Curriculum Advisory Committee
The five year SACS action plan identified several academic goals surrounding increased attention to problem solving, critical inquiry and research, intellectual curiosity, and social responsibility. TJ will focus on the following two SACS action plan goals in the upcoming school year:
- Enhance TJHSST curriculum so that students develop research skills at all grade levels through vertical integration.
- Review division course offerings in terms of vertical integration.
I hope the Curriculum Advisory Committee works alongside teachers and administrators to review, contribute to, and enact the school's work plan in these academic goal areas.
— Dr. Evan Glazer, Principal, TJHSST
CAC 2008 – 2009 School Year
The 1st meeting of the CAC for this school year will be on Thursday, October 16, in the TJ Career Center. The 2nd meeting is scheduled for Thursday, November 13, in Room 106. Both meetings start at 7:30 pm and should end by 9 pm or earlier.
No particular experience is needed to serve on this committee, but we will be looking for people with specific experience to help in some areas. For example, we are currently looking for a parent who has experience in reviewing grant requests for research, and could help with requests to be filed in late October or early November. If you can help here, please contact the committee's chairperson, Thanks.
Some things the CAC might do this school year include:
- Help TJ staff launch a One Question initiative for students to focus on an interdisciplinary problem in science and society.
- Help TJ staff with organizing a day long research symposium where students share their research and learn about research opportunities.
- Help TJ staff by facilitating benchmarking on curriculum matters with a couple of engineering and/or science departments of colleges held in high esteem and perhaps a peer high school.
- Draft a proposal for a 2-3 week session where students can do research outside of the school or take a course in the school (session likely would start in late May of a school year).