DRHS ESAP

The acronym ESAP stands for Emotional-Social Adjustment Program. When social or emotional challenges rise to the level of interrupting education, the ESAP classroom allows students to work on grade-level content while addressing the concerns in their individualized education plan (IEP). This program involves a specialized counselor dedicated to students within our classes. Copings strategies and social/emotional growth lessons are often embedded into the content curriculum as standards allow. 

Meet the Other ESAP Teachers

Mrs. Craig

Dawn Craig is the Special Education Department Chair here at DRHS as well as the ESAP math teacher. Before she was a teacher, she was a paraprofessional for 5 years. She has experience teaching resource and co-taught Math as well as resource Respect. She has 3 kids (Zhana, Zoey, Eli) and a crazy huge extended family that she is so thankful for. She loves watching movies, shopping, and hanging with her kids. 


Mrs. Fox

Hi, my name is Shawna Fox. This year will be my 17th year as a teacher. My husband is also in education and works at a neighboring middle school. After 28 years of marriage, we have seven children altogether; five of whom are DRHS alumni.  It is my determination to allow students to learn academics while acquiring strategies to face challenges. I will approach most subjects with humor. I expect this to be a fantastic year.  

Rules

1. Respect Staff

2. Respect Students

3. Respect Self

4. Respect Stuff

Grading 

Students and parents can view up-to-date grades online. 

Students are expected to complete all work assigned in class. You will not be excused from classwork because it is past due; we will make time for work completion. 

Homework will not be assigned. We are geared toward success, and students will be given every opportunity to learn content and complete work in class. Refusal to complete work during class time will require students to make up the time.

Points

Students will earn behavior points at the end of each week. Those points may be redeemed for weekly rewards. Weekly rewards based on the points earned:

Bronze

Silver

Gold

What can I buy with my points?

School supplies, beverages, candy, chips, popcorn, ramen, minute macaroni, choice activities, gaming time, campus movement options, etc.  Donations of these items are welcome and greatly appreciated.

Class Flow

GPS  Rules

Students are expected to follow all classroom and school rules; whether expressed or implied.  You are high schoolers. You understand what the expectations are and there will be no avoiding accountability on a technicality. Misbehavior to a substitute teacher, para-pro, office staff, or custodial staff will result in consequences.

Brain Power 

We work smarter not harder. You will learn and use strategies to get your brain wrapped around classroom content and empowered to maintain control of misdirected neurological responses. 

Class Participation

All voices are wanted in the class discussions. Listen when others are speaking, and look when instruction is on the board. Participation is part of both your grade and behavior logs. If you choose not to complete work during class time, arrangements will be made for you to complete the work before/after school or during your lunch hour. 

Fairness

Fairness means everyone gets what they need, not everyone gets the same thing. Each student in our classes will be educated according to their needs, and that may look a bit different for everyone.

Student Folders

Each student will have a work folder that will include the current week’s Lead Sheet and any paperwork completed. This folder is to be left in the classroom for grading and progress monitoring.  

Cell Phones  

Cell phones will only be used during class time if students are directed to use them for a specific classroom activity. If incorrect usage of a cell phone disrupts instruction, arrangements will be made to keep the device inside your backpack.  Finishing your text, game level, or conversation is not a reason to disregard the teacher. 

Parents, if you need to contact your child, please phone the office.  If you feel so inclined, keep phones at home – they are not needed at school.  

Classroom Interruptions

On occasion, our classroom will have interruptions like a visitor, school announcements, and work phone or intercom calls. Students are to work quietly and remain in their seats until the interruption has ended.  Do use it as a moment to misbehave. 

Stay in Your Seat

Students are to stay in their assigned seats unless given permission to leave them. You will need permission to sharpen your pencil, turn in paperwork or relocate within your team.  We will talk about individual movement needs and options as needed.  If it is not in your IEP, do not ask to leave class early.  Do not order food to be picked up during class. Do not cross between rooms during class time. When on ESAP escort, you will wait for staff availability and move as their schedule allows, not when you demand.

Computers

Computers are to be taken care of at all times. If you are having difficulty logging in, alert a teacher and we will help you. 

We will do the majority of our work on the Google Classroom platform. Please save your documents with the project title you have been given. Work that you do not save in the computer will still need to be completed and submitted. Always go through the proper steps to shut down your computer. 

Do not touch any other student’s computer. Do not activate sound effects with keystrokes. Do stay on task and in the assignment you are instructed to work on. 

Bathroom 

The expectation is that you attend to bathroom needs during passing periods. Repeated departure from class may result in a restriction of privileges once it is determined that there is not an extenuating circumstance. Students may be escorted at staff discretion.  

Staff Supplies & Furniture

Stay out of it and off of it unless it’s for students.  Do not move any furniture around or bring other pieces into the room, including student desks and chairs.  

Counselor Visits

Our counselor has multiple scheduled appointments and meetings throughout the day.  If you need a non-emergency meeting, an appointment will be required. Students are most often seen within the same day.

Tardies & Absences

Ongoing tardies and absences will be tallied and the time made up in the learning lab.  

Extended Time

Extended time on work does not apply when you refuse to complete work during class time.

ESAP Course Descriptions

Ms. T

English 

This course will build on the integrated literacy skills from English II, and will focus on the analysis and synthesis of seminal U.S and world texts, both fiction and non-fiction, to determine how structure, organization and presentation of a text helps organize ideas and details. Students continue to develop the skills of using inference and textual evidence in the comparison and analysis of multiple texts to evaluate and analyze both literary and cultural context, author point of view, use of rhetorical and literary devices, and purposes for writing. Development of critical research practices, including development of student-driven questions, will drive student writing for multiple purposes and audiences through the use of quality argumentative, informational, and narrative writing elements.

Curriculum Support Class 

This course will provide students with specialized labs that will utilize the research-based curriculum to support identified needs of students, in addition to providing structured reteaching of the curriculum. Additional topics covered include organization, time management, test-taking strategies, effective study technique, note-taking, self-advocacy, and problem-solving. 

Mrs. Craig

Essentials of Algebra I 

This course will focus on linear, quadratic, and exponential functions, including sequences, and also explore the absolute value and piecewise-defined functions. Students will develop fluency in writing, interpreting, and comparing functions given graphically, numerically, symbolically, and verbally and use them to solve problems. Students will also explore a formal means of assessing how a model fits data.

Essentials of Intermediate Algebra 

This course will develop Algebra II concepts while remediating fundamental algebraic skills for students who did not achieve mastery in Algebra I. This course will extend algebraic and geometric concepts and apply these to polynomial, radical, rational, exponential with real exponents, and logarithmic functions. Students will continue to develop fluency in writing, comparing, solving (including complex solutions), and interpreting problems represented by the above function families as well as explore the effects of transformations on their graphs. Students will examine data on two quant. variables to choose functions and make conclusions in context of that data. 

Mrs. Fox

Earth Science

This course digs in to discover and explain natural phenomena on Earth and in space through chemistry and physics concepts. Major topics include geologic structures and functions, the dynamic and interrelated systems of the Earth, weather and climate, natural resources, map reading, and astronomy.

American/Arizona History

This course will examine United States History, beginning with its foundation to the present. Course content includes: the American Revolution and the birth of the nation; nation building and sectionalism; Civil war and Reconstruction; the emergence of modern America; the Great Depression and WWII; post-war United States; and contemporary United States. Because inquiry is the cornerstone in the study of history and the social sciences, students will develop and utilize skills in the same context as historians and social scientists. These skills will include analyzing primary and secondary sources, reasoning and contextualization, causation, continuity and change over time.

Psychology

This course will examine human behavior. Topics will include the history of psychology, and explore the topics of learning and memory, methods of research, states of consciousness and analysis of behavior. This course will also explore infancy and childhood, adolescence, adulthood, personality theories, psychological testing, stress and health, psychological disorders, methods of therapy, social cognition and social interaction.