High School Info
This includes required courses in English/Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, and World Language.
What is Academic/Core Courses?
This refers to one nine-week term of the school year.
What is a quarter?
These are courses that provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary to prepare students for high skill, high wage, and high demand careers.
What is Career & Technical Education (CTE)?
These are the words that represent the acronym CTE.
What is Career & Technical Education?
This refers to one half of the school term, made of two quarters.
What is a semester?
This is a system of scheduling courses that involves taking courses on alternating days throughout the school year.
What is A/B Block?
This is a group of classes that you take that are not required for graduation?
What are Career Cluster?
Three sequential and related CTAE courses designed to expose students to the skills required for a specific career.
What is a Career Pathway?
A system of scheduling courses that involves taking four courses each semester to earn credit. Students typically take four classes from August to December and four different courses from January to May.
What is a 4 x 4 Block?
A student specific plan developed detailing the courses necessary for a high school student to graduate from high school and to transition successfully to postsecondary education and the work force.
What is an Individual Graduation Plan (IGP)?
A system of scheduling courses that involves taking the same course(s) for the entire school year - typically from August until May.
What is yearlong?
Rigorous college and technical school courses that allow students to earn both college and high school credit while in high school.
What is Dual Enrollment?
This term used to refer to the numeric unit assigned to a course used to meet high school graduation requirements. (I.e.- when you pass a class, you earn a _____)
What are credits?
What does GPA stand for?
What is Grade Point Average?
The number of credits required to graduate.
What is 28?
What is 4?
This is the number of mathematics credits required to graduate from high school.
What is 4?
This is the number of Science credits required to graduate from high school.
What is 3?
The majority of students at Key Middle School are zoned to attend which high school?
What is Lewis High School?
Define Postsecondary education
What is any education after high school
How many classes will you be required to take per semester?
What is 8
Who do you talk to if you need to change a class?
What are Career Exploration, Honors Spanish I, Honors Algebra, and Honors Physical Science?
How many total credits could you potentially earn in high school?
What is 64?
Other than Gibbs, name 2 other schools Holston Middle is zoned for.
What are Austin East, Fulton High, Central High, & Carter High?
Give 2 examples of postsecondary education
What are: 4-year colleges, 2-year colleges, Technical school, Apprenticeships, On-the-job training for entry level jobs