Areas of improvement mainly focus on the lack of traditions present in the school and the lack of ceremonies. Both of these problems may be due WCA’s relative youth as well as the high turnover rate in teachers and administration.
With high turnover, very few traditions have been established and this lack is clearly felt. The few traditions that have been started are not continued and new traditions are started instead. Therefore, students and teachers are not emotionally invested in the traditions. One current tradition administration is attempting to establish is a Mardi Gras Ball. Teachers and administration felt that it was important for students to celebrate something unique about our area and give students a chance to socialize. However,
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While Kindergarten has successfully had a graduation ceremony each year, no other grade level has consistently had honor roll ceremonies, promotion ceremonies, or any other form of award ceremonies. This is a problem because a lack of ceremonies is also a lack of recognition of student, teachers, and parents’ effort and the success students have had due to this effort. By failing to recognize success, WCA is failing to encourage growth towards the goal of achieving a school performance rating of a C and a renewal of the charter. In this situation, the easiest solution that would have the biggest impact on the culture is to publically celebrate those students who have made honor roll each quarter. Currently, some teachers recognize these students in their classrooms but students are not recognized in front of their grade levels or their parents nor are they recognized by their dean or principal. In order to recognize their achievement and continue to encourage their effort, a short assembly can be held the week after the quarter ends in which teachers can present an award to their honor roll students. It can be done by grade band (K-2, 3-5, 6-8) and parents can be invited. The awards will be uniform with all students receiving the same award. In this way, students and parents can see that we celebrate their success, especially right now when there is pressure on the school to increase our performance academically in order to stay
...ntegration of student-faculty conferences, educational facilities will become places full of smiling, bright scholars. As a current student in high school, it is very easy to see these issues in the education system. Each day I walk the halls beside exhausted zombies who debate whether they should use their lunch periods to get math help in the library or sacrifice a club so they could read a chapter of anatomy that is not even relative to what they talk about in class. Due to the ever-increasing competition and subsequent elevation in performance standards, kids’ academic and emotional prosperity is only going to get worse. When I am an adult and have children, there is nothing more that I would love to see in their long drives through high school than an improvement in the education system, so that they would not have to struggle through school my peers and I did.
“When schools, parents, families, and communities work together to support learning, students tend to earn higher grades, attend school more regularly, stay in school longer, and enroll in higher level programs.” (Van Roeckel, 2008, p. 1) Deer Valley High School in Glendale, AZ is the first high school built in the Deer Valley Unified Scholl District, and with a population around 1800 students, the high school is one of the bigger schools in the state. It has a tradition of family on its’ campus, where there are still teachers teaching that were there when the school opened in 1980. A number of former students have become new teachers on campus and just about all the teachers’ children have attended and graduated from the campus. With a school like ours, there are many connections to the community around it and it is demonstrated by the programs that bring in parent and community to help with the development of our students. There are numerous booster clubs run on our campus to help support student achievement on the sports fields, a school to work programs to teach the students necessary skills in different areas of either nursing, sports medicine classes, and in the culinary arts classrooms, and funding to our school to help ensure all students graduate on time. There are many programs on our campus, but I will discuss four of the programs: baseball booster club, C2G program, “school-to-work”, and the special education program sponsored by Arrowhead Hospital. These programs are designed to improve the relationships between the campus and the people in the community, and give all students on campus every opportunity to succeed in their future.
MARDI GRAS!!!!! Yes, New Orleans' famous Carnival season is this years' never-ending party and you're invited. Mardi Gras, famous for its colorful and cultural parades, is an experience you can't go any longer w/out! The Streets are packed with both tourists and Native Louisianans as they celebrate Mardi Gras in full color and sound. . The Huge Parades come flashing down the street we fresh music, an explosion of lights, and spectacular floats. Everyone is having a great time, enjoying the festivities of the parade. So you're new to Mardi Gras, but don't want to act like it? Here in brief, are the basic facts about Americas' greatest party.
She highlights the disruption that the decision causes schools by addressing a situation that took place in Sarasota, Florida and how, after the school had named co-valedictorians, “teachers considered boycotting graduation” and “students talked about booing” the student who had originally been given the valedictorian status (114). Talbot emphasizes the emotional state of the school after two valedictorians had been named in order to pander to her audience’s empathy. The notion of teachers “boycotting” graduation (a typically excitedly anticipated event) and students “booing” a student who had put four years of her life into academic success solely due to a slight change in tradition conveys the idea that the preservation of the prestige of the position should be maintained rather than watered
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I begin the second theme with the last two stanza’s of Bob Dylan’s 1962 song Blowin’ In The Wind. The symbolism that the answer to situations is out there in the wind and why are we not listening represents what some of my participants expressed. Yet, though expressing the sentiment that the larger society knows what schools need to achieve equity, the equity school leaders in this paper did not remain silent. They took action. In the following I will describe the sentiment of the school leaders and the actions they have taken to move their schools toward equity. Due to spacing I will only focus on a few principals. Equity school leaders seek external funding to supplement what the district gives them and they create partnership with organizations
Every school in the United States has one objective: to prepare the students of their establishment for the challenges that are brought upon them everyday. With this in mind, the members of the National Honors Society are displayed as the top tier of their domain; ones that are intellectual leaders, who put others in front of their needs, and are unique in every way possible in comparison to their peers. I am honored to the fullest extent about the fact that I have been invited to this professional league of students across the United States, giving me the option to reveal only a certain amount of the traits that make me an honorable member of this association. As one who values the importance of discipline and education, teaching the generation
In recent years many people have voiced their concern about an apparent decline in American students’ achievements. This has become a reoccurring belief for many teachers, parents, and school districts throughout the United States. As a result, many states have begun to increase the amount of credits necessary to fulfill graduation requirements in hope to enhance education and make American students more globally competitive.
Talbot expresses the fact that kids, who so badly want the title of valedictorian, “[work] harder” to meet the academic standards (225). Stacking up AP courses and clubs and raising G.P.A. keeps the students as qualified as they can be in order to become valedictorian. Talbot also goes on to say how single-valedictorian is “endangered” (226). Students are so hung up on wanting to be this honorary title that they are willing to attack their school. Talbot not only uses statistics such as the G.P.A. increases between 1990 and 2000 (225), she also uses personal stories from students. The students interviewed reveal how little they think of the honor now, yet they felt that valedictorian was the highest title received in their high school days. Talbot using feelings and encounters from past students allows the audience to see the main point that, to most, valedictorian doesn’t matter.
Once the results were in, I filled the gaps of those subjects. Consequently, out of 141 graduates, 10 students, including myself obtained High Honors, the highest graduation category available for students who attained 9+ exam passes with grades A-B and I attained 13 external examination passes. At the graduation ceremony, I received the SOY medallion, an award presented to students who” demonstrate efforts above and beyond the classroom
As much as this class has grown together, every one of us has also grown as a unique individual. We have found our talents and interests. These interests have drawn us to different activities and in turn helped shape our lives. Some of us have excelled academically while others have helped improve Summer High School by participating in activities such as Link Crew or ASB. Some of us acted in plays while others shared their musical talents by singing in the choir or performing with our outstanding band. Many of us have preferred to be involved in community service with a group like KEY Club. In addition to these school activities, many of us have invested time in jobs and other community activities.
The board members had two high school students, one of them was from McNair High School and the other one was from Lodi High School. The board members had both students tell them what’s going on in there high schools. They both presented their school report. The two high school students talked about the issues they had in their school. After the students gave their report, the president of California School Employees Association expressed her gratitude by thanking the principal of Julia Morgan School to allow the board meeting to be held in Stockton.
Class of 2012, as we sit here this evening, I would like you to take a look at the classmates sitting around you. Many students have given countless hours of time, energy, and passion to worthy cuases that they have been a part of throughout high school. However, those aren't the only students deserving of recognition this evening. We have students here tonight, who have taken a stand for what they believe in, not even hesitating to compromise their reputations.
Let me begin by saying that I am very honored to be addressing the County High School Class of 2012 as students of this institution for the last time. We've spent these last four years creating some serious memories: four years of chieftain power, leaking roofs, questionable Homecoming skits, and musical principals. Four years of good teachers, bad teachers, new teachers, old teachers. Four years of youth, music, growing up and breaking free. Four rubber chickens, four yearbooks, four ASB presidents and four chubby bunnies.
The entire community plays an essential role in the growth and development of children within our community. As a school leader, building an inclusive school culture that is open and friendly to all stakeholders using a variety of effective methods is crucial. There is no magic formula to incorporating a positive school culture, much depends on the leadership of the campus. The leadership on campus cultivates the climate providing support and respect for everyone invested in the student’s education.