Wright-ings E-Notice
Daniel Wright Junior High School E-Notice May 22, 2020
Class Scheduling at Daniel Wright
Hello Fifth-Grade Families-
Welcome to Daniel Wright Junior High! We are excited to have you join us in the fall. In preparation of your arrival to Daniel Wright, we are creating student schedules for next year and we need your help to prepare your child’s schedule. Below you will see a link for a “how to video” to complete course requests for your child's classes next year. The video will walk your child through how to log in to Unified Classroom, request classes and submit them for next year. These requests are the building blocks of your schedule and we need them to create the official schedule students will receive in the fall. We are asking your child to complete their course requests by Wednesday, May 27.
Here is what your child needs to do:
Watch the tutorial video on my YouTube Channel or via Google Drive
Log in to Unified Classroom/PowerSchool and follow the steps from the video
Click submit at the end of your requests to ensure your requests are locked in
Smile! You have completed an important step in creating your schedule
A few additional points regarding course requests for your child:
Due to our bell schedule at Daniel Wright, students who participate in band and orchestra must choose 1 course to continue at Daniel Wright. Although students were able to participate in both orchestra and band at Half Day, both courses occur at the same time in the Daniel Wright schedule. Therefore, choose either band or orchestra for the 2020-2021 school year.
The transition to Daniel Wright requires students to be placed in specific math courses. Each year, multiple pieces of data are used to determine a student’s math placement, including the spring NWEA MAP scores. Due to COVID-19, we will not have the spring MAP data to inform our placement process. Fortunately, we have multiple measures of student mathematical competency and we will use reports developed from our data warehousing and reporting platform, Education Consulting Research Analytics, (ECRA). The data from our ECRA platform, coupled with fifth-grade teacher input, will provide us with information needed to inform your child’s math placement so a math course request is not needed at this time. A communication home regarding your child’s math placement can be expected during the second week of June.
If you have questions regarding math placement, they can be directed to Daniel Wright administration during the summer. At this time, these requests are placeholders in our scheduling system.
If you have direct questions regarding specialized schedules including services for special education, or supports for English Language Learners; please know that Daniel Wright works closely with the faculty, staff and administration of Half Day to help support the transition to 6th grade. If you have more specific questions regarding scheduling, please direct those questions to Daniel Wright administration for review over the summer.
It is important to note that these requests are not your child’s schedule, but instead are the building blocks or place holders for their schedule for next year. Also, if you have questions or something did not go right the first time, you can email Mr. Herion and he will help you. Remember you must complete your requests by Wednesday, May 27.
Even during usual times, the transition to middle school brings about changes in how students’ schedules are developed. Daniel Wright staff will continue to communicate with the fifth-grade teachers to understand the individual needs of each student as we develop schedules during the summer months. However, we do not provide a platform for parents to make specific requests regarding scheduling decisions and teacher selections. We realize that a different process is in place at Half Day school but due to the transition to an academic schedule with 10 periods per day, this is not a practice implemented during schedule development at DW.
Make it a great day Daniel Wright!
The DW Admin Team
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Daniel Wright Junior High School
Assistant Principal Thomas Herion
Assistant Principal Melody Littlefair
Email: ask103@d103.org
Website: www.d103.org/danielwright
Location: 1370 N. Riverwoods Road Lincolnshire, IL 60089
Phone: 847-295-1560
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DanielWrightJHS/
Twitter: @district103