Assistant Principal Summer Smith sits at her desk with the 2022-23 school year course list displayed behind her in Room 129 on Jan. 27. Class registration for the 2022-23 school year started on Jan. 26 in Advisement and teachers have attended training sessions over Zoom to help students correctly register for the right classes so that very few changes will have to be made to schedules at the start of the new school year. “(Students should) be patient with everyone because it is one big complicated system,” Math department and senior adviser Nicole George said. “It’s not so easy to just move one student out of a (class) and move them to a different class, but that messes up numbers.” Photo by Janie Ripps
CCHS students have begun planning their class schedules for the upcoming 2022-23 school year in Advisement.
On Jan. 26, Clarke Central High School students began selecting courses to take for the 2022-23 school year, a process also known as registration.
Advisement teachers attended a Zoom session on Jan. 5, hosted by Assistant Principal Summer Smith, where they learned how to navigate registration.
“We talked about the process (teachers) should be doing in Advisement (such as reviewing the) graduation checklist, the conversations they should have with kids, what they need to do for parent conferences and then the technical part of logging into the student portal,” Smith said.
Although registration can be a confusing process, there won’t be any major changes to class structure for the upcoming year, so Smith feels it should flow smoothly this spring.
“Going from a seven-period day to a block schedule (was hard in the 2020-21 school year), but now that we’ve (made) that adjustment there’s not a whole lot of changes. The biggest thing that changes every year is what we offer,” Smith said. “We are offering some new things that I think people will be excited about.”
One change will be that in the 2022-23 school year, a variety of new courses will be offered to students ranging from Holocaust and Genocide Studies to Entomology.
“I think it’s been beneficial (to have more classes) because we’ve seen a lot of really cool electives pop up this last year,” math department teacher and senior adviser Nicole George said. “For next year, I’m sure that we’re going to have a lot more electives so I’m excited (about) that.”
“Take registration seriously and pick those good alternate (classes) because chances are you’re gonna get in them.”
— Summer Smith,
Assistant Principal
According to Smith, in order to help the registration process function smoothly, students should start to become familiar with the classes they want to take in the upcoming 2022-23 school year so that minimal changes have to be made in August.
“The biggest thing that I need students to understand is what the process is. Now that we’re on a block schedule, everybody thinks that they can drop and add (courses) in the spring but that doesn’t happen,” Smith said. “Take registration seriously and pick those good alternate (classes) because chances are you’re gonna get in them.”
