Tyler Morning Telegraph
Staff Reports
Monday, July 14, 2014
Lindale Junior High School has been selected as a Showcase School for the Middle School Matters Institute, an initiative of the George W. Bush Institute. The school was selected because of its dedication to the education reform program, its commitment to implementing research-based practices, and its outstanding student achievement, according to a Lindale ISD news release. As a Showcase School, the junior high campus will open its doors for scheduled visits and show other educators…
The room at Erie’s Roosevelt Middle School is called the “data room” for good reason. The walls are covered with color-coded cards detailing everything a teacher might need to know about students at risk for dropping out of school: their attendance, their behavior and the courses they’re failing. But that’s about to change. Soon the school will trade in the cards for the Opening Doors Early Warning System, a computer-based “dashboard” that…
We have an update on the new “Middle School Matters” initiative at Roosevelt Middle School. We were first to tell you in August, that Roosevelt is one of three schools nationwide chosen by the Bush Institute to receive special resources and development. We went back to Roosevelt today, where students had the day off, and the teachers were doing the learning. Those doing the training, are from the Meadows Center for preventing educational risk at…
When Lindale Junior High School Principal Vicki Thrasher applied for a program that would give her campus free, expert-level professional support, the interviewers had one key question: Why? Lindale Junior High performed as well on the 2013 accountability ratings, meeting the state’s standard and earning all three academic distinctions. From the outsider’s view, it’s a school that’s in little need of help. So why apply for it? “We…