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Principals outline school-level plans to boost reading, math and attendance
Summary
Principals from district schools told the board they have aligned building goals with the superintendent’s strategic plan and will focus on classroom engagement, frequent walkthroughs, targeted interventions and family engagement to raise reading and math outcomes and attendance.
At the Oct. 8 Summers County Board of Education meeting, building principals and curriculum specialists presented school-level strategies to lift student achievement, reduce disengagement and raise attendance.
Miss Brown, principal at Henrya Elementary, said the school’s first goal is to keep disengagement to 10% or less each quarter while raising high-engagement observations by about 3 percentage points. "Our goal is to increase levels fives and sixes and decrease ones and twos which is disengagement," Brown said, describing use of ten-minute walkthrough conversations, weekly planning meetings with the curriculum specialist and monthly PD tied to…
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