The Mid Week Update for MYP

This newsletter will come weekly to help our school community stay on track with the MYP mission at Hillsboro High IB World School.

• What is the Extended Essay?
• What is the Reflective Project?
• What is the Personal Project?
• Agendas
• What is MYP
• Learner Profile
• Approaches to Learning

Tuesday August 30th, we had over a 100 seniors present their Reflective Projects or Extended Essays to students, staff, & community partners. This is the culminating piece to their IB programme.

Extended Essay is a component of the Diploma Programme for students who are taking a full DP course load. The Extended Essay starts their junior year and they finish their senior year. "The extended essay is an independent, self-directed piece of research, finishing with a 4,000-word paper. One component of the International Baccalaureate® (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) core, the extended essay is mandatory for all students."

Reflective Project is a component of the Career Programme for students who are taking a few DP courses their Junior & Senior year. "The Reflective Project is an in-depth work produced over an extended period and submitted in year 2 of the Career-related Programme. Students identify, analyze, discuss and evaluate an ethical dilemma associated with an issue from their career- related studies."

• It a problem, you see, or you have.
  
• It's something you want to learn.
  
• It is something you want to help.
  
• It's something that you are passionate about and you build a plan around that passion.

Watch this video from another school on how they explained Personal Projects. Note the date, use of Managebac, & the email attached do not relate. (Managebac is a tool that you will use if you pursue the IBCP or IBDP diploma your Junior year. CLICK HERE

All 10th grade students will have the opportunity to finish a personal project their Sophomore year as a Hillsboro IB MYP Student. This is the final piece to your MYP years that you might have started at JT Moore or West End. Even if you did not attend an IB Middle School and even if this is your first year, you still have the ability to finish a Personal Project. This piece is a requirement for Hillsboro's Middle Years Programme. Your final Score on the MYP Personal Project will be added to any student completing the Diplomma Programme or Career Programme Certificate upon graduation their senior year. Completion of this project will be documented at Hillsboro as a Middle Years Programme Completer that can be used for college applications.

Class of 2026 (Sophomores of school year 2022-2023) will be introduced to this through their ELA classes Mid-September.

Class of 2027 (Freshman of school year 2022-2023) will be introduced this in the Spring through their ELA classes.

Because we are an IB school that has an MYP curriculum. (You go to Waffle House for Waffles and you go to Hillsboro for MYP/IB because that is on the sign). The Personal Project is possibly the best project that you will be assigned your sophomore year. This is your chance to build the foundation for research and incorporate the Design Cycle to build an amazing project all while researching something of your choosing! This is PERSONAL! You research what you love, what you are interested in, or what you are upset about! You decide and we are here to help you through the process of research and presentation of ideas and learning.

Students, Teachers, Counselors, & Admin!

Please remember to use this valuable tool in all classes! Here is a great example of how your agenda should be looking like daily!

If you still need an agenda, we have extras in the library.

Agendas are available through all 9th & 10th grade ELA classes as well as in all AVID classes. If you have your own, you do not need to get another. By week one, all students will have the opportunity to take ownership of their learning by working on their Self-Management Skills through using their Agendas in all classes. Read below about MYP's Approaches to Learning and the focus lesson for this month, "Self-Management".

From IBO (The International Baccalaureate Organization) The MYP is a challenging framework that encourages students to make practical connections between their studies and the real world.

The MYP aims to develop active learners and internationally minded young people who can empathize with others and pursue lives of purpose and meaning.

The programme empowers students to inquire into a wide range of issues and ideas of significance locally, nationally and globally. The result is young people who are creative, critical and reflective thinkers.

At Hillsboro it is the culmination of our feeder schools, JT Moore & West End's, MYP Programme. The MYP Program prepares all students at Hillsboro the option to pursue the IBDP courses available their Junior & Senior year.

You will see MYP at Hillsboro throughout your 9th & 10th grade year.

• Agendas in 9th & 10th Grade
• MYP Units in 9th & 10th Grade
• Personal Projects in 10th Grade

• Learner Profile
• Approaches to Learning

From IBO, "Approaches to learning (ATL) are skills designed to enable students in the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) to “learn how to learn.”"

The International Baccalaureate® (IB) learner profile describes a broad range of human capacities and responsibilities that go beyond academic success.

• Inquirers
• Knowledgeable
• Thinkers
• Communicators
• Principled
• Open-minded
• Caring
• Risk-takers
• Balanced
• Reflective