Willis
04-10-2012, 12:54 AM
Superintendent discusses new school plan
By Samantha Cronk - Journal staff writer
CHARLES TOWN - A change in the function of the middle school concept in Jefferson County is under way, after Superintendent Susan Wall proposed the new approach in Monday night's Board of Education meeting...
..."Jefferson County is working to keep the components of the middle school concept while adding curricular teams in order to place added emphasis on academics and instruction," Wall said...
...When board member Alan Sturm asked who would lead the curricular teams and grade-level teams, as the middle school team leaders received reduction-in-force notices, Wall said that school administrators would lead the grade-level teams and a new position would be created for the curricular teams...
...Sturm voiced additional hesitation, stating that he wished this concept would be piloted in one of the middle schools before being launched in all of them, especially given how many years the county spent developing the current middle school concept, he said...
..."We've been accused, not just Jefferson County but education in general, of killing the arts program, curtailing field and such with the only purpose of raising test scores, and I fear that perhaps we've moved into this without giving it adequate study," he said....
Read the full article HERE (http://journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/577964/Superintendent-discusses-new-school-plan.html?nav=5006)
Maybe I need some more schooling. This is clear as the Shenandoah after a heavy rain to me :asking07:
By Samantha Cronk - Journal staff writer
CHARLES TOWN - A change in the function of the middle school concept in Jefferson County is under way, after Superintendent Susan Wall proposed the new approach in Monday night's Board of Education meeting...
..."Jefferson County is working to keep the components of the middle school concept while adding curricular teams in order to place added emphasis on academics and instruction," Wall said...
...When board member Alan Sturm asked who would lead the curricular teams and grade-level teams, as the middle school team leaders received reduction-in-force notices, Wall said that school administrators would lead the grade-level teams and a new position would be created for the curricular teams...
...Sturm voiced additional hesitation, stating that he wished this concept would be piloted in one of the middle schools before being launched in all of them, especially given how many years the county spent developing the current middle school concept, he said...
..."We've been accused, not just Jefferson County but education in general, of killing the arts program, curtailing field and such with the only purpose of raising test scores, and I fear that perhaps we've moved into this without giving it adequate study," he said....
Read the full article HERE (http://journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/577964/Superintendent-discusses-new-school-plan.html?nav=5006)
Maybe I need some more schooling. This is clear as the Shenandoah after a heavy rain to me :asking07: