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=**Senior Experience**= =Aisha Robinson= //PPT_Presentation// =Planning for Innovation=
 * Executive Summary**

Mission
=The mission of City Charter High School …= a technology infused public school is to graduate students who are academically, technologically, personally and socially prepared to succeed in post-secondary education or training. Using a team approach, City High cultivates a safe, supportive and academically rigorous environment by recognizing and nurturing individual talents, needs and skills. The six core beliefs of City High are:
 * **Connections to the real world.** A career focused experience convinces students that what they do at City High impacts their future. || **Continuous challenge.** A curriculum constructed with multiple levels best meets the academic needs of individual students. ||
 * **Individual responsibility for learning.** Academic success is dependent on students taking an active role in their learning. || **Personal academic connections.** Success relies strongly on each student feeling connected to one or more adults at City High. ||
 * **Safe and caring environment.** Essential to active classroom engagement. || **Collaboration.** A student’s ability to collaborate is essential in today’s work environment. ||

Vision
The Senior Experience program will demonstrate mastery level skills within a college and career environment. This program will mimic college and career environments, scheduling, and responsibilities that will encompass independent learning strategies to maximize our students' future success.

Assessment of the Past
Our school has successfully taken urban students and prepared them for future success in a professional world. Graduating students leave City Charter High School with a strong academic foundation, master level certifications in Microsoft applications, professional experiences that stem for personalized career training and internship experiences, and a professional demeanor the sets them apart from all other graduating senior students. We have successfully bridged the gap of socio-economic variances, and have provided great opportunities for **//all//** to succeed.

CityHigh is not only dedicated to providing the best high school opportunities, we are also committed to providing services that will fuel success throughout our students’ college and career paths. To assist in determining future practices, the transition office and other staff administration reached out to the graduating students, parents, and stakeholders to perform a series of surveys and interviews that helped to determine successful practices and needs that will better equip the graduating class for the future. There were many glowing remarks the confirmed our core beliefs and practices, and excellent suggestions of what students needed to thrive. The most profound finding was that graduating students expressed a need for more practice in an independent learning environment. Students were very well equipped with collaboration and project management, but explained that there was a need to develop skills in independent task management, pacing strategies, and maximization of time management. In response to this feedback, the administrative team and the class of 2012 staff began to develop a new senior experience program that would be geared toward multiple exposures in independent learning and dynamic techniques to capitalize on success.

Current and Future Needs

 * Current Needs (2011-2012) ||  Future Needs (2012-Beyond)  ||
 * * Senior Model that illustrates an independent learning model
 * Tools to support Time Management
 * Pitfalls to support struggling students within the new model.
 * Progress monitoring check points to support student growth
 * Development of technologies needed to make the new model successful
 * Google Documents
 * Google Calendar
 * Teacher Imbedded WebPages
 * Continued collaborations with team and administration for progress monitoring purposes. || * Team Training on New Model
 * Flexibility in Model to meet each individual team’s needs.
 * Create a technology toolkit- Resources students may utilize with working collaboratively with other students.
 * Continuation of Program development- Create a Task force committed to improving the model and customizing its visions to maximize future successes.
 * Comment/Teamwork Cohort- Former senior teachers work with new senior teachers as mentors within the Senior Experience. ||

Strategic Goals

 * 1) All senior class members will master the practice of an independent learning environment.
 * 2) All senior class members will be given real-life college experiences to strengthen post-secondary success rates by 50%.
 * 3) All senior class members will develop skills and strategies for becoming independent learners.

Independent Learinng Documents and Technologies
Final Exam Scheduling: [] Choosing Electives []

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The Senior Experience program will be monitored during team meetings schedule that will occur at a minimum of two times a week. The purpose of the meetings will be to monitor program efficiency, identify struggling students, and identity support implementations in ensure student success. Progress monitoring will be facilitated by the senior administration and the senior team. Periodically, throughout the year, the senior team will present to the school leadership the progress in the Senior Experience program regarding the independent learning model.=====

Current and Future Needs

 * Current Needs (2012-2013) ||  Future Needs (2013-Beyond)  ||
 * * Effective Teacher Rounds Description
 * Pitfalls to support struggling students within the new model.
 * Progress monitoring check points to support student growth
 * Continued collaborations with team and administration for progress monitoring purposes. || * Team Training on New Model
 * Flexibility in Model to meet each individual team’s needs.
 * Continuation of Program development- Create a Task Force (class of 2012-2013 team members) committed to improving the model and customizing its visions to maximize future successes.
 * Effective Team Collaborations- Effectively working as a team to transition to the new model and understanding that it takes time on the teacher
 * Content and Teamwork Cohort- Former senior teachers work with new senior teachers as mentors within the Senior Experience. ||