculty, staff, administrators, and parents/guardians. Continuous improvement with an eye on excellence takes ALL of us working together! RECOGNITIONS • All students who exceed any section of the high school AIMS test will receive a Certificate of Recognition from the high school presented at a Governing Board meeting. • All students who exceed the standards on all three sections of the high school AIMS tests will receive a Certificate of Recognition from the high school presented at a Governing Board meeting. • High school seniors who receive 29 or higher on their ACT College Entrance Exam or 1300 on SAT Critical Reading and Math Exam will receive a Certificate of Recognition from the high school presented at a Governing Board. REQUIRED INTERVENTIONS At Bisbee High School we regularly exam multiple data sets to drive our continuous improvement. Those data sets include, but are not limited to the following: Student Learning, Perceptions, Demographics, and School Processes. The following are the primary methods we employ to determine the academic interventions that are best suited for each student: • State mandated assessments (AIMS) will be administered per the State of Arizona’s requirements. These assessments will be included as part of our student learning data and will be used as part of the overall picture to determine individual student needs. Any student not receiving a “Meets” or “Exceeds” on their Reading, Writing, and/or Math will be placed in one or more intervention courses as deemed appropriate by the BHS team. • Site reading and math assessments will be given to all students at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year to assist in determining their individual academic needs. New students will be assessed upon registering for these same purposes. Any student falling below grade level in math and/or reading will be required to take a Math intervention course (i.e. ALEKS) and/or Reading intervention course (i.e. READ 180) as an elective. • Common formative and benchmark assessments will be given at intervals during each quarter and students who do not master the skills may be required to take a intervention course and/or attend tutoring after school or at Friday School. • If, based on the student learning data collected and evaluated by the BHS team, a student needs interventions, they may be required to attend and participate in one or more of the following forms of interventions: ⁻ Test Prep ⁻ Tutoring (group and/or 1-on-1) ⁻ Friday School ⁻ Additional academic courses in lieu of electives (i.e. ALEKS Math, READ 180, AIMS Writing, AIMS Reading,) CONTENT AND ACADEMIC VOCABULARY Based on an extensive site data collection and self-evaluation process undertaken during the 2011/12 school year, it was determined that our students struggled with reading across the curriculum specifically as it related to content and academic vocabulary. This equated to a need to focus professional development for the 2012/13 school year on supporting and instructing our teachers to increase their capacity to teach content area and academic vocabulary. Therefore, to help our teachers better meet the needs of our students and thus improve our students’ abilities to access and use the knowledge they are learning in all their subjects, the BHS Professional Development Leadership Academy Team will be providing on-going professional development trainings and support throughout the year to assist faculty in teaching content area and academic vocabulary. In addition and as an integral part of this intervention, BHS has designated a block of time during the regular schedule that all students and teachers will be working on building knowledge and capacity in the areas of content and academic vocabulary. 6
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