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PBIS (Positive Behavior Intervention)......has changed our approach to student behavior. We are constantly looking for positive behavior and rewarding that behavior with varied types of rewards. We had reward program frequently at first (more than once a 9-weeks) so that the students could understand that positive behavior gets rewarded.

Describe your philosophy of school change or improvement.

My philosophy for school change and improvement begins with myself. I try to be the postive role model for our teachers. I expect teachers to teach and students to learn. Our teachers do a great job understanding student needs and to be compassionate to them. Our students come an area heavy with poverty and other home situations that create turmoil in their lives. Our school and teachers represent a postive, safe, and nuturing place for our students. Teachers here develop a postive rapport with their students and that relationship pays off by our student's success.

What are your school’s top two goals for the next year?

Our top 2 goals are to introduce iPads in the classrooms and to maintain our high level of success.

What is the single most important factor in the success of your school that others could replicate?

Giving teachers the right tools and the TIME needed to teach has been the key factor in our school's success. John C. does not follow a prescribed porgram, we simply teach grade level standards. I expect teachers to become experts on their standards so that they can pass that knowledge along to their students.
Title One has been benefical to instruction by giving us the money needed to put Smartboards in all classrooms and giving teachers extension staff develpoment on using Snartboards in their DAILY instruction. The more interactive a child can be with learning the more likely they are to remember what they have learned.

Describe the program or initiative that has had the greatest positive effect on student achievement.

PBIS (Positive Behavior Intervention)......has changed our approach to student behavior. We are constantly looking for positive behavior and rewarding that behavior with varied types of rewards. We had reward program frequently at first (more than once a 9-weeks) so that the students could understand that positive behavior gets rewarded. As the years have past, we have cut the rewards back to once a 9-weeks.

Explain how Title I funds have supported your improvement efforts.

Title One monies have been the backbone to our school acheivements. Title One money has allowed the school to purchase useful assessment tools and data related instruments that help us to follow each child's progress. Monies have also afforded us the opportunity to run an 'after-school' program for remediation and enrichment of students in grades 3rd - 5th.

• Category 1

  Selected in 2012

• Grades: pre k - 5
  School Setting: rural
  Town Population: 2,300
  Student Enrollment: 211
  Student Demographics:
  

  Black/African American: 57%
  White/Caucasian: 35%
  Hispanic: 2%
  Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: 0%
  Asian: 0%
  Native American: 0%
  Other: 6%
  

  Teacher/Student Ratio: 1:17
  % Reduced Lunch: 91.6%
  % ELL Learners: 2%
  Founded: 1973
• PRINCIPAL:
  Milton Scott
• CONTACT:
  700 N. Calhoun Street
  Calhoun Falls, SC 29628
  864-418-8016
  mscott@acsdsc.org