{"id":1487,"date":"2011-04-11T10:30:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T15:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2014-04-07T07:16:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:16:30","slug":"several-changes-in-store-for-phs-students-in-2012-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=1487","title":{"rendered":"Several Changes in Store for PHS Students in 2012 and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1488\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0046rs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1488\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1488   \" title=\"DSC_0046\" src=\"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0046rs-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">School administrators are considering purchasing new, more mobile desks that can be easily rearranged. Currently, Mrs. Delia Gadziola&#39;s classes are trying them out. Photo by: Matthew Libersky<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>By Matthew Libersky<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In  addition to implementing the one-to-one computing initiative with  laptops, the administration has a number of other changes for the  2011-2012 school year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Most  of the planned changes stem off of the planned implementation of  MacBooks. One of these involves the policies outlined in the student  handbook.<\/p>\n<p>Currently,  students are not allowed to take any sort of bag or backpack into  class. However, Principal Mr. Jim Condon said that he is working with  students, staff, parents and the school board to revise that policy to  reflect the change in what students have (and don\u2019t have) to carry.<\/p>\n<p>Mr.  Condon said that they will also be revising the attendance policy. The  finalized changes will be published during the summer in a newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Also,  the school is sampling and considering purchasing new desks for a  number of classrooms. The new desks are smaller and more portable and  allow teachers to easily arrange them into different layouts beyond  traditional rows to partners and small groups.<\/p>\n<p>The  primary reason for the potential purchase of these desks is to afford  better mobility once students receive laptops next school year. Mr.  Condon also said that they are considering utilizing the desks in the  New Tech high school program that is planned to begin in the Fall of  2012.<\/p>\n<p>The  administration plans to continue preparing for the New Tech high school  program throughout the next school year. As one of the aspects of the  programs is &#8220;integrated&#8221; classes where teachers of related subjects  teach one large class of students, some rooms are going to be merged.<\/p>\n<p>The  program will also focus on creating more \u201creal-life\u201d experience for  students. For instance, Mr. Condon said that in an engineering class, a  local engineer may come in and comment on or assess \u00a0students\u2019 work.  Additionally, some classes will try to integrate solving more  \u201creal-life\u201d problems rather than textbook assignments.<\/p>\n<p>The classes in the program will be double-blocked, meaning that two classes will be merged together into a two hour block.<\/p>\n<p>The  New Tech high school program will begin with the graduating class of  2016 when they enter high school. \u00a0Enrollment in New Tech \u00a0will be on an  application-only basis. The plan is to admit 100 students per cohort, resulting in a maximum of 400 students in the whole  school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matthew Libersky In addition to implementing the one-to-one computing initiative with laptops, the administration has a number of other changes for the 2011-2012 school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8865,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/8865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}