Because YOU MATTER!!

Big PictureEvery student will be scientifically literate and be on a clear college

readiness path in May 2014!

Who me??

Yes YOU!

You need to be ready to serve our neighborhoods, nation and world.

You deserve opportunities, and the world deserves your talents…don’t cheat us out.

We’re waiting on you!

CollegeTo have this as an option:

Must past all OGTsGraduate from High SchoolScore well on the SAT and/or ACTHave extracurricular and enriching experiencesFinancial Aid

Colleges want students who are READY! They give money to students who are BEYOND READY!

Enrichment OpportunitiesEveryone should engage in an enrichment

activity this summer, science or otherwise.A few options for students with a serious

interest in science.NOAA Center For Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) Careers

Camp at Howard UniversityStudent Conservation AssociationNortheast Ohio Research Education Medicine Alliance

(NEOREMA)Youth Technology Academy at Cuyahoga Community

College

Score the ACT31.B32.G33.B34.F35.D36.F37.B38.H39.A40.G

College ReadinessThe ACT Test tests College ReadinessA Science ACT score of 24 is considered

College ReadyColleges want to enroll students who are

ready, lets make sure we’re ready!

Science OGTLast year, only 25 % of 10th graders passed

the Science OGT.Last year, only 58% of 12th graders had

passed the Science OGT.EVERYONE must pass this test to graduate

high school!

Everyone should gain 1.5 years between their first NWEA this month and at the end of the year.

I’ve never liked science…I’ve never been very good at science…I’ve never been good at school…

So what? This can change!!

YOU can change this!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh1uff62SO8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh1uff62SO8

Malleable? Function: adjective Etymology: from Latin (malleare to

hammer) 1 : capable of being extended or shaped

by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers2 : having a capacity for adaptive change

How do you think Barack Obama got smart? Do you think he’s a natural, or that he

exerted tremendous effort? Explain.

Malleable Intelligence:Reading Makes You Smarter

What do you know about Malcolm X? What do you think of him? Did Malcolm

X read a lot? When did he start reading?

Reading Makes You Smarter

True/False.

Reading Makes You SmarterFacts from recent studies:

A landmark study released in 2000 by the Alzheimer’s Association examined pairs of elderly twins in which one had dementia and the other was healthy. Twins who later became demented read fewer books.

Reading habits between the ages of six and eighteen are crucial predictors of cognitive function decades later (Neergaard 2001).

According to the Reading/Language Arts Framework for California Public Schools all this recent research “indicates that the volume of reading affects general cognitive development” (p. 186).

The New York Times, May 1, 2009

Some people live in romantic ages. They tend to believe that genius is the product of a divine spark. They believe that there have been, throughout the ages, certain paragons of greatness — Dante, Mozart, Einstein — whose talents far exceeded normal comprehension, who had an other-worldly access to transcendent truth, and who are best approached with reverential awe. We, of course, live in a scientific age, and modern research pierces hocus-pocus. In the view that is now dominant, even Mozart’s early abilities were not the product of some innate spiritual gift. His early compositions were nothing special. They were pastiches of other people’s work. Mozart was a good musician at an early age, but he would not stand out among today’s top child-performers.

What Mozart had, we now believe, was the same thing Tiger Woods had — the ability to focus for long periods of time. . .

* What do you wonder about, in the reading? * Can you assume anything based on reading this text? * What is the most important information in the text? * What is the text saying?* Do you agree with this text?

The latest research [shows that] the key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark… Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft. The recent research has been conducted by people like K. Anders Ericsson, the late Benjamin Bloom and others. It’s been summarized in two enjoyable new books: “The Talent Code” by Daniel Coyle; and “Talent Is Overrated” by Geoff Colvin…

This research takes some of the magic out of great achievement. But it underlines a fact that is often neglected. Public discussion is smitten by genetics and what we’re “hard-wired” to do… But the brain is also phenomenally plastic [i.e., MALLEABLE!]. We construct ourselves through behavior. As Coyle observes, it’s not who you are, it’s what you do.

* What is the text saying?* What does intelligence mean to you? * What is the most important information in the text? * Do you agree with this text?* Did this reading change your mind in any way?

Time spent reading and test scores:Percentile Rank

Minutes of Reading each day

Words Read per year

98 90.7 4,733,000

90 40.4 2,357,000

70 21.7 1,168,000

50 12.9 601,000

20 3.1 134,000

10 1.6 51,000

What do you think of these figures? Could you read for 90 minutes/night? Why or why not?

To sum it up:You read—

you get smarter.

Period.

Reading Prepares You for the World

Students who graduate with the ability to read and think critically will be at an advantage in the New Economy.

The next generation of unskilled workers runs a much higher risk of being unemployed than ever before in our nation’s history.

Check out these statistics:

Jobs in the United States:Decade Professional Jobs Skilled Jobs Unskilled Jobs

1950’s 20% 20% 60%

1990’s 20% 60% 20%

2010 ? ? ?

More Numbers:Education Level Median Career

Salary

No HS Diploma $24,492

High School Diploma $33,904

Bachelor’s Degree $55,432

Doctoral Degree $84,448

Professional Degree $90,220

What degree do you want to get? What do you think you’ll need to do to get it?http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_001.htm

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

Reading, thinking, discussing—in this

class—is an investment in your future!