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Information powerpoint for Junior Jet program to open at Encinal High School in Fall 2013.
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Encinal Mission and Vision Statement
Mission Control:
• Encinal is an inclusive learning community engaging and
empowering all students to actively take ownership of their
education and future.
Flight Plan:
• Our vision is to be an extraordinary school—in the eyes of our
students, educators, staff, and community. At Encinal, all students
will become college and career ready in our dynamic, engaging, and
cutting-edge environment.
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Junior Jets
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Social & Emotional Needs of Students
• Opening-year maximum of 192 students
• Every student seen and known
• Reduces the middle to high school transition
• Students learn early how to “be a Jet”
Project Cornerstone Peer-to-Peer Support Teacher Support
Community
COMMUNITY
• Helps schools work toward creating positive and caring
school climates that support academic achievement and
the social/emotional needs of adolescents
• Will provide training and consulting on building strength
and resiliency in our students
• Asset-building curriculum will be implemented in Junior
Jet’s Advisory course
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Project Cornerstone
Link Crew
• Existing high school orientation and mentoring program will
expand to middle grades
• Jets share the responsibility of welcoming and supporting the
Junior Jets
• Tie-in to both high school and middle school Leadership classes
Mentoring and Tutoring
• At-risk Junior Jets paired with successful Jets
• Academic and social-emotional needs addressed
• Monitoring and training of 9th--12th grade mentors ensures appropriate,
guided relationships between older and younger students
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Peer-to-Peer Support
Advisory
• All students grades 6-8 part of an Advisory class
• Forges close, meaningful relationships between students and a
key adult
• Students and teachers loop from 6th-8th grade
Interventions
• Teachers and staff approach intervention as a team
• Enables existing 9th grade Intervention Team to begin earlier
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Adult Support
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Athletics
Physical Education
• P.E. classes will include the use of the track, tennis and volleyball
courts, swimming pool, baseball field, football field
• P.E. teachers will collaborate 6-12 to better implement the P.E. scope
and sequence
• Junior Jets will have the option to participate in the Alameda
Education Foundation’s enrichment athletics program
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Common Core State Standards
• Required beginning 2014-2015
• Selecting or developing curriculum that is already aligned with the CCSS
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills emphasized
• Literacy and technology skills embedded across disciplines
Academics
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Common-Core Aligned Curriculum
Math
• Implementation of district initiatives and collaboration with District Math
Coach about best practices
• Math Support classes tailored to the needs of students
• Accelerated math classes (including access to high school math classes
and college course A-G requirements)
Academics
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Common-Core Aligned Curriculum
IBD (Inquiry By Design)
• Implemented in all Junior Jets English classes
• All 9th—12th grade English teachers trained
• Procedures transferable to other disciplines
• Emphasis on reading, writing, analysis and synthesis of non-fiction text
TCI/History Alive
• Project-based, hands-on curriculum
• Art History emphasis
• Also used in some classes 9-12
Academics
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Integrated Study Skills & Strategies
SIM (Strategic Instructional Model) Routines and Strategies
• Series of strategies with over 30 years of research-based practices
• All staff 6-12 trained and implementing
• In-house trainers/coaches
Academics
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AcademicsDifferentiation: meeting the needs of all students
Jet Setters
• Connected to the school day
• Offers tutoring and assistance, as well as enrichment courses
Access to high school courses
• Accelerated learners (8th grade) have access to high school courses
• Particularly in math, electives, foreign language
• Middle school students may meet some UC course requirements by 8th
grade , leaving room for more electives in high school
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Information Literacy Standards
• Standards integrated within curriculum
• Crosswalk –California State Model School Library Standards
connected to the Common Core Standards
• Rubric of skills – scope and sequence for 6-8 & 9-12 grades
Academics
• Electives Pathways starting in grade 8
• Electives Pathways in grades 6 and 7 through a rotating wheel of
choices aligned with 9-12 electives
• Options for 8th graders to participate in high school electives (Ex.
Art, World Languages)
• Junior Jets can take advantage of high school electives’ resources
• Some high school A-G requirements met in 8th grade
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PATHWAYS
Possible Junior Jet choices Media & Technology Existing resources
Entrepreneurship
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• Visual Arts– Ceramics
– 3D Design
– Art History
– Painting and Drawing
• Performing Arts– Band
– Orchestra
– Chorus
– Drama
• World Languages– Spanish
– French
– ASL (American Sign Language)
Possible Junior Jets Electives
Film-making and Editing : Storytelling through the lens
Digital Literacy : Including keyboarding, word processing
Digital Citizenship : Understanding the digital world and the social media that
drive modern society
Computer Science : 2 courses : A-G introductory course followed by an AP
course within Berkeley UC Computer science department
Multimedia Art : Digital Illustration & Photography
Multimedia 1 : Foundation in graphic design, web design, filmmaking and after
effects
Digital Animation 2D & 3D : Introduction to the animation industry utilizing
industry standard software
Video Game Design : Follows the production path of game design from
concept through the creation of a game level in Snap & unity 3D
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Media & Technology Electives
Introduction to Business and Entrepreneurship : Foundation class –
Introduction of Junior DECA
Marketing 1 : Marketing Principles
Marketing 2 : Marketing Strategies
Sports Marketing : Specialized Marketing course
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Business & Marketing Electives
JetSetters
• Nationally-recognized after-school enrichment program offering classes such as
Culinary Arts, Fashion, Creative Writing, Robotics and APP development, Art,
tutoring
• Submitting $50,000 grant to expand to Junior Jets
MAD Academy (Media, Animation and Game Design)
• Expand existing pathway which teaches multimedia skills and technology tied to
the Common Core State Standards
DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America)
• DECAJunior DECA club added to our existing DECA Club
• DECA is embedded into Business , Marketing and Entrepreneurship course
offerings
• DECA store
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Existing Resources