Monday, March 25, 2013

Art Students Create Banner

Devin Trevor and Rikki Dressman, students in Ms. Vogelpohl's art class at Lloyd Memorial High School, created a beautiful district banner displayed at the annual KSBA Conference. The theme was "Taking the Next Step".  Thanks to Devin and Rikki and Ms. Vogelpohl!

Lloyd Students Visit Elementary Schools
During the month of March about 200 Lloyd Memorial High School Students visited the elementary schools Arnett, Howell, Lindeman and Miles.  Each grade level at the high school adopted and elementary school to visit.  High school students read with elementary student partners and plan to continue their visits next year!

Instructional Rounds
District administrators and teachers recently participated in the  instructional rounds process at Howell Elementary School in February and Tichenor Middle School in March.  The process was very informative and extremely positive.  In both schools we saw lots of targeted, focused instruction aimed at increasing student learning at all levels.  The instructional rounds process helps all of us to grow and learn together and is an integral part of continuous progress.  Instructional rounds will continue to assist us in doing all we can to meet the needs our students and enrich and increase their learning.  The next instructional rounds process will be in April at Lindeman Elementary.  Thanks to everyone involved in the process including the students classroom teachers who welcome everyone into the classrooms.

Federal Grant Received
The Erlanger-Elsmere School  District was awarded a federal school counseling grant this school year.  The district partnered with Dayton and Campbell County through the NKCES grants consortium to complete the grant.  Vicki Dansberry assists our district and others in researching and writing grants through the consortium.  The counseling grant currently funds a full time counseling position at the middle school and will do so for three years.  The grant is also in partnership with NKU and Dr. Brett Zymroski, who serves as a consultant with Tichenor and the district through the grant.  As a result, all of our district counselors have been involved with a book study on Evidence-Based Counseling.  They are working at designing and implementing evidence-based counseling programs and services which will have positive impacts on student learning.  Tichenor Middl School Counselors Angie Bielecki, Amy Gillio, and Kendilynn Madden recently presented at the

Tichenor Middle School Counselors Present at National Conference
Tichenor Middle School Counselors Angie Bielecki, Amy Gillio, and Kendilynn Madden recently presented at the National Evidence-Based School Counseling Conference March 18-19 at the NKU METS Center for Corporate Learning (3861 Olympic Blvd.) in Erlanger.
 
The Northern Kentucky University School Counseling Program collaborated with the NKU Center for Educator Excellence and the Ronald H. Fredrickson Center for School Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to present the conference.

The conference focused on equipping professional school counselors with the skills to choose evidence-based interventions and the tools to evaluate the effectiveness of existing programs by measuring the impact of interventions on critical measurements such as test scores, grade-point-averages, post-secondary going rates, attendance rates, office referrals and drop-out rates.