Scottsboro City Schools
District Newsletter October 2021
Scottsboro School Board Recognitions for October 2021
Mr. Lee Benson & Dr. Gary Speers
Not picture: Dr. Speers
2021 Peoples Choice Teacher of the Year
2021 Peoples Choice Principal of the Year
SBOE Completes Whole Board Training
October Work Session
November Board Meeting
November Work Session
Scottsboro City Schools District ESSER Advisory Committee
RED RIBBON WEEK ACTIVITIES
Report Cards
Mid Term Progress Reports
Report Cards
Employee Spotlight Mrs. Cindy Wade
Collins Intermediate Drama Club
Students in grades 5-8 are eligible. Make plans to sign up and audition. Auditions are Oct 23rd and Oct 24th. If you have any questions please contact me at mbrewer@scottsboroschools.net.
SHS Senior Parents ...October 18-22 2021
Christmas Charities Cleaning Supply Drive
SJHS Blood Drive
October Maintenance & Transportation Information
Mr. Ken Holder, Director
OCTOBER 18-22 SCHOOL BUS SAFETY WEEK
Give our School Bus drivers a "Shout Out"!! Safety is a priority when traveling with Scottsboro City Schools.
October Special Education Department Information
Mrs. Kristie Shankles, Director
Additional Information
National Bullying Prevention Month-
Parent Information and Resource website
Parent Information- National Bullying Prevention
Dyslexia Awareness Month
Parent Information
national Center on Improving Literacy
Dyslexia Parent Information Meeting
October 19th @ 5p.m. at Scottsboro Board of Education
Special Education Progress Reports
First nine weeks progress reports have been sent home. Please review your child’s progress towards their IEP goal. Contact your child’s case manager with any questions or concerns.
Individualized Platforms for students
The special programs department is utilizing many new learning platforms that are tailored to each individual child’s areas of strengths and growth. Discuss with your child their daily progress on Dreambox Math, Language! Live, Explode the Code, or Take Flight. We are excited to see the progress milestones that each of our students are making with this targeted instruction.
Parent Project Classes
We are still accepting applications for Parent Project, Jr. Classes. Please contact Rachel Cook, District Social Worker for more information. We will begin accepting applications for Parent Project ( 4-12) in the upcoming weeks.
Project Discovery
We are excited to offer Project Discovery career modules for our Life Skills classes at SHS in conjunction with job shadowing opportunities. Students explore, experience, learn and develop real life job skills with actual tasks and job tools.
MTSS ALSDE Pilot site
Scottsboro City Schools was selected as one of five pilot sites for the ALSDE Multi Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) initiative. MTSS is designed to help schools identify students early and intervene quickly focusing on the whole child. The MTSS process supports academic growth, but also behavior, social and emotional needs, absenteeism along with support for parents and adults. It is a schoolwide approach to student support with teachers, counselors, specialists and community partners to assess students and plan interventions and progress monitoring. We are excited to be honored as one of the selected districts to participate in this three year pilot program to expand our supports for our students.
Mrs. Kim Wilhelm
Ms. Rachel Cook
Mrs. Christa Sims
October Federal Programs Information
Ms. Corky Hood, Director
Department Information
http://p11cdn4static.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_151020/File/SCS%20EOP%20FY22%20revised
LEA Parent Family Engagement Plan 2021-22 Board Approved
http://www.scottsboroschools.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=9855130
LEA Consolidated Plan 2021-22 Board Approved
http://www.scottsboroschools.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=9855132
FY 22 Parent Involvement Annual Evaluation
http://www.scottsboroschools.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=9855134
FY 22 Fall Federal Programs District Advisory Presentation
http://www.scottsboroschools.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=9855136
October Information Technology Dept. Information
Mr. Russ Smith, Director
ALET Conference
SCS
ALET
Russ Smith
October Career Tech Information
Mr. Jason Hass, Director
Department Information
CTE -
We have applied for a $200,000 grant (Expanding CTE in the Middle Grades) in hopes of providing Cyber Security avenues to our 5-8 grades. Keep your fingers crossed!
Our Jackson Launch program is continuing to move forward. This week we coordinated with Johns Manville to arrange for interviews for four engineering-inclined students to begin work in January.
Continue to check in on our CTE Facebook page to see all of the great things happening in the CTE world, a good place to find pictures and info for your Smore.
Mrs. Brandy Whitmire has agreed to partner with community members to provide a Cyber Security club at SJHS. We hope this club will give our students exposure to a growing field...leading to club competitions and more exciting opportunities.
Secondary Curriculum and Instruction -
Principals and Instructional coaches have worked to implement effective remediation periods in ALL of our schools. These periods will allow school personnel to work with small groups of students to close gaps in areas of weakness.
Report Cards go home on Oct. 14th.
We are working with Principals and APs to get them ELEOT Certified. Principals and APs will be focusing on getting into classrooms and providing teachers with feedback for instructional improvement.
Principals are leading routine data meetings with their teachers. These data meetings inform teachers of their students' needs.
All schools (and our system) have completed their annual CIP goals. Elementary principals will be presenting their CIPs to the board on October 21st...secondary principals on November 4th.
Testing/Data
October is a busy month for testing in SCS. SHS will be giving the PreACT (10-6), ACT WorkKeys (10-20), and the PSAT. SJHS will be giving the PSAT (10-13) as well.
Additionally, student Spring 2021 ACAP reports will be sent home on October 14th, with report cards.
October Child Nutrition Information
Ms. Melva Rodgers, Director
Feeding every student
"Our students educational goals are not going to be met unless we nourish their minds and bodies first"
Did you KNOW?
Virtual Students of Scottsboro City Schools and any child who is
18 years and younger can order FREE meals online through https://scottsboro.nutrislice.com/.
All orders must be placed with Scottsboro Jr. High School. Orders will be curbside pick-up from
10:45 a.m. until 11:15 a.m. We ask that you turn onto Garden Drive from Heroes Drive and form
a carline to pick up meals by the lunchroom area. A Child Nutrition staff member will be outside
to distribute meals. We look forward to serving you!
CONGRATS!
Child Nutrition employees for continuing to receive 100s and a 99 on their health inspection scores.
Despite the food and employee shortages we are experiencing at this time, our team continues to work extremely hard to
provide safe and nutritious meals for all of our students.