Backfield In Motion Case

The Thomas Lay After-School program is a program that has been established since Spring of 2006 to serve the elementary and middle school students of the local community. In cooperation with the University of Georgia, UGA students and other interested volunteers provide assistance for the local students in the form of individual academic tutoring and as a mentor. The program offers a safe environment for the students to thrive academically and recreationally play. It is operated by an executive board of UGA students that works intimately with the local staff at the Lay Park Community Center to facilitate the program for the benefit of the local students. The mission of the program “dedicated

Working in schools for over 20 years, Ms. Morris has gathered a great deal of experience working with students. She has taught in parts of Tennessee, Florida, and Waterloo, Iowa, and has worked with hundreds of students there. What brought Ms. Morris to East High School was the enormous amount of school spirit students had. After attending a school game and experiencing the pride students had for their school first hand, Ms. Morris knew that East High was where she wanted to be. Surrounded by students who were so drenched in their school, she felt stronger desire to get a chance to work with East High Scarlets and fell in love quite quickly.

Elementary School: Backfield in Motion successfully launched a new pilot project in the 2016-17 school year. At the request of the school principal, we began serving students at the Inglewood Elementary School, a feeder school to our middle school program. With a Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS) baseline of zero, a score of 3 or better is considered good, while a TVAAS score of 5 and above is very good. Inglewood Elementary School’s TVAAS student growth was measured the prior year as minus seven. The Inglewood Elementary School was not making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward improvement and needed a high-quality after-school tutorial program with a focus on reading, reading recovery, and mathematics for 3rd and 4th-grade

Peyton shows the same commitment both on the field and in the classroom. As a member of our varsity softball team, Peyton sees his involvement as more than just playing a sport – the experiences and the lessons learned about dedication, winning, losing, leadership and teamwork are most important. It’s enlightening to see how Peyton makes a connection between the classroom and softball. He is able to take the knowledge gained in the classroom and use it in softball and vice versa.

Paul’s father made the choice of moving him and his family to Tangerine Florida, because he got a new job offer and wanted to take it. Paul was excited for his fresh start at a new school with a new name other than “Mars.” Moving to a new school was great for Paul at first, but then everything went downhill from the time he walked through the doors of Lake Windsor Middle School. Paul was told that his classes were outside in portable classrooms, while the sixth graders would be inside with regular classrooms to be in. At the end of the day, everything got worse. Paul faces another complication at Lake Windsor Middle School.

On May 5, 2017, Columbia Valley Elementary staff and the parent of the student William Wittrock met for a meeting to discuss Williams Individualized Education Program. Attending this meeting was Principal Eric Holmstrom, General Education teacher Sarah Leighow, Special Education teacher Katelynn Lansdon, William’s mother Necolena Wittrock and William himself.

While we are playing games that have the teachers as one role and the students as another, we often invite children to participate by allowing them to hold a teacher’s hand and take on the teacher’s role. This can work, but sometimes is difficult and causes other problem. To address this, we could modify our approach to supplying support to these children. Instead of letting them take on the role of the teacher, we could allow the individuals in need of support to show a teacher how to take on the role of the student. The teacher could then, support the child and the child could still participate with their peers and continue the program.

Lonnie B. Nelson Elementary is a public education institution in Richland Two School District, located in Columbia, South Carolina. The school was established in 1963 and celebrated its fifty-third birthday this year. Much has changed since the doors first opened at the “hive” over a half-century ago, but the tradition and history remain just as rich as the community it belongs to. Lonnie B. was named after a local prominent businessman who also served as a member of the school board (“History,” 2016). The school was founded after the renowned Mr. Nelson, in an effort to recognize his contributions and work in the community (“History,” 2016). The original structures of the building still reside in the well-developed, modern, elementary school that Lonnie B. Nelson is today. Renovations and additions have been completed in order to sustain the rapid growth of the population in Northeast Columbia. The most recent changes to the school include; adoption of the Integrated Thematic Instruction (ITI) model in 2006, establishment of the Academy for Civic Engagement (ACE) magnet program in 2007, the active use of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People used as a framework for their community of learners and AVID, Advancement Via Individual Determination, for students grades fourth through fifth (“History,” 2016). Lonnie B. Nelson provides a safe and nurturing environment that focuses on challenging all students academically while

East Lincoln is the highest poverty-ridden elementary school in the area of Tullahoma, Tennessee. The teachers and staff at East Lincoln have caring hearts and are willing to go above the status quo in order to fulfill their students’ needs. On the East Lincoln Elementary School website, their Mission Statement is, “We are dedicated to providing a quality education in safe, welcoming environment that fosters creative and critical thinking in order to produce independent and productive citizens” (East Lincoln Elementary School). This Mission Statement

I have had the privilege of working alongside Ariana Santana the past three academic school years (2013-2016) at Simpson Elementary for the THINK Together program in Rialto, California. I served as her direct supervisor during this timeframe. Ariana is one of the lead volunteers in the program because of her longevity with us as well as her knowledge of the program. Her role as a volunteer consisted of homework assistance, leading enrichment activity lessons, classroom décor, administrative tasks, and organization of components in the program.

“Greece’s great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don’t really act as if we believed in the soul’s immortality and that is why we are where we are today.” This quote from Edith Hamilton describes the human entity in many ways. In this day and age, a person is judged by his/her actions and overall being. To be a human implies making mistakes.

i believe that the native americans should get money instead of land , these are my reason why.

This documentary focuses on two elementary schools in Hartsville, SC. At the time of the documentary, South Carolina ranked 45th in the country in education. Hartsville is a high-poverty area. Though it is a small town, it faces problems similar to what is seen in inner-cities. There is a high minority population and low parental involvement in the schools. Even with these issues, the Hartsville elementary schools have shown significant improvement in education quality. One of the schools went from a C grade to an A grade within a year.

Additionally, our presence and partnership at the Fairview Elementary school has given us the opportunity to care for the social, emotional, and education needs of their whole student body. Now, test scores in math, reading and science have all substantially increased. So, with your help, we would like to place a staff member at a second school location where students are struggling due to low income and difficult family circumstances. With your help, we will positively impact hundreds of students and everyone those student touch in the years to

The next school to present was Floyd C. Fretz Middle School by their principles Mrs. Slaven and Mrs Signor. Overall, Fretz scored an 84.5%. Looking over the information they received from the state, they concluded that the math program was doing well. Mrs. Slaved credited the students for their hard work. In addition to crediting the students, the principle said that the teachers have implemented a new program called HERE. HERE is a program where a teacher “adopts” a student and mentors them whether it is to improve academically or socially. The staff at Fretz feels the program works well with students who are at risk but does not do much for the advanced students. In class we discussed that middle school is a challenging time period for adolescence. I think the program they have implemented will help to greatly ease the challenges students face. In class we