well good afternoon and
welcome to ischool High Hope
you're having a wonderful day today
it is our pleasure
to meet with you today to
kind of go over the expectations
what high school high is all about first
of all like to give a shout
out to our sister school I think they're
watching us or 8th graders out
in quest in Shenandoah so
these are
future 9th graders out their learning
more about our school
just to let everybody know that the
session will be recorded and will be
placing it on our web page
that way if you have
I need to go back
and refresh about
the concepts that we talked about or if you want
to pass it along to someone who was not able to attend
please make sure that you feel free
to pass that one out
in the chat
we went ahead and posted a
link if you would go ahead and fill that
out that way we'll know who is an
audience that way if we have additional information
information that way we can pass that information to
you so
where are gold
is to give you an inside of what ischool
high is about and all the possibilities that our
school has offer especially the con
sip of you being able to get an associates degree by
the time you graduate from
high school so we'll go ahead and
start our presentation
I would like to introduce our administrative
staff I am mister Pratt surprise
the director here ischool high winds
may we have Mr to Milad he
is a dean of students
the Beast popped up
we also have Miss Brusters
in the audience and she is
our academic counselor and then we have missed
Hopsin who's our assistant director she's
going to pop in magically
maybe maybe not
there she is
the magic of computers
so
we as a team help
our students and our teachers get
to the destination
of their goals that there
next we go to
our campus this
is the building that ischool high is
housed in this is called the University
Center the University Center is
one of several buildings
Lonestar campus on 242 so
we are just behind the
Walmart many of you might
be familiar with the Walmart located
on 242 and 45
or just right behind it
the Lone Star campus
worst pain in the center of Lone Star campus
so if you're coming to visit our school we
ask you to take the second
exit of either
say that you're coming so we're the middle exit
entrance of the Lone Star
campus so if you're coming from 45
or if you're coming for 1488
you will enter your password entrance
and then you'll go to the second and
as you drive into the
university right in the middle of
you will find this building which
has a circular entrance and
that is called the University Center and
Warehouse in the second
floor of this building so our entire
high school is on are the second
floor and once you're Road
and College then you're off to
the different buildings of the university
to find your class
so who are we as
you know we are ischool high Worth
Texas Public Charter School under
the direction of responsive education Solutions
our district name is
a Texas College Preparatory Academy
District just like some
of your friends might
go to Conroe ISD to
Spring ISD Magnolia ISD to
our school district is call Texas
College Preparatory Academy
what are the distinctions that our school
has is that we
are a Texas College
and Career Readiness school so
we are part of the TA
and within ta
we are representing our
school with a special
designation as a Early
College High School and that is where it
permits us for students to take
dual-credit classes start
their ninth grade year
our school is only 8 years old so
very recent 2013
we started and we are in our seventh
year as an early college
high school that's a special day
we had to apply for that and
there are standards that we have to meet every
year to maintain that doesn't
that doesn't Nation
we have about a 324
students and right now we have about
275 Centerton Road at
the Lone Star College that
means students are taking High School classes in
college classes at the same time
we have a fever
which is very similar to the
format that we use
it's called quest Collegiate Academy
at Shenandoah we have our
director here mr.
Shaffer
like I say some words will
meet you there you are or
thanks for having me on and
that's fun to have the 8th graders and mr.
loving on the other line there to so
families if you have
Garden through 8th grade students we
would love to try to find a seat for them there
are still a few seats available so
you can go to quickly to.
Com check us out you could
call us here I'm just
just five miles south and if
you wonder what their location looks like this
is the the original Christ Community
School campus that responsive education Solutions purchased
so it's
beautiful it's safe it's
it's ready for extra kiddos we have
about 250 students and we're looking to
add about another 50 more so
hopefully you have one of those great kiddos
that we need and we love to talk with you so
give us a call and we'll
show you around we have some face-to-face tours coming
up and some face-to-face Town
Halls so things are
moving right direction thank you Mr Press Nation
on
the screen here kind of a map
where they're located if you're familiar
with
Mia's Table restaurant that's
the kind of
fine I used to know when
my turn is so if you're just coming
on the south
Cedar Road
just turn off Mia's table and it's
just right around the corner so it
has the same format that we
use here at the school so it's a great way
for students to learn the Approach
at the high school so as soon as
transition from Quest Collegiate Academy to
ischool high it will be a very easy
transition as we're very
familiar with the processes
and our students are
high school students will be visiting Quest Academy that
way our students their students
will get to know our students so thank
you so
who are we as an open charger roll
we basically take anyone
who applies and can get here we
do not provide transportation so
basically we're kind
of open unlike other schools
that you that your Zone 2
your time zone to one school based on your address
here you're not as
long as you can bring your child to Park
Campus you have the ability to apply
for a campus I just wanted to show
you some of the zip codes where the man
40 of our students are coming from this
is not all of them these are just a top
zip code
and these are some of the top school
districts where
our kids are Zone 2
so we are going we haven't sent us all the
way from Willows to Splendora
we go all the way from Aldine Cline
so
we have a wide range of
locations were students resume
so we're open Charter so
your address is not dictate
which school you go to
our mission statement
is I so high will provide Hope by challenging
each student with an early college
Freebase Blended learning curriculum
while increasing the opportunities
to earn college
credit option Associates of
Arts degree so our
plan is as soon as you're Road
the school we are going to get you ready for your
college classes starting
your second semester you'll be enrolled in college classes
because our goal is to get
you an associate's degree and that is free
of charge will
what's your role as ischool high students are
enrolled in Lone Star your
tuition is covered that also
includes your textbooks
the who's
who I didn't know this myself message
Life on Top we have is a to Milad we
have Miss Hopson we have
Miss Bustos the
two people that we need to really
look at is miss angster and miss
Andrew those are the two
people that
will be helping you navigate
the application system so
anytime you have a question you may
go to miss Sangster or
to miss and Grill call them and they'll be glad
had to provide assistance
so what is ischool high and
what's our mission so our mission
is to be able to take highly motivated
highly motivated
chemically driven mature students who
desire to be challenged by rigorous
coursework and capable of earning a
high school diploma and associate's degree so
we will help you so if you are
a motivated and academically
student the school could be the
school for you because we're going to help you
make sure that you hot graduate from high school and
earn your Social Security
so our system
learning is called mastery-based
Learning System we
have our academics online
so we're using computers
everyday and
basically would have taken a
Facebook for example the Biology book and
with broken it down into units
to instead of the Biology book being broken
down into chapters we have units
so we expect our students to complete units
one through five
first semester that will gain you
will have credit and unit
6 through 10 the
spring semester and that will gain you another
half credit for a full credit
completion for that course says
misread work and orally Defender
units the basically as
you're doing your coursework their
activities in your units the teachers
are there to assist you
with the learning lower the student
is taking ownership of the money so
students will need to make a 90 on
their test before they can move forward
the basic aware that means as you're
doing all your work you need to
sure that you're taking knows that you're
using your technology to assist
you and learning the material if
you have trouble then you meet
with your teacher and
they will assist you with the Nae
that you have sometimes I'll be providing
tutoring 101 sometimes they'll
be group so it all depends
what assistance you need we
will be providing it to you so I want to see makes
a 90 on the unit test
then they'll be able to go ahead and move forward
to the next unit
on our unit sweep usually work every
3 weeks so every 3 weeks are
expectacion is that a student completes the
course work
within that unit including testing and
making a 90 so that is
why we're really tired students that you should
focus on completing the actual work
in 2 weeks that way the last
week of that unit
go ahead and focus on defending studying
and taking the test so you
can pass it with a 90%
so
the students are going to be taking more ownership
of their learning
since we need to make decisions on
how they want to proceed with their learning there's
no specific time.
That we're requiring
students to
spend time on their work some soon
will work much faster than others but you
do have to keep up with that specific pays
that every 3 units
you're completing a unit we have students
I will complete 3 units
and I'm 6 weeks.
so it all depends on how fast you want
to go and how diligent you want to be with
your learning so
students are Marching their own learning you're
being independent responsible you
have time management
set your goals and you have to be organized
so if you're not organized doesn't
mean that you will not do good here that
means that we will need to sit down with you and
help you with that process of your organizational
skills so you can make sure
that you're completing these units in a three-week
Time
then we go on the teacher
outcomes
and we're looking at the t-shirt is
not a Stand and Deliver type of
method that we use teachers are there
on the sidelines to provide guidance to
provide Clarity and to provide
directions to the students as their tackling
their unit books
so the teachers are there
assist but they're not they're teaching
every single topic we're
in your Traditional High
School you have the entire class on the same
page at the same paragraph
everybody doing the same thing at the same
I'm here are students are diverse
students might be ending of unit
students might be in the middle of the unit but
we are all assisting those
students to complete unit by the
deadline of every 3 weeks
I do provide great environment that
reflects the Lonestar so when they go to
Lonestar classes they should be already accustomed
of the expectations of
colleges have or
Learners worth
edible peas by asking
higher level questions so
they're basically getting assistance
being able to answer the questions
that teachers are asking during the defense time
next
so what does my schedule
look like so here we have
a sample schedule for all four years of
an early college high school student
so as you can see
9th grade you have some blue blocks those
are the number of credits
that you'll be receiving from the college
so you see that in the 9th grade
you have two columns you have your spa you
have that your spring semester
go on the column of the Fall you do not have
any blue boxes that
means that all your classes will be at the high school once
you jump over to the fall semester you
will see your blue boxes
that means that those are College.
Can I Do classes so as you look
through Brave 10 11
and 12 you'll see
all those blue boxes once
we add all those blue back blue boxes
up those will get you
I was just agree to the art curriculum
is Pretty Tough so
you really need to be on top of things on
this slide we have the degree
plan for Lone Star I had Lone
Star by the end of the year song
what year you'll be determining if you want to get an
associates of science or associate
of Arts so you don't have to come
up with that decision and
will help you and our academic
counselor will be providing guidance
for you to make
a wise decision at the time we're
not doing anything concrete because
we know that you still up I don't
even know what you want to study but we want to provide
a good foundation of your classes
next we have a test that you have
to take and we will now have MS Hopsin
come on to talk about our Texas
success initiative assessment
good
afternoon families I just
want to talk to you a little bit about a test that is extremely
important so Lonestar
is in your 4K
spring semester but in order to get
you ready to take college courses you've got to
prove that you can do it so
the way we do that is we have to test we
have a math test and we have English
test you will
I have to take the math test until you complete
algebra to go ahead and put that one on the back
burner but the first test
that you will take the first couple of weeks of
school will be an English language start Readiness
test you're going to have
English comprehend reading comprehension going
to have a written component to it passing
score is a 9:45
or higher and
then your essay has to be
at least a 5 or higher
we're going to give you some preparation materials sometime
right
before school starts so that you can start looking at that if
you are very eager you can go to the accuplacer
website will put
that in the chat and they do have a study
that you can look at to begin
preparing you for that test so
know that that will be happening the
first couple of weeks of school and
we'll get you ready to start on Star
classes
thank you Miss Hopsin
Hopsin
very well because
as gr trying to get
ready for the TSI
She Will Be Your Leader she
will be your guidance and
making sure that you have all the
tools you need in order for you
to pass that test so
you can get take your college classes
next we have are just
some achievements that we've done on
start testing we have about
99% a passing rate last
year senior class at
24th student that
get their high school diploma and received their
associate's degree and we
have a list of the different colleges
where our students have been accepted to
so so if
your college is not there that does not mean
that you cannot make it there
we
also have different Partnerships that we have starting
with Lone Star who's our partner
we also have the woodlands Chamber of Commerce and is
he can see the list goes on and on
a different organizations that
our students are involved in and
they looks great information
for your resume so
as you're trying to get into colleges we
ask you to park
fading the different organizations that
way you can get some leadership
and community service involvement
we
have a lot of clubs here not just because
we're small does not mean that we do not have play
we have seen Council National Honor Society that
cat yearbook we do have homecoming
dance we have our prom
so we have different activities
that are
found in large High School
as well so we have a lot
of fun lot of spirit weeks where
we get to have some fun
do
you know the biggest question we asked where
are we located once again we are at
University Center building inside
the Lonestar campus on 242
while we're on the second floor
of the building so
what are our hours are hours
are 7:50 in the morning
and we leave at
3 in the afternoon would you have
tutoring from 3 to 3:30 so if you need additional
work you can go ahead and stay
to get additional
support from your teachers
transportation's and food service we
do not have that so Transportation would
be dependent on the parent to
provide that transportation to and from school
also for
the lunches would you have microwaves
percent to heat up food but you
will need to bring your lunch everyday
we do have extracurricular
activities we have several clubs what
we don't have our Sports we do
not offer Sports I know that lava
students that continue their sporting they do
it through different
organizations outside of school they
participate in the different leagues
so if you're into
sports you can still continue to
chest pain in those activities
so there's
some pictures of independent
time where students are just dedicated
to the units we
also have some other
a picture just to kind of let you see what
our students actually doing
we have group time that's a
specific time where you can make
with your friends and
work together and kind of prepare for
Sam Jackson quiz each other but
most of the time you are focusing
on your academics and it's
kind of hard to do a lot of group time unless all
those students are at the same place at
the same time cuz remember that we are
everybody could get a different
place with the whole class is not at
the same place at the same time
testing
room once we go back
to em person we have a testing
we're all students will come take your test I'll
test our line we have a testing coordinator
that supervises all the tests
that we have
and lunch lunch is on
the first floor once
go back to normal conditions from covid-19
we have
or defenses
that is worth students are
meeting with a teacher to
make sure that the students can answer
those higher-level questions from the team
ensure that they'll be able to make a 90
on the test
next steps
is to apply I
have the link here where you can apply
for our camp
once you submitted your name the
first thing that will happen is that you'll
get a receipt offer and
what that basically means is that you
have a place on hold
with your name on it
submit all your paperwork you submit
all your grades and everything
is good then you'll be enrolled
in our school so
a seat offer and
acceptance is two different things so the sea.
we're holding a place where you so we
really encourage you if you already have
been offered a seat for
you to go ahead and submit your paperwork
with application so that way
start processing
your application
okay and again our
phone number was at the very bottom of
the screen so please call us
if you get stuck during that pay
process delays upfront will
be more than glad to assist you to
make sure that you get your seat offer
at this time we're going
to go ahead and pass it on to mr. tomorrow. He will go over
any questions that were submitted
do the chat at this time
if you guys have any questions put
them in the chat and we will be happy to
answer them
or
feel free to unmute and ask
MR2
is mr. Shaffer from Quest Collegiate High
hey so while people
are thinking of those great questions I just wanted
to give my two cents worth because
my son just graduated from high school last may
you graduate with 50
five college credit so just five short
of his associate's degree and it was pretty neat
because when he enrolled in those extra
courses and asked me to pay the bill I
mean so it is like almost $600
and I choke to give you the next morning
and I realized pay $600 to
buy the rest of his associate's degree that's
an amazing half bachelor's
right there so we're super excited and now
our daughter is a 10th grader they're tough
quarter challenge her to stay
play six hundred bucks and finish the associate
and I'm sure she will but
we have a great connection and
you know some of your staff have their children
in my school and vice-versa and
we just we really
Joy the partnership so I just
put a plug in for everybody that I've met there
and I school is there
for the right reasons to help students Excel
and and succeed so
thank you for the great work you guys do
mr. Shaffer
arrived so
we do not have any further questions