There’s No Place Like Home!
Eighth Grade Parent’s Night
A night to showcase the things that
make Westlake High School special.
An opportunity to review the course
selection and registration process.
Westlake High School Homepage
http://www.wlake.org
Stay Informed!
Think About it…
“There’s No Place Like Home!”
Why?
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
• A Faculty and Staff that’s the Best in the
Business!
• WHS has nearly 100 Certificated Professional
Educators
• Over 86% of Westlake High School’s Faculty
hold Advanced Degrees.
Westlake City Schools
Staff
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
Engineering and Architecture
Top Engineering Teachers in Northeast Ohio
Cleveland Home and Garden Show
*Each year a Home Design competition is held.
*Students from Northeast Ohio High Schools with
Engineering/Architecture Programs compete.
*The show presents awards to the top ten student
designs each year.
*Since the 2004-2005 school year, Westlake High
School students enrolled in our Technology
Education and Engineering Program have won 51
of the top 60 awards.
What?
Yes!
Top 10 for 6 years=60 AWARDS
We WON 51 of them!
In 2011 we took the top 5 and 7th and 8th in top 10!
One local private school withdrew, sharing with our
instructor:
“If we cannot beat Westlake, we will not compete!”
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
Academic Achievement and Scholarship
Westlake High School Salutes 11 National Merit Semifinalist and
Commended Students!
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
High Expectations for all Learners!
We recognize and maintain the importance of High Expectations for all of
our students.
We understand that each student has individual needs as they begin High
School.
We have a full continuum of Special Education Services and an
Outstanding Staff ready to support each child.
We believe that you do not need to have an identified disability to receive
individualized attention and assistance.
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
An Extra Scoop!
• New Courses this Year
–Strategic Reading and Writing Course
–Mathematics Second Scoop
–Teachers and Guidance Counselors will
work with Students and Families to
register for these courses!
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
An Outstanding Special Education Program
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
Students with an interest in Television
Production
Emmy Award Winning
WHBS Studios
Channel 18/22
Stop By for a Tour Tonight!
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
Students with an interest in World Languages
Spanish
French
German
Latin
All languages offered Level 1 through Advanced
Placement!
Clubs, Travel, International Opportunities!
WHS STUDENTS EARN SUPERIOR
SCORES ON SPANISH CAAP TESTS
Of the Westlake High School students who took the exam, 47
percent outscored third quarter OSU students in writing and
speaking tests.
National Recognition!
WHS senior Samantha Buck is the first in Westlake’s
Latin program to be elected to a National Office
within the Junior Classical League.
Samantha was elected National Parliamentarian by
Latin students from around the country.
New This Spring!
Evening Courses available in Mandarin Chinese
and the Arabic Language
Coming Soon!
Greek
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
Leadership Development
Westlake High School offers unique
Co-curricular experiences through clubs and
classes directed at Leadership Development!
Leadership Challenge
Westshore Young Leaders Network
Facing History and Ourselves Leadership Senators
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
19 Advanced Placement Course Offerings
*Studio Art
*English 12
*Language and Composition
*French
*Latin
*German
*Spanish
*World History
*US History
*Comparative Government
*Chemistry
*Environmental Science
*Biology
*Physics
*Calculus
*Statistics
*Art History
*European History
*US Government and Politics
Resulting in HUNDREDS of hours of college credit
issued to Westlake High School Graduates each year!
66 AP Scholars Named this Year!
National Recognition!
National AP Achievement Award
• Westlake High School is one of fewer than 400
schools in the Nation on the Annual AP Honor
Roll for performance on Advanced Placement
exams. Westlake is one of only two in
Northeast Ohio to achieve this distinction for
two consecutive years.
Those Hundreds of Hours of
Credit equal Hundreds of
Thousands of College Tuition
Dollars saved by Parents who
pay the Bills!
$$$$$
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
ATHLETICS
*Only 3 of the 827 High Schools in the State of
Ohio have more interscholastic Athletic
Teams than WHS.
*In the last 3 Years WHS Teams have won 12
Southwest Conference Championships
Athletics
*So far this Fall we have a District Championship
*This Fall, 3 WHS Student-Athletes qualified for the State Finals
*3 Soccer Players were named All State
*Over 25 WHS Athletes in the last 2 years have gone on to compete
at the College level. 6 of them signed National Letters of Intent
for scholarships to play Division 1 and 2 College Athletics
*More to Come!
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
Starting College Early!
In the last year, 32 WHS students
earned high school and college credit
simultaneously through the Post
Secondary Options Program.
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
Students wanting to attend the most Selective
Universities in the United States
In the last few Graduating Classes we have students attending:
The Naval Academy at Annapolis
Purdue University
Columbia University
Brown University
The University of Virginia
Cornell University
Harvard University
Dartmouth University
Duke University
Vanderbilt University
Notre Dame University
Carnegie Mellon
Northwestern University
University of North Carolina
Stanford University
University of Pennsylvania
William and Mary
MIT
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
Community Partnerships and Internships
NASA
Cleveland Institute of Art
VEX Robotics
Poly One
Hyland Software
LCCC
The Cleveland Clinic
Eveready
Crocker Park
The Ohio State University
Trout Unlimited
RE Warner & Associates
Cleveland State University
AECOM
Kent State University
Z Space Technologies
The Cleveland Indians BGSU
The Cleveland Cavaliers Chamber of Commerce
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
Service Learning
Every member of the class of 2016 will be
required to complete 15 hours of structured
Service Learning each year of High School.
It will be a requirement for Graduation.
WORLD CLASS
INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
A Retrospective Analysis of Patients
Presenting to the Cleveland Clinic with a
Suspected Concussion
Cleveland Clinic
Science Internship Program
Lauren Choban, Stetson Thacker, Adam Bartsch, PhD, Bob Gray, ATC, Richard Figler,
M.D., Edward Benzel, M.D.
Spine Research Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic
Background
Concussions are vastly under reported
•Predicted only 50% are diagnosed by medical
personnel
•
•
Mean Symptom Scores (ImPACT)
Top Five Sports of Subjects
CCF Sports Health Center oversees 13,000
athletes in NE Ohio
CCF Sports Health Center utilizes neurocognitive
and motor assessments to detect severity of
injury and return-to-play time
Currently it is difficult to asses return-to-play
decision for concussed athletes
•Second Impact Syndrome
60
Type of Sports Played by Subjects
16
14
Number of Patients
•
Conclusions
Athletes Studied
10
Helmet Contact
8
Helmet Non Contact
6
No Helmet Non
Contact
n=62
(?=27,?=35)
0
Basketball Football Soccer Lacrosse Wrestling
Sport
•
40
*
30
*
4
2
•
50
No Helmet Contact
12
Score
•
Data
Chart on left describes the distribution of sports played by
concussed athletes. Top five concussion-frequency sports
are displayed.
Chart on right describes the distribution of athletes across
helmeted and/or contact sports.
20
*
10
*
0
=Significant
p value
(p<.05)
1
2
Visit
3
4
=Norm
Comparison of Mean of Reaction Times
Results
1
0.63
Hypothesis
Methodology
• Received IRB Approval
• Extracted Concussion Data from CCF
Database
• Digitized data into an Excel spread sheet
• Analyzed scores of athletes ages 13-20
years for up to 4 visits (n=62) who
presented to the CCF November 2010 to
May 2011
Mean Balance Test Scores (BESS)
0.6
Mean of Drop Test
Rxn Times
40
0.4
Score
35
30
0.22
0.2
25
*
*
20
15
p= 2E-19
0
Tests
1
10
5
*
0
1
2
Visit
3
=Significant p
value (p<.05)
=Norm
4
• Above graph displays mean reaction times from
ImPACT and from Drop Test.
•ImPACT: Simple and Choice
components
•Drop Test: Only Simple component
Recommendation
s
Acknowledgements
•
•
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Office of Civic Education Initiatives
Spine Research Laboratory
Cleveland Clinic Sports Health Center
Prasath Mageswaran, MS
Brian Perse, JD
Bibliography
Significance
Mean Reaction Time Scores (Drop Test)
0.27
Between Visit
1 and 2
Between Visit
1 and 3
Between Visit
1 and 4
ImPACT
Sympto
m Score
.029
<.001
.019
Reaction
Time
.001
<.001
<.001
<.001
.108
<.001
0.25
0.23
Time
• If concussed athletes ages 13 to 20
presented themselves to the Cleveland
Clinic, then their BESS, Reaction Time,
and Symptom Score’s will significantly
improve with subsequent visits.
Mean of ImPACT
Reaction Times
0.8
• Balance, Reaction Time, and Symptoms
Score are all significantly different by Visit
2
• Visit 3 BESS score is not significant
(p=.108)
•Additional visits needed for
severity of concussion
• No correlation between ImPACT and
Manual Reaction Time
•Measure different response
aspects
• Current Neurocognitive and Motor
Assessments of Cleveland Clinic are
satisfactory in tracking recovery and
return-to-play time
• Analyze effect of gender on concussion
tests
• Examine larger population of athletes
•Year-round data from Sports
Health
• Compare baseline to post-concussion
scores
*
0.21
*
0.19
*
0.17
=Significant
* p value
0.15
(p<.05)
1
2
Visit 3
4
=Norm
BESS
•Lovell, Mark, Joseph Maroon, and Michael
Collins. "Concussion Resource
Center."Impacttest.com. ImPACT Applications,
Inc., 2011. Web. 22 July 2011.
•Schatz, Philip, et al. "Sensitivity and Specificity
of the
ImPACT Test
Battery for Concussion in Athletes." Clinical
Neuropsychology (Aug. 2005): n.
pag. impacttest.com. Web. 22 July 2011.
Cleveland Clinic Expressions
26 of our AP Art and Ceramics students produced art work.
More than 1,000 original works of art were submitted.
WHS Student won 1st place and Best of Show.
2 of the last 3 Years, a WHS students has won Best in Show.
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
Instrumental Music
The Pride of Westlake: The WHS Marching Band
Orchestra
PEP Band Music History
Jazz I and Jazz II
Concert Band
Symphonic Band
Music Theory
For more than 17 consecutive years, our Symphonic
Band has earned the top ratings at the OMEA state
competition! Our Orchestra; for more than 10
years.
National Music Competitions in Atlanta, Orlando, and
Boston has been DOMINATED by WHS Musicians!
Last Year our Orchestra and Symphonic Band
were invited to perform at the OMEA Annual
Professional Music Educators Conference in
Cincinnati.
This Year our Jazz Band was invited to
perform at the annual Ohio School
Boards Association Conference in
Columbus!
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
Vocal Music
Company D Show Choir
Mixed Chorus
Symphonic Choir
Chorale
Treble Choir
Quintessence
WHS Octet
Men’s Chorus
For 9 Consecutive years, our Selected Vocal Groups have earned Superior
ratings at the OMEA competitions!
Vocal music attends a National Competition every two years. The last
two Competitions in Chicago and Boston were DOMINATED by WHS
Vocalists!
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
Visual Arts
*Look At the WHS Art Gallery!
*Nationally Recognized Artists
*WHS Art chosen as best in the 10th Congressional
District four times in the last six years. It was
displayed in the US Capitol Building.
*“Best in Show” awards from the Cleveland Clinic
eXpressions Program
*Lauren Voiers-Sculpture for John Lennon in the UK
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
State of the Art Facilities
The Class of 2016 will enter the
NEW Westlake High School for
their Sophomore Year!
There’s No Place like Westlake High
School For:
Students to:
*Achieve their Educational Goals!
*Acquire the skills to Direct Their Lives!
*Contribute to Society!
*Represent their Family and Community
*Be a Part of Something Special for the rest
of their Lives!
The Course Selection and
Registration Process
Middle School and High School Guidance Staff visit
classrooms to explain the process.
Late January, the 2012-2013 Program of Studies is available.
Students fill out Course Selection Sheets in class and discuss
with Parents.
Course Selection Sheets turned in at LBMS and sent to WHS.
Courses scheduled by WHS Guidance Counselors.
Students with conflicts or schedule issues contacted
personally by WHS Guidance Staff to finish scheduling.
Students receive complete schedules at Freshman
Orientation in August.
Freshman Electives?
• At Westlake High School incoming Freshmen could enroll in:
Art Foundations
Creative Writing
Debate
Drawing
Mixed Chorus
Chamber Orchestra
Painting
Webpage Design
WHS Band
Know Your Home
Focus on Fashion
Print Journalism
Jazz Ensemble
Music Theory
Music History
Introduction to Computer Programming
Public Speaking in the 21st Century
Design
Personal Fitness
Technical Drawing and Design
Computer Applications
Cartooning/Animation
Women’s Ensemble
Any of 4 World Languages
Acting Workshop
Foods
Television Production
Design Squad
WHS Band Auxiliaries
To Honors or Not to Honors?
That is the Question!
• Awareness of ability, work habits, extra or cocurricular participation.
• Maturity
• RISKS?
• REWARDS?
• Rely on Your Teachers!
Sample of Student Schedule
Period
Course
Room
• 1
Art Foundations Café
• 2
Physical Ed.
135
• 3
Algebra I
202
• 4/5
Orchestra
155B
• 6
Lunch
Café
• 7/8
English 9H
224
• 9/10 P. Science H
246
• 11
W. History 9
110
• 12
Spanish II
221
Teacher
Shiban
Patton
Kocar
Walczuk
Staff
Peebles
Planisek
Jones
Bendik
Sem.
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Block Schedule (Wednesday)
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•
•
•
•
Block 1
7:55-9:28
Block 3
9:34-11:04
Block 5/Lunch 11:10-11:40
11:43-12:13
12:16-12:46
12:49-1:19
Block 7
1:25-2:55
Art Foundations
Algebra I
Lunch
English 9 H
English 9 H
English 9 H
W. History H
Block Schedule (Thursday)
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•
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Block 2
Block 4
Block 6/Lunch
Block 8
7:55-9:28
9:34-11:04
11:10-11:40
11:43-12:13
12:16-12:46
12:49-1:19
1:25-2:55
Physical Education
Orchestra
Lunch
P. Science H
P. Science H
P. Science H
Spanish II
What Now?
1. Go online at wlake.org and look at this year’s Program of
Studies. It will give you a good idea of next year’s
offerings.
2. Think about electives!
3. Make decisions with your teachers and parents about
HONORS sections.
4. Discuss support in Reading , Writing and Mathematics
with teachers and parents?
Student Perspective
• Mr. Malek Khawam
“Thank you so much for everything you've done this year. I do think that
because of this class, I'll be ready for any college math class that I'll be
taking in the next 4 years.”
“Your class was one of the classes I looked forward
to going to every day because I knew I was going to
learn something.”
“I am taking calc-based physics in college and I'm extremely
thankful that I took your class. I use my notes from high school
more than my notes this year.”
“Thank you for your
enthusiasm in teaching. I
appreciate all the time you
spent teaching us out of
class as well. It made a
difference for me.”
“I appreciate the time and
patience you spent with me.”
KUDOS to you for touching the lives
of your students and know that your
dedication and hard work were truly
noticed.
You have helped me to foster an enormous interest in
poetry. You have helped me change from the super
awkward, wire-rim wearing freshman to the slightly
less awkward poetry writing hipster of today.
WHS, the students, parents and the
community are very fortunate to have
you teach our children.
It means a lot to me to have a teacher who really cares about not
only what is being taught, but about the students who learn it.
Mr. Freeman is the
best! He’s handsome,
intelligent, and
deserves a huge raise!
Bravo for setting the expectations
for your students high and never
letting up until the end. Your class
epitomizes what Westlake High
School is all about…YOU educate
for Excellence!
As parents of a student who just finished 4 years
at Westlake High School, a special Thank You to
what has to be one of the best English
Departments in the country.
I have my first College Biology Exam
tomorrow and I wanted to tell you that I
feel pretty good about it, especially since
I have the notes from your class last
year!
Your name was brought to our attention
by one of your former students. Your
dedication and commitment to excellence
deserves recognition.
QUESTIONS
Departments, Teams, Clubs/Activities
Cafeteria and Halls
Refreshments provided by the Westlake High
School PTSA!
Thanks!
See You at Orientation!
There’s No Place Like Home!