Indiana Student Achievement Institute: Document 20
Hagerstown Jr-Sr High School
Language Arts & Mathematics - Standards Analysis During Student Resource Time
ISTEP skill development for special needs and free and reduced lunch students will take place during session two of student resource time. English and math teachers will use pre assessments, supplements to the curriculum and post assessments to bring about improved student perfromance in the second third and fourth nine weeks. This is a full plan only for professional development activities.
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Energy Level: Medium
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Mentor Program
Match at-risk students to teachers for mentor program. Teachers will have face-to-face contact once a week with identified student(s).
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Energy Level: Medium
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SRT/ ISTEP Remediation/Special Education Grades 7,8
A seventh, eighth, and ninth grade Incentive Committee will be established to develop and implement ISTEP review sessions during SRT's during the first nine weeks. All 7-8-9 SRT students and teachers will participate in ISTEP review session and for students who meet the goal incentives will be provided during the first 9 weeks of school year starting in 2007-2008. Bothindividual and group incentive will be provided.
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Energy Level: Medium
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A. Parent Involvement
We will continue to me member of "Communities in Schools (C.I.S.). We have a CIS building coordinator who provides parents with quarterly newsletters, organizes parent teacher conference, provides openning day activities for students and honor roll recognition.
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Energy Level: Low - cont
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B. Technology Coordination: Access Indiana
All high school English rooms are equipped with 25 computers with internet access as a part of the Indiana Access One-2-One project. English teachers are developing lessons designed to meet Indiana Standards using the computer and the internet as a key instructional and learning tool. This is in a full plan only for professional development activities.
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Energy Level: Low - cont
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C. Safe and Disciplined Learning Environment
The assistant principal, the technology coordinator, and the director of maintenance have spent the 2006-2007 investigating different security camera installations and providers. Within the next 18 months installation of these camera at strategic locations should occur.
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Energy Level: Medium
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D. Attendance: Graduation Rate improvement using attendance
Throughout the 07-08 school year Volunteer teachers will select 5-12 At-Risk students to monitor weekly attendance and make daily contact. Full Plan only for professional development
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Energy Level: Medium
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E. Offer Core 40 / Honors Courses
We have a G/T coordinator who continues to monitor, modify, and add honors courses to our curriculum. We have added ACP U.S. History this year and A.P. Envioronmental Science. We will be adding an additional math class in the fall of 07-08 to provide non calculus students with a senior math course. We currently have duel credit course agreement with Ivy Tech in business education.
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Energy Level: Low
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F. Encourage Rigorous Curriculum
Parent meetings are scheduled each February to discuss next year's enrollment. In these parent meeting and in our parent newsletter we encourage students to take rigorous courses. We have required for many years that students take three years of labrotory science and three years of social studies. We have had a 80+ percentage of our seniors get Core 40 or better diplomas.
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Energy Level: Low - cont
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G1. Exceptional Learners - Gifted
We have a G/T coordinator who continues to monitor, modify, and add honors courses to our curriculum. We have added ACP U.S. History this year and A.P. Envioronmental Science. We will be adding an additional math class in the fall of 07-08 to provide non calculus students with a senior math course. We currently have duel credit course agreement with Ivy Tech in business education.
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Energy Level: Low - cont
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G2. Exceptional Learners - Special Education
Much of this school improvement plan is focused on the Special education student group. For more complete refer to local strategy. We provide inclusion in all of our classes and expect all of our students to take the Core 40 curriculum. Full plan only for professional Development.
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Energy Level: Medium
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H. Cultural Competency
We have had and will continue to have a PEER HELPER group. Our Peer Helper sponsor takes these students to summer training where they learn about how to practice and promote tolerance. This group uses the Tolerance magazine for ideas on how to pomote great tolerance. Next year they will participate in the National "mix it up at lunch" day.
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Energy Level: Low - cont
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