Sustaining School Success
Sustaining School Success is a grant initiative funded for the 2006-07 school year through the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). Its purpose is to build a coalition of administrators, teacher leaders, and traditional and non-traditional student leaders engaged in school renewal. The project includes students as active participants in reform efforts and allows teachers, school administrators, and students to become actively involved in action planning and strategizing. Sustaining School Success is an expansion of TPI's Instructional Improvement Institute (I3) program, which was established in 2004. "It is the college's goal to develop competent, committed and reflective professionals," said Education Dean Frances Kochan. "Through the Truman Pierce Institute initiatives and ARC funding we are able to achieve that goal by serving those in critical education positions, not to mention current students, who represent the region's future."
Specific objectives for student leaders are:
- Decreasing drop-out rate
- Increasing graduation rates
- Encouraging teaching as a career
- Promoting college enrollment
- Enhancing leadership capacity
- Improving academic achievement
Project objectives for teacher leaders and administrators are:
- Improving instructional effectiveness
- Increasing leadership capacity
- Promoting mentoring
- Developing grant writing and acquisition skills
Sustaining School Success is accomplishing these objectives by providing the following activities:
- Two student leadership retreats
- Monthly job embedded professional development activities offered in each school system for teacher leaders and administrators
- Monthly sessions offered in each school system for student leaders
- Two coalition meetings that include traditional and non-traditional student leaders, teacher leaders, and administrators from all four school systems
"It is a long term goal of this program as well as the Truman Pierce Institute to provide these dedicated and talented teachers and administrators the tools they need to continually improve the quality of education for all students," said Dr. Cindy Reed, Director of the Truman Pierce Institute.
Sustaining School Success Coalition Partners include:
- Fayette County School System
- Hale County School System
- Macon County School System
- Tallapoosa County School System
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