by Caleb Hull

Created on: April 22, 2008   Last Updated: May 13, 2008

Mission:
Assist students with the transition from middle school to high school, while increasing academic and social skills.

Objectives:
Social skill acquisition prior to addition to the general population.
Study skill acquisition
Time management training
High academic standards
Self discipline and responsibility
Proper student conduct in all possible situations.

Method/suggestions for implementation:

1. Common Passing Periods: Freshman should have identical schedules in which they go to their electives all in the same period preferably 1st or 7th period while they are being taught to conduct themselves in a general high school population. In addition their schedules should be contained within the academy the rest of the day and run on a unique bell schedule including lunch. This common elective period can also facilitate as a team planning or individual planning period. The commonality of the planning can produce cooperative teaching given adequate opportunities for focused discussion. To meet this end parent/teacher conferences must be schedule at different time or coordinated in a manner in which a limited number of these days are given to conferences and more to the cooperative teaching model. An example would be to only offer parent/teacher conferences on Mondays and limit them to 15 minutes allowing teachers to be prepared for multiple conferences while only losing one preparation/cooperative teaching planning period. Any other parent/teacher conferences will be handled during the non-teaching time of the lead teacher with that teacher covering for the requested teacher and have an administrator available for each scheduled conference.

2. Common cooperative planning periods: Teachers will meet at least one planning period per week only with the discussion of innovation and collaborative teaching effort. No discipline issues or other issues will be discussed. The lead teacher will accept ideas about cooperative learning and the teachers will brainstorm then implement these methods based on an agreed upon deadline for completion. Project learning in which all teachers are involved integrating their curriculums and meeting standards and benchmarks while increasing the academic preparation and success of students. The teachers must be allowed to use their own creativity for their piece of the agreed upon projects but must also foster a small amount of competition between each other as professionals to outdo their colleagues on their piece. Good hearted and light

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