YCHS ASPIRE Mentors' Blog: May 2014

Student and Volunteer Surveys

Yes, it’s survey time again!!

You can complete yours from the comfort of your home or even on your smart phone! The link for mentors to use is below. Please take the time to complete this brief questionnaire. It helps me – and ASPIRE—do better each year

Volunteer mentor survey link

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9L8G97P

You are welcome to share the student survey link below with your seniors. (Since it’s considered an exit survey, they are the only students required to take it.) If you do, please encourage them to take the survey on their own: And please insist they let you know when they have taken it!

Students can also stop into ASPIRE and take the survey. I have pinned the survey to the Google Chrome icon of each computer. Simply click the Chrome icon, and the survey will appear. Each time a student completes his/her survey and hits submit, a fresh survey will appear for the next student to use.

Please remind your seniors how critical it is for them to complete these surveys – so we can keep improving how we help students – and retain funding for ASPIRE at YC!

Student survey link (SENIORS ONLY)

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9LJDDYF

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Changes to SAT

You may have been reading/hearing about changes coming to the SAT for 2016. Many are referring to this as a “leveling of the playing field.”

One thing it means is that SAT prep will be FREE through Khan Academy, which has partnered with College Board (the company that administers the SATs). Check it out at this link www.khanacademy.org/sat

2016 seems ages away, but there are changes that students can take advantage of before then: By spring 2015, students will be able to access state-of-the-art, interactive learning tools that provide deep practice and help diagnose knowledge gaps. All of this will be created through a close collaboration with the College Board specifically for the redesigned SAT.
Students taking the SAT in 2014/15 can start practicing today with hundreds of previously unreleased Math, Reading, and Writing questions from real SATs and more than 200 videos that show step-by-step solutions to each question. NOTE: Please be sure to advise your current Juniors about this!!