“Igniting Minds, Fueling Futures” (R-PHS Mission Statement)
An update on the Accreditation Standard II: Governance & Leadership
As reported in the spring 2009 report, the commendations noted by the Quality Assurance Review Team (QART) for Governance & Leadership were:
- Mission statement is visually displayed throughout the school
- Parents are involved as needed in school
- Parents feel that policies are followed
- Students are aware of writing goal. They write in most content areas
- School is safe
- Many options for students to take advanced and AP courses
- Staff make students comfortable
- Points of pride from each department shared
- Fine Arts Department
- Common Assessments and Common Exams are in place
The QART suggested the following recommendations for action planning for the 2009-10 school year:
- Increase understanding & engagement in the 7 Standards among instructional staff
- Update goals based on data
- Use SRI and Lexile scores as data points for reading goal
- Engage strategies for special ed. subgroup across the curriculum
The action plans that staff have initiated are:
- Restructured NCA Leadership team to develop standard experts to facilitate deeper understanding and implementation with instructional staff
- Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) was given in September with progress monitoring SRI planned for January and final assessment planned for May
- Reciprocal Teaching strategy engages all students to improve not only reading comprehension but to build personal skill sets in the areas of summarizing, questioning, clarifying and predicting
Please take the time to “surf” the high school website. I believe you will be impressed with the information and support services it provides to our students!