1. Glenn Hills Middle School Raising Standards For Academic & Athletic Success Creating a Community of Excellence!

2. Glenn Hills Middle School It’s A Critical Situation! Help is on the way! Clear the Way! Needs Improvement (NI-9) Glenn H. Andrews, Principal

3. Glenn Hills Middle School First Year Establishing Expectations Glenn H. Andrews, Principal

4. Glenn Hills Middle School First year challenges: Bomb threats School gangs MERSA outbreak Apathetic & difficult teachers Budget deficits/wasteful spending No organizational structure & effective processes Lacked a strong discipline plan/large over aged population Filthy building

5. Glenn Hills Middle School First year challenges (the learning curve): The School Improvement Design Team The Keys to Quality Raising Standards Title I Budget/Title I School Improvement Budget School Improvement Plan 45-Day Action Plan Professional Learning Data Collection & Analysis Progress Monitoring

6. Glenn Hills Middle School Second Year

7. Organizational StructureFlow of Instructional Practices Two Factors Impacting Student Performance & Achievement Establishment Teacher Behavior Leadership Behavior Expectations

8. Glenn Hills Middle School Response To Discipline Addressing Teacher Behavior

9. Organizational StructureFlow of Discipline Practices Administrator’s Philosophy Concerning Discipline—changing teacher behavior. Discipline is a classroom management issue. Teachers are responsible for discipline. Discipline referrals are not tools that manage discipline. Must be a process of intervention before a referral can be written. All referrals have a section identified as “prior action taken by teacher.”

10. Organizational StructureFlow of Discipline Practices Before a referral can be accepted in the front office, it must go through the intervention process. Response to Intervention (RtI)

11. Organizational StructureFlow of DisciplinePractices Question 1: What have you (the teacher ) done prior to writing a referral? Response to Intervention (RtI) Question 2: What documentation do you have to support a referral being sent to the office?

12. Organizational StructureFlow of Discipline Practices Immediate Office Referral Drugs (Alcohol & Tobacco) Weapons Fighting Bullying Factor 1 Tier 4 Tier 3 Administrative Response Response to Intervention (RtI) Discipline Review Panel Tier 2 Teacher Behavior (EBIS) Prior Action by Teacher Tier 1 Warning/Document Detention Call Parent/Document Student-Team Meeting/Document Teacher Behavior (EBIS)

13. Organizational StructureFlow of Discipline Practices Discipline Review Panel Administrator Follows all Richmond County Discipline Code of Conduct mandates. Sergeant-at-Arms Admit student that is referred to the discipline review panel, keeps order and dismisses student after his or her hearing. Reporter Reads the offense, records the panel’s consequence.

14. Organizational StructureFlow of Discipline Practices Discipline Review Panel Telephone Operator Calls parent to notify of the offense and the consequences. File the information in a notebook. Recorder Records minutes and the action of the panel. The administrator of the review panel meets with the principal and discusses the panel’s recommendations. ISS, OSS, SST/RtI, Rule 20, Tribunal

15. Discipline Referral Rate2008-2009 School Year

16. Glenn Hills Middle School Instructional Intervention Addressing Teacher Performance , Practices & Accountability

17. Organizational StructureFlow of Instructional Practices

18. Organizational StructureFlow of Instructional Practices Second Factor

19. Organizational StructureFlow of Instructional Practices

20. Organizational StructureFlow of Instructional Practices

21. Accountability Accountability is maintained through a process of monitoring, collecting data and developing a series of portfolios. Addresses teacher behavior and practices!

22. Strategic Command Center Glenn Hills Middle School Accountability

23. Glenn Hills Middle School Raising Standards Performance Review 2009-2010 Faculty meetings have been done away with. The performance review consist of : presenting performance data to the entire faculty and staff. Logistics are done in collaborative and team meetings.

24. Glenn Hills Middle School Raising Standards Performance Review 2009-2010

25. Glenn Hills Middle School The End