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Learn how Chowan Middle School has established a structure for sustained excellence in this overview of their Professional Learning Community, Positive Behavior Support, Academic Excellence Academy, and more.
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Chowan Middle School 2009-2010 School to Watch
What is Schools to Watch? • Schools to Watch® is an initiative launched by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform. • Academically Excellent • Developmentally Responsive • Socially Equitable • To achieve this level of performance, high-performing schools establish norms, structures, and organizational arrangements to support and sustain their trajectory toward excellence.
How has Chowan Middle School established a structure to sustain their trajectory towards excellence?
Professional Learning Community • Mission • Vision • Beliefs • Motto
Other Structures • Teaming • Walk-throughs • PBS (Positive Behavior Support) • Communication and Recognition • Scheduling • Start Time • Homebase • Various Schedules to Protect Academic Time • Planning Time Protected • Duty Free Lunch
Academic Excellence • Academy • Corrective Reading • AIG Program • NC Quest • Technology Integration • Accelerated Reader • Focused Use of Data • Focused Instruction
Developmental Responsiveness • Discipline Procedures (School/Bus) • Check-in/Check-out • Young Men of Direction • Student Development Center • Bulldog Buddies • Celebrations • Pyramid of Behavioral/Academic Intervention
Social Equity • Core Zero • Heterogeneous Grouping/Common Strategies • Gold and Maroon Clubs • Student Council • Career Day • Job Shadowing • 5th Grade Orientation • 8th Grade Transition • Service Learning Projects
What Happens Next? • Middle School Conference March 14-16 • April 14, 2010 Celebration @ 1:30 • Posted on Web • School Visits • Staff Development Requests • 3 Year Renewal