Mon Jun 13 2011, 7:00pm
District Meeting Room Portable
Regular Meeting

REPORTS TO THE BOARD

WHS Report

To:      Michael Green
From: John Shoup
CC:      School Board members
Date:  6/02/11
Re:      May Review

Here is an overview of the key activities we worked on in relation to teaching and learning this month.

Monday's: We used three Monday's to prepare and review our school improvement plan.  This was especially helpful as we had our school accreditation up for review this month. The other Monday's were used by the departments to iron out budget requests, finalize common finals and to review and make suggestions for the master schedule.

Other information: Dan and I spend quite a bit of time this month with staff working on year end evaluations. This always is a good time to reflect on good teaching practices and how to improve our skills.  As mentioned above our school accreditation was reviewed by an outside group of peers.  We had principals from Tenino, Washougal and La Center attend as well as a counselor from Hockinson, a teacher and admin intern from Skyview and an assistant principals from Ridgefield and West Valley High School. We received great feedback from the teams and we will move forward with their recommendations.  There was overwhelming positive support from these individuals regarding our school improvement plan...and process.

Navigation 101/OT: Our committee has finished their work and will be asking the school board to revise board policy 3242 to help support our work.  We are pleased with our efforts to combine these two school wide interventions and we believe our positive efforts will be more streamlined now.

EOC: Although the actual exam occurred on June 1st, we spent considerable amounts of time preparing our students for the state math End of Course exams. I wanted to give my math teachers a "shout out" for all of their work in getting students here at school that day and to the correct rooms.  We had over 320 students testing and their help is appreciated.