#APChat Archive
Professional development expert Jared Wastler, hosts a Twitter conversation at 8:00 p.m. (ET) using #APChat.
Sunday May 22, 2016
8:00 PM EDT
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Welcome to . Please take a moment to introduce yourself.
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Jared Wastler, HS Principal in PA, PD Faculty, and moderator for .
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Tonight we are discussing "Middle to High School Transitions"
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Q1: What core understandings must a student have to successfully transition to HS?
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Shoutout to for inspiring tonight's topic!
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Q2: How can we help parents make the transition between MS and HS?
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Q3: How are you using students to build a stronger transition program?
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A2 Communication. HSs need to provide parents w as much info as possible. It's transition for parents too https://t.co/TSpydvBKk9
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Q2: How can we help parents make the transition between MS and HS?
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A3 Our S Leadership team leads tour groups of fifth graders who visit campus in the spring
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A1 Core req for grad, academy choices, electives, extracurriculars
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Q4: What methods are you using to assess the success of your transition program?
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A2 Ps must be kpt in the loop thruout the year, not just at the beg so they dev rapport w/ Ts and know what's expected of their C
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A4 We survey Ps after each 6th gd orientation and compare results y2y and look at open responses for suggestions of imprv.
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A1: differences between MS and HS. More importantly, A's and T's to support S's through the changes. https://t.co/Ke5SYBjO1f
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Q1: What core understandings must a student have to successfully transition to HS?
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A2: Parent Universities, Summer Meetings, 1:1 Conversations, Summer Bridge Programs, T's support https://t.co/30aCuvZSar
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Q2: How can we help parents make the transition between MS and HS?
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S feedback at end of 1st sem and year, S leaders leading Freshmen Orientation, S's help revise hs101 https://t.co/TJdsqXcrld
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Q3: How are you using students to build a stronger transition program?
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A4: academic and discipline data analysis, student conversations, T and admin team meetings, S growth https://t.co/KPpTDgntYC
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Q4: What methods are you using to assess the success of your transition program?
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Q5: When you look back at your move from MS to HS as a student, what is the ONE thing you wish you knew?
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Thanks for joining tonight. Be better every day in every way - our students deserve it.
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