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Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
This haunting coming-of-age novel told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. It's a story of what it's like to grow up in high school, tracing a course through uncharted territory in the world of first dates, family dramas and new friends.
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white, farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
RtI is used at the elementary level, and as the evidence of its effectiveness at that level increases and the research base expands, high school leaders also seek to use RtI to increase student success. Implementing RtI at the high school level, however, is not a matter of simply replicating what has taken place in elementary and middle schools. High school leaders who adopt RtI encounter new challenges and must discover new ways to use its framework. This article provides an overview of how educators might implement the RtI components at the high school level, identifies some challenges unique to the secondary setting, and outlines potential solutions to some of those challenges.
The ways in which RtI components are operationalized in high schools depend on the context of the school, which is vastly different from that of elementary and middle schools. Although RtI can be designed to fit the philosophy, personnel, experience, needs, structure, and organization of a given school or district, some core elements are essential to an RtI framework (Canter, Klotz, & Cowan, 2008).
Other challenges are not limited to high school: identifying and staying focused on key goals, securing appropriate resources, finding adequate time for collaboration and planning, and providing appropriate professional development. Clearly, these challenges have not deterred high schools from adopting RtI. As more high schools implement the RtI framework and new studies add to the research base, high school leaders can expect to find more tools and resources to guide their work in the future.
The High School Tiered Intervention Initiative (HSTII) is a collaborative project undertaken by staff from the Center on Instruction (COI), the National Center on Response to Intervention (NCRTI), and the National High School Center (NHSC). The purpose of the project is to enhance understanding of how tiered-intervention models are emerging in high schools.
The HSTII activities began in Winter 2009. Various stakeholders identified 51 high schools that were using some type of tiered intervention in their schools. Project staff scheduled and conducted 20 interviews with high school administrators who agreed to participate in the project. In early Spring 2009, the project convened a technical advisory group of national experts to discuss themes that emerged from the interviews and select eight high schools for further investigation. After sites were identified, the project staff conducted four site visits in late Spring 2009 and plan to conduct the remaining four in Fall 2009.
Next steps of the project include compiling and analyzing data from site visits. In Fall 2009, the HSTII group plans to release a publication entitled What Is High School RtI?, which will serve as a foundation for future products and activities on the topic. They will also produce a series of planning guides for leaders at regional comprehensive centers, state education agencies, and local education agencies. Each guide will have a specific focus, such as how to address scheduling issues when implementing RtI at the high school level. Finally, the group plans to host a series of high school RtI webinars that will be open to the public.
Our school year started with many, many training sessions to prepare us for our new normal. We spent two weeks learning new technology and new ways to teach our students virtually. Things were constantly shifting and changing to address the changing reality due to Covid-19. Our first day for students was August 20.
This fall is the first college application season in which schools are prohibited from considering race and ethnicity when making admissions decisions, after June's landmark Supreme Court ruling. Sandy Baum, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute's Center on Education Data and Policy, joins John Yang to discuss how this affects college-bound students and their families.
Colleges and college-bound high school seniors are entering uncharted territory this fall, the first college application season in which schools are prohibited from considering race and ethnicity in making admissions decisions. It's the result of June's landmark Supreme Court ruling that race-conscious admissions are unconstitutional.
That's a really important question, because you would think from the discussion that everyone is affected. That's not true. Most schools accept virtually all of their applicants. And so it's only the schools that are highly selective, where it really is going to make a difference at all.
I think we'll see changes, we'll see the process evolve. One real problem is that in this process, people who come from advantaged backgrounds, people whose parents went to college, people who went to strong high schools have all kinds of advantages. They are likely to have higher test scores. They are likely to have taken more rigorous high school curricula. They are likely to have more help filling out their applications. They have more time for extracurricular activities.
Working at the Central Community College Foundation allows me to connect with a diverse population of students, staff, faculty and community partners. We are all working towards the goal of creating opportunity, whether that be through obtaining a degree, reaching out to a potential student, teaching a class or funding a scholarship. Being resilient and adapting is always part of reaching a goal. Each of us had to adapt in some way when Covid-19 changed our way of life as we knew it. Resiliency and adaptation became a way of life as we navigated uncharted territory and found a way to connect and celebrate achievement. In this issue of the community connection you will find stories that highlight diversity, resiliency and achievement. We welcome your story too, please let us know how Central Community College has impacted you: Share Your Story. Do you know someone who graduated from Central Community College and is doing amazing things in their community? Please nominate them for the outstanding alumni award.
Through much of her childhood, Roundtree lived with Tilghman and her mother, Rochelle Denise Tilghman, in St. Peters. Every Sunday, they commuted to north St. Louis to attend Mass at Visitation Catholic Church, which later closed. The long commute ramped up when she went to Rosati-Kain, the Catholic high school near the Cathedral Basilica.
From White House intern to White House press secretary, from production assistant to national television host, from Catholic all-girls high school to Harvard Law School, God has guided my path through uncharted territory. In For Such a Time as This, I will chronicle my journey to the White House and offer never-before-told anecdotes about what really happened within the Trump administration. You will experience some of the most high-stakes moments in the West Wing right alongside me as I reveal how faith got me through.
This matter has caused consternation among some secondary-level teachers with children in elementary school. As the first day of school draws near, they have been trying to figure out what to do about the gap between when they must be at work and when their young children begin their school day.
Hoover said OCHS teachers were told they could not bring their young children to the high school with them and that no bus service from the high school to Orange Elementary would be available this year. In response, she said she contacted more than 20 teachers to trade ideas and possible solutions. They in turn contacted OCHS Principal Wendell Green, who arranged a meeting with central office administrators.
We may come up with things that are even better than traditional schooling this way. So I'm excited about the opportunities. So let's get into the topic for today, a realistic plan. What I'm going to recommend to you for reading instruction online is a three part level of implementation. So maybe some of you or many of you can only aim for level one implementation maybe now or forever. Or some of you may be able to do level one implementation and then next week or the following week add level two implementation. And then in another week if we go that long, level three implementation. So this is a suggestion based on what is most important for reading achievement and also based on what's most feasible given all the dynamics that we have.
Today we're talking about teaching online. We will expand this into other ways you can teach online or teach at a distance that's not necessarily based all online, but today let's assume that you can do some teaching online. First thing that I think most of us can aim for in some form or fashion is to have a virtual read aloud where you get your whole class or as many who can onto a Zoom call. Zoom is a free, now free web conferencing software that is being used all over the world by a lot of people. It is fairly easy to use and they've expanded the opportunities for educators to use it for more than just 40 minutes. It's free even during regular life. If Zoom doesn't work for you, Google Hangouts Meet might work. They have also opened up access if you are a Google Suite member or maybe your school has that type of access, then you might prefer to use Google Hangouts Meet.
So all of your students can get on a Zoom call together, see you and you can see them, they can hear you and you can also hear them. And then you give a read aloud, make it interactive, stop for questions, ask them what they think. Certainly ask them how they feel about doing this online, but also just get to as many emotional responses, especially in these early days because we want to really nurture them. So the read aloud is a great way to build background knowledge to build their knowledge of sophisticated written language and also to stay more connected to your students. You could read aloud fiction, but also nonfiction. It could be on the topic of the coronavirus. It could be something completely different from that and maybe more positive.
The nice thing about Zoom is that it automatic... well, you can set it to automatically record and then send that link. So if your students are not able to be there because of technological difficulties or because somehow they're busy at that time, you can send them that email and you could also attach this recording into some sort of electronic hub that you might be building, maybe a Google classroom hub or some Dropbox folders, whatever place you're going to decide to create as a hub for your students. And so let's do the read aloud. It'll build community and help you stay in touch with your kids in a fun way that also is developing their language and literacy comprehension.
Now in addition to that or in place of that, there're also online reading aloud options that are available that I want to recommend to you. I've got four of my favorites here. There are so many out there, but I didn't want to overwhelm you or parents. What I recommend is you pick one if you don't already have one, check these out and pick one and communicate to parents with that. Pinna is a podcast collection of children's resources and it is free for the next 60 days because of these extraordinary times. Vooks is a new storybook read aloud program. It's always free, at least this first year it's free. They have a growing collection. And many of you know about Epic. They probably have the largest collection and you can get an educator account and then send that information to your parents so that you can monitor what your students are reading.
Raz-Kids is not free right now, but it is something that many people have. So I just didn't want you to forget about that. And that all of these will read aloud texts or stories to the student. And Raz-Kids also allows the student to... it's not allows, they all allow the student to read it, but it has a more natural transition to having the student read. And then of course don't forget whatever district resources you already have. If your district has paid for TumbleBooks for instance, another online reading program, make sure you're using that. So this is level one implementation, and you say, "What is Zoom?"
Don't worry, I got you covered. That's what day two is going to be about, how to use Zoom among other things. So that's level one implementation, a whole group read aloud, but that's probably not going to get your kids reading themselves and giving them the coaching on their reading. So the next step might be in another week or in a couple of weeks, maybe you can... or maybe tomorrow you could ramp up to doing small group reading instruction that is differentiated. So in this way we might be better off than we were in the classroom because you can meet with three to four kids at the same time via Zoom, see their faces, they can see the same texts that you see and then you can listen to them read, they could take turns reading.
They could read chorally and you can tailor your instruction to them and you don't have the rest of the class to distract you. So you could set up a set schedule. Maybe you do the read aloud at 8:30 and at 9:15 you start group one and at 9:45 you start group two and you just move on. Make sure you put build in breaks between those two groups. And again, these can be recorded and sent to other students. By the way, Zoom is also functional on mobile. So the families that don't have computers still could make this work for the child. And I even heard of a kindergarten teacher who just recently did this with Zoom with kindergarteners for the first time. So it's doable.