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Cadillac
Junior High School Improvement Plan Mission
Statement | Goals | Curriculum
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Our students have unique academic, social, emotional, and physical needs. The staff in partnership with parents and the community will educate the students within a safe and nurturing environment to recognize their goals and encourage them to strive toward becoming life-long learners.
Goals Goal 1: Staff and administration will improve student achievement.
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Goal 2: Students will have an orderly environment in which to learn. Sub-goals:
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Goal 3: Positive relationships will be developed between parents, staff, students, and administration.
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Cadillac Area Public Schools embraces a curriculum reflecting Michigan Content Standards for Curriculum and national standards. Our School Improvement goals show our desire to improve the performance of all the students in reading comprehension of informational materials, student understanding and application of scientific processes, student understanding of social studies context of the application of geography skills, student use of mathematics and logic skills in problem solving as well as development of social problem-solving skills. All Cadillac Junior High students learn about technology and refine their skills as they apply them across the content areas. The district curriculum guide, textbooks, technology plan, computer software, and building personnel are focused on desired student outcomes in each of the goal area. All Cadillac Junior High students engage in challenging and purposeful learning that prepares them for the future.
Each goal area has established assessments to measure progress toward obtaining the stated goal. They include: Respect and Protect, discipline records, grades, attendance records, students receiving awards, MEAP (Michigan Educational Assessment Program), progress report comparisons, student career interest survey, parent surveys, staff surveys, curricular assessment, and teacher observation.
Cadillac Junior High School prepares students for successful entry into the world of work and/or continuing education in order to pursue their career goals. Collaboration with the community beyond the walls of the classroom is a vital component to help students develop the skills, attitudes, and behaviors needed to get and keep a good job. Students need to see a clear connection between what they learn in school and what they will need to succeed in a career. The School-Business Partnership program provides speakers and volunteers to assist in this goal. Adult volunteers visit classrooms to speak about their specific career and students visit the partner business for on site instruction. Speakers can also be procured through the use of the Cadillac Area Chamber of Commerce who maintain a list of topics and local individuals who are willing to share with students. Cadillac Area Chamber of Commerce through the Leadership Program, sponsor a Lead and Lead Junior program twice a year for 8th and 9th grade students to attend to learn how to be young leaders in the community. The Wexford-Missaukee Career Technical Center (CTC) is another component of the community resources available to Cadillac students. The Career Technical Center is available to provide up-to-date vocational training and instruction to high school students. The primary objectives of the CTC are to prepare individuals for full time gainful employment on the completion of high school or to prepare students for further vocational technical education. CTC also holds an annual Career Expo for 9th grade students to hear speakers share information about their careers. Distance learning is offered in Japanese and Latin. This program may be extended as indicated by student needs. Michigan Virtual High School courses may be offered when the student’s individual needs can’t be met at the school.
Cadillac Junior High School uses the School Improvement Committee consisting of teaching staff, support staff, administration, parents, students, and non-parent community members. Ideas and information are submitted to the School Improvement Committee and they then seek input from the entire school community before decisions are made.
Cadillac Junior High School makes a concentrated effort to provide professional development for all staff in technology knowledge, application, and integration. Staff members are encouraged to evaluate the usefulness of emerging technologies and to think outside the box when incorporating technology in the classroom. Students learn with and about technology preparing them to live responsibly in a democratic, technologically driven society. Both staff and students use technology for knowledge, acquisition, communication, information management, problem solving, creative expression, research, and design across the disciplines. Cadillac Junior High School continues to identify individual student’s needs and to address those needs through all appropriate means including the use of electronic curricula and technology tools. Technology plays an important role in communication with parents (i.e. weekly progress reports.) and the community. We are doing local broadcasting in our school for our morning announcements and communicate our character counts program.
Cadillac Junior High School professional development is aligned with school improvement, curriculum, instruction, and assessment and is an ongoing process directed toward increased performance for all students. It promotes continuous improvement of all members of the learning community and enhances school improvement by encouraging a culture of collaboration and sharing to achieve or exceed the school improvement goals. Cadillac Junior High School provides professional development opportunities through:
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