Principal's Corner
Volume XIX - April 23, 2017
It's MUSICAL Week!
Showtimes:
Friday 4/28/2017 @ 7pm (Opening Night)
Saturday 4/29/2017 @ 7pm
Sunday 4/30/2017 @ 3pm (Matinee)
Notes from the RHS Administrative Team
- Final Round Observations have begun. Please ensure lesson plans are up to date in OneNote.
Campus beautification work completed - by May 5; Judging and winner announced - Week of May 8
PNC Bank will be on campus Friday during all lunches to meet with any interested faculty. They will have pizza for you. Location TBD.
HB 13 has made a move in the NC Senate. Check out an article here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article146082179.html
UPCOMING DATES
- Skills USA travels to Greensboro Wed-Sat.
- RHS Musical "The Sound of Music" Fri-Sun.
- May 4: E-Prove and BrightBytes Surveys taken in homeroom.
- May 24-27: Odyssey of the Mind WORLD FINALS in East Lansing, Michigan
SHOUT OUTS!!!
HOW ARE YOU FOCUSING ON THE WILDLY IMPORTANT?
DATA SPOTLIGHT: ELEOT
Section E: Progress Monitoring 2016-17
PLC Spotlight - See how PLCs turned around Fairdale High School in Fairdale, KY
In 2010–2011, Fairdale High School was identified as a “Priority School,” meaning the school was Persistently Low Achieving by NCLB guidelines and in the bottom 5th percentile for math/reading achievement in the state of Kentucky. Community and local media did not perceive Fairdale to be a location for high academic achievement and college readiness.
In 2011–2012, Kentucky adopted the Common Core State Standards. A new accountability and assessment system considers not just proficiency in math and reading, but also measures student achievement using a growth model related to college and career readiness. Administrators, counselors, and teachers analyzed the available assessment data to ensure each student had the maximum opportunities and resources to meet state requirements. Then, the school challenged all stakeholders to assist in the goal of improving student learning and school culture simultaneously, with a clear vision, mission, and set of collective commitments all focused on preparing each student for post-secondary education.
The first step in turning Fairdale around was to create an atmosphere of shared leadership and expertise. With the guidance of Solution Tree consultant Garrick Peterson, Fairdale implemented the Professional Learning Communities at Work™ model. The PLC at Work™ process brought teachers to a collaborative space focused on using data to seek best instructional practices, assess student achievement, improve current instructional methods, and get achievement results. Fairdale faculty are working together to sustain a culture based on the belief that all students can learn given the proper time and motivation.
Teachers are committed to working with each student on a standards-based curriculum, using common formative and summative assessments, and using all time available until ALL students have learned. The use of standards-based common formative assessments by each team in each course provides daily and weekly data as to how students are progressing on standards and skills for college and career readiness. A flexible intervention system allows students to recover standards-based learning and skill sets immediately, and offers multiple opportunities for that recovery to occur.
To measure success in meeting our collaborative goal of college and career readiness, Fairdale uses the ACT assessment that is given to every 11th-grade student as the capstone of student achievement. To be college ready, a student must hit the College for Post-secondary Education benchmarks in English, reading, and math on the ACT test. Those benchmarks are 18 for English, 19 for math, and 20 for reading. By becoming a PLC, Fairdale cultivated a culture where learning for all is truly supported. The percentage of college- and career-ready students as measured by ACT rose from 9 percent to 34.7 percent in three years.
By the year 2015-2016 the percentage of college and career ready students as measured by ACT rose from 34.7 percent in 2011-2012 to 64.1%.
VISIT THE NCDPI MTSS WIKI PAGE
Teacher of the Month
Teachers, please announce this to your students, and post the link in your classroom.