From counselors at lists.onenet.net Thu Dec 1 13:48:25 2016 From: counselors at lists.onenet.net (OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board) Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 19:48:25 +0000 Subject: [Counselors] Counselor Alumni Summer Institute is scheduled for June 27-30, 2017 at Quartz Mountain Lodge Message-ID: Good afternoon! I hope that everyone had a restful, relaxing and enjoyable Thanksgiving! Our Counselor Alumni Summer Institute is scheduled and I do hope that you make plans to attend. It will be Tuesday, June 27, through Friday morning, June 30. We are charging $75.00 to attend, yes budget cuts hurt everyone! Information about payments using school PO's and checks will be forthcoming in January. I will send out more information regarding registration, payments, and the schedule toward the end of January. If you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Have a great day! Lisa Nelson Assistant Director of Student Preparation Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education lnelson at osrhe.edu www.okhighered.org/student-prep Cell: 580.614.1328 "Take time to turn your respectable, ordinary, everyday commonplace life into the unforgettable happiness of the moment. You'll never regret it." ~Luci Swindoll -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From counselors at lists.onenet.net Mon Dec 12 12:31:53 2016 From: counselors at lists.onenet.net (OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:31:53 -0600 Subject: [Counselors] Weighted GPA Message-ID: For those of you who use high school weighted GPA's for AP/Honors classes do you weight concurrent classes? If so, any specific rules on which classes you weight? Thanks for the info! 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From: counselors-bounces at lists.onenet.net [mailto:counselors-bounces at lists.onenet.net] On Behalf Of OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 3:08 PM To: counselors at lists.onenet.net Subject: [Counselors] question for clarification Question: High school seniors that need a transcript sent to a college for the purpose of college admissions, do you get a parent signature for a release of records? Thank you! Leslie Sexson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From counselors at lists.onenet.net Mon Dec 12 15:22:56 2016 From: counselors at lists.onenet.net (OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:22:56 +0000 Subject: [Counselors] Weighted GPA Message-ID: We do not give weighted credit for college classes, because we can't be sure the instructors have completed a AP conference or if the type of assignments are comparable to the AP classes. Melissa Poole High School Counselor Tecumseh Public Schools Email poolem at tecumseh.k12.ok.us Phone: (405) 598-2113 Fax: (405)598-0394 We only weigh classes through class rank for AP/Dual courses. They have to take so many in order to graduate with honors. anlaverty at woodwardps.net Carl Albert High School does not weight concurrent or dual classes. We weight all concurrent classes by .5 like a Pre-AP class in Mid-Del We do not weight concurrent, because not all students can afford the fees associated with the classes. Yes, we weight all college classes We do not currently weight them but are planning to change that in our board policy for next year. In my opinion, concurrent is more beneficial to students while still challenging them academically and my principal and supt agree. At Bixby- Concurrent/PreAP/Honors/AP are all weighted at a 5 instead of a 4. AP students that take the AP exam for that course and pass it will have the weight of that class changed to a 6 the next fall instead of a 5 to encourage them to take the exam. We do not weight concurrent classes. AP are the only classes which we weight. On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:31 PM, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board > wrote: For those of you who use high school weighted GPA?s for AP/Honors classes do you weight concurrent classes? If so, any specific rules on which classes you weight? Thanks for the info! *Carrie Jo Willis* *Fort Gibson High School* *Counselor* *(918) 478-2452* *c_willis at ftgibson.k12.ok.us >* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From counselors at lists.onenet.net Mon Dec 12 15:25:38 2016 From: counselors at lists.onenet.net (OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:25:38 +0000 Subject: [Counselors] question for clarification Message-ID: We have them sign a waiver at the beginning of the school year that acts as our Release of Records. Yes if they are under 18 If a student is under 18 years of age, yes we require them to get a parent signature on the request form. From: counselors-bounces at lists.onenet.net [mailto:counselors-bounces at lists.onenet.net] On Behalf Of OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 3:08 PM To: counselors at lists.onenet.net Subject: [Counselors] question for clarification Question: High school seniors that need a transcript sent to a college for the purpose of college admissions, do you get a parent signature for a release of records? Thank you! Leslie Sexson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From counselors at lists.onenet.net Tue Dec 13 09:48:30 2016 From: counselors at lists.onenet.net (OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:48:30 +0000 Subject: [Counselors] Art and music for 7th and 8th grades Message-ID: We don't have art for middle school students (I wish we did!), but we do offer band to those students. Band is a yearlong elective. An alternate plan and some research offered by a counselor: Performing Music Teaches Valuable Lessons to Students While listening to enjoyable music may improve cognition and math skills, performing music offers more advantages. Learning music improves math skills because, at some level, all music is math. It's about time signatures, beats per minute and formulaic progressions. Performing music, therefore, reinforces parts of the brain used when doing math. Studies even show that children who play instruments http://www.vancouversun.com/Entertainment/interesting+connection+between+math+music/1473881/story.html#__federated=1 are able to complete complex mathematical problems better than peers who do not play instruments. Students who commit themselves to learning an instrument may also learn other skills that help them perform better in school. It takes a considerable amount of patience to practice scales, and children who apply similar patience to doing schoolwork will have an advantage over those who don't. Fine motor skills are also improved by playing musical instruments. Taking time to appreciate music is a reward on its own. For the teachers and parents trying to help children succeed, that time could also improve math and academic skills. >From https://www.brainbalancecenters.com/blog/2015/04/correlation-between-math-and-music-ability/ QUESTION: On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:51 PM, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board wrote: > Hope everyone is having a good week. I have a question concerning music and art. We require students in the 7th and 8th grade to rotate through 9 weeks of music and 9 weeks of art during their 7th grade and then again their 8th grade year. I was wondering what other schools did with their 7th and 8th music and art as we are looking at more instruction time and going to a six subject day with longer classes rather than the 7 sections. > *Danielle Tucker, M. ED.* > > *Guidance Counselor* > > *Navajo Schools* > > *dtucker at navajo.k12.ok.us > > *580-482-7742* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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That you can send me? mcorn at blackwell.k12.ok.us On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 3:25 PM, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board wrote: > We have them sign a waiver at the beginning of the school year that acts > as our Release of Records. > > > > Yes if they are under 18 > > > > If a student is under 18 years of age, yes we require them to get a parent > signature on the request form. > > > > *From:* counselors-bounces at lists.onenet.net [mailto:counselors-bounces@ > lists.onenet.net] *On Behalf Of *OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion > Board > *Sent:* Monday, December 12, 2016 3:08 PM > *To:* counselors at lists.onenet.net > *Subject:* [Counselors] question for clarification > > > > Question: > > High school seniors that need a transcript sent to a college for the > purpose of college admissions, do you get a parent signature for a release > of records? > > Thank you! > > > > Leslie Sexson > > > > _______________________________________________ > Counselors mailing list > Counselors at lists.onenet.net > http://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/counselors > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From counselors at lists.onenet.net Tue Dec 13 10:14:08 2016 From: counselors at lists.onenet.net (OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:14:08 +0000 Subject: [Counselors] Weighted GPA Message-ID: Our AP courses are weighted at 5. Our Pre-AP/Honors courses and concurrent courses are weighted at 4.5. *Sally Randolph* Counselor, A-J *Skiatook High School* Skiatook, OK 918.396.1790 Ext 2409 *"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.* We weight all Concurrent classes. They are 5.on a High School 4. scale. We only count them as electives unless they are curriculum checked for High School credit, and we keep the course synopses on file (such as Freshman Comp 1 in concurrent counting as Eng. IV in High School). We use all classes to figure GPA for graduation, so Concurrent students have several opportunities to raise their GPA. We pay the fees if students meet the requirements to receive a tuition fee waiver (grade point and/or ACT or SAT score qualifiers). At Navajo we weight classes if they are core, such as College algebra, biology, government, and American history. Some of the ones that we don't weight would be psychology, microcomputer applications, and speech . We weight concurrent math/English/history/science classes if we offer an AP/PreAP equivalent. We give 1 honor point. We do not weight elective concurrent classes. This is Wellston LOCAL POLICY: We weight AP and concurrent classes. We also give 1 full Credit for college classes. The reason for this is because a junior can take English Comp I to cover English III and English Comp II to cover English IV. We also have begun a new college algebra class taught by our math teacher and this class is for the students that cannot make the 19 to take concurrent college algebra. This class will take the CLEP test in April at UCO. This kills two birds with one stone. 1. This keeps our seniors in a math class. (Both the math teacher and myself feel like this is VERY important!) 2. Keeps our numbers for college remediation in math down! In AP Biology our students will take the AP exam and go to UCO to take the CLEP test in April. We are expecting great scores for these students. *Anna Marie Perdue, M.Ed, LPC* *Wellston School Counselor* *aperdue at wellstonschools.org * 405-356-2533 We do not give weighted credit for college classes, because we can't be sure the instructors have completed a AP conference or if the type of assignments are comparable to the AP classes. Melissa Poole High School Counselor Tecumseh Public Schools Email poolem at tecumseh.k12.ok.us Phone: (405) 598-2113 Fax: (405)598-0394 We only weigh classes through class rank for AP/Dual courses. They have to take so many in order to graduate with honors. Carl Albert High School does not weight concurrent or dual classes. We weight all concurrent classes by .5 like a Pre-AP class in Mid-Del We do not weight concurrent, because not all students can afford the fees associated with the classes. Yes, we weight all college classes We do not currently weight them but are planning to change that in our board policy for next year. In my opinion, concurrent is more beneficial to students while still challenging them academically and my principal and supt agree. At Bixby- Concurrent/PreAP/Honors/AP are all weighted at a 5 instead of a 4. AP students that take the AP exam for that course and pass it will have the weight of that class changed to a 6 the next fall instead of a 5 to encourage them to take the exam. We do not weight concurrent classes. AP are the only classes which we weight. QUESTION: On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:31 PM, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board wrote: For those of you who use high school weighted GPA?s for AP/Honors classes do you weight concurrent classes? If so, any specific rules on which classes you weight? Thanks for the info! *Carrie Jo Willis* *Fort Gibson High School* *Counselor* *(918) 478-2452* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From counselors at lists.onenet.net Fri Dec 16 14:53:39 2016 From: counselors at lists.onenet.net (OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:53:39 -0600 Subject: [Counselors] Weighted GPA In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On the subject of concurrent courses, does your high school let students take evening classes? Is that part of district decision? Kathy McCollough Chouteau High School *Kathy McCollough* *High School Counselor* *Chouteau High School* *Phone: (918) 476-8334 ext. 201* *Fax: (918) 476-1216* On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:14 AM, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board wrote: > Our AP courses are weighted at 5. Our Pre-AP/Honors courses and > concurrent courses are weighted at 4.5. > > > > *Sally Randolph* > > Counselor, A-J > > *Skiatook High School* > > Skiatook, OK > > 918.396.1790 Ext 2409 <(918)%20396-1790> > > > > *"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve." -Dr. Martin Luther > King, Jr.* > > > > > > > > We weight all Concurrent classes. They are 5.on a High School 4. scale. > We only count them as electives unless they are curriculum checked for High > School credit, and we keep the course synopses on file (such as Freshman > Comp 1 in concurrent counting as Eng. IV in High School). We use all > classes to figure GPA for graduation, so Concurrent students have several > opportunities to raise their GPA. We pay the fees if students meet the > requirements to receive a tuition fee waiver (grade point and/or ACT or SAT > score qualifiers). > > > > > > At Navajo we weight classes if they are core, such as College algebra, > biology, government, and American history. Some of the ones that we don't > weight would be psychology, microcomputer applications, and speech . > > > > > > We weight concurrent math/English/history/science classes if we offer an > AP/PreAP equivalent. We give 1 honor point. We do not weight elective > concurrent classes. > > > > > > *This is Wellston LOCAL POLICY*: > > We weight AP and concurrent classes. We also give 1 full Credit for > college classes. The reason for this is because a junior can take English > Comp I to cover English III and English Comp II to cover English IV. We > also have begun a new college algebra class taught by our math teacher and > this class is for the students that cannot make the 19 to take concurrent > college algebra. This class will take the CLEP test in April at UCO. This > kills two birds with one stone. 1. This keeps our seniors in a math class. > (Both the math teacher and myself feel like this is VERY important!) 2. > Keeps our numbers for college remediation in math down! In AP Biology our > students will take the AP exam and go to UCO to take the CLEP test in > April. We are expecting great scores for these students. > > > > *Anna Marie Perdue, M.Ed, LPC* > > > > *Wellston School Counselor* > > > > *aperdue at wellstonschools.org * > > > > 405-356-2533 <(405)%20356-2533> > > > > > > > > We do not give weighted credit for college classes, because we can't be > sure the instructors have completed a AP conference or if the type of > assignments are comparable to the AP classes. > > > > Melissa Poole > > High School Counselor > > Tecumseh Public Schools > > Email poolem at tecumseh.k12.ok.us > > Phone: (405) 598-2113 > > Fax: (405)598-0394 <(405)%20598-0394> > > > > > > > > We only weigh classes through class rank for AP/Dual courses. They have to > take so many in order to graduate with honors. > > > > > > Carl Albert High School does not weight concurrent or dual classes. > > > > > > > > We weight all concurrent classes by .5 like a Pre-AP class in Mid-Del > > > > > > > > We do not weight concurrent, because not all students can afford the fees > associated with the classes. > > > > > > > > Yes, we weight all college classes > > > > > > > > We do not currently weight them but are planning to change that in our > board policy for next year. In my opinion, concurrent is more beneficial > to students while still challenging them academically and my principal and > > supt agree. > > > > > > > > At Bixby- Concurrent/PreAP/Honors/AP are all weighted at a 5 instead of a > 4. AP students that take the AP exam for that course and pass it will have > the weight of that class changed to a 6 the next fall instead of a 5 to > > encourage them to take the exam. > > > > > > > > We do not weight concurrent classes. AP are the only classes which we > weight. > > > > > > > > > > *QUESTION:* > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:31 PM, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion > > Board wrote: > > > > > > > > For those of you who use high school weighted GPA’s for AP/Honors classes > do you weight concurrent classes? If so, any specific rules on which > classes you weight? Thanks for the info! > > > > *Carrie Jo Willis* > > > > *Fort Gibson High School* > > > > *Counselor* > > > > *(918) 478-2452* > > > > _______________________________________________ > Counselors mailing list > Counselors at lists.onenet.net > http://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/counselors > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From counselors at lists.onenet.net Mon Dec 19 08:18:03 2016 From: counselors at lists.onenet.net (OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board) Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:18:03 +0000 Subject: [Counselors] Weighted GPA Message-ID: We do not weight concurrent and we do allow students to take concurrent whenever they can work it in. We also track eligibility. Owasso high school We encourage them to take anything they want that fits within the Regents guidelines of how many classes they can take. We let students take evening and online courses too. On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 5:32 PM OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board wrote: > On the subject of concurrent courses, does your high school let students take evening classes? Is that part of district decision? > *Kathy McCollough* > *High School Counselor* > *Chouteau High School* > *Phone: (918) 476-8334 ext. 201* > *Fax: (918) 476-1216* > > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:14 AM, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion > Board wrote: > > > > > > Our AP courses are weighted at 5. Our Pre-AP/Honors courses and concurrent courses are weighted at 4.5. > *Sally Randolph* > Counselor, A-J > *Skiatook High School* > Skiatook, OK > 918.396.1790 Ext 2409 <(918)%20396-1790> > *"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.* > > > > We weight all Concurrent classes. They are 5.on a High School 4. scale. We only count them as electives unless they are curriculum checked for High School credit, and we keep the course synopses on file (such as Freshman Comp 1 in concurrent counting as Eng. IV in High School). We use all classes to figure GPA for graduation, so Concurrent students have several opportunities to raise their GPA. We pay the fees if students meet the requirements to receive a tuition fee waiver (grade point and/or ACT or SAT score qualifiers). > > > > At Navajo we weight classes if they are core, such as College algebra, biology, government, and American history. Some of the ones that we don't weight would be psychology, microcomputer applications, and speech . > > > > > We weight concurrent math/English/history/science classes if we offer an AP/PreAP equivalent. We give 1 honor point. We do not weight elective concurrent classes. > > > > *This is Wellston LOCAL POLICY*: We weight AP and concurrent classes. We also give 1 full Credit for college classes. The reason for this is because a junior can take English Comp I to cover English III and English Comp II to cover English IV. We also have begun a new college algebra class taught by our math teacher and this class is for the students that cannot make the 19 to take concurrent college algebra. This class will take the CLEP test in April at UCO. This kills two birds with one stone. 1. This keeps our seniors in a math class. (Both the math teacher and myself feel like this is VERY important!) > 2. Keeps our numbers for college remediation in math down! In AP Biology our students will take the AP exam and go to UCO to take the CLEP test in April. We are expecting great scores for these students. > *Anna Marie Perdue, M.Ed, LPC* > *Wellston School Counselor* > *aperdue at wellstonschools.org * > 405-356-2533 <(405)%20356-2533>> > > We do not give weighted credit for college classes, because we can't be sure the instructors have completed a AP conference or if the type of assignments are comparable to the AP classes. > Melissa Poole > High School Counselor > Tecumseh Public Schools > Email poolem at tecumseh.k12.ok.us > Phone: (405) 598-2113 > Fax: (405)598-0394 <(405)%20598-0394> > > We only weigh classes through class rank for AP/Dual courses. They have to take so many in order to graduate with honors. > > Carl Albert High School does not weight concurrent or dual classes. > > > > We weight all concurrent classes by .5 like a Pre-AP class in Mid-Del > > > We do not weight concurrent, because not all students can afford the fees associated with the classes. > > > > > Yes, we weight all college class -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: