LHS

• What worked – teaching to new standards this year? Our traditional and alternative assessments were aligned with many of the new standards. They were open enough to allow individual teachers to be content specific and still address them.

• What didn’t work – teaching to new standards this year? None of us had any concerns integrating or using the new standards this year.

• What might be the areas of overlap between our grade levels (including ones you've heard about from students/other teachers at the MS level)? Overlap in content or standards between the levels should happen. We have no major concerns about Middle School "taking" our content... Have we misunderstood this question we do not see it as a negative.

• What might be the areas of gap between our grade levels and in our own grade level? Concerns regarding Middle School students having never had a Social Studies class upon arrival in their Civics class their 9th grade year. This is due to Middle School literacy pull outs. Teaching Civics to 9th graders should be realigned to 12th grade as a Political Science class (it is more age appropriate).

• What are ways you have endeavored to integrate/support the new financial literacy requirements? ROTC teaches the National Financial Educational Planning program to their sophomores. Financial literacy is also addressed in Applied Economics.

•Technology support- what do you need? (e.g. Doc Cams/iPods @ BHS - Mimeo @ MVHS & BHS) Promethean boards. Classroom sets of clickers.