Freshman Academy
@Dixie
Where are we & where are we going?
12/4/06
Focus Our Efforts to Make Our
Intentions Clear
Agenda
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Examine our current goals and mission
Work on a mission statement
Decide on some common goals
Define the coordinator and principal roles
Decide on some common strategies to help
achieve our goals
Next year and Transition
Current Goals & Mission
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FA Guide to Success
Freshman Academy Goals
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Improve attendance
Improve retention rate
Improve failure rate
Improve discipline referral rate
Dixie’s Mission Statement
Dixie Heights High School is a community of
learners dedicated to nurturing, challenging, and
motivating students to meet high expectations.
Through creative and rigorous teaching, we
encourage students to work toward their
potential success in the world tomorrow.
Freshman Academy
Mission?
List words (only positive) you believe embody
the “perfect freshman academy”
Goals?
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Reflect back to mission!
What are you currently doing?
We want goals each and everyone can strive
toward on a daily basis
Write down three goals you are currently
striving toward with your students. (Try to
stay away from specific content roles)
Freshman Coordinator
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Enroll new students
Monitor failure rates
Design remediation
Small group counseling
Create, monitor, & teach classroom guidance lessons
Complete and implement performance contracts
Create and implement freshman specific activities
Aid in the transition of students from middle school
Freshman Principal
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Discipline Students-assure a safe and orderly
environment
Monitor and guide teacher/team development
and professional growth
Monitor progress of the academy and create
necessary change
Monitor SOS and Core Content
implementation
Take a Break
(you deserve it)
Goal 1
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What strategies are you currently using in your
classroom which support this goal?
Any commonalities?
What can we all do?
How does the coordinator and principal fit in?
How can we monitor implementation/success?
Goal 2
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What strategies are you currently using in your
classroom which support this goal?
Any commonalities?
What can we all do?
How does the coordinator and principal fit in?
How can we monitor implementation/success?
Goal 3
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What strategies are you currently using in your
classroom which support this goal?
Any commonalities?
What can we all do?
How does the coordinator and principal fit in?
How can we monitor implementation/success?
Goal 4
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What strategies are you currently using in your
classroom which support this goal?
Any commonalities?
What can we all do?
How does the coordinator and principal fit in?
How can we monitor implementation/success?
Goal 5
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What strategies are you currently using in your
classroom which support this goal?
Any commonalities?
What can we all do?
How does the coordinator and principal fit in?
How can we monitor implementation/success?
How Do We Keep up Morale?
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Christmas Dinner
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Wednesday 12/13
Monday 12/18
Tuesday 12/19
Other
Next Year
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Trimesters
What do we want for freshman academy?
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A/B, B/A. . .
Math, Science, . . .
What current components do we want to keep?
Study skills for troubled students?
Go to the middle school?
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Transition
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Spring?
Placement test?
Visits?
Camp Dixie?
Summer PD?