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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">PLEASE do not reply to this email, contact Tamara Friedman
<a href="mailto:tamarafriedman@berkeley.net">tamarafriedman@berkeley.net</a> <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Physics for 9th Graders: A key step in BHS’s alignment to
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">the Next Generation Science Standards</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The BHS science department is planning a new course sequence beginning this fall (August 2017) that will, in the following year, be extended to all incoming 9th graders. This shift involves
changing the science course that incoming freshman take from Biology to Physics 1.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If approved by the School Board this spring, all incoming 9th grade students in the Berkeley International High School (BIHS) and the Arts & Humanities Academy (AHA) learning communities would
begin with Physics 1 in the fall of 2017, and the change would be fully implemented for all 9th grade students in 2018-19.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The proposed change to the science course sequence will
<b>not impact any current BHS student.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Information Session: April 18, 7-8pm</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">All are welcome to join BHS science faculty and educators for an information session on April 18th from 7 pm to 8 pm in the BHS Library to learn more about the evolution of science instruction
at BHS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://bhs.berkeleyschools.net/next-generation-science-standards-and-physics-for-9th-grade/" target="_blank">This web page</a> is designed to give you information about the shift to
Physics 1 and the implementation of California’s Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) at Berkeley High School.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><img border="0" width="1" height="1" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.gif@01D2B367.238ECC10" alt="https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/RnNZfQn2o2xpggJQqefCOervMbPIci5mujDPJnvl43kv6Rtxjyh5gHN_JKVzeU-aaGz3pePFgxfoAAtZJZNx8mveVTc-11j98EfuAJVcumUenA=s0-d-e1-ft#https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tamara Friedman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Vice Principal, Berkeley High School<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">Marguerite Fa-Kaji, Catherine Ference and Dylan Kaufman are the parent-volunteer facilitators of the Etree; please direct any questions about the Etree to them at
</span><a href="mailto:bhs-owner@lmi.net"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">bhs-owner@lmi.net</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">BHS etree archives:
</span><a href="http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/" target="_blank" title="http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">BHS website:
</span><a href="http://bhs.berkeleyschools.net/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">http://bhs.berkeleyschools.net/</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#17365D;background:white">BUSD Non-Discrimination Statement / la Política de No Discriminación:</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD;background:white"> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/BUSDNDPolicy" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue;background:white">http://bit.ly/BUSDNDPolicy</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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