SHS 2011-2012 Course Registration Timeline

February 22nd - March 4th: Teachers enter recommendations online for first and second semester.

Febuary 24th: Rising 9th grade open house

March 4th: Homeroom: students will receive transcripts and program guides.

March 4th - March 18th: SPAN Registration Opens.

  1. Students willuse their current PIN numbers and program guide.
  2. Students will view recommendations and have conversations with parents regarding course selections for the 2011-2012 school year.
  3. Student will go online to SPAN.
  4. Enter your user name and PIN.
  5. Choose from the recommended courses and electives.
  6. Choose 8 primary and 3 alternate courses (11 Total).
  7. Print the verification form. (It will only print once.)
  8. Sign the verification form.
  9. Have your parents sign the verification form.
  10. Have your case manager (if applicable) sign the verification form.

 

You must return the verification form to your 1st period teacher by Friday, March 18th.

Students who do not register on-line by March 18th will be registered by their counselors and lose their choice of electives.
Counselors will choose their classes based on recommendations and courses required for graduation.

Restricted Courses
Please see the designated teacher for application or audition and recommendation:

Band: C. Flowers, cflowers@wcpss.net, room 194
Chorus: M. Butler, mbutler@wcpss.net, room 229
Theater Arts: P. Comperatore, pcomperatore@wcpss.net, room 1
Visual Arts: A. Cretarolo or J. Stevenson, Acretarolo@wcpss.net, Jmstevenson@wcpss.net
PEPI: M. Cody, mcody@wcpss.net, main gym
Peer Discovery: J. Ransone, jransone@wcpss.net, main gym
Teacher’s Assistant: R. Bame, rbame@wcpss.net, Student Services
Science Lab Tech: K. Ewing
Media Assistant: Media center staff
Newspaper: S. Hailey, shailey@wcpss.net, room 216
Yearbook: W. Chapman, wchapman@wcpss.net,  room 231
Early Childhood Education: L. Brown, ldbrown@wcpss,net, room 122
Academy of Finance: Dwight Findlay, dfindlay@wcpss.net
AFJROTC: Col. Penny, rhpenny@wcpss.net, room 197
Teacher Cadet: J. Elmo, jelmo@wcpss.net, room 207 E
Web Development: J. Bennett, jbennett@wcpss.net, rrom 220

Drop/Add Rationale
After students make course requests, we gather the requests to determine the number of sections to offer in each course. We maximize resources by building full class sections. We then assign staff to the sections based on experience and certification.

By the drop/ add point, the SHS school scheduling team has made many decisions in the best interest of the entire school. These decisions involve facility use, teacher employment decisions, as well as the purchase of additional resources (texts, tables, technologies, etc), to meet student requests. A large number of students dropping and adding courses reduces class size balance school wide, and creates inequity in teacher loads and waste in unused resources. 

Therefore, drop/add requests will not be honored simply because the student has had a change of heart. Requests will be honored only as delineated in the drop/add process.

Changes will only be made for these five approved drop-add reasons:

  1. The student has a hole in the schedule.

  2. The student has already earned credit in the course.

  3. The student is a senior and does not have all the courses required for graduation.

  4. The student has a course scheduled out of sequence.

Any other changes must be approved by Dr. Decker or Ms. Bame. 

Whom to Contact
J. Conley: Counselor, A-E students. jconley@wcpss.net. 881-4826
J. Barrow: Counselor, F-L students. jbarrow@wcpss.net. 881-4825
S. Chamblee: Counselor, M-R students. schamblee@wcpss.net. 881-6868
B. Young: Counselor, S-Z students. bcyoung@wcpss.net. 881-4828
T. Mosher: Dean of Students. tmosher@wcpss.net. 881-4827
P. Walker: Summer School . pwalker@wcpss.net. 881-5001.
E. Gillespie: Graduation. egillespie@wcpss.net
R. Bame: Assistant Principal of Instruction. rbame@wcpss.net