Recording of Dual Credit Virtual Meeting held on February 6

Dual Credit Virtual Meeting - Feb. 6, 2024

This video was recorded on February 6, 2024.

is being recorded we cannot see your faces but you're interested at you and they are being recorded we encourage you to submit questions about the presentation and we will work through those questions for you and if there's anything people that we see that's common will go ahead and share that with you all at the end as well questions related to high school policies and procedures should be directed to your high school Juke do credit liaison which is this Babcock and we'll just go ahead and get started the four before we dive in and get started this is just a brief agenda or what we will be talking about this evening so we are going to be tall about what do credit is and who is eligible and how does basically we're going to take you from leaving knowing nothing about the credits you knowing a whole lot of information about it we will take you step-by-step through the registration process regarding application has teen bacterial meningitis and how students are enrolled in two classes will also discuss of the family educational rights and Privacy Act and then we will also touch on tuition Financial textbooks as well as preparing for classes so what is do credit no credit is defined as the cold current enrollment allowing high school students the art told me to take certain classes at their local Community College to earn both college and high school credit so once the student begin participating Angel Credit they are basically starting their first official college transcripts and it is important to note that because their college transcript will follow them throughout the rest of their academic career we also offer early admissions where MC has expressed that they want to take maybe an additional College loan coursework for academic college credit only so something is made of doing this but typically this is more case-by-case with approval of your high school counselor and who is eligible for dual Credit in order to participate with us in our dual credit program you must be currently a high school student and either opposed private or homeschool do you also have to have approval from not only your high school do credit liaison but also your guardian and you also have to meet our requirements during the admission process of you'll have to apply and you also have to satisfy the Texas success initiative assessment requirements and we'll talk a little bit more about that into details and a few other side because we'll also go over potential exceptions and waivers for this City's most so be academically motivated as this is a serious commitment that they are and we also want to make sure students who decide to participate in full credit are also aware that it does take a lot of good time management in order to be able to be successful career so how does this work for students with Deer Park High School who decide to participate in to a credit typically the Juniors and seniors you will see them take two courses during the fall and spring semester some students May request to maybe do an additional class or do my summer class typically these are special approval cases where it would just be depending if you can get this approved by you high school counselor grades that are taken for a joke Reddit become a part of your permanent academic record for both the college and high school as well and typically students who participate beginning junior year and if they stick with no credit through their senior years some of the students are able to graduate with a rounds when he more or a little bit over 2,400 hours and that's a really great opportunity for the students because that's basically like almost one full year of college work and there are two types of college credits that we met familiar with academic so with such an academic and with such a little bit on technical had their first one for academic this is technically those courses that students will take that they may want to transfer to a four-year institution so some of those include different subject areas like English History your government and Humanities so the students can take these courses receive credit for it on the high school and as well as for college and if they do decide to transfer to a public institution in the state of these are questions that would typically transmission those institutions for technical courses that may or may not transfer to four-year institution students taking these courses often times when rolling two either a certificate or two degree program that will eventually help a student enter into the workforce in a particular field students who decide to do this are typically going to be able to take courses either in computer science Automotive and here is the list of the academic course options that many of the Deer Park High School students complete for students interested in attending a public institution within the state of Texas After High School many of these courses are you going to be able to transfer to your next institution helping you for bills some of those words requirement that are part of the Core curriculum so what is this mean this means you will be able to accelerate the amount of time needed to complete your degree and for some students who have previously participated in Google credit they've sure that this has also helped lighten up their coursework are they going to Northern University and this also gives them like a better chance to devote more time to be there studying for their other courses and also engaged and various campus activities so listed on here a lot of the common courses that I typically students egg are going to be English and history and then typically like around senior year a lot of the courses that we see the students also take end up being the government classes Humanities and I cannot these are the technical course options available for students who may be interested in either automotive technology and information technology and process technology he's looking for those students who may be considering pursuing one of these programs after high school which can lead them to completing a certificate or an associate of applied science in helping them get into the workforce don't know for sure technical courses how would you advise you to talk with Miss Babcock as well as your CPE coordinator as well offer some of the benefits of we have quite a few and we do encourage all students to take all of this into consideration and chocolate with your family members as well as students who participate in dual credit are usually able to complete many of the course requirement that would be beneficial to them once they transfer to their next institution especially if there was only two bachelor's degree typically a bachelor degree is 120 credit hours so students versus the Sitting In traditional do credit have the opportunity to leave high school with Ellie's 24 credit hours under there now for sale for the sophomores who received an invitation to join the Early College Academy for those students they have the opportunity complete about 60 college credit hours because they will be working for completing an associate's degree the other benefit that I think a lot of parents tend to like about the credit is that you get to save money Deer Park student Deer Park ISD will actually paid for two courses during the fall and spring for their Junior and senior students aside from saving money students do you get to experience a smaller class size and I think this is really good for students because a lot of our classes they may be capped at 33 to have a few that are capped at 25 which is typically are English and Humanities courses so what is this mean I'm in compared you going to straight to University or you may take an auditorium-style classroom filled with hundreds of students you at least get that opportunity to have a little bit more one-on-one interaction with your instructor so that's really great especially for students once you start you know I'm applying to different colleges you may need someone to help you write a letter of recommendation Solis your professor will actually get to know you a little bit better and you are aside from that can credit to other institutions you can apply your credit to your next Institution for students who are considering maybe a private institution such as rice or Baylor for them they may or may not cargo credit classes we've had something would go to Baylor where they are the Dual credit courses were accepted while we've had others who said that they were I'm applying to rise and rice let them know that they wouldn't accept their college credits so we do encourage you to reach out to each of those institutions that those are one of them that you're interested in the kind of discuss with them with their grants for credit policy even aside from that another benefit of being individual credit program is that you to build your confidence by easing the transition to college so a lot of students there studies that have shown that students who are engaged and active with their participation in Bull credit or more likely to 61 out of high school and in their necks Institution there are a few things to consider and we definitely do want parents and you disgusted afterwards when you get a chance do credit is very beneficial but there does go a lot into it and making sure that students are able to complete this successfully so one of those is that we do want students to take into consideration the importance of attendance and time management professors have different attendance policy and it is important for students to review each of those course 11 that they received and understand the policies that the instructors have been play holud instructors are not required to give up makeup work they're not required to give extra credit opportunities and then they also don't have to sleep work so students who have questions about grade for their academic process should directly consult with their instructor on this time management as well like if you're a student that has a lot of stuff going on just make sure to that you have time to be able to commit to your dual credit classes because attendance is important and there are some times where we have students who may receive an fx is a failure to the next option possums so for some professors if you miss maybe more than 45 classes they may just call you because you've already missed too much of the course weren't taking place in class for commute Haitian we want to have students know that it's important to advocate for yourself for this is something that we hope that all students who decide to do credit feel comfortable doing we will not know there's a unless a student addresses that openly to boss or their high school maybe if a student is not feeling well one day and it's during the day that you have of course the assignment dude definitely not don't be afraid to reach your professor letting them know how's your ad and maybe asking them if they can accommodate for you and again it's going to just bury on Professor whether they will allow you to make up that you're not so we do encourage students that you do have to get into the Habit if you decide to participate in full credit with using your Santa email address account and once you have access to this is going to be really important to utilizes especially with when it comes to communicating with your professors as well as a joke Reddit office for the chain of communication that's listed on there we'll kind of touch on that on the next why whenever we go over for phone or the college environment College environment is going to be very different for when students are used to buy saved from what they see and experience been high school so college is a time for these students who participate in to a crime that you were critically analyze information that they were all courses and confront questions without easy answers are college instructors to participate and academic freedom so this basically means they will use personal Cheerios that they see us are there classes and instructors will teach the same course material regardless of students Democrat pigs even if the course is taught at the high school camping on the college the internet is not filtered class conversations are not censored free time and transitions between classes are not monitored and some of the high school students may be in classes with traditional students who may be over the age of 18 so we let you know this now that way it doesn't come as a surprise later on are the San Jacinto College calendar there are some differences once in awhile during the Academic Year for example typically there may be some holidays that the high school may have in place for the students and they may be off on a Friday and Monday and you are still required to attend your stamp tax houses if your off days for your high school balls whenever we're still in session so a good example for this would be that I know typically around the fault either maybe like an additional small fall break while the high school may be close we're still fully in session having classes and for the student code of conduct students are held to the San Jacinto College code of conduct so there are penalties for actions and violations of any of these codes and they will be dealt with through the San Jacinto College channels I'm just include disruptive behavior academic dishonesty and then there could also be consequences not only on the college by but as well as the High School site do for the family education rights and this is a federal law that protects the privacy of Student Records but it begins once the student answers College regardless of age so this limits the kind of information that we can share with fathers regarding a student so for example we cannot share a great course schedules test scores with 10 however there are certain information that we can share with the high school that the pair like an accident and anytime that we have to ask for the student ID number or entered into our system typically that's information. Read more than likely cannot share now this doesn't mean that we can ask your general information with you over the phone if you call her off sometimes we have Paris. Call our office and they just want to ask a question or healthier student no crepe a question for us so that we may be on three way and then we can assist you that way as long as the student is president and is able to identify who they are and it's at their student and also if the student stays up there and completely okay with sharing the information with you over the phone we can go ahead and we recognize that parents are a key partner in supporting students pictures so that's why we do ask your students to keep your parents informed and let them know what's going on with your college course on this is an opportunity for you to take responsibilities and learn the college process take action on your behalf so is do credit right for me there is a lot of information to consider many of the Dual credit students are sick FOH semester but I'm again it does involve a lot of commitment and taking additional time throughout the week to dedicate to your classes so what is expected of college student is vastly different what is expected of high school students I'm so we do when students and parents to discuss what the students goal are with being in full credit and maybe what their future goals are as well we also want you both be able to discuss you know later on if your student will have the maturity and be able to be responsible with handling college courses academic ability is another factor that we do want everyone to take into consideration as well as the level of commitment with with what you have going on because a lot of the students that participated all credit we know several of them are in extracurricular activities so does a student have time for them as a reminder grades aren't we do credit become a part of permanent College transcript and it may impact your eligibility for financial aid scholarships and admissions to some schools or programs so that's right here where is just an example of what the typical schedule will look like for students to participate in dual credit with deer park so we do have a different course options so we do have where students made me for their classes just one evening and these are typically classes that may arrange for three hours so just to give me an example we do have some classes that range from the time frame from 5:30 to 8:35 or from 6 to 9 p.m. on some students also have the option to complete hybrid worse and basically you would still be meeting one night of the week but the time frame is just going to be a little bit orders will typically the students who do this or since you have met with Miss Babcock and if they have like extra curricular activities I'm making flake with the typical 3-hour course then this would be a highlight on their enrollment form that way we know how to get them in for hybrid sections missiles are typically limited and then we also have where we offer history and English to be taken at Deer Park High School so in the morning around 7:15 skateboard this is what you would have a time frame to meet for one of those courses before these courses that take place at the Deer Park High School campus in the morning they'll meet 2 days out of the week and then as soon as taking an additional classes after taking a psychology class they can take this one in the afternoon and it may either be a 3-hour section class if that's what they signed up for or if they're participating with the hybrid then it would just be one of those courses that's in the shower so now we're going to move on to the admissions and registration process and I'll pass it on to something all right good evening everyone my name is Toby McGee I am also an educational planner with the central campus till credit office so we're going to go over the steps and everything involved with the admission and registration process so just starts each student it's completely free a Texas common application through the apply texas.org website this is a two-step process the first part is completing the online profile on apply Texas and then also complete the application itself once the application is completed you'll know that it's done because you'll see like it'll either be like confetti or fireworks on the screen to let you know that it's been submitted and the applications are trans from apply Texas to San Jacinto College within two to three business days so if you apply on unit late on a Friday and it may take a couple of days into the next week before you hear anything back once it's processed didn't will receive an email from San Jacinto College with their student ID number in it and it will start with the letter G we refer to it as your G number and it will be sent to the email that you listed on the banana pie text so be sure and make sure you check that specific email account make sure that you enter your information carefully and apply Texas so that you can receive any updates and go back in and check your location status at one thing we do recommend for high school students is to not use your high school email account when creating the profile and completing the application because you use the same profile whenever you go on to apply for other colleges or universities later on and once you leave High School you won't have access to that email account anymore so you want to make sure that you use an email account that you're going to be able to access time after you leave High School we usually kind of recommends to maybe create a specific email account just for you know submitting applications online so that's what we recommend and in order to take classes students do need to demonstrate college readiness and to do that we use the Texas success initiative assessment to measure their competency English language arts and reading and Mathematics so for the majority of the classes that students will take with us they have to be College ready and at least the English language arts and reading there may be some classes for Freakonomics where they have to be College ready and Mathematics as well and so students can test for this assessment if they can't test at their local high school then they can test through sense College we have multiple testing centers at at three of our campuses where they can test their just need to reach out to us to request that and on the slide we list the minimum score requirements for each of the section of the tsia two for the English language arts and reading then you the minimum score of 945 as well as an essay of 5 or higher if they score below and 9:45 but they have diagnostic score of at least a five with an essay of fiber higher than we still consider them college-ready and for math they would need a 9:50 or higher or at least a six on the diagnostic for the math and for testing if you test on our campus for Deer Park students they are the first two attempts for testing there's no cost but any attempts beyond the fur two there will be a $15 retesting fee that will be added to the student account and that is per section for those students that have hi scores in college entrance exams like the SAT and ACT they may qualify for an exemption or a waiver so this chart shows the minimum score requirements for each of those exams for the 8th 80 and sat and those scores are valid for up to five years and for students who have taken the skews me and also qualify for a waiver of the TSI while in high school with their PSAT or Star scores and the PSAT has to be the nmsqt or the National Merit Scholarship qualifying test any other PSAT version scores with PS2 at 9 or 10 we can't accept those specifics were that has to be the specific version and for the star on the English language arts and reading they would have the English 2 exam has to be add a 4,000 or higher in for the mass we would accept their Algebra 1 STAAR score of 4000 or higher as well as their completion of their Algebra 2 course in high school with a 70 or above and again these the waiver scores are only valid while they're in high school and the Texas legislature does require all incoming college students in the state of Texas I have a proof of vaccination or a booster of the bacterial meningitis and the vaccine can be no more than 5 years old as of 10 days prior to the store of the term that the student is requesting to be registered in so for those students wishing to enroll for this coming fall in 2024 that semester begins on August 19th so the earliest they could have received the vaccination would be August 9th of 2019 if the shot record show that the vaccine is older than that then that means it's out of date and they would need to submit their shot records showing that they had a booster after there are some exemptions and waivers that are available and it just depends on the individual students circumstances so but you can visit our website to see more information about that how to see if a student is eligible for a either exemption or waiver for that but this requirement does have to be met prior to any registration and do credit students do not have access to self register or register I'm online and they can't go on and select you know specific professors any registration has to be processed through over-the-door credit office at we do all their registration manually students will complete and submit their do credit enrollment form they'll complete it with their do credit liaison I'm at the high school. take the courses and semesters that they're requesting registration for the enrollment form does have to be signed by the do credit liaison at the high school as well as the student and the parents the warrants will then be submitted by the do credit liaison to the college for processing and registration for this coming summer opens up later this month on February 20th and then fall registration open up in early April any requests that students have for schedule changes have to be emailed to the Dual credit office prior to the start of the semester but we do request that soon not wait until that Friday right before classes start because any changes that we have to make to your schedule we may have difficulty finding seats available for classes that fit better in with your staff so we do recommend that you check your schedule early on and if you find that there is an error or there's something that has changed with your schedule or availability that you reach out to us so that we can make those candles that schedule changes as early as possible and now the big question I know that everybody has is what's the cost so the good thing about this program is that courses taken for dual credit at San Jac are eligible for a 75% discount on the tuition cost some students may be responsible for textbook what are other learning material cost but students do have an option to sign up for an installment plan if they need it there is a $25 fee that will be added to the student account if they sign up for an installment plan but the tuition and fees are due prior to the beginning of each semester and if a student has not paid by the payment deadlines and it is possible that they can be dropped from their classes and students also you must complete the student enrollment responsibility agreements each Academic Year as well on this slide you'll see there's a chart showing the different tuition rates and it is based on a student's residency status so for students that are in District which for Deer Park most students should be there may be some students that may be either out of District or non-resident it it just depends on their there Branson where they live and things like that but for M industry tuition the rate is $83 per credit hour so if a student is taking two classes with the college than the end of situation would be $498 but after they do credit discount then the remaining amount would only be 120 for 50 but for Deer Park students the good thing is the school district does pay the tuition charges for up to two classes per semester in the fall and spring for juniors and seniors but again you may I have textbook or learning materials that maybe on your account that you may be responsible for their there may be open books fees as well that since may have to pay if they're not eligible for fast for fast funding in order to qualify students must qualify for free or reduced lunch and any of the four school years prior to the academic year that they're requesting to be enrolled in. classes there are some financial aid options if students need them however no credit students are not eligible for federal financial aid through the FAFSA application because they haven't completed high school yet but a students could potentially qualify for State financial aid if you complete the task but application the Texas application for State financial aid they could possibly be awarded the Texas public education grant I know this is need-based and the funds are very limited so it is awarded on a first-come first-serve basis so when's all the funds have been awarded and exhausted than they don't know word anymore and I just want them to be aware of if you apply 40 pack finding it does not go toward any textbooks or other costs only toward tuition Beats and if you have any questions you can always reach out to the financial aid office was San Jac and I mentioned textbooks earlier so they maybe textbooks that students can purchase or rent they have the option to rent them as well that are essential to the courses that they take they can be purchased through our San Jacinto College bookstore or from any other outside vendor that you prefer to use if you need to know what materials are required for your courses you can go to the Barnes and Noble website and you can search by car to see what specific books and materials are required for each of the courses that you can also reach out to one of our three bookstore locations at our Central north and south campus as well eccentric also participates in the open book program and this is an initiative that focuses on making learning affordable and they work with goatee to identify a quality low or no-cost resources for students that allows them to focus more on learning and not these the expense of their textbooks and there are three different levels in the open books program. this one we just refer to as open books and this these courses do not have any text books that are required for the courses the professors will utilize only free online open educational resources they may use online articles videos things like that or other three materials that are available online we also have our openbooks low-cost level which the materials for these courses are available at $50 or less and then our last level is the open book plus this includes the cost of digital Learning Materials as an additional questions are John your tuition statement so it will be added in on the student account with her tuition and fees and the digital learning materials are available to the students on the first day of class in their Blackboard site so there's no waiting around there's no back turn on textbooks or anything like that they have access to it immediately and I'll pass it back on to Misty Alta for the next slide or just go over once the student has completed the entire admissions process and they have been registered for classes what is left for them to do in order to be prepared for class has one of the first things that we do have passed you do is change their restaurants account so basically one of the students been accepted they will have access to their SRS account and they will have to claim this where they will and put their information and then create an app password for this this is basically the secure on my system so that's where the SRS comes into town and this allows the students to check their schedules and pay any fees we have request transcripts you there by no grades and update personal information aside from those students do need to get there and back email account together and make sure that they have access to it and that they are able to know get into it if needed and then just check with their email account frequently to see if there's any updates or any important messages or black board Blackboard is online platform that are instructors at the college use for their courses so whether your classes online or if you need space to bathe most of all the class actions will have a Blackboard section for the course and it's really important when students are able to get into that she just become familiar with it it is user-friendly obviously before in the past and for most of the students is going to kind of resemble what they already are high school which is cannabis and this is basically going to be where the students will can go to and just see how they're progressing through their classes and as well as you met any of their coursework at their professors and then also to see if they have any open book stand we're going to Blackboard and axes material through there for students we also want them to make sure that once they have access to everything and they know that they've been registered and two classes to make sure the they review their scheduled to thereafter as you can and we please act all students to make sure to do this and be proactive with this as well because we do have some students to as soon as they see that they've been registered as something does not right and if it conflicted with maybe the days that they are expected to have games for the more that they're in they reach out to us and then they're making sure that they are adjusting their core schedule accordingly please do not wait until I've already started and Matt because once causes have met we are no longer able to make schedule changes so it's really important that you know that classes are going to start on Monday that you're checking that we can try to the weekend maybe on Friday night just making sure that everything was good to go as students are still kind of students are able to obtain a college photo ID so when students have been registered and once a payment has already been made into their account for their courses they are able to stop by our admissions office to receive their photo ID so they can just stop by anytime it doesn't have to be before classes start it can even be well into this mess with me like they can just stop by whenever they have a free chance did you have to bring one ID with you so I can be your high school ID or if you have your driver's license you can bring that into and then they'll go ahead and for students who are considering driving through the college for their classes please do get a parking permit a lot of students think that just because our classes are at night or in the evening that they do not need a parking permit there are some students to do and then getting a parking ticket they do not have this displayed on their vehicle so make sure that you do get a parking permit if you are planning to drive on campus for the SJC alert me that is basically there are emergency alert system that students can input their information on the restaurant account of where they would like to receive those notifications so whether it's through email or through text or through call you can set that up you can put your phone number in it or maybe you can also include like shines as the secondary number because you're going to want to know if there is an emergency and if you're not supposed to be on campus how to go about that so that's been really helpful in the past but she whenever we have weather related issues listening you know not to come on and there are trainings that are required for students to complete the two that we have it's that you got this and the sexual misconduct policy video the sexual misconduct video is basically going to go over different policies that we have in place and for how to students report an incident and for the you got this this is just the training course is going to go ahead and just do. the information that they need need to know how to prevent report and get help for any sexual misconduct are students who may currently be accommodations at your high school you can also apply for accommodations at the college through our accessibility Services office there is an application that you will have to completely and they do have the application available online you can access this through following the website that's listed on the side once you're there there's going to be a few steps to follow but it will list out for you exactly what type of information and documentation they will be needing students can apply for accommodations at any time but the accommodations are not retroactive so this means if you apply in the middle of the semester for accommodation and you are accommodation you cannot use those and apply those two previous exams that you may have taken so we do encourage students to try to get this taken care of before the start of the semester and in order to have it for the next semester and he proceeded investors you do have to reapply here we have the different available resources for students the Dual credit office is basically your one-stop-shop especially if you're unfamiliar words you go to a lot of students just like to stop by and start off with us and then we can point them in the right direction as soon as have any questions or concerns about maybe their account balances are their schedule is there welcome to stop by my parents included just come on with your students and we'll go ahead and listen to the library at another great place for students to go to this is a good place for students to study if they need to they can have group study session you're as well since there's some small room for the students to you and then also the student needs access to a computer or printing they can find these resources in the library the career services office that's a great place that's Gene can go to in case they want to have any help with maybe job searching or maybe they are in the process of trying to get into the habit of creating resume I'm in just be just want someone to review their resumes complete this for this area as well and then for a Student Success Center and this is actually located in our library as well and this is where students can go to receive free tutoring and they're usually open during the week some on the weekend and for students there's no appointment necessary they can just stop by the Piggly they'll have host out there and their area during what time frames they have a tutor available for the subject to check out their website this week at the most up-to-date information and for students who may be testing for the TSI and if there aren't any any additional prep the Student Success Center does offer prep sessions that are available for students and those are normally on Fridays there are some questions that are virtual as well as face-to-face for the students at each of our different catfish first students who were invited to the Early College Academy on this one is for you we will be having our information meeting next week on February 15th at 6 p.m. this is where we're going to go ahead over a couple of different stuff regarding the Early College Academy how big is can benefit from being in this program and will give you lots more information about all right I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to English. Okay thank you I'm Studley answering questions on the key I just want to tell her a couple things just clarify a couple things that y'all already covered number one is a 10 minutes until a tenant has one of those things that is very different because college classes are not High School classes and students think that they get an excuse or excuse absences when they don't and so how I explain College attendance is you're either present or you're absent there's no excuse there's no to the present or absent and so high school activities do not Trump college and that means that you're expected to be at your college class when it is scheduled and you don't get an excused absence because you're on a school field trip however we do know that a lot of our kids are involved in a lot of extracurricular activities and so we strongly encourage them to communicate early with their instructors prior to missing school for any of the Atletico or other petition type activities and check in to make sure that that is a good day for them to be out and then they're going to have to make a choice if you know that's not a good day for them to be out there going to have to make a choice whether they keep the school at the high school or they go to their college class most of the professors are very good as long as student talk to them early with working with them when they have high school competitions and things like that but that communication if they don't communicate with them that's when they really get into a bad situation where that might not be able to be able to make up an exam that they miss because they didn't communicate I miss y'all too also mentioned that it's very important for the students to know that the college classes meet everyday even on almost to the school holidays so she gave it as an example of the fall break that I think we're going to transition to next year but Thanksgiving is another example of why I'm saying Jack is open usually Monday and Tuesday or even Monday Tuesday and Wednesday of Thanksgiving week when we're closed and the students are expected to be in class at San Jac this coming year though we actually will be closed the entire week for Thanksgiving yeah I'll get that's exciting for y'all okay alright so let's see what else another thing I wanted to address to make sure that students understand that they also talked about the time each week so during the fall in the spring most classes are 3 hours long whether that's three hours on one day or 3 hours spread out over two days and want to make sure that students are on parents are aware that the three hours is strictly just the class time that doesn't account for the other activities that you have to do for the class studying project research paper reading things like that and so on average depending on the Wii it's going to be an extra 1/2 maybe 3 hours added work or at a time on top of that three hours just depending on what's going on in that and then one of the questions that I'm just going to go ahead and answer so I don't forget about it is GPA so that was one of the questions and the Q and A so for this is how GTA works for dual credit classes when you're in 9th grade or 10th grade students can get credit for dual credit classes but they do not get great point so that's nice that also applies to summer in mini sessions for all grade levels the only of time students get grade point for the classes is 11th and 12th grade in a fall full fall or spring class I'm all other ones do not get GTA and the GTA is based on a letter grade for San Jac the final grades in all the classes are letter grade letter grades are converted into number grades at the high school level so 1/8 equals of 95 equals and 85 a C equals 75 and then at the end and a purple Louis 70 and so they get the equivalent of there on a 6.0 scale so an a for a college class will get you 5.5 points because you are what are the 95 for Abby your water than 85 you get 4.5 points a see your water 275 and that will be 3.5 points and a are not awarded points and that's again for 11th and 12th grade fall or spring only let's see what else I'm just trying to think of what I want to come over cuz y'all are always very thorough I do want to mention that every Junior High and high school campus has a checklist for the student which take some through the process and exactly what they need to do at South Campus we do workshops for 8th and 9th grade this is the workshop for students at 4 at South Tampa we do workshops for the 10th and 11th graders since those of the kids that take the majority of the classes going into 11th and 12th grade and in those workshops at South Campus here is where they get their info slipform and the information and then the students who are currently in eighth or ninth grade you'll follow the checklist and you will be emailing me all of your documents and once I receive all of those documents I give you the enrollment form to complete for you to send back to me so I can process it on my end and then send it to San Jac to process on their end is there any other questions but y'all think that feel that you wanted me to cover so my email account is at is do credit at gpisd. so any parent or student that has a question or needs help you can certainly email me again that the sorry I guess it wrong is D. Org I'm so anyone can reach me that way as they mentioned high school students are not allowed to register so it all the registration must be approved through the high school and that's me and my process all of it on the high school side and then I send all the documents that I collect over to San Jac for processing so the deadline for all documents to be to get to me as March 31st for summer and all enrolled once I have all documents by that deadline then you're good you're you know you're good to go and then if you need to make changes if you're like oh that class didn't work with my schedule to change it that's not a problem as long as we do it in a timely manner which we really like 2 to 3 weeks before classes start because they didn't get into trouble when they do not read the communication that I send I regularly send emails to students about things that are upcoming hey you need to check this and you need to log on to your saying Jack you need to check your schedule here's how you pay your fees and so if they're not reading their email that's when they get into a lot of trouble because all the instructions are given to them ahead of time in a timely manner and they just need to follow those instructions so is there any participants that have any questions that they want to put any additional questions that they want to put into that question and answer and so again I did have a couple of questions about early college and the testing requirements specifically for the students who were invited into the Early College Academy we will only accept you as I s h e r a c t for those students specifically for the Early College Academy for dual-credit we want them to take PSI first and then if they start with the TSI we can revert to the PSAT are star scores if needed all right I believe that's it again if anyone has any questions any parent or student who has a question and certainly reach out to me my name is mrs. Babcock here at Deer Park High School South Campus and the email is dual credit at DTE ISD. Org all right thank you everyone for being here and I hope you all have a great evening

Published February 15, 2024 Print