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Danville New Tech High
Welcome to Danville New Tech High School. We are part of a three programmed school (New Tech, Global, and Ace) that are separated by staff and teachers. New tech consists of a staff of fifteen teachers, a director, IT support, and a secretary. The whole program contains approximately 240 to 250 students mixed with sophomores and juniors. New Tech was first introduced to Danville High on August 26, 2009. Students from the lower class such as freshman will be attending the New Tech program next year.

Origins of New Tech
Napa New Tech was founded in Napa Valley, California 1996. It is located on the southern tip of California. The reason for making New Tech is to get students involved in hands on learning with projects. Also New Tech was designed because students weren’t employable throughout the U.S.

Campus
Dual Classrooms- American Studies are taught by Mr. Bretz and Ms. Myer. The other teachers that have a dual classroom are Ms. Monteer and Ms. Bell who teaches political studies and street law.

Shared Campus- Third Floor Hallway is for new tech students only.

Curriculum
Project based learning –Focuses on using technology to help students with their work, also the projects that we do help students In real world situations. The teachers help us to find ways to find the answer rather than just telling us.

The classes in New Tech are

Computers
Since the goal of New Tech is to learn with technology, students in the program receive lap tops. The lap tops are modern and help students work a lot faster than using books.

Project Based Learning
Project Based Learning focuses on using technology to help students with their work, also the projects that they do help students in real world situations. The teachers help students to find ways to find the answer rather than just telling the students. By teachers not telling students straight on what the answer is, it helps students not rely all the time on a higher authority, but to look hard enough and find what they are looking for.

Project Process
The Project Process is a list of things to do in order to help understand what the project is about

1.Entry Document- a document that you read to see what the project is that we are doing.

2. Knows/Need to Knows- helps the students know where to begin on there project and if you have any questions it’s the best time to ask.

3. Scaffolding – assignments other than the project to further help you understand your overall project.

4. Workshops- for students that don’t understand something or need to learn how to do something that is mandatory for the project.

5 Pillars
The 5 Pillars are rules that are expected of the students’ everyday of the school year.

1. Accountability- being reliable for your actions.

2. Adaptable- being able to keep on going even through tough times.

3. Procedures- rules or actions that are to be followed in solving a problem or task.

4. Respect- Have respect for your self as well as the people around you in a professional environment.

5 Role- what you are expected to do individually in order to help your group pass.

Procedures and Protocols
In New Tech students have protocols, they are things you have to do for whatever the protocol may be. For example, students in Danville New Tech have a visitor protocol which is whenever a visitor comes to the class students have to do 3 things. First wstudentse introduce themselves by saying their name and the grade they are in. Then they let the visitors know what it is that the students are doing. Finally the students ask if the visitors have any questions.They also have procedures that they must do every day the students come to class. For example in American Studies they have to come to class get their computers sign in and then log into pebl, a website that they get their work from that the teachers have earlier posted. After they do that they click on the class they are in currently, and then read agenda for the day.

New Tech Activity Day
Every first day of school New Tech students are greeted with an unusual first day. New Tech students are welcomed with an activity day. An activity day is a day where all the New Tech students can interact with eachother in a fun, positive day. A few activities involve putting on a frozen t-shirt, and a shooting beach balls into hula hoops. These are team-building excercises, that will help us out later when we are in groups. In New Tech, you work on a project in groups, it is great for working with others in a professional environment when you are older.

Danville New Tech Advisory Team ==

The Student Advisory team at Danville New Tech High are