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Cum Laude Graduates - Helping Create a Culture of High Expectations
Woodstock High School
Corey Tafoya
Sandra Theriault
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Who are we?
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Who are we? continued
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Who are we? continued– HSTW School– Key Practices:
Creating a Culture of High Expectations
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How do you create a culture of success? How do you raise the bar for everyone? This idea is transferrable.
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WHS Five-Year Goal Plan created in 05-06– Attendance– Stakeholder Satisfaction– Academic Achievement
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Created to define our definition of the ideal grad
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How did we create/design this? Steven Covey— “Start with the end in mind”.
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8 Criteria– meet or exceed standards on all sections of the PSAE test or exhibit PLAN
to ACT test score growth– participate in one sport, club, or activity during high school career– demonstrate community involvement– earn at least 260 credits during high school career– earn a 2.50 GPA or higher– be a good citizen: no suspensions or good conduct violations– maintain a 95% attendance rate during both junior and senior years– compete at least one capstone course, as identified within each
department, or one Advanced Placement course
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How did it work?
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Year #1
06/07 10.3%
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Year #2
06/07 10.3%
07/08 12.0%
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Year #306/07 10.3%
07/08 12.0%
08/09 22.5%
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Year #406/07 10.3%
07/08 12.0%
08/09 22.5%
09/10 28.8%
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Year #5
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Unintended Benefits
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Unintended Benefits continued
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Unintended Benefits continued
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Unintended Benefits continued
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Effect on school and community
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Culture of High Expectations? How do your students know what you want
from them?
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SREB, HSTW “Skills for a Lifetime—Teaching Students the Habits of Success”– Teaching Habit 5—Set goals and make plans to
reach them.– Teaching Habit 6—Access resources needed to
achieve goals.
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