Ridgeland High School and Rossville Middle School administrators are joining forces to take their students to the next academic level in the 2012-2013 school year.
Ridgeland High School principal Glen Brown is focused on helping his students achieve their academic potential.“First of all, we are required by the School Improvement Grant to have 30 minutes a day of ILT [increased learning time],” said RHS principal Glen Brown. “We will have 70 hours of ILT built into the schedule over the course of a year. We are on a 168-day schedule.”
Being an advocate for ILT is a new role for the RHS team of teachers. According to Brown, the state requires SIG schools create an ILT by adding 300 additional instructional hours to the 2012-2013 school year. Of these 300 hours, no less than 60 hours must be included in the normal schedule. The hourly requirement of the ILT will be met through the channels of instructional enrichment, remediation and professional development.
Brown said teachers are taking on the role of being student mentors to cheer them on and guide them to a bright future.
“We are creating a game plan,” he said. “We want every student at minimum to pass all classes and graduate with a cohort. Students look at possible goals, set them and take steps to achieve them. All of our teachers are creating I.P.O.D.s, or Individual Plans of Destiny, for our students. It’s their four-year graduation plan.”