The Spring Creek After School: A Case Study

In the fall of 1980, the Congregation of Calvery Community Church, led by Pastor Dr. Carl Godwin, founded Parkview Christian School. Under the leadership of Bob Winebarger, the school began as a Kindergarten through eighth grade school. “Those were glorious days, Winebarger relates, “as we saw God’s hand moving to provide a Christian School to the residents of North Lincoln. Within two years of opening, the school expanded and began to offer a K-12 academic program. Continuing to expand to minister to families in Lincoln, a preschool and daycare were opened in the fall of 1991. Parkview Christian Schools now operates three separate locations for preschool and daycare for young children. A few years ago, Parkview Christian School stepped out from the umbrella of the church and became a separate non-profit entity.

Through the recommendation by Tara Hills, Riverboat High School principal, the girls’ volleyball coach, Blanche Barnhart, was approved by the board with a 5-2 vote as the athletic director last May. The superintendent and the business manager, Fred Jones, from the central office were reluctant supporters and critical of the promotion. Over the summer, Coach Barnhart, made changes to the athletic budget causing equitable spending for boys’ and girls’ sports. She primarily made changes to the boys’ football budget and the boys’ basketball scheduling. Although this caused some discontent amongst the coaches involved in those sports, overall it addressed the animosity that was historically noted by the coaches of the other school sports and

High School is an incredibly important period of life. It influences your social, academic, and personal life for four years, and prepares you for college and a career. This is the reason County Prep High School is my school of choice. County Prep's thriving social environment, challenging academic curriculum, and wide variety of electives will help me successfully carry out my plans for the future.

Identifies skills, theories of change, program designs, partnerships, and ways of building schools where students achieve.

“The transformation model requires replacement of the school principal, strengthening of staffing, implementation of a research-based instructional program and new

In an effort to maintain trust, transparency, and professionalism transparency among the players, parents, and organization, communication serves as the main platform. Both verbal and written plans and expectations are necessary to adequately inform each individual. At the start of the program it is necessary to verbally explain the expectations of the player, the parent, and the organization, as each individual has in impactful role in ensuring the success of the program. This will be supplemented with written expectations and agreements as well as the program’s agenda. This ensures that parents know what their child is learning, the children know what to expect at practice and individuals within the organization are held accountable for following through with the completion of set agendas.

A Concord-Carlisle High School student was arrested after allegedly writing serious threats against the school community.

Daniel is a five years old male student at Desert Springs Preparatory Elementary School, in the SunKids preschool program, this is his second year with us. Daniel, since a month ago, had an IEP for social, and speech and OT as a related service. He identifies with Asian/American ethnic category and speaks only English, which is the language spoken at home. He was on a daily behavioral intervention based on a thumbs up/down checklist, and the OT and Speech specialists were coming once or twice a week to work with him. Currently Daniel had formal assessments administered for his evaluation. His teacher used BASC3 assessment, and the psych, speech, and OT, did also at least 3 of them. His scores were amazing, and he test it out of Special Ed.

As you know, we represent Glen at Spring Creek Association (“the Association”) with regard to your past due homeowner’s association account balance. We recently sent you a demand letter for payment to bring your Association account current. We have not received your response.

I started my facilities and scheduling project by researching the policy manual for WCPS. I then interviewed head custodian Ron Crockett from Rural Retreat Elementary School. I then interview the Vice Principal from Rural Retreat High School Rolland Cook. Mr. Cook has now served as Vice Principal at George Wythe High School, Fort Chiswell High School and Fort Chiswell High School. This project has showed the importance of hiring quality employees as good custodians help make the school run smoothly.

Case Statement Analysis An external case statement is used as a “sales document,”1 pitching a fundraising campaign to potential donors. Moses County Summer Academy’s (MCSA) case statement exhibited multiple strengths, but more prevalent, were the misguided and poorly executed techniques that struggled to inspire donors. Few would be sold on a MCSA fundraising campaign after reading this case statement. Strengths MCSA’s case statement possessed several strong characteristics, including: (1) demonstrating the need and urgency for money/funds, (2) highlighting the organization’s mission, and (3) appealing to the donor’s emotions.2

I am a student attending Mountain View School in Glenboro. I write this letter to you to address certain issues regarding municipal school zones across the Spring Valley district. I believe your position as councilor could greatly impact the creation of a bylaw to benefit the community. Detailed below are some suggestions and positives associated with creating said bylaw.

The Sandy Springs Educational Force (SSEF) was established to ensure all Sandy Springs public school children have the opportunity to reach their full academic potential and in turn, become productive members of our community. How we teach our children will have a direct impact on what our communities will look like in the future. Over 50% of Sandy Springs public school students are economically disadvantaged. This disadvantages makes it almost impossible for these students to take full advantage of the educational opportunities our school system offers. But, with your support, we, as a community, can change that.

An effective school leader possesses skills to create, implement, evaluate, improve and share a staff development plan. I met with Ben Rhodes, Sandy Creek Middle School’s principal, to interview him on the specific elements of his yearly staff development plan. We began with the design process focusing on the district and school goals. District goals include improving literacy across the content areas in reading and writing, Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum (GVC). Guaranteed and Viable Technology (GVT), and Closing the Achievement Gap (Equity in Excellence). Using a variety of assessments to focus on specific needs, Ben Rhodes and Mary Sonya, our Pupil Achievement Specialist, examined CSAP, Explore, MAP, and RAD data. They use the

As we review and synthesize data of a district for planning school improvement, the following information is needed to access and determine the needs of a school. First, a thorough analysis of performance data must be reviewed to see how school districts measure up with state and federal accountability. During this process, it is very important that schools focus the performance indicators that will guarantee growth and success. School teams must refer to the districts mission and vision to guide the planning process. The performance indicators will provide data that will be beneficial in creating improvement strategies. So, after careful evaluation of the data, the next step would be to plan effective methods and strategies that will improve student achievement. Moreover, this plan should include needs, demographics and opportunities for students to be successful. Additionally, the baseline data is important information to include in the improvement plan.