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Hours of Operation at UBCL

Credit Program

TAPPS

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CREDIT
Program

TAPPS

Evening

Students attend one of three times:

                  

(1)
8:15-12:15

(2)
12:15-4:15

(3)
8:15-3:15

Most students will be placed in one of the houses.

 

MS will be self contained and attend 8:15
-
3:15

Open 4:30 PM
-
9:00 PM
 

Includes

Night School,

TAKS Academy,

Adult ESL classes,

Club UB

Core teachers work:

8:00 - 4:00

Core teachers work: 

8:00-4:00

Teacher hours vary

 

CTE teachers work

8:00-4:00

Varies

 

Other old programs which will be updated and relocated.

Old Program

New Program

New
Location

Target Audience

Effective Date

Program Coordination

Length of Program – Student Enrollment

Language Development Program (LDP)

EXCEL

Program

Irving High School

ELL students who are new to the US with little to no Eng. and/or school

Fall 2008

ESL Department  IISD

One year

 

After one year – students will return to their home high schools as level 1 ESL students

9th Grade Program – 15 year olds

(Overage 8th graders from middle school)

9th Grade Teams

Irving HS, Nimitz HS, MacArthur HS

Overage 8th graders

 

(15 year olds – students placed by MS GPC committees

Fall 2008

Campus Principals

Minimum one year at the home  high school

GPC Placed students from 8th grade

9th Grade Teams and summer school

Irving HS, Nimitz HS, MacArthur HS

Placed 8th graders

 

(15 year olds – students placed by MS GPC committees

Fall 2008

Campus Principals; Tracie Fraley

Minimum one year at the home  high school

Required summer school in summer 2008

 

HS principals will provide mentors

 

Required PGP

*  TAKS Academy students (non-grads) will be coded to their home high school in PEIMS.

 

Programs Previously Housed at UBCL:
Where will they be housed in the future?

Old UBCL

Future Services
will be located

Language Development Program

Very recently arrived, no schooling or gaps in schooling

EXCEL Program
Irving High School, Austin MS

Very recently arrived, no schooling or gaps in schooling

Literacy Lab

Reading below 4th grade level; many also LEP

9th, 10th, and 11th graders

Tier 3 Reading Intervention

Provided at all 5 high schools

Sheltered program; customized student schedule to block

Reading and English courses

MEGA

Designed for over-age under-credited 11th and 12th graders to accelerate credit recovery/accrual

CREDIT  Program

Designed to meet the needs of over-age, under-credited students

Credit recovery and acceleration for students who have met Exit level TAKS requirements

9th Grade Program for Over-Age MS Students

Home High School in Teamed Environment

TAPPS (Teenage Pregnancy Services)

Services hub available at UBCL; Services expanded in 2007-08 to be available at all high schools

TAPPS

Can choose New UBCL or can choose to stay at home high school

TAKS Academy

To be revised and expanded

Increase after school and evening options

Night School

To be revised and expanded

Evening Auto Tech Program

Continue and include in one of the career pathways

 

It is the policy of Irving ISD not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender or handicap in its vocational programs, services or activities as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972; Section 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.  Irving ISD will take steps to ensure that lack of English language skills will not be a barrier to admission and participation in all educational programs and services.

Union Bower Center
101 E. Union Bower
Irving, TX  75061
972-273-6180