Moving Beyond Everyday Expectations

This year, in conjunction with our implementation of the Common Core State Standards, our school has established an Instructional Support Team and a Leadership Team.  Mr. Kuhn is our Instructional Support Team Lead Teacher.  He and I attended a meeting recently and returned with a plethora of information to begin the process of developing a Data Plan.  The Data Team (our Leadership Team and administrators) will focus on our EOC classes and will meet with these teachers during the first week of December.  We will dissect the data and begin the RTI or Response to Intervention process.  This is the system that we will use to provide intervention for struggling students. I am so excited about getting to this point of the year.  As we consider our data, we will begin to make instructional decisions in an effort to close our achievement gap.  This is a crucial part of our School Improvement Plan and also one of the key areas of growth as determined by our Equity and Culture Assessment.  The complete findings from the assessment will be shared during the BOE meeting on December 17th.            

One key element to closing our achievement gap is increased/improved vertical teaming.  This is includes working with our primary feeder school, Knox Middle.  We began our partnership, Moving Beyond Everyday Expectations, last week and I am definitely looking forward to doing some great work with the teachers and students of Knox.  If you or your organization is interested in working with us, we would love to have you!  We need mentors, tutors, program presenters, and meal sponsors.  If you have not already done so, please email me your ideas and anticipated start date and let’s get the ball rolling! Thank you for your continued support!  Have an Incredible Week and Go Hornets!