FULTON —
Caston Junior-Senior High School is seeing the benefits of its decision to take part in the Indiana Student Achievement Institute.
“You set your school improvement goals at the beginning of the year and implement a plan for each goal,” principal Adam Strasser said.
“Then we measure our growth during the school year.”
During Tuesday’s school board meeting, Strasser informed board members of the school improvement goals and how successful they have been.
The goals were broken into several categories.
Full staff strategies, which affect everyone at the school, include improvement of communication with parents, a mentor program for students, extended hours before and after school for those needing help and a privilege period.
Strasser explained the privilege period is earned if the students earn good grades, have good attendance and good behavior throughout the nine weeks. The students earn a time period to set up and play games.
Under community strategies is a marketing campaign.
“It’s a way to raise expectations for everyone and to show everyone how good we are doing,” Strasser said.
The guidance strategies include a career interest inventory. Strasser said the students start the inventory in junior high by plotting their course for high school to match what they want to do after high school.
The character education program has two parts to it.
The first is a schoolwide positive behavior plan. Students are rewarded for positive behaviors. The second part includes math, English or character development success periods on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Students have also had the opportunity to start practicing for SAT and ACT, so they will be more prepared.
Strasser added there are specific strategies for English, math and science, which are based on improvement for the end of course assessment test.
As for the future, Strasser said the hope is to raise everyone’s expectations.
“We want the students to be successful academically and socially,” he said.
School board member Russ Phillips was pleased to hear about the school’s improvement efforts.
“It was very obvious to me that the high school staff, along with Mr. Strasser, has certainly undertaken some great challenges to try and ensure we are doing everything possible for the benefit of our students,” he said.
• Denise Massie is a staff writer at the Pharos-Tribune. She can be reached at 574-732-5151 or denise.massie@pharostribune.com.
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