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by Kaitie Quinlan1 view·Updated Aug 9, 2022
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  1. Hi guys and welcome to a new school year here at insight.
  2. My name is Katie Beavers and I have been
  3. assigned as your academic counselor for the school year.
  4. Um so whether you're a returning student or um your brand new,
  5. I just wanted to share a short video on who
  6. I am and what academic counselors do here at insight.
  7. Um so first a bit about me, this picture is me and my two year old son.
  8. His name is Noah and we live here in Altus Oklahoma and
  9. this is my second year serving as an academic counselor with I.
  10. S. Okay. Previously I taught geometry here at I. S.
  11. Okay and before that I've taught all levels of
  12. high school math in a brick and mortar setting.
  13. Um The academic counseling program here at I. S.
  14. Okay is a great collaborative effort and we are so proud to be
  15. here and serve your academic needs and the main points of our program,
  16. our academic planning
  17. and graduation plans.
  18. If you haven't already,
  19. I would strongly suggest that you log into your
  20. Ols and take a peek at your graduation plan.
  21. Um Grad plan is a schedule of all assigned courses through graduation.
  22. So it has all of the courses that you've already taken at your previous school,
  23. what those grades work, right?
  24. And what credit you got for those as well as if you scroll down,
  25. you can see your current classes that you're in,
  26. um those will show in progress and then you can even see
  27. all the classes you're scheduled for all the way to graduation.
  28. Um So even if you're coming to I.
  29. S okay as a lower classman,
  30. you'll be able to see all of your assigned
  31. courses between now and the time you graduate.
  32. So to access your graduation plan, which again,
  33. I strongly advise you do as soon as you can, you go to your Ols,
  34. so I'm gonna make this bigger so you can see it a little better.
  35. Um So this is the home page of your Ols.
  36. You're gonna go to what I call the paperclip also can be called the link.
  37. It's between your name and the envelope and then you go down to my graduation
  38. plan and this will open another tab and bring you to that graduation plan.
  39. So when you have that graduation plan open, it looks like this
  40. and there are two ways you can view your graduation plans.
  41. So this one that you're looking at is called the year view.
  42. Um In this view you can see all of your past,
  43. present and future assigned courses and it's broken down by year and block.
  44. I did also want to point out the very top bar with the
  45. credit summary shows how many credits it has to take to graduate.
  46. Um how many credits you have earned? How many credits do you still need?
  47. And then those last two should always be zero unless
  48. we are waiting on a transcript from a previous school.
  49. Um those credits, those 23 credits that you need to earn.
  50. You can't just have those in whatever you want. Right?
  51. So if you need to see what specific courses you need to graduate,
  52. you would want to view it by subject view.
  53. So that's right there by the year
  54. and this is what subject you looks like.
  55. Um, so in this one,
  56. you can see all of your course is broken down by subjects required for graduation.
  57. So all the english courses or house together all the computer courses,
  58. all the fine arts, etcetera.
  59. So you can see everything you need specifically.
  60. So why does your graduation plan matter?
  61. So you can view all your assigned courses
  62. and keep track of your credit requirements.
  63. You can see that light at the end of the tunnel,
  64. you can see exactly what you need to take to get to graduation.
  65. Um, Grade level promotions are based on the number of credits earned,
  66. not by your age.
  67. Um, so even if you're graduating, you're scheduled to graduate this year,
  68. you're scheduled to graduate next year.
  69. Your grade level does not determine your graduation.
  70. Um, You need 23 credits to graduate, but as I said before,
  71. they are in specific subjects matters.
  72. If you have four credit, it promotes you from ninth to 10th grade,
  73. 10 credits promotes from 10th to 11th and
  74. 17 credits promotes from 11th to 12th grade.
  75. Um, so there are two graduation tracks approved by the Department of Education.
  76. There's the college prep track and the core track.
  77. So college prep um is default for ice Okay students,
  78. so you'll be automatically enrolled into the college
  79. prep track unless you have documentation stating otherwise.
  80. So the tracks are really pretty similar with a few exceptions,
  81. so the court track only requires one unit of computer, foreign language.
  82. Um but it does require more electives.
  83. Um You can go to college via both tracks,
  84. so don't let the names confuse you but you may
  85. not be eligible for Oklahoma's promise on the core track.
  86. So that's a really big difference.
  87. So if you are on Oklahoma's promise, you need to be on the college prep track.
  88. If you would like more information about the tracks feel free to reach out so
  89. I can get that to you which brings me to how to reach me.
  90. So I'm gonna put that on the screen here.
  91. Um So I would strongly suggest you snip this so I'm gonna make it big again.
  92. Um This shows my email address.
  93. Um It shows my phone number and it also shows my text only number.
  94. If you call that last number, that text only number, I can't answer it.
  95. Um So make sure you reach out that number via text only.
  96. The best way to reach me is via email but I do have an office number and um
  97. the text only number you see there on the board. So your action steps for today.
  98. I want you to find your graduation plan go to your graduation
  99. plan and see what your current classes are for this block.
  100. Um See what you need to do to go to graduation.
  101. Um Contact me to make any changes that you would like and get a strong start.
  102. Um Thanks for listening to me today and of course,
  103. reach out if you need anything for me.
  104. Thanks guys.