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August 8, 2011

THOMAS JEFFERSON CLASSICAL ACADEMY

A Challenge Foundation Academy

Thomas Jefferson Classical AcademyThomas Jefferson Classical AcademyA Challenge Foundation AcademyA Challenge Foundation Academy

DEMONSTRATED CONSISTENCY?

HAD GRADE LEVEL MTGS, MINIMUM WEEKLY WITH WEEKLY GRADE TEAM CURRICULUM COORDINATION?

KEPT ACHIEVERS CHALLENGED ANDFOUND WAYS TO HELP THE STRUGGLING-FOCUS ON GROWTH?

INTEGRATED PARENTAL SUPPORT-E-MAIL OR PHONE CONTACT REGULARLY?

DO WE LOVE WHAT WE TEACH?


How are we doing on our journey from:

GOOD…TO GREAT?Have we:

ANALYZED FRAMEWORK OF GROWTH FOR EACH STUDENT?

81A Thomas Jefferson Class AcademyK-12

Yes Met High Growth95.5 (up from 94.7) ProficientHonors School of Excellence High GrowthMet AYP in 25 of 25 categories

ONCE AGAIN! IN 2011TJCA-CFA IS AN HONORS SCHOOL OF

EXCELLENCE!



System School Grade Span Met Expected Met High Perf. Comp. ABCs Status AYP

Rutherford Chase High 9-12 Yes No 67 Pro Exp No

County Chase Middle 6-8 Yes No 74.5 Pro Exp No

Schools Cliffside Elem. K-5 No No 78.1 NR No

Forest City-Dunbar Elem. K-5 No No 66.1 NR No

East Rutherford High 9-12 Yes No 73.2 Pro Exp No

East Rutherford Middle 6-8 No No 73.9 NR No

Ellenboro Elem. K-5 Yes Yes 85.4 Dst Hgh Yes

Forest W. Hunt Elem. K-5 Yes No 80.7 Dst Hgh Yes

Harris Elem. K-5 Yes No 83.9 Dst Hgh Yes

Mt Vernon-Ruth Elem. K-5 No No 81 NR No

Pinnacle Elem. K-5 No No 82.9 NR Yes

R-S Middle 6-8 No No 77.6 NR No

Rutherford Early College High 9-12 No No 98.1 NR Yes

Rutherford Opportunity Center 6-12 Yes No 34.6 Exp Yes

Rutherfordton Elem. K-5 No No 82.4 NR No

Spindale Elem. K-5 Yes No 76.4 Pro Exp Yes

Sunshine Elem. K-5 Yes No 85.5 Dst Exp No

Local Comparisons:


Local Comparisons:System School Grade Span Met Expected Met High Perf. Comp. ABCs Status AYP

Cleveland Bethware Elem. PK-4 No No 75.4 NR No

County Boiling Springs Elem. PK-5 No No 83.8 NR Yes

Schools Burns High 9-12 Yes Yes 81.4 Dst Hgh No

Burns Middle 6-8 No No 78.3 NR No

Casar Elem. PK-5 Yes Yes 76.8 Pro Hgh Yes

Cleveland ECHS 9-13 Yes No 95.9 HE Exp Yes

Crest High 9-12 Yes No 77 Pro Hgh No

Crest Mid School of Technology 6-8 Yes No 79.9 Pro Exp No

Turning Point Academy 6-12 No No 34.3 NR No

East Elem. PK-4 Yes Yes 93 HE Hgh Yes

Elizabeth Elem. K-5 Yes No 86.6 Dst Exp No

Fallston Elem. PK-5 Yes Yes 84 Dst Hgh Yes


Local Comparisons:System School Grade Span Met Expected Met High Perf. Comp. ABCs Status AYP

Cleveland Graham Elem. PK-3 No No 78 NR No

County Grover Elem. PK-4 Yes Yes 86.6 Dst Hgh Yes

Schools James Love Elem. PK-3 No No 81.7 NR Yes

Jefferson Elem. PK-3 No No 91.9 NR Yes

Kings Mountain High 9-12 Yes Yes 89.4 Dst Hgh Yes

Kings Mountain Intermediate 5-6 Yes No 85.1 Dst Exp No

Kings Mountain Middle 7-8 Yes No 83.9 Dst Exp No

Marion Intermediate 4-5 No No 75.6 NR Yes

North Elem. PK-4 Yes Yes 88.1 Dst Hgh Yes

North Shelby PK-12 77.5 NS Yes

Shelby High 9-12 No No 75.2 NR Yes

Shelby Middle 6-8 No No 68 NR No

Springmore Elem. K-5 Yes No 81 Dst Exp No


SubjectTESTED ncount

PROF ncount

PROFICIENCY DENOMINATOR

PERCENT PROFICIENT

IN_GROWTH ncount

MADE_GROWTH ncount

GROWTH SUM

GROWTH AVERAGE

GROWTH STATUS

HI GROWTH RATIO

HI GROWTH STATUS

MA03 88 85 88 96.591 0 0 - - - - -

MA04 79 77 79 97.468 75 53 25.601 0.341 Met 2.409 Met

MA05 89 82 89 92.135 86 39 -9.751 -0.113 NotMet 0.83 NotMet

MA06 94 92 94 97.872 88 50 7.191 0.082 Met 1.316 NotMet

MA07 95 92 95 96.842 90 71 26.371 0.293 Met 3.737 Met

MA08 94 94 94 100 87 74 39.201 0.451 Met 5.692 Met

RD03 88 77 88 87.5 0 0 - - - - -

RD04 79 72 79 91.139 75 43 3.631 0.048 Met 1.344 NotMet

RD05 89 74 89 83.146 86 35 -9.962 -0.116 NotMet 0.686 NotMet

RD06 94 91 94 96.809 88 52 5.346 0.061 Met 1.444 NotMet

RD07 95 92 95 96.842 90 61 19.105 0.212 Met 2.103 Met

RD08 94 89 94 95.745 87 43 3.471 0.04 Met 0.977 NotMet

SC05 89 83 89 93.258 - - - - - - -

SC08 94 89 94 94.681 - - - - - - -

Our Focus On Student Growth


Our Focus On Student Growth

SubjectTESTED ncount

PROF ncount

PROFICIENCY DENOMINATOR

PERCENT PROFICIENT

IN_GROWTH ncount

MADE_GROWTH ncount

GROWTH SUM

GROWTH AVERAGE

GROWTH STATUS

HI GROWTH RATIO

HI GROWTH STATUS

MA 539 522 539 96.846 426 287 88.613 0.208 Met 2.065 Met

RD 539 496 539 92.022 426 234 21.591 0.051 Met 1.219 NotMet

SC 183 172 183 93.989 - - - - - - -

EOG 1261 1190 1261 94.37 852 521 110.204 0.129 Met 1.574 Met

A1 97 96 97 98.969 89 68 32.117 0.361 Met 3.238 Met

A2 95 92 95 96.842 - - - - - - -

BI 80 78 80 97.5 74 32 -8.691 -0.117 NotMet 0.762 NotMet

CI 54 54 54 100 53 51 31.882 0.602 Met 25.5 Met

E1 78 78 78 100 71 52 23.373 0.329 Met 2.737 Met

PS 22 22 22 100 - - - - - - -

US 71 69 71 97.183 66 34 8.255 0.125 Met 1.063 NotMet

EOC 497 489 497 98.39 353 237 86.936 0.246 Met 2.043 Met

WR10 81 74 81 91.358 - - - - - - -

WRITING 81 74 81 91.358 - - - - - - -

WRITING-CI 81 77 81 95.062 - - - - - - -

COMPOSITE 1839 1756 1839 95.487 1205 758 197.14 0.164 Met 1.696 Met

CPCTP - - - - 55 - 0.55 0.01 Met - -

DROPOUT - - - - 53 - 17.286 0.326 Met - -

C-RATIO - - - - 1188.263 758.55 - - - 1.765 Met

TOTAL 1839 1756 1839 95.487 - - 214.976 0.164 Met 1.765 Met


Summer 2011 Bond Projects

Improvements and Repairs at the High School Campus

1.Auditorium Roof, Ceiling and Air Conditioning2.Parking Paving3.Cafeteria4.Middle School Halls & Plumbing5.Phone System6.New Carpet in locker room7.Gravel on Stadium Parking Lot8.Grammar School Awning


Auditorium Roof

The Drama production, “Singing in the Rain” has been canceled due to a new roof.


Auditorium Ceiling

With hopes of keeping the original ceiling, we started the ice blasting. The ceiling already had to much water damage causing it to crumble. Installation of the new drop ceiling starts on 8/8/11.


Auditorium AC/Heat

3 x 5 ton Air Conditioning units installed. 2 units in the back of the auditorium and 1 unit on the stage area. They were able to run 1 of the 5 ton units and maintain 80 degrees on one of the hottest summer days. You can barely hear them running.


Parking Lot Paving

Good news, the moon driving experience has been removed. With the paving being done we will no longer have to avoid the craters as we leave to go home.


Cafeteria Tile

WOW !!!


Cafeteria Kitchen

A special thank you to the custodial and maintenance staff for there hard work in the cafeteria.


Junior High Halls


Grammar SchoolAwning

Providing a dry path from the car to the school. Also giving our teachers shelter during the morning and afternoon traffic.


NEW FACULTY BIOS 2011

Kyra Battle received her elementary ed degree from Limestone College with a minor in psychology in December 2010. She is a local East Rutherford High grad who starred on the ladies basketball team. In addition to teaching third grade as the Core Knowledge pilot moves up to third grade, she will be coaching our ladies varsity basketball team. John Burnette received his bachelor’s degree in theoretical mathematics from Duke University and his master’s degree in education from Harvard University. With 24 years’ of teaching experience at the high school and college levels, Burnette helped author a math textbook that was underwritten by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Burnette joins Thomas Jefferson’s trivium department as a logic and statistics teacher and will teach an AP course.

Alison Moore joins Thomas Jefferson’s cultural studies department as a junior high school English teacher. She received her bachelor’s degree in education from Western Carolina University, taught at area middle schools for seven years, and is a former Shelby Star teacher of the year.

Keven Langston has taught in area schools since 1992 after earning her BS in Elementary Ed from Appalachian State, and joins us from Union Elementary in Shelby. Keven is Nationally Board Certified, and has four children attending TJCA-CFA. She will teach 5th grade science. Bridget Myers joins Thomas Jefferson’s science department as a junior high school teacher. She received her bachelor’s degree from Hillsdale College, where she majored in biology, minored in chemistry, and completed an educator apprenticeship. At Hillsdale, Myers also served as an advanced biochemistry laboratory assistant and a marine biology teaching assistant. She completed her undergraduate research on “The Effects of Diet and Blood Sugar on Motor and Cognitive Abilities.”


Peter Orlowski received his bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Thomas Aquinas College and completed his graduate coursework in philosophy at Catholic University of America. His bachelor’s thesis was entitled “A Critique of Riemannian Geometry: Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and Geometrodynamics,” while his graduate thesis examined “How the Soul Moves the Body according to Aristotle.” After working for a law firm for nine years, Orlowski has devoted his last 13 years to high school teaching and has written a logic textbook. A winner of a National Endowment for the Humanities scholarship to study Galileo and the Inquisition in Italy, Orlowski has in recent years presented papers on geometry and mathematical physics at the Society for Aristotelian Studies. Orlowski joins Thomas Jefferson’s trivium department as a logic and geometry teacher.

Risa Ryland joins Thomas Jefferson’s cultural studies department as a high school U.S. history teacher. She received her bachelor’s degree in French literature from the University of San Diego and her master’s degree in history from the University of Central Oklahoma; she is currently a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Virginia, where she has served as a project manager at the Virginia Center for Digital History. She has 27 years’ experience in teaching at the high school and college levels and has served as a reader (grader) of the AP U.S. History exam, as well as a paid consultant to the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence’s United States History Standard Setting meeting.


Rachael Sjoerdsma joins Thomas Jefferson’s fine arts department as a junior high school art teacher. She received her bachelor’s degree in art from Hillsdale College, winning first place in the student art show the past two years, and she completed a teaching assistantship. Sjoerdsma has also studied art and art history at St. Andrew’s University in Scotland.

Sally Walker earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Ed from Limestone College in 2011. She will teach sixth grade language arts.

Tim Will earned his bachelor’s degree in political science and his master’s degree in architecture from Ohio State University. He is well known in Rutherford County as director emeritus of Foothills Connect Business and Technology Center and is the 2009 winner of the Purpose Prize. The prize citation reads: “A telecommunications systems analyst who had given up the big money to teach high school, Tim Will has a habit of following his passions. He helped rebuild poor communities in Honduras and Fiji with the Peace Corps. As a neighborhood planner in New Orleans, he refined his understanding of the needs of low-income residents. Much of his telecom career involved introducing complex technological innovations in the Caribbean and South America. He even managed a small Florida town as its part-time mayor, balancing elected office with his other job -- teaching U.S. history in a Miami high school.” Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, Will joins Thomas Jefferson’s cultural studies department as a high school civics, economics, and human geography teacher and will teach three AP courses.



Non-teaching staff additions: Courtney Brown, Teacher Assistant Jeff Ruppe, Maintenance at the high school campus Alicia Urmston, Teacher Assistant

GOALS FOR 2010/11 Were:

• ALL TEACHERS MUST KEEP WEBPAGES CURRENT, MINIMUM WEEKLY!

• SYLLABI ON LINE, ONLY SIGNATURE PAGE TURNED IN…GET PARENTS USED TO CHECKING WEBSITE!

• COMMUNICATE VIA E-MAIL OR PHONE WITH PARENTS REGULARLY

• SAT PREPARATION! ALL GRADES CAN CONTRIBUTE

• CONSOLIDATION of DEBT-PAYING DOWN DEBT THROUGH GIFTS AND FUNDRAISERS. - New Fundraising Committee

• CAPITAL PROJECTS ON HISTORIC MS BUILDING

• JOIN AN ADVANCED ED STANDARDS COMMITTEE! NEXT SCHOOLWIDE MEETING IS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 14 AT 3:30 IN THE HS CAFETERIA


Goals for 2011/12:1. Continue to focus on communication via the

school web pages--sites MUST be updated at least weekly!

2. Be sure to meet with grade teams at least once per week, and keep minutes! These should be sent to Joe and Jeff for 7-12, and to Jason and Cynthia for K-6

3. Get to KNOW your MAP! We must be sure to USE our MAP scores to inform instruction!


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