What a great week for Crawford County Schools!
Monday started with the excitement of watching our CCMS Lady Eagles softball team win back to back District Regional Championships. These young ladies are a joy to watch and represent the school and the system respectfully.
On Wednesday, some administrators and registrars were trained by Infinite Campus personnel on the new call out system. For those who are not aware, Crawford County School System migrated into a new Student Information System (SIS) called Infinite Campus. Our call list should now be as up to date as the information that is provided to us. Parents, just to let you know, the new parent portal is being created as we speak. We are hoping to roll it out within the month.
Thursday we had a trio of winners within the system. David Goodman won 4 Falcons tickets at CCHS just for eating school breakfast!!!! To celebrate our new breakfast cart, we gave out tickets to every student who ate breakfast last Thursday through this Wednesday. Students put tickets in the bucket for Thursday’s drawing and David was the lucky winner! These tickets were donated by Alicia Page and the Southeast United Dairy Industry Association. Thank you Alicia for this great prize! The second pair of winners were Aaron Oliver and Abigail Henry our 2018 REACH Scholars. REACH Georgia is the State of Georgia’s first needs-based mentorship and college scholarship program. The mission is to ensure that Georgia’s academically promising students have the academic, social, and financial support needed to graduate from high school, access college, and achieve postsecondary success. Beginning in the 8th grade and through high school, REACH Scholars are paired with a mentor and an academic coach. Scholars must maintain good grades (2.5 GPA), behavior and attendance. Scholars who successfully complete the program and graduate from high school are awarded a $10,000 scholarship ($2,500/year) that can be used at a University System of Georgia, Technical College System of Georgia, or eligible private postsecondary institution. The scholarship is in addition to any other grant or scholarship the student receives. There was a signing ceremony at the BOE auditorium for them Thursday night October 5th.
The CCHS 4 year graduation rate for 2017 was announced recently. CCHS went from a 70.313% grad rate in 2016 to a 79.487% grad rate in 2017. That is a 9.174% increase. We are still slightly below the state but that gap is greatly reduced.
Upcoming PL for our faculty: We have two days of Professional Learning scheduled next week on October 10th and 11th. One day will be dedicated to vertical alignment across our system. We are the perfect size for our teachers at every grade level to talk to the grade below and the grade above to insure our students do not have holes in their education. In other words, teachers will know what is expected the next year and they will know what the previous teachers have covered. What an awesome concept!
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