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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGEWELCOME BACK!Last Spring our staff, students and community members participated in a “World Café” process, which allowed our school community to dialogue concerns about student progress, academic success and personal achievement. We received reams of data that had many common themes. Firstly, our school needed to present a more positive environment to encourage students in their personal habits and behaviors, secondly we needed to encourage academic achievement for all students and thirdly our standards and expectations for all students should be higher. To this effect, you will all notice many changes this year. Firstly, teachers will be working throughout the year to re-plan their courses so that all TDWHS will be able to operate on the basis of Credit by Proficiency by September 2011. You may find that some classes are already running on a proficiency basis, where you will have to pass each proficiency in order to receive credit for that class. Theoretically, any student should be able to reach proficiency. However, your success will depend on whether you learn the material. But, you will have to prove that you have learnt the material to minimal proficiency by achieving a proficiency grade on each proficiency assessment. From now onwards, our school will not be issuing D or F to any student. Instead, a student will receive an ‘I’ indicating that you have “not yet” reached proficiency to receive credit. In order to rise above proficiency, you will have to prove mastery, by achieving a mastery score in the course assessments. Secondly, as a building, we are planning a consistent, positive approach to the behavior of all members of our school community, which you will become very familiar with as SPIRIT. SPIRIT is the product of hours of work volunteered by members of our school community to produce positive rewards, incentives and common expectations for students and staff in our school. SPIRIT stands for our TDWHS values of Success, Pride, Integrity, Respect, Involvement, and Teamwork This is going to be a challenging, rewarding and promising year for all of us. We are rooting for success for all our students! FINAO!!! Stephen Jupe Principal |
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| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 17 August 2010 15:38 ) |