A principal’s informal conversations helped guide a school’s priorities I began my tenure as principal at West Rowan Middle School in the Rowan-Salisbury School District in July 2015. As a newly hired principal, I maintain a keen focus on the school goals in our school improvement plan and work diligently with our great team to
Physical activity improves students’ cognitive performance. If a pill could improve your child’s self-esteem, memory, attention span, standardized test scores, and ability to problem solve, would you rush to the store and buy it? If it did not need a prescription, was free, had no long-term side effects, and likely would increase your child’s lifespan
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Turning negative perceptions into positive outlooks. Common Core State Standards require that students read at complex levels. Guiding students through these increasingly complex materials can be daunting for teachers of mixed ability students, special education students, English Language Learners, and students considered to be Level 1 and Level 2 readers. Some students do not have
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Education reaches beyond the walls of this charter school. To produce the level of competency in our students that not only allows them to succeed individually but spurs them to be contributing members of society, we must develop our students’ gifts and talents to their maximum potential. Richland Academy School of Excellence (RASE) in Mansfield,
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Working collaboratively to create and sustain effective middle schools. Harrington Emmerson, a U.S. efficiency engineer and business theorist, said, “The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few.
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Parental involvement is critical to student engagement and achievement. Accountability is a powerful motivator in business and in education. As a teacher who often is in contact with my students’ parents, I have always believed that accountability encourages parents to become more involved in their child’s education. One day a colleague asked me if I
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