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Summers County Schools presentations highlight steep drop in discipline, growth in CTE and student achievements
Summary
At the April 28 Summers County Schools board meeting, school presenters reported large declines in disciplinary write-ups, growth in career and technical education (CTE) work-based learning to over 1,000 hours, and student successes including FFA state-degree recipients and powerlifting records; the board approved a procedural agenda change.
SUMMERS COUNTY, W.Va. — School officials on April 28 told the Summers County Schools board that recent efforts to strengthen behavior supports and expand career-technical opportunities are returning measurable results, including a large fall in disciplinary write-ups and more work-based learning for students.
An administrator leading the presentation said the school’s mission centers on three priorities: attend, perform and behave. On discipline, a staff member presenting the behavior data said the district recorded 2,831 write-ups in 2021–22 and 806 in the most recent year, calling the change “a decrease of 71.5% in write ups through 5 years.” The presenter attributed the decline to schoolwide PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) work, a cell-phone ban and reinforced…
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