Hi
Like me, you and your family are probably winding down and winding up for the end of the school year. My 2 kids have just finished off 2 after-school commitments (baseball, choir and dance), with another winding up in a week with the production of
For those of you who are administrators, you’re probably right in the middle of year-end ceremonies and meetings…making sure to celebrate the achievements of the school members, and preparing for the coming school year.
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I hope your weekend is a little more relaxing.
Doug Halladay
President
Halladay Education Group Inc.
www.HalladayEducationGroup.com
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There are a number of characteristics of effective schools that have been identified by researchers. I’m providing a brief list of critical values that you could use in performing an informal assessment of your school’s effectiveness. In no particular order, here is a distilled list of attributes that you should have or work towards. Read through each and keep a tally of how you did.
1). Strong supportive Administrative leadership that provides instructional guidance and autonomy to school staff;
2). Teachers expected more children to graduate, go to college, and become readers and good citizens;
3). Teachers were more satisfied with opportunities to try new things and to adjust teaching techniques to individual pupil needs, where they had control over their programs;
4). Parent-Teacher and Principal-Teacher relationships were more satisfactory;
5). Schools look at their assessment data and do something about it;
6). Schools had longer instructional days that maximized learning time in academic subjects;
7). Teachers relied almost entirely on teacher-developed tests and some subjective evaluation of student achievement;
8). A climate that improves and sustains instructional effectiveness, where you can find good instructional practices in every classroom, and staff involvement in school improvement;
9). Staff professional development based on school needs and planned collaboratively and collegially with teachers;
10). School-wide, visible recognition and promotion of academic success and commitment to student learning;
11). School climate that fostered collaborative planning;
12). Development and communication of clear goal-focused activities towards sustainable objectives and high expectations;
13). Long-range planning and coordination, shared consensus on values and goals, stability and continuity of key staff;
13). Fostering an environment of order and clear, firm, and consistent discipline, in an atmosphere where is learning is safe, orderly, and conducive to learning;
14). Teachers emphasized homework and study, accountability and responsibility for outcomes;
15). A caring family atmosphere based on cooperation and trust, where parents are involved in student learning, and there are positive community relations.
Well, how did you do? To be deemed an effective school you should have scored at least +12. If you didn’t, you should go back and identify areas of weakness, and put together your own mini-action plan to focus on strategies of improvement for the coming school year. If you’re putting together your own school, these would be invaluable when you’re developing your “educational philosophy.”
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Kid’s Exam Responses
The following questions and answers were collected from last year's GCSE exam results in
Geography
Q: Name the four seasons.
A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.
Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink.
A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutant like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists.
Q: How is dew formed?
A: The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire.
Q: What causes the tides in the oceans?
A: The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and Nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.
Sociology
Q: What guarantees may a mortgage company insist on?
A: If you are buying a house, they will insist you are well endowed.
Q: In a democratic society, how important are elections?
A: Very important. Sex can only happen when a male gets an election.
Q: What are steroids?
A: Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs.
Biology
Q: What happens to your body as you age?
A: When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental.
Q: What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty?
A: He says goodbye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery.
Q: Name a major disease associated with cigarettes.
A: Premature death.
Q: What is artificial insemination?
A: When the farmer does it to the cow instead of the bull.
Q: How can you delay milk turning sour?
A: Keep it in the cow. [He got an A]
Q: How are the main parts of the body categorized? (E.g. abdomen)
A: The body is consisted into three parts - the brainium, the borax the abdominal cavity. The branium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels, A, E, I, O and U.
Q: What is the Fibula?
A: A small lie.
Q: What does "varicose" mean?
A: Nearby.
Q: What is the most common form of birth control?
A: Most people prevent contraception by wearing a condominium.
Q: Give the meaning of the term "Caesarean Section."
A: The caesarean section is a district in
Q: What is a seizure?
A: A Roman emperor.
Q: What is a terminal illness?
A: When you are sick at the airport
Q: Give an example of a fungus. What is a characteristic feature?
A: Mushrooms. They always grow in damp places and they look like umbrellas.
English
Q: Use the word "judicious" in a sentence to show you understand its meaning.
A: Hands that judicious can be soft as your face.
Q: What does the word "benign" mean?
A: Benign is what you will be after you be eight.
Smile and enjoy your day.
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To our success,
Douglas Halladay
President and Founder
P: 604.868.0002/F: 868.472.8737/Email: info@halladayeducationgroup.com
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