Briefing ID #: 22667
ALL MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS/APs: 2018-2019 iPrep Math Scheduling Requirements, Recommendations and Course Codes
Category: Required Action
Audience: / Principals/APs (Middle)
Due Date: / n/a
Meeting Date: / n/a
Attachment(s): / IPrep_Math_2018-2019_Course_Codes_and_Scheduling_Requirements_Final.pdf

To inform middle school principals and assistant principals about the course offerings and codes that must be used for the 2018-2019 iPrep Math classes as well as scheduling requirements and recommendations.

  • The Division of Academics, Department of Mathematics is providing information regarding scheduling requirements for iPrep Math. For the 2018-2019 school term, iPrep Math will be managed solely through the district’s Mathematics Department.
  • All middle schools who currently have the iPrep Math program must continue to offer it in the iPrep Math classroom.
  • Please find attached a list of the 2018-2019 course offerings and codes that must be used when scheduling iPrep Math classes.

Requirements:

  • Courses must have IM as the tenth and eleventh position of the course code.
  • Two full time teachers.
  • Teachers must be coded as co-teachers in the PF9 screen in DSIS and in Aspen.
  • Students cannot be double coded into a course (for example Algebra 1 Honors and M/J Pre-Algebra).
  • Intensive Mathematics courses are not to be offered in the iPrep Math program.
  • The teachers’ schedules should include common iPrep Math planning if the teachers are not co-teaching extra periods. Common planning is strongly recommended in this blended and personalized learning environment.
  • School site enrolls between 176 - 200 students from 6th, 7th, and/or 8th grade (the range of enrollment is dependent on whether the courses taught are middle school or high school level courses).
  • The full-time teachers will have 44 students per period if teaching M/J Grade 6 Mathematics, M/J Grade 7 Mathematics, or M/J Grade 8 Pre-Algebra courses and 50 students per period if teaching Algebra I Honors or Geometry Honors (as per class size mandates).
  • Recommendations
  • Every effort should be made to minimize the number of different preps. It is recommended that the co-teachers have no more than two preps for which to plan in this co-teaching classroom.
  • It is recommended that the instructional periods be homogenously grouped by course.
  • Additional Comments:

oiPrep Math will not fund extra period supplements for planning for the 2018-2019 school year.

oExtra period supplement conditions would parallel that of all instructional positions at the school site.

  • When examining a student’s schedule on the PF1screen, personnel will be able to identify the iPrep Math course by looking for theIM in the tenth and eleventh position of the course code.
  • Except for Intensive Mathematics, schools will continue to retain the latitude to determine the sequence codes for the iPrep Math courses.

Contact: / Michelle R. White, Executive Director ( 305-995-1939 )
Department: / Department of Mathematics and Science