Saturday, May 9, 2020

WHS Staff News - AP Testing Info / Academic Awards

Sorry for the Saturday post, but there is a lot going on. No action needed until Monday. 

This state memo was released last night regarding Virtual Graduation Celebrations -
NJDOE Memo 

AP testing will take place the weeks of 5/11 and 5/18. Penny pushed this schedule out last week.

5/12 - Calculus AP- starting at 1:30
5/13-AP Physics 2 - starting at 11:30
5/13 - English Literature- starting at 1:30
5/15- US History - starting at 1:30
5/18 - Biology - starting at 1:30
5/19- Psychology - starting at 1:30, Japanese - 3:30
5/20- English Language- starting at 1:30
5/21 - Economics - starting at 3:30
5/22- Spanish Language - starting at 3:30
*Please refer to the Calendar on those days to see a list of students who will be testing.

For the most part the AP testing should not interfere with our minimum day schedule. As we all know in a normal year, AP testing is a stressful time for most of the students taking them and even more so this year. I ask that we all be cognizant of this and be mindful of assignments and due dates for students taking AP exams.

If needed, AP students will be given two extra days to complete assignments from other classes. This small gesture will hopefully relieve a bit of the stress and worry some of them are feeling and allow them to focus on the AP exam. As always, the goal is to not overwhelm them.

Academic Awards 
With the official news that school will end on June 12, there is a lot that needs to get done. For the Department Awards I need the following information updated on the DOC

If the award winner is not listed please get that done by Monday at 3pm.
The ceremony will be recorded in advance and posted on June 3, so I need to plan out the presentations.
I just added a column “2020 Presentation Virtual Ceremony” on the Doc.

So two things, please update the Presenter and Presentation Column

I need to know if the presenter is willing to submit a video recognizing the award winner (Makes it personal). I am hoping most people will do this. 

If there is no one in the department that wants to create a video, then the write up (Most are done) would be used by me or someone else to record a video reading the write up. 

Please indicate ... I will submit a video or have someone else read it.
*Need name of presenter added on the Doc.

Once I have this information, I will push out to the presenters, guidelines for your video submissions.
If anyone would like to volunteer to present additional scholarship awards via video, please add your name to the bottom of the Doc.