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INTRODUCTORY VIDEOS FROM OUR SCHOOLS

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welcome everyone my name is Jaime Simon Meyer and I'm one of the counselors at Venice today I want to go over some basic orientation information for new students as well as providing an area that you can find at our school website to get more information on air as you can see we offer sticks different Pro sunset Venice High School to magnet programs and for small learning communities through our Comprehensive High School I'm going to just got General graduation requirements for all program opportunities on campus recognition and awards how we try to support our students at Venice High School as well as ways that you can pour your own student socially and what kind this PowerPoint will be available so feel free to take notes or to revisit topics of Interest I want to start with the ball, or graduation requirements there are three buckets as we say or area you're talking to me all graduation requirements and we'll go over them briefly but at the bottom you'll see in red places that you can go for more information course this is the a through G and Stevie requirements requirements are those College requirements that included that are for students looking to be eligible for 4 year colleges University CD east are the California Department of Education there is some overlap we talked about horses we'll talk about them together three years of social studies or you're getting less 3 Christmas. In math for 3 here's and Kathy minimum of algebra 2B 2 years of language other than English which we typically referred to as a load this is two years in the same language one year of a Miller performing arts class a college prep elective which is a student going to be on the minimum subject area in any of those age requirement to years of physical education which can be met through regular fit or sports team as well as this semester in addition to the course requirement students are also required to complete non course requirements through the district a service learning project which do various points throughout High School depending on which program they are apart of all students must earn 210 credits minimum to meet graduation requirements great and they have to select a career pathway which is something that will be done with their counselor in the first year to Facebook at the bottom you'll see and blue 10 hours of community service per year old that better not a requirement to get a diploma but it is a requirement that 40 hours for your four years at Dennis by the time graduation, senior year to participate in that their program also has their own of course requirements to visit each of those pages and links find out more about course requirements for space tab World Language Media or Sports Medicine we also offer a lot of opportunity. we have many club sports teams that are in the spring fall and winter music and Theatre production marching band and we also offer college class Who's online and sometimes in person to Santa Monica College in West l.a. as well as tutoring and area and availability for support for all students who might need extra help there are many ways for students to be recognized for their successes while at Venice here are some award win or be recognized or based on academic Philippines is our school Honor Society and students apply for that each semester when they get their prior semester grades jackets of Excellence is a cumulative awards at June's earn during their senior year based on a strong GPA for their attendance and for their time at that Dubai literacy award is for students who meet specific language requirements there is both the leusd and the I literally feel and we also have that information available on our school website housekeeping like qualifying with the place and then they are based on your GPA on Gulf Anna different and lastly many of our students are excited to hear that they're eligible to apply for a loan a scholarship or Alumni Association is very generous and each year we give out nearly $130,000 of scholarship so how do we support our students first and I mentioned as we have six different programs at that this is that students are with a smaller Community for their four years a big high school can get overwhelming so we try to keep our students in smaller groups were they might have similar features and do similar students multiple times that also means we have a social worker on campus at 4 you might need more Mental Health Resources or referral we have two PS 8 a one specifically working there since behind on classes in one word like I mentioned before we properties for tutoring intervention in Credit Recovery year-round that we offer as they become available we offer a variety of courses at Louisville college prep honors or AP as well as subjects such as law graphic design Sports Medicine engineering and different ways to get involved in ffbe meeting that way sometimes hold for students that are struggling over time and that about teachers students and parents or Guardians 504 Tsar for students who might need a little extra support and if you filled your student Mike I don't want to notify your counselor for students with IEPs and are part of our special education program they will still be in a smaller Community or a magnet and make sure they're getting the additional support and accommodation take my so how can you support your child there's many ways or just having a conversation about the day making sure your contact information is correct in our city that we can call you or send you messages through the mail we encourage you to really be on campus as much as possible and be involved in your students life utilize schoology every parent and student has an account you can log in to check your student grade and progress is Wells message with the teacher directly be sure to communicate with calstrs if you think that there's something going on or you're worried as well the TennCare teacher conferences back to school night and events on campus that can provide you with more specific information about your child and get involved on campus there's a number of committees and wait the volunteer we want you to check out the pay action of the Venice High School website to learn more so what comes next is your student has already completed a survey with a counselor or spoken to a counselor perhaps iPhone their schedule will be available if your student has not yet requested courses and you want to talk the appropriate survey or speak with the appropriate counselor for the program this can all be down to the new student orientation cast if your students elective classes and needs to make changes right now will ask that you notify us the students of the first 2 weeks of school each semester to request course changes if they get the course to challenging and they want perhaps frappe on his level 2 College Prep or maybe they found that he wants more and of course I got our school website for more information will continue to post their and fry it is access to as much as he would have been able please go back to the new student tab check out all the resources he has there and let us know if you have any questions and we look forward to having you on campus next year

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