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1 Drake High School Sophomore Planning Conference Goals: Recognize & access resources to explore personal, academic & career goals Understand how current choices impact your future Understand the importance of Balance Know how to communicate effectively Identify personal strengths, values challenges & boundaries

2 Balancing Life New Options and Choices What are you interested in? What challenges do you want to pursue? What are your goals? Not all about getting ready for the future Live in present, learn, grow, participate, ENJOY! Is there anything you still want to try at Drake? ~ Sports ~ Clubs ~ Community Service ~ Summer Opportunities (Information through College Career Center)

3 Review Transcripts High School v College Requirements For Graduation: Courses Grades (make up D’s & F’s) High School Exit Exam For College Entrance: GPA - Soph & Junior years : extremely important for college Science and Math (4 yrs rec’d) Foreign Language ( 2 req’d, 3 rec’d) SAT/ACT Exams (Mock SAT: 2/9, ACT: 3/2)

4 College of Marin College Credit Program (“CCP”)* Summer ~~ Concurrent Allows students attending high school to enroll in college courses in advanced scholastic and vocational programs $46 per unit charge Talk with your Drake counselor

5 Online Resources Drake Website Faculty pages and emails Faculty pages eSchool Home Access Scheduling Daily Bulletin & Pirate MailPirate Mail Naviance Naviance College & career planning tool

6 Exploring the College & Career Center Lisa Neumaier lneumaier@tamdistrict.org 415/458-3481lneumaier@tamdistrict.org Career Exploration Community Service Internships – Greg Davison (gdavison@tamdistrict.org 415/458-3484)gdavison@tamdistrict.org Summer Programs Job Board & Work Permits

7 Academy Choices COMAcad: Jr/Sr yr English, US History, Econ/Am Gov’t & Digital Productions SEA-Disc: Chemistry, Environmental Science, AP Env Science, US History, Econ/Am Gov’t &Senior internship Request Forms Due TODAY – Jan 28th!!

8 Making Choices/Keeping Balance “CW”: Jan 30 th & 31 st Make choices based on your interest – not your friends Maturing means making your own decision based on your goals. This includes the decision to take an Academy, take AP courses &select interesting electives Sometimes choosing one thing means foregoing another Courses are offered based on student requests ACADEMY FORMS – Due TODAY!!!

9 Scheduling ~ Meet grad requirements ~ Pre-requisites ~ Take challenging courses for college ~ Maintain balance ~ AP/Honors classes (UPDATE LINK ?)AP/Honors ~ Eschool Schedule HOW TO

10 Naviance Zip Code: 94960 Zip Code: 94960 Username: firstname.lastname Username: firstname.lastname For example: sheila.souder For example: sheila.souder Password: Firstname123 Password: Firstname123 For example: Sheila123 For example: Sheila123

11 Treasure Hunt & Sophomore Conference Survey Kyle Kassebaum Kyle Kassebaum Katie Paulsen Katie Paulsen Thank You! Thank You! Sheila Souder Sheila Souder Molly Yasuda Molly Yasuda Thank You! Thank You!

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