Attendance is to school what rebounding is to basketball—it is hard work, requires effort and persistence, and it often goes unrewarded and unrecognized, but schools can’t be successful without it.
Archive for the ‘Safe and Orderly’ Category
Good Education Needs a Quality Environment
January 31st, 2012
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While great teachers, students and administrators can overcome the worst of conditions to create academic success, there is little question that outdated educational facilities can make a difficult task, educating adolescents, downright daunting.
Miss School and Miss Out
January 11th, 2012
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Attendance: Wake-Up Calls Go High Tech
February 21st, 2011
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"Truancy is a nationwide epidemic and the old tools don’t work."–Travis Knox, President of AIM Truancy Solutions Desperate to improve student attendance, schools are now using GPS devices to track truant students. According to a recent report schools in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Kentucky, Kansas and California "have resorted to fitting students with hand-held GPS devices the [...]
One for all, and all for one: No Thanks!
October 11th, 2010
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by Stuart Singer, The Teacher Leader Education has clearly become a white-hot topic. Recently, NBC dedicated much of an entire week’s programming to the subject. And one of the most popular items for discussion was the issue of tenure for teachers. Heated words both pro and con were thrown back and forth. One of the [...]
WE THRIVED!
September 11th, 2010
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Mention accountability and most principals think about state assessments and “adequate yearly progress.” However, when I think of accountability, I think of a lot more than state tests, I think about real world assessments. Today, September 11, is the anniversary of 911, and I couldn’t help but think how our school was put to a [...]
