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YEAR
END STUDIES (Y.E.S.) PLANS
Rutland High School
Rutland, Vermont
OVERVIEW
Year End Studies (Y.E.S. Plan) offers a variety of learning experiences
for all Rutland High School students. The program is designed to provide half day
and full day courses, seminars, field experiences, internships, community service
and other teaching and learning opportunities. No students receive financial compensation
for any of these learning experiences.
Students are
offered a myriad of enrichment and remedial courses (see Course Description) giving
them the opportunity to explore or enrich their learning beyond what has traditionally
been offered during the school year. Those students who have failed or performed
poorly in core classes will have the chance to improve their grades before the year
ends.
A normal and
expected course load includes one (1) of these options: one (1) full day Y.E.S. Plan
course; two (2) half day Y.E.S. Plan courses; one (1) Y.E.S. Plan course and two
(2) remedial courses; two (2) Y.E.S. Plan courses and one (1) remedial class. Students
may not repeat Y.E.S. Plan Enrichment courses from year to year.
SCHEDULE*
| Remedial Class
A |
8:00
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9:00
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| Morning Class |
9:00
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11:15
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| Afternoon Class |
11:20
AM
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2:00
PM
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| Remedial Class
B |
2:05
PM
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3:00
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Plan experiences may require specific schedules appropriate to course and School-To-Work
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ATTENDANCE
Year End Study Dates: May 16 - June 11, 2001
Students must attend and participate in Year End Studies, an integral element of
the academic year. School attendance policies and all school rules and procedures
remain in effect. Students must attend 16 of the 18 days during Y.E.S. Plan in order
to receive credit. Special and unique circumstances will be considered by the Attendance
Committee, but only upon rare occasions will exemptions be granted. Y.E.S. Plan daily
absentee lists will be published at the end of the day. Due to the June 7, 2001
graduation date, seniors will be required to attend Y.E.S. courses through and including
Wednesday, June 6, 2001.
CREDIT
Successful participation in Year End Studies for each year at Rutland High School
is a graduation requirement except for students enrolled in Stafford Technical
Center's full day programs. A special note to seniors: A failed Year End Studies
course by a senior will result in that senior not being eligible to graduate with
the class on June 7, 2001. The senior will receive a diploma upon successful completion
of a Year End Studies option (see options below). These options are available
only after June 11, 2001, the completion of Year End Studies.
OPTIONS FOR STUDENTS WHO FAIL YEAR END STUDIES
Note: All
options must be pre-approved by the Rutland High School Principal.
- Take a summer
course for credit.
- Take a summer
academic camp course for credit.
- Take a night
course at Stafford Technical Center, Community College of Vermont or other educational
facility.
- Perform community
service for forty (40) hours; a journal is required; must be approved by the Career
Center and the Rutland High School principal. (Each course failed is forty (40) hours;
an all day program is eighty (80) hours of volunteer service.)
- Perform volunteer
service at the Rutland High School. This must be done sometime before or after school
or during vacation time. (Each course failed is forty (40) hours; an all day program
is eighty (80) hours of volunteer service.)
COURSE FEE
WAIVERS
Students should consider all course options. Any additional costs for programs should
not be a determining factor. For programs that incur additional fees, i.e. admission
fees, travel expenses, etc., student fees may be waived by the Y.E.S. Plan Committee
or other arrangements may be made to allow student access. Independent Study and
School-To-Work Experiences are not eligible for course fee waivers.
A separate
"Fee Waiver Application" should be submitted by April 4, 2001 and approved
prior to course registration on April 11, 2001. This application may be picked up
in the Career Center, Main Office or Guidance Office.
ENROLLMENT
Classes will be limited to 20 students unless, as part of their course proposals,
teachers offer a rationale for larger or smaller numbers. Students will select their
course choices in early April through an arena scheduling process. This process will
be explained in detail to students prior to their selection.
GRADING
In order to encourage risk-taking and learning enrichment, all students taking
Y.E.S. Plan enrichment classes will be graded as: Honors/Pass/Failure.
SCHOOL-TO-WORK EXPERIENCE
Students in grades 10 - 12 may pursue service-based learning opportunities in
the community as alternatives to regular Y.E.S. Plan courses offered on campus. These
off-campus opportunities may be career oriented "shadowing" experiences,
internships or community service projects in schools or other non-profit agencies.
The School-To-Work Experience deadline is March 19, 2001. All applications,
interviews and program approvals must occur prior to the deadline. (See Process
Steps below.)
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Students in grades 10 - 12 interested in exploring a subject which may not be
possible to pursue during the regular school year, may wish to develop an independent
study project. Students must submit a Statement of Interest, a written proposal and
an employer contract to the Career Center for approval. Deadline for approval
is the same as the School-To-Work Experience, March 19, 2001. (See
Process Steps below.)
PROCESS STEPS
Please do the following for your Y.E.S. Plan Proposal:
- Pick up a
Student Statement of Interest form from the Career Center. Fill out this form completely
and hand it in to the Career Center.
- Hand in a
typewritten proposal detailing the academic component of your Y.E.S. Plan. This must
show how your Y.E.S. Plan experience will prepare you for the world of work, how
it relates to the classes you are currently taking at RHS, or how this experience
will prepare you for college or a career. Sample proposals are available for review
in the Career Center.
- Have the Employer
Contract signed by your site supervisor. You can pick up this form in the Career
Center.
- Have a parent
or guardian sign all forms.
REMEDIAL
CLASSES
Students failing courses or wishing to improve their final grade average may
opt to take a remedial core course (math, science, social studies, English).
All remedial grades will be averaged with the Final Grade resulting
in a higher or lower grade depending upon student performance during the Year End
Studies. The three-week remedial grade will be averaged based on a four (4)
to one (1) weight.
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Grade x 4 + Remedial Grade
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FINAL GRADE AVERAGE |
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56
(Final Grade) x 4 + 76 (Remedial Grade)
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60.0 (Final Grade
Average) |
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5
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Remedials may
be used to improve failing grades or to improve grades in curricular areas such as
mathematics and foreign language that require a grade of 70 to continue to the next
level.
Students may choose to take a remedial course to improve their grade with a maximum
allowable final average of 70.
SUMMER SCHOOL REQUIREMENTS
Students must
have a minimum grade of 50 to be considered for Summer School. Students whose final
grade is less than 50 may take the Year End Studies Remedial to improve the grade
to a minimum of 50 to allow them to take the Summer School Course.
MONITORING PERFORMANCES FOR OFF-CAMPUS EXPERIENCES
Faculty will help establish off-campus volunteer work settings for interested
students and will supervise and evaluate students in those experiences.
Teachers will review the student's program design on the Work Experience Application
and will schedule a conference with the student prior to the service-based learning
experience. Teachers will visit and evaluate students in these experiences. Students
will be required to keep a journal documenting their learning as well as present
a project at the Y.E.S. Plan Open House.
Teachers will be assigned to supervise students engaged in Independent Study courses
based upon the agreement signed and approved on the Work Experience Application.
ATTACHMENTS
Check the links
below for an on-line version of:
These documents
are also part of the complete Y.E.S. Program packet, which can be downloaded as a
PDF* file or as a Word document (see "Other Related Links").
CONTACT
For additional
information about the Y.E.S. Program, please contact:
Betty Kapitan,
Administrative Secretary
Rutland High School
E-mail: bkapitan@rutlandhs.k12.vt.us
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