For the fall two thousand and seventeen year, I was placed at Hokes Bluff Elementary School for my practicum. Hokes Bluff Elementary is one of eleven public elementary schools in the school district of Etowah County and has six hundred and eleven students enrolled. Hokes Bluff Elementary enrolls grade kindergarten through fifth grade. Hokes Bluff is one of many schools in the county that is a title 1 school. There objective as a title 1 school is to encourage accelerated learning, so every student can show growth and catch up to their peers. The number of full-time teachers at Hokes Bluff Elementary is 34.3, and that leaves Hokes Bluff Elementary with an 18:1 student-teacher ratio. Hokes Bluff Elementary is considered a large school. Out of the 611 students that Hokes Bluff has, 590 students which makes up 96.6% of the student population is Caucasian. There is …show more content…
About 55.2% of kindergarten through twelfth grade partake in the National School Lunch Program. At Hokes Bluff Elementary, 43.7% of students receive free lunch and 11.5% receive reduced lunch. The participation rate for the National School Lunch Program as an average for Hokes Bluff is 52.8%, which is higher than the average for Alabama. For standardized test, Hokes Bluff has a low passing rate for math and reading. Etowah County Schools District passing rate is a 52%, with Hokes Bluffs being at a 43%. Hokes Bluffs reading scores are right underneath the school district passing rate which is at a 37% and Hokes Bluffs is a 36%. Hokes Bluff is slowly moving forward and as the community would say it, Hokes Bluff is where eagles learn to soar.
As I stated earlier, I am currently placed at Hokes Bluff Elementary School. Every Monday, Tuesday, and Friday I am apart of Ms. Cash's third-grade classroom. As soon as I walked
This case study is a situation from Case Studies on Educational Administration (Kowalski, 2011). The background information is listed below.
Families and students in grades 6 through 10 may choose to attend and admission is by lottery. Student population is about 300 and there is no cost to attend this alternative public school that operates under the same student budget allocation as other district schools.
Thomas Jefferson was a man who believed that all American citizens need to be educated so that they may exercise their rights. He saw public education as essential to a democracy. One proposal he made for public education would guarantee that all children could attend public schools for three years. However, much like other early school reforms, this proposal received much rejection and was never brought into being. Despite this rejection, Jefferson still believed that America needed public education. Eventually, he opened the University of Virginia. Even though his bills and proposals to benefit public education never saw the light of day, he still made many contributions to public education by providing the foundation on how a democracy should handle educating its
If I were in Amber’s situation and I decided to stay at the school I would be persistent with principal in allowing me work with the teachers on instructional matters. Even though he might be against...
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The Hotchkiss school is an unbiased boarding school located in Lakeville, Connecticut. Founded in 1891, the faculty presents an schooling of educational distinction to 613 students in grades nine through 12, and to a small quantity of postgraduates. Students at Hotchkiss come from throughout the usa and round the arena. Graduates attend among the maximum selective universities and schools.
When it comes to Pleviak Elementary School we take leadership very seriously. I spoke with the assistant Principal at Pleviak Nikki Gardner about the leadership framework at Pleviak and at Round Lake Area School District 116. During our talk we discussed how Pleviak uses a distributed leadership framework where decision making is spread across a variety of committees. These committees are then led by a variety of teachers in the building. There are a total of eleven committees that cover a wide range of areas. We also discussed the district leadership team. It is called the School Improvement Leadership Team (SILT) that consists of three to four staff members from each building in the district and they have monthly meetings about facilitating district initiatives that will help meet the district goals.
I walked in and my stomach made a flip-flop like riding “The Scream” at Six Flags. Everyone was staring at me! With their curios eyes and anxious to know who I was. I froze like ice and felt the heat rise through my face. My parents talked to my teacher, Ms.Piansky. Then my mom whispered “It’s ti...
"Beaufort Co Early College High Education First NC School Report Cards 2010-2011." NCSchoolReportCard.org. North Carolina State Government. Web. 18 Jan. 2012.
Education is a topic in which there are so many contributing factors and variables that narrowing the field of research is difficult. To begin, demographics of each individual county are essential for understanding the student population from raw data. Statistics such as population, average annual salary, per child expenditures, and financial budgets add some perspective of what counties have in terms of financial resources. Another critical consideration is the proportion of minority students. Non English speaking students and special education require a higher degree of resources and more financial commitment from educational systems. Schools with high minority populations also have lower overall parental incomes which translate into increases in free and reduced lunch and breakfast. Food insecurity, family stressors, unsafe environments, and the lack of support systems are fundamental contributors to children’s educational deficits. Other important factors to consider are the availability of parental involvement, extracurricular activities, and local, state, and federal programs and legislation. In visiting the schools, the focus was on evaluating the individual school facilities and the area in which they are located.
As Sherwood Middle School’s computers are collecting dust and becoming slow Archaic machines they had to make a decision to upgrade.This year at the Sherwood Middle School whether it’s your first year at the middle school or last in eighth grade they have updated it from the ancient 100 year old technology
Search for Public Schools - School Detail for Banks County High School. (n.d.). National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page, a part of the U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved March 28, 2012, from http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&InstName=banks+county+high+school&SchoolType=1&SchoolType=2&SchoolType=3&SchoolType=4&SpecificSchlTypes=all&IncGrade=-1&LoGrade=-1&HiGrade=-1&ID=130024000169
The typical population of the New Hopewell Elementary School is more toward families who have low income and sometimes cannot provide the necessary resources or opportunities to their children. This is where a community school like New Hopewell intervenes and helps. The school provides healthy and dental plans to families who can not have one. Services such as tutoring, academic enrichment, and counseling for families can be received. They also really encourage and implement family engagement. The school offers many after-school programs for the students to get involved with and allows for many volunteer opportunities for families. I am very surprised at the number of programs they offer after school because they have something for everybody
The school site I conducted my observations was PS/IS 30 Mary White Ovington. Located in the neighborhood of Bay Ridge in Downtown Brooklyn. This school in particular carries grades k-8, however I only observed a 1st grade general education class. This school consists of 54% White (the majority); the minorities: Hispanic: 29%, Asian: 15%, and Black: 2%. It is also
Bonnie the secretary introduced me to my new teacher. As Mrs. Bonnie was leaving the room, my new teacher Mrs. Evaheart introduced me to the class. As I stared at the class I couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed. I wanted to go back to my old school where I had friends, knew almost everyone, a place where I didn’t feel lonesome, a place anywhere but here. As I saw each and every one of my new classmates faces the utter dread that I felt slowly began to fade as I saw a familiar face. Seeing one of my former friends give me a renewed hope that maybe being in this school won’t be so bad after