[HenleyMatters] Henley News
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December 10, 2007
Green Team - Henley Grocery Bags
8th Grade Community Service Projects
2008-09 Budget Development Process Underway
Efficiency Study Results Presented to School Board
2006-07 Annual Progress Report Executive Summary
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Green Team - Henley Grocery Bags
The Henley Green initiative will be selling cotton grocery bags with
the words, "Neither, thank you." on the side, and a Green Hornet
logo. These are $5.00, and the modest amount we make will go to
green projects at school. These will be available by Thursday.
Checks to J.T. Henley, with Green Henley on the Memo line. Lovely as
gifts.
8th Grade Community Service Projects
One 8th grade student is collecting knit (or bought) hats, mittens,
scarves for children of migrant workers on the Eastern Shore. These
will be taken to town early next week. There's a collection box in
the teachers' mail room.
Another 8th grade student is collecting toiletries and first aid
items for the Fredericksburg Refugee Service Center, to be
distributed among the 200 refugees recently arrived in that area.
There is a collection box in front of the office, and she'll be
collecting until Dec. 14th. Items needed include Shampoo, pain
reliever, Bandaids, hand cream, soap, and cough syrup.
2008-09 Budget Development Process Underway
During a special meeting on December 19, the Albemarle County School
Board will hear the Superintendent’s Funding Request for the 2008-09
school year. The presentation by Superintendent Pam Moran marks the
beginning of the School Board process for creating a budget proposal
for next school year. The School Board must submit a budget proposal
in February 2008 to the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors for
review and approval. The Superintendent’s Funding Request
presentation begins at 6:30 p.m. on December 19 in Lane Auditorium in
the Albemarle County Office Building, located at 401 McIntire Road in
downtown Charlottesville. Please visit the School Division website at
www.k12albemarle.org/board/budget for more information about the
budget development process and how you can be involved.
Efficiency Study Results Presented to School Board
Results from a five-month study commissioned by Albemarle County
Public Schools to suggest options the division can explore to
maximize use of resources was presented to the School Board at its
December 6, 2007 meeting.
The 58-page Resource Utilization Study report from the Commonwealth
Educational Policy Institute (CEPI) at Virginia Commonwealth
University was presented by Dr. William Bosher, a former Virginia
superintendent of schools who serves as the CEPI executive director.
The primary purpose of the report is to assist the division in
identifying ways to better align and allocate its resources to
support achievement of strategic planning goals. The report included
176 findings and observations, and 117 recommendations in eight focus
areas.
Bosher presented the School Board with a summary of the report
focused on 19 key issues. He described Albemarle County Public
Schools as a division with ambitious goals and a results-focused
culture.
“I have been in every school division in Virginia and this is an
outstanding school district. The real issue is not whether or not you
have the right values, it’s about whether or not you can afford the
values at the rate at which you might want to implement them,” Bosher
told the School Board.
The School Board did not take action on any findings in the Resource
Utilization Study Report during its December 6, 2007 meeting. It
established a plan for thorough review of the CEPI findings. The
review will begin at a School Board work session December 13 at 6
p.m. when Board Members will have the opportunity to ask Bosher
questions about the report and begin prioritizing findings to be
explored by division staff for short-term and long-term planning
purposes. The meeting will be held in Room 320 of the Albemarle
County Office Building at 401 McIntire Road in Charlottesville. The
report is available to the public online at http://
schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/Board/resourcestudy.
“We know there will be some findings the School Board may want to
consider in the 2008-09 school year budget development process and
others that will require more long-term consideration. The goal for
both the short-term and long-term is to use the information to create
efficiencies in our school system,” said Superintendent Pamela Moran,
Ed.D.
The Resource Utilization Study was requested by the School Board in
June 2007 as a strategy for achieving the Albemarle County Public
Schools’ strategic planning goal to establish efficient systems for
development, allocation and alignment of resources to support the
division’s vision, mission and goals.
2006-07 Annual Progress Report Executive Summary
Goal 1 - Prepare all students to succeed as members of a global and
in a global economy
Priority 1.1
• ACPS continued to be at the top of school divisions ranked by
number of Advanced Studies diplomas awarded
• More high school students took college level courses than ever before
• The number of students who took AP courses and passed AP tests
continued to rise
• African-American and economically disadvantaged students remain
under-represented in advanced/honors level courses and over-
represented in practical and standard level courses
• While 4th graders’ performance on the NSRE trended slightly down,
the 8th graders did markedly better and improved on conceptual
understanding and total math scores
• Although the number of students who completed an internship/work
experience was at an all-time high, the percentage of students who
participated remained low
Priority 1.2
• The citizen satisfaction survey is biennial, and subsequently there
were no results for this year
• No schools applied for the Governor’s Physical Fitness Scorecard,
however, an increased focus is planned for the 2007-08 school year
• Significant behavioral incidents were down across the Division
• Twenty-nine high school students were recognized for their
volunteerism, and high schools in general contributed an estimated
15,445 hours of community service
Priority 1.3
• Vertical teams in the four content areas continued to work on
completing and modifying their concept-based curriculum frameworks
and the new frameworks are now all Board-approved
Priority 1.4
• The Board-approved Middle School Program Guide was distributed to
middle school families at the beginning of the 2006-07 school year
Priority 1.5
• Three-year trend data on the SOLs indicates that membership groups
further closed the achievement gap in math and science but only
maintained in reading
• The Division began developing and using common assessments to be
better predictors of SOL performance and measure depth of
understanding in an effort to increase all students’ achievement
• A teacher survey instrument was piloted to measure the effect of
teachers’ participation in learning community teams upon student
achievement
Goal 2 – Eliminate the Achievement Gap
• The cohort completion rate for graduating seniors was 91% , the
same as in 2005-06
• Principals collected school-level data regarding student engagement
and continued to improve communication with parents of students at-
risk of academic failure
• While the Division, and all schools in the Division were fully
accredited, seven schools in the Division, did not make AYP. The
Division made AYP in mathematics.
• Seventeen content areas surpassed a 90% pass rate on the SOLs as
compared to four in 2005-06
• A disproportionate number of African-Americans dropped out before
graduation
• Using alternate indicators (AP tests and SOL advance pass rates)
African-Americans and disadvantaged students’ achievement lagged
behind their peers, but the gap decreased
Goal 3 – Recruit, retain, and develop a diverse cadre of the highest
quality teaching personnel,
staff, and administrators
• Hiring and retention numbers suggested that the Division’s hiring
and retention practices were effective and we remain competitive in
our market
• Division exit data is not yet complete for 2006-07 but will be
included in the Human Resources Annual Personnel Report
Goal 4 – Achieve recognition as a world class educational system
• The community survey conducted by the Office of Community
Engagement revealed a need for increased communication with Hispanic
and Latino community members
• The Division has diversified its methods of communicating with the
community to keep staff, students, parents, and community members
more informed
• SchoolNet, the Division’s data warehouse, was purchased and
configured in 2006-07 and is in its first year of implementation in
2007-08
• Senate Quality Productivity Award training began to introduce to
staff the use of Baldrige criteria as measures of excellence
• The Office of Community Engagement converted to the new identity
package and implemented the communication plan, modernizing and
streamlining communication with the community
Goal 5 – Establish efficient systems for development, allocation and
alignment of resources to
support the Division’s vision, mission, and goals
• Budget initiatives were aligned with the Division’s strategic plan
and staff redirected and reduced funds to balance the budget to
available revenue for 2007-08
• The resource utilization study was commissioned by the Board and
the results will be reported during the 2007-08 school year
You can view the entire report at http://
schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/sctemp/
e487ba06a269d2b446cf33ca41036477/1197337426/
AnnualProgressReportCoverDec07.pdf
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Mark Your Calendar
December 13, Thursday at 7 PM - Winter Holiday Concert at WAHS
December 13, Thursday - School Board work session on Resource
Utilization Study
December 14, Friday - SCA Holiday Dance 6:30 - 8:30 PM
December 19, Wednesday - School Board Special Meeting for the
Superintendent's Funding Request Presentation
December 24 - January 1 - Winter Break
January 7, Monday at 7 PM - PATSO meeting
Links
Dr. McLaughlin's blog at: http://henleyhornets.blogspot.com/
The Henley website at: http://www.k12albemarle.org/Henley/
The School Division website at: http://www.k12albemarle.org/
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