SHS 2009-2010 Course Registration Timeline

February 23 - March 6: Teachers enter recommendations online for first and second semester.

March 4th: Rising 9th grade open house

March 6th: Homeroom: students will receive transcripts, PIN numbers, and program guides. SPAN PIN numbers will be re-set.

March 6th - March 20: SPAN Registration Opens.

  1. Students will receive their PIN numbers and program guide .
  2. Students will view recommendations and have conversations with parents regarding course selections for the 2000-2010 school year.
  3. Student will go online to SPAN.
  4. Enter your user name and PIN: ( homeroom teacher will give you March 6th )
  5. Choose from the recommended courses and electives.
  6. Choose 8 primary and 3 alternate courses.
  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 March 20th.

Students who do not register on-line by March 20th 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: K. Sumner, ksumner@wcpss.net .Trailer 4
Visual Arts: A. Pearson or J. Stevenson, Apearson@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: E. Battle, ebattle@wcpss.net, room 209B
Science Lab Tech: Science teachers
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, 122
Academy of Finance: Jill Oliver, oliver@wcpss.net
AFJROTC: Col. Penny, rhpenny@wcpss.net, 197
Teacher Cadet: J. Elmo, jelmo@wcpss.net, 207 E
Web Development: J. Bennett, jbennet@wcpss.net, 192 (3rd pd.)

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.

Drop/Add in the summer after schedules are mailed
Once schedules are posted on-line, students will have the opportunity to participate in online drop-add. Ms. Battle, in order to be consistent, will respond to all drop-add requests. Current Sanderson students will receive a registration newsletter with PIN number and drop-add information. Rising 9th grade students will receive the newsletter and PIN number in the mail in the summer. 

Changes will only be made for the 5 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.
  5. The student would like to balance core courses between the two semesters.

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

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
M. O’Connor: Counselor M-R students. moconnor@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
C. Munn: Summer School and Graduation. cmunn@wcpss.net. 881-5001.