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MCS Educators Attend High School Summit
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - Twelve administrators and teachers from Muncie Community Schools, as well as Board of School Trustees Member Kevin P. Smith, attended the Indiana High School Summit June 18 to learn from and discuss the Summit’s theme, "Making Good on Our Promises."Â
Participants heard from Thomas G. Mortenson, Senior Scholar, Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, and Dr. Crystal Kuykendall, author and former elementary and secondary public school teacher, who shared alarming statistics about at-risk students and the need to keep them in high school until graduation.
Representing Muncie Community Schools from the Central Office were Dr. Marlin B. Creasy, superintendent; Judy Valos, director of curriculum/secondary; Jo Ann McCowan, director of vocational education and special services; DiLynn Phelps, director of alternative education, and Christy Luellen, director of communications. Â
Attending the Summit from Central High School’s P.L. 221 Committee were Lisa Allen, associate principal; Michelle Sebastian, guidance counselor; teachers Julie Bailey and Anna Jackson, and Board Member Kevin Smith. Â
Representing Southside High School were Guidance Counselors Marla Campbell and Joy Salmon and teacher Lisa Ayers. Â
Workshops included various presentations on addressing the current Indiana high school drop-out rate and the retention of students throughout high school. Mr. Mortenson, the morning’s keynote speaker, revealed that Indiana high schools lose 30 percent of their students between the 9th and 12th grade and the concerted effort that high schools must make to prepare all youth for college. Â
Dr. Suellen Reed, superintendent of public instruction, shared a framework from the Indiana Department of Education’s High School Dropout Prevention Taskforce which centered on seven guiding principles – readiness, rigor, relevance, relationships, redesign, retooling, and resources. The framework handout, given to each participant at the Summit’s luncheon, was to serve as a tool to facilitate in-depth discussions that will hopefully lead to a comprehensive dropout prevention plan for Indiana.
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