Transcript of Extended Day Committee Ava Holt Chris LaBuda Kathy Schnurr Valarie Karas Vince Avila William S....
- Slide 1
- Extended Day Committee Ava Holt Chris LaBuda Kathy Schnurr
Valarie Karas Vince Avila William S. Hackett Middle School Tutoring
Program Proposal
- Slide 2
- Objective The Extended Day Committee has been tasked with
creating a tutoring program at Hackett Middle School. This program
is designed to provide opportunities for students to get extra
help, to make up work, and to foster their overall academic
success. In addition, this program can be used to provide
enrichment or to extend lessons. Overall, our objective is to
provide students with multiple opportunities for success.
- Slide 3
- Related Data Presently, of the 595 students at Hackett Middle
School, 304 students are failing at least one class. Another 212
students made honor roll last quarter. We would like to address the
dichotomy highlighted by this data.
- Slide 4
- Program Overview The proposed program will offer tutoring
services to students who are failing one or more classes at
Hackett. Tutoring will be available from 3:15-4:15 Monday through
Thursday - with two days devoted to tutoring in the core classes
and two devoted to tutoring in elective courses. The program will
also have hall monitors for safety purposes. Enrichment is another
goal of this program and, therefore, presents an opportunity to
extend lessons and challenge our students.
- Slide 5
- Schedule Monday & Wednesday (3:15-4:15) Tutoring
Opportunities for Core Classes Tuesday & Thursday (3:15- 4:15)
Tutoring Opportunities for Specials or Elective Courses
- Slide 6
- Student Recruitment Any student of Hackett Middle School may
participate in the program. Teachers may encourage high-achieving
students to attend for enrichment purposes. Students failing one or
more classes will be especially encouraged to take advantage of our
tutoring opportunities because those students will be placed on
academic probation for each failure. Such students are excused from
the program once they are deemed passing by each of their teachers.
The parents of students who are recommended for this program will
be contacted by tutors from their teaching team. This communication
will relay the benefits of the program and ask for parents to
encourage student attendance in this initiative.
- Slide 7
- Academic Probation Students who are failing one or more classes
will be placed on Academic Probation. We plan to use the most
current available data to determine which students are failing. For
example, if a student received a grade below 65 for second quarter,
they will be listed as a student on academic probation and will not
be removed from that list until their teacher informs the program
coordinator that they are passing. Students on academic probation
cannot attend a teen night, field trip, or assembly. In addition,
they may participate in extracurricular activities, but may not
take part in games or productions sponsored by such
clubs/sports/organizations. For example, a student on academic
probation may attend basketball practice, but may not play in an
actual game until he/she is passing all of his/her classes.
- Slide 8
- Staffing Structure 1 Tutoring Program Coordinator 10 Core
Tutors 8 Elective Tutors Art FACS Foreign Language (2) Health Music
Physical Education Technology 2 Hall Monitors Substitute Tutors 1
permanent Unlimited on-call Considerations for Self-Contained,
Special Education Teachers Although integrated special education
students are assigned to a team, we recognize that this is not the
case for students in self-contained classrooms. Therefore,
self-contained special education teachers may wish to provide
tutoring services for their students and will be compensated (up to
two hours total a week) for tutoring their students.
- Slide 9
- Teacher/Staff Responsibilities We encourage you to sign up to
be a program tutor if you are interested. Otherwise, your role will
be to: inform students of their pass/fail status inform students of
the work they must do (or the concepts they must demonstrate
mastery of) in order to pass provide such work to the tutor
responsible for your team or content area make the appropriate
changes (per the teacher discretion) to student grades upon
receiving their completed work let the tutoring coordinator know
when a student on academic probation has reached passing status in
your class. This will likely occur through email. We will discuss
how these updates will occur with the coordinator once he or she is
hired.
- Slide 10
- Timeline*** January 18 th The Extended Day Committee presents
the plan to the faculty at our February faculty meeting; interested
faculty members sign up to tutor in the program. January 30 th
Staff (tutors and hall monitors) for the program are secured; data
is assessed to determine which students should be especially
encouraged to join the program. February 6 th Begin implementing
the program with students. *** NOTE: Our timeline will likely need
to change due to the status of our SIG funding.
- Slide 11
- Next Steps Teacher Sign Up We have a sign up sheet in our
meeting today. Teacher Feedback Forms Feedback forms will be passed
out to each faculty member. We will ask that they return these
forms before leaving the meeting.