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RIGOROUS COURSEWORK WCPSS

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Rigorous Coursework. WCPSS. The District Team. Abby Stotsenberg , Sr. Administrator for HS Social Studies TBD, Sr. Administrator for HS ELA Melissa Hurst, Sr. Administrator for MS ELA Christina Zukowski , Sr. Administrator for MS Math. AP Capstone Leaders. Your Name Your School - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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RIGOROUS COURSEWORKWCPSS

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The District Team

Abby Stotsenberg, Sr. Administrator for HS Social StudiesTBD, Sr. Administrator for HS ELAMelissa Hurst, Sr. Administrator for MS ELAChristina Zukowski, Sr. Administrator for MS Math

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AP Capstone Leaders

Your Name Your School Your Position Why you are jazzed about being a leader

of AP Capstone and AP Expansion?

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What is the initiative?

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Goals

Increase overall enrollment in Advanced Placement and Honors courses

Create additional opportunities and strategically sequence courses

Increase enrollment of underrepresented subgroups Increase understanding, impact, and interest of

stakeholder groups Partner with Holly Springs High School and Holly

Ridge Middle School to learn

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Building the Pipeline

Include AP Human Geography and AP Environmental Science as entry level AP courses

Create a partnership with Meredith College to increase AP professional development opportunities

Increase funding through RttT to train pipeline teachers to vertically align our courses and purposefully build the habits of mind and skills necessary for AP success

Use data to increase the percentage of students who are taking honors level courses

Develop and support AP departments as a key stakeholder group to lead and advance efforts

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Building the Pipeline in Middle School

Create recommendation guidelines to support registration process

Develop a framework for increasing vertical alignment from middle school to high school and from elementary school to middle school

Develop strategies for increasing time devoted to strategic math and reading instruction

Targeted work with Holly Ridge Middle School

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AP Capstone as a Leverage Point

Improving student literacy

skills

Decreasing subgroup academic gaps

Increasing graduation rates

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Training

AP Summits- Breaking Down Barriers and Backmapping an AP Program

AP Kickoff Event Using AP Potential Reports- API and those who schedule

as the focus audience Increasing AP participation- HS Principals target audience English Vertical Alignment Training open to all high

schools Fall AP Workshop – one day annual event hosted by

WCPSS AP Summer Institutes – week-long PD for teachers

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Information from D&A

Indicators of expansion: 1996-97 1 out of 15 WCPSS students took AP

Exam; 2013 increased to 1 out of 7 Since 2009-10 AP enrollments have increased by

almost 30% White and Asian enrollment has increased, while

Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino has not increased

Females account for proportionately more AP enrollments than male counterparts

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Targeted Pilot Work of Holly Springs HS

Strategic scheduling in Honors English I Targeted recruitment for AP courses Combined AP and Curriculum Nights Incorporated AP Potential Letters Developed an AP Department Empowered staff to make recommendations for expansion

of AP Department Increased number of teachers to strategically develop

content-specific PLTs Planned vision and next-steps for AP Program through AP

retreat Movement towards seamless curricular articulation across

grades

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Outcomes of Targeted Work with Holly Springs HS

2011-12: 884 enrollments 2012-13: 1383 enrollments (AP test

scores remained constant)

Increase of test takers: Males 13.1% Black 71.4% Hispanic 13.6%

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AP Potential Reports

Driven by PSAT results from 10th grade administration

Based on correlations from national test-taking pool

Correlations based on reading, writing, and mathematics combinations appropriate to designated AP courses

Aligned to rigors of Common Core State Standards

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AP Potential at a WCPSS HS

Looking At 10th grade studentsGroup 2012

Enrollment

60% Threshold

30% Threshold

Black/African American

368 12 33

Hispanic or Latino

243 9 19

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AP CAPSTONE

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AP Capstone

Program of study that combines scholarly practice with academic intensity

Seminar and research courses designed to enhance student’s ability with all courses

Admissions officers are looking for ways to distinguish between high achieving students

Programmatic approach allows students opportunity to explore areas of interest and passion

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AP Capstone

Program of study to earn AP Capstone Diploma: Seminar course and Research course and Students choose four AP courses in area(s) of

interest and score level 3 or higher on all AP exams

Program of study to earn AP Seminar & Research Certificate: Seminar course and Research course

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AP Capstone

Implementation in 6 WCPSS schools beginning with 2015-16 school year

Training and infrastructure development beginning during 2014-15 school year

Summer training 2015 for Seminar and 2016 for Research

Seminar courses are taught during the 2015-16 school year

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Debrief the Webinar

What were key points from the webinar?

What questions do you have as a result of the webinar?

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Goals and Measureable Outcomes

Take a moment to think about what and how you may want to measure the success of implementation

You may want to reference the measuring up report in the agenda

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Scheduling & PD

Who?

When?

Where?

How Long?

Agreement of training topics for the four days (Text Complexity, Argument Writing, and Research Methods)

Dates for the Teacher Training- HS Programs has budgeted funds to provide four subs for each of the four training dates- Yay!

Dates for the Leadership Meetings (That’s you)

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Planning: Loose & Tights

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Planning Protocol