Appalachian Educators Connection
September 11-15, 2017
Important Events this Week:
- Student Teaching Information Session 12:00pm
- International Student Teaching Informational Session 5:00pm
- Speak Up And Against Hate 7:00pm Belk Library 114 Panelists include:
1. Nancy Love (Professor, Department of Government and Justice Studies)
2. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (Levine Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies)
3. Jordyne Blaise (Associate Vice Chancellor, Equity, Diversity and Compliance)
4. Andy Stephenson (Chief and Director of Public Safety) and Lieutenant Chris Hatton (Boone Police Department)
Tuesday, September 12
- PD What School Counselors Can Really Do for You and Your School 3:00pm RCOE #321 presented by Jill VanHorne, RCOE HPC Department
- International Student Teaching Meeting 5:00pm
- Teacher Ed Orientation---you should have received an invitation 6:00pm RCOE 124B/C
- PD Professor Konrad H. Jarausch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) will give a keynote lecture at PSU starting at 7:00 pm. His talk is entitled “Broken Lives: How Ordinary German Jews and Gentiles Experienced the Twentieth Century.” A thoughtful one-page reflection must be submitted within a week to Trisha for PD credit.
- PTMA Teacher Panel Seminar 7:00pm Walker Hall #103---remember to submit a one-page reflection to Trisha
Wednesday, September 13
- International Student Teaching Meeting 12:00pm
- AppEd Meeting 5:30pm RCOE 124B/C
- Praxis Core Workshop-Reading 6:00pm RCOE 124
Thursday, September 14
- International Student Teaching Meeting 12:00pm
- PD Professional Teams-Veteran Teachers working with Beginning Teachers 3:30pm RCOE #321 Michelle Curry and Hillary Buchanan (Whitnel Elementary, Caldwell County Schools)
- PD Rubrics to Evaluate Reading Comprehension 5:30pm 124B presented by Michelle Curry (2nd grade teacher, Whitnel Elementary, Caldwell County Schools)
Friday, September 15
- SDAP Coffee Talk 8:15-10:45am RCOE Lobby/Rotunda
- PD NC Teacher of the Year 2016-2017 Lisa Godwin 2:00pm RCOE 124
- Teacher Ed Orientation 3:00pm RCOE 124 B/C---you should have received an invitation
Saturday, September 16
- RCOE Open House 10:00am-1:00pm (more info from AppEd Recruitment Committee coming soon)
Meet the NC Teacher of the Year on Friday afternoon!
Lisa Godwin is the North Carolina Teacher of the Year for 2017. She lives at Topsail Beach, North Carolina and is an educator with the Onslow County School District.
Lisa has viewed public education through many different lenses, giving her the unique perspective and ability to be an informed and conscientious voice for the educational community. She began her educational journey in 1997 with the Lee County School District as an instructional assistant and bus driver. Upon entering the classroom, she knew that education was her life’s purpose and went on to obtain her Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Andrews Presbyterian College. After teaching for several years, she obtained her Master of School Administration from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and served as an assistant principal in Lee County for 2 years and then 2 more years with the Onslow County School District before deciding to find her joy again by returning to the classroom! She joined the Dixon Elementary Family in 2013 where she continues to teach and lead. She is married to Rocky, who owns 50 South Surf Shop in Surf City, and has 25 year old twin sons.
Join the Student Yosef Club!
1. How to join...
- Go to appstatesports.com/studentyosefclub
- See a member of Athletics staff or the Student Yosef Executive Board
2. Perks for joining the Student Yosef Club...
- 15 minutes early entry to ALL home football games
- SYC T-shirt (with "Defend Our State" logo)
- SYC stickers (1 for a computer or iPhone and 1 to be placed on your app card)
- All SYC members are allowed to bring 2 additional students into the home football games
- Special events for members only (High Country Lanes Night, etc.)
More questions, contact Matthew Lance at lancema@appstate.edu
School Grades Improve, Graduation Rate at Record High, but Challenges Remain as State Releases Accountability Data
From NC Public School Forum Friday Report:
In the fourth year of the state’s A-F grading system, the percentage of A or B schools (35.8 percent) continued to climb and the percentage of D and F schools (22.6 percent) fell compared to the 2015-16 school year, according to school accountability data releasedThursday to the State Board of Education. In addition, the state’s four-year high school cohort graduation rate continued its upward trend, moving to 86.5 percent from the 85.9 percent figure from the 2015-16 school year. North Carolina’s public schools have set a record graduation rate for a 12th consecutive year.
School Performance Grades are based 80 percent on the school’s achievement score and 20 percent on students’ academic growth. The only exception to this is if a school meets expected growth but inclusion of the school’s growth reduces the school’s performance score and grade.
A majority (56.5 percent) of the state’s high schools earned a grade of B or better. On the growth metric, elementary schools were more likely to meet growth than middle or high schools; 80.3 percent of elementary schools met or exceeded growth. Elementary and middle schools’ performance grades are based on test scores alone, while high school grades are based on test results, graduation rates, and indicators of students’ readiness for college or a career.
Growth data for the 2,531 schools rated showed little change from the previous year, with the percentage of schools meeting or exceeding growth targets changing from 73.6 percent in 2015-16 to 73.7 percent in 2016-17. The proportion of schools not meeting growth dropped slightly as well. Growth is measured by a statistical model that compares each student’s predicted test score, based on past performance, against his or her actual result.
School grades continue to correlate strongly with the poverty levels of schools. Among all schools in 2016-17 that received a D or F, 92.9 percent had enrollments with at least 50 percent of students from low-income families. Conversely, among schools that received at least a B, 72.5 percent had enrollments with less than 50 percent of students from low-income families.
Low-performing schools are identified annually as those that receive a School Performance Grade of D or F and do not exceed growth. Low-performing districts are districts where the majority of schools received a School Performance Grade and have been identified as low performing. For 2016-17, 505 schools were identified as low performing and 11 districts were low performing, both up from 489 schools and 10 districts in 2015-16. The number of recurring low-performing schools increased from 415 in 2015-16 to 468 in 2016-17.
To continue reading the complete article, click here.
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SDAP's 1st Coffee Talk this Friday!
Do you like coffee? Do you like making new friends? Then join us for SDAP's (Scholars with Diverse Abilities Program) FIRST coffee talk of the year in the RCOE lobby next Friday, September 15th, from 8:15am-10:45am. Coffee talk is an amazing way to get to know different people on our campus while getting free food and coffee. There are two ways to participate in the event: we are looking for a few volunteers to help the SDAP scholars set up and clean up but mostly we're looking for people to just come and hang out!
Please help us make this a successful first Coffee Talk!
To sign up please follow the link and put your name down for a shift that says "SDAP student" in the box as well as your contact information on the last page.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11F_i4cgm0XhjCTmD99qj1b14DIaqiMOIdZhltKCncm0/edit
Diverse Committee
GAPP Meetings
Mark your calendars for future meetings at 7:00pm:
September 14, 28
October 19
November 2, 16, 30
GAPP Team contact information:
Logan Land (They/them) landlr@appstate.edu
Michael Jeffries (He/him) jeffriesmt@appstate.edu
Shannon Furr (She/her) furrsk1@appstate.edu
Walker Ballard (He/him) ballardww@appstate.edu
Matthew Thomas-Reid - Advisor (He/him) reidma@appstate.edu
James Center for Appalachian Educators
The mission of the James Center for Appalachian Educators is to recruit, support, and retain teacher education majors during their tenure at Appalachian State to ensure success in the classroom.
Email: cavinessts@appstate.edu
Website: jamescenter.appstate.edu
Location: 151 College Street Suite 506
Phone: (828) 262-6095
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/appstatejamescenter/