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Dear d.tech families,
d.tech students are wrapping up another great intersession. It has been another great opportunity for students to learn skills from professionals in the community. Students have learned illustration from former Pixar employees, coding from Oracle employees, sustainable design, robotics, health and wellness, photography, creative writing, print-making and public speaking. In preparation for returning to core classes next week this newsletter is about important changes for the next semester:
Bell Schedule Change Highlights:
Student dismissal times change to
Monday-Thursday 3:35
Friday 12:30
d.lab is at the end of the day Tues and Thurs
@d.tech is the beginning of each day.
Refining @dtech class and the learning hub:
The @dtech teacher is the parent's first point of contact for questions and concerns about student progress. If you do not know your child's @dtech teacher, please ask them. You can also email Galen at gandrew@dtechhs.org if needed. The weekly routine for @dtech is as follows:
Mon: Students complete the Task Management Tool as part of the Scrum process. Scrum is a framework for managing a process that we are borrowing from industry. It's often used in software development. You can click on the link above to get an understanding of how it works.
Tues-Thurs: Group check-ins on student progress.
Friday: 1:1 check-ins with @dtech teacher.
Each learning hub will also begin and end with students using the Task Management tool. The goal is for the tool to go out to students each Monday with their schedule and a new dashboard for understanding pace and performance. A screenshot of the dashboard is below. This dashboard shows the grades for the work submitted and the current progress (pace). If a student is on-track, the current progress should always show 100% and the two bars should always line up. This will be emailed out to students along with their schedules and the scrum project management tool.
We are exploring ways for parents to receive the same email each week. The challenge is that we push the resources out to students through the Google domain and Google management console so we are looking at what it would take to add parent accounts to the Google domain.
We continue to make progress in all of these areas as we reinvent the high school experience.
Have a great week.
Ken
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