Thank you again for the insight, feedback, and comments that we heard over the past couple of days. We are grateful for your support of our school and hope to continue to provide relevant communication as needed.
A couple of pieces that we wanted to highlight following last night, based on some universal feedback from families and students, are listed below.
Q: What is the "Pathways Exploration" Course?
A: We are determining if we have the latitude in our schedule to offer grade 8 students an experience that would allow them to spend the full year exploring all three of our pathways: a third of the year in digital media, a third of the year in engineering, and a third of the year in biomedical science. We are, however, asking students to register for electives now, and if we have the ability to register into a grade 8 exploratory, that will take the place of some of the electives and allow students to make better decisions on a Pathway experience come grade 9. This will also keep grade 8 students together in their elective courses.
We will not know if we can run that course until we get a sense of what our course selections look like at the high school level.
So what should students do now? Select electives that are most interesting, and we will communicate with them and you should there be an adaptations needed.
Q: How many Pathways does UHS offer? And are there planned expansion?
A: Right now, we have defined Pathways in Engineering/Manufacturing, Biomedical Science, and Digital Media. We plan on expanding into Hospitality and Business, as well as Computer Science, in the next two years.
We also have posted the presentation on proficiency-based grading in Spanish to the World Language department page on the website and linked it here as well.
If you have not already filled out our survey, please take a minute and do so - it will literally take 2-3 minutes.
Have a great week!
Mike Rubin, Principal
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