Medomak Valley High School, located in Waldoboro, ME, is the only high school in Maine School Administrative District #40 and serves students from Friendship, Waldoboro, Warren, Washington, and Union in midcoast Maine. For decades, the school district had two middle schools - A.D. Gray Middle School, which served students from Friendship and Waldoboro, and D.R. Gaul Middle School, which served students from Warren, Washington, and Union. In the fall of 2008, the year I started at Medomak Valley High School, the district opened Medomak Middle School to serve all seventh and eighth grade students in the district and closed A.D. Gray Middle School and D.R. Gaul Middle School. The new middle school was built at the Medomak Valley High …show more content…
In addition, the past several years have seen recent changes to administration at both schools. Three years ago the long-time middle school principal retired and a new principal was hired from outside the district. This principal was surprised at the lack of collaboration between the schools and would like there to be more. Last spring, the long-time principal of the high school passed away after a battle with cancer that brought the entire community together. The high school’s assistant principal, who was acting principal during the principal’s medical leave, was hired as the principal. He, too, seems ready to build better collaboration between the schools. Now seems to be a great time to begin the collaboration that is needed between the two schools. In 2008, when Medomak Middle School opened, both the middle and high school were very traditional in the delivery of instruction. Shortly after the middle school opened, however, the school moved to a standards-based approach based on the work of the Maine Cohort for Customized Learning. The middle school was the first school in the district to join this program, but this program has since been adopted by the five elementary schools, as well. The schools use an internet website called Empower (formerly called Educate) to track students as they move through Measurement Topics and Content-Area Strands. Since students will take varying
In order to establish and maintain interest there needs to be regular and reliable communication and sharing of information between the school and pupils families. Schools must create an effective partnership by providing an open and communicative environment with its wider community, forming a link between the classroom,
Mountain City Schools have always had a respected reputation for receiving community support. In last couple years, they have been experiencing a sudden decrease in support because of the low test scores on national standardized tests and
If I were principal, my plan to improve school community relations would begin with a whole school concerted to effort to learn about the new cultural groups in the community and provide opportunities for school community members to come together to build relationships with the new families. Secondly, I would make sure to introduce myself to the new community members and use my people skills to build relationships with new businesses and community
When the new school gets opened and operating the new principal should strive for better academic achievements at the new school. The two schools, being two parts of one student body,
Both Wes’s were going on to bigger and better things, both with huge changes going on in their lives and looking at the light at the end of the tunnel things are looking up for both of the young boys. The author is attending valley forge a military school with strict rules and stern leadership to keep kids in line and teach them about growing up and it shows as Wes has started to mature into a well taught well behaved educated high schooler and is being scouted by many colleges for his athletic ability just a few years ago Wes’s future was not looking as bright as it is today. Wes’s clear cut goal at the time was to continue his studies at valley forge till he made the choice to get into the military a goal he set for himself to serve and protect his country something only a couple years ago he would have never dreamed of trying to help another person that he didn't know.
MDIHS is a the primary high school serving AOS 91, which is located in rural Hancock County. Unlike many surrounding districts, the communities served by AOS (alternative organizational structure) have joined “for the purpose of providing administrative services”, including, but not limited to “a superintendent, special education administration, transportation administration, and business functions” (Maine Department of Education, 2015, p.1). Provided this structure each community maintains its own budget, and school board, therefore, in many regards allowing the schools system to be modeled after local traditions (Maine Department of Education, 2015, p.1). MDIHS is a four year public institution with 529 students currently enrolled. Although
R/O responded to Civic Memorial High School in reference to a Juvenile not wanting to listen to the Principal. Upon arrival I spoke with Mr.Kilpatrick who stated that the juvenile had an altercation with one of the teachers and said "fuck you" to the teacher. Mr.Kilpatrick stated that he was only trying to get the juvenile in a separate room away from the hallway but the juvenile would not comply.
In the past year the Board of Trustees have allocated capital funds on the recommendation of Headmaster John Loring to the athletic programs of the school. The faculty and staff have expressed their concern about the spending decisions of the headmaster to support athletic programs over the needs of the students and faculty. This year the trustees have included the faculty in the decision process in order to objectively create a capital budget which will be in the long-run interest of the school.
In September of 2013, the new East Bridgewater Junior Senior High School opened it’s doors for the very first time welcoming students from grades 7 - 12. After reorganization of the three schools in the district, it was decided that the seventh and eighth grade would move from the middle school into the new building. Although the building was beautiful and filled with the latest technology, a wave of negative thoughts and expectations about how the school and the school district functions engulfed the staff. A divide slowly but surely formed between the middle school teachers and the the high school teachers, new policies, programs, and technical changes were implemented with few explanations or input, and administration became as distant
Jefferson Davis was the first, and only, president of the Confederate States. His upbringing and actions as a young man led to a strong belief of state 's rights and the innate right to own slaves. Davis was a strong spokesperson for these things in his early political career. His ability to attract and bring together the Confederacy combined with his military experience got him appointed to President of the Confederacy. His actions during his presidency are often correlated with the Confederate’s defeat. Overall, Jefferson Davis had a huge impact on the outcome of the civil war due to the things he concentrated on as president, missed opportunities, and his stubborn decisions and mindsets during the war; which led to numerous issues.
George W. Hewlett High School (HHS) is a comprehensive school with programs designed to meet the needs of each student. It is located in Hewlett, NY a small section of Long Island. In 1898, the New York State Legislature created Union Free School District No. 14, the Hewlett-Woodmere School District, to serve the educational needs of children residing in Hewlett, a large part of Woodmere. I moved to this district after eighth grade, where I completed high school. Transitioning from a small Catholic school in Queens to this very prestigious public school in Long Island was a seamless shift for me academically; however, not so much socially. Hewlett’s large student population, demographics, and environment were some factors that made my relocation
I am Brenda Gomez, a seventeen year old senior at Valley View High School. High school has contributed in my development as an individual. Throughout high school, I have been able to grow from many experiences, met many people and work towards on my goal to be the first high school graduate in my family. I started my first year at Valley View my senior year. The previous school I attended was Segerstrom High School, which is located in Santa Ana. It was an extremely difficult transition because I was raised there, but over time I adapted to the new environment. It will be a year since my move from Santa Ana to Moreno Valley in May. Next year, I plan to go to college. I decided to receive my general education at Moreno Valley College then, transfer
Large homes surround Maine East High School (See appendix 4). District 207 revenue by source for the year 2014-15 indicates that local property taxes for the district are $113,093,113, other local funding are $6,215,628, general state aid are $3,217,216, and other state funding are $4,239,735, coming to a grand total of $130,270,117 for the District of 207 which only has three schools: Maine East, Maine West, And Maine South ("Illinois School Report Card"). These numbers are incredible
I first started out my learning experience at a school called River Valley Charter School (RVCS). This school was a montessori school that relied heavily on independence and alternative styles of learning. At RVCS their were multi aged classrooms so I grew quickly with helping and learning from those younger and older than me. This eventually helped me in building skill for the real world environments. This though was overcome with negatives. The school was ill prepared for any student with learning disabilities. The group of teachers and students that understood dyslexia was next to none. Everyday that I went to school I felt different in one of the worst ways possible. I knew that I was the same as everyone else but when the teacher took me into the other room for special teaching, that I knew never worked I felt stupid and at the time retarded. The teachers that taught me at RVCS everyday taught me little skills that would help me accomplish my daily goal. And because of this lack of teaching and care I lost confidence in myself. I stopped caring about the
During my second preclinical experience at Westview Hills Middle School, I learned the importance of cooperation and collaboration among teachers at a school. I was able to observe team and department meetings during this experience. It became clear that it is important for teachers to work together in order to provide a positive atmosphere at a school and in a specific department. Although it became obvious that personalities and teaching styles were different throughout the school, the teachers still acted professionally and used each other as resources in