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• Warning
• Consequence for continuing behavior
after warning, i.e., another talk with
student and a phone call home
• Referral to office as well as student
meeting with all teachers during team
meeting
9th Grade Transition Activities
Parent/Student Registration Night-January
School Board Presentation-February/December 2007
Shadow Day—April/May
Jump Academy-August
9th Grade Cookout & Orientation-August
Lock-In—Overnight in school--September
9th Grade Recognition/Role Models Feb/May
Quarterly Motivation Speakers—Superintendent,
College admissions director, etc.
“Thinking About Your Future: What you need to know!”
“GPA, Credits, Graduation Requirements Overview”
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September 26, November 28,
2007 2007
team parent
conference
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Where do we go from here?
• Reapply for federal Small Learning
Communities Grant—January 2008
• Work on improving existing structure in many
ways.
• Prepare for 10-12 Career Pathways and
eventual thematic career academies based
on the state of Iowa 6 Pathways
• Need to track student interventions that
made a difference.
• Discussion of 10th grade academy in modified
format.
9th Grade Academy Resources
• Dave Shepard
middlematters@aol.com
• Alan Veach
alan.veach@sreb.org
• Scott Habeeb, Ray Moore, & Aland Seibert
solutioncenter@solutionsetc.org
www.solutionsetc.org
Bill Denny
billdenney@onlyinternet.net
www.bdenneyconsulting.com
• Billie Donegan
billiedonegan@yahoo.com
North High School
• Jane Artman-Andrews, Principal
artmanandrewsj@davenportschools.org
Dr. Betsy Fair, Associate Principal of Academy
fairb@davenportschools.org
Resources on Change and Team Building Skills
Our Iceberg is Melting by John Kotter
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
Death By Meeting by Patrick Lencioni
Jossey-Bass, 2004.
Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
Jossey-Bass, 2002.
The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn
New York: Doubleday, 2004.
“Freshman Academies on A Shoestring” Principal Leadership. March
2007.
“Academy Rewards,” NEA Today. March 2007. Freshmen Transition
Initiative. http://gsehd.gwu.edu/gsehd/FTI