3RD+QUARTER+ACADEMIC+SUPPORT

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seminar will include academic support Two days a week peer tutoring will be established (teachers to work this out) Once a week technology access - Molly to work out schedule One Friday a month - Town Hall Meeting Forum about something related to current events or something affecting the school - Student Gov to create question and format of town hall meeting. All staff are expected to participate (including Principal, SPOs (possibly), and counselor, nurse, etc) Possible Moodle used for chatting about questions HOMs to be emphasized throughout curricula

Student switches for seminar will be dealt with on a case by case basis with Jessica.

Here is the script for academic support - it has a basic summary, the weekly layout in terms of lab time, peer tutoring, silent reading, and town hall forum. I also added our new school-wide lateness policy. It is a rough draft, so make changes as you see fit. -Hesse

**3rd Quarter Academic Support** 3rd quarter Seminar will be shifting from the large-scale interdisciplinary projects towards providing quality academic support time for Rush students. This new focus will allow students to stay on top of their weekly workload while also providing teacher and peer support. The class is a credited course and a grade will be given based on work completed during this period.

**The structure of the class is as follows:** Because students are getting graded for this class and it is considered instructional time, it needs to be very structured.

-__**Once a week technology**__ **Somehow we need to ensure that students are not just playing around in the lab or on their laptops.** Students will be able to work on media projects, monitor their SnapGrades accounts, and do research for classes. This is something that we must ensure that there is something to work on. How can we do this?

-__Two days a week there will be peer tutoring.__ Students will be able to work in small groups to help each other complete assignments and navigate new material. Students that volunteer to tutor will be given bonus points toward their final grade. [//is this how we want to handle peer tutoring grade-wise?]//

__**Pleasure reading days:**__ This will take place twice a week. After announcements, students and teachers have the opportunity to read for 25 minutes and then reflect/summarize in their journal.We will create a prompt. This is not time to read your textbook, but time to read for pleasure. Teachers will read their book as well. When a student is finished his/her book, there will be a book report type - ish paper to complete. Proposed genres: fiction, non-fiction, memoir, choice. Two per quarter.
 * We need a book report form...

- __**A Town Hall Meeting**__ Forum will take place one Friday a month. This is an opportunity for school-wide community dialogue on topics such as current events and/or issues affecting the school community. Student government will play a major role by creating questions as well as the format of the town hall meeting.

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**Grading:** Students will be graded based on two primary factors: the amount of homework, project work, and on-task time in this class, as well as participation in journal writing and discussions. __**We should probably create a rubric.**__

-Per homework, students will be given a weekly homework log where they will plug in every assignment for every subject. They will work on these assignments throughout the week and at the end of the week show this log to the teacher. Everyone starts will 100 points, if you stay on top of your homework, you will keep these 100 points. If you miss assignments and go off-task in class, you will be docked points for this. [//I’m sort of making this up as I go along, so how many points per missing assignment, or negative comments at the week-end check-in – not sure. What do you think? If someone has a better grading system, by all means, please suggest.//]

**School wide lateness policy for work**
 * -Homework** - half off per every day late. You have two days to finish the homework, after these two days the assignment will not be accepted.


 * -Projects** – 10% off every day late, after a week, project will not be accepted.


 * -Makeup policy for absences** – absent 1 day = you get a 1 day extension. Absent two days = you get a two day extension. Work must be turned in at the beginning of class.


 * -Makeup policy for tests** – time frame is up to the teacher. Seminar can be used as a place/time to make up tests though. Just schedule with the teacher and work it out.

[Teacher discretion for extenuating circumstances is recommended. [not sure if this needs to be included for students]

If you want to add anything else, please do. This is a just a rough draft of the script…