Thank You
As we celebrate November as Family Engagement Month, it’s important to take a moment to thank all of our parents and guardians for your dedication to your scholar’s education and academic success. YOU are appreciated. WHEN FAMILIES ARE ENGAGED IN LEARNING, CHILDREN DO BETTER AND SCHOOLS GET BETTER.
Strive for 95 Attendance
The Griffin-Spalding County School System aspires towards positive student attendance outcomes, every day. Students learn most effectively and most abundantly when they regularly attend school to experience impactful instruction from their teachers, and participate in the learning experiences. The Strive for 95 Campaign includes action steps that are comprehensive, and include efforts to increase communication, awareness, stakeholder inputs, goalsetting and progress monitoring, reinforcements, interventions, and leverage external partnerships.
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
· Advances equity by upholding critical protections for America's disadvantage and high-need students.
· Requires that all students in America be taught to high academic standards that will prepare them to succeed in college and careers.
· Ensures that vital information is provided to educators, families, students, and communities through annual statewide assessments that measure students' progress toward those high standards.
· Maintains an expectation that there will be accountability and action to effect positive change in our lowest performing schools, where groups of students are not making progress and where graduation rates are low over extended periods of time.
District-Wide Reading Challenge
Help your child boost their Lexile score and foster a love for reading with our District-Wide Reading Challenge to read 100,000 books! Using AR and Beanstack, we’re making reading an interactive adventure that motivates students to explore, engage and grow their Lexile. Check out the flyer for all the details. Let’s make reading fun, challenging and rewarding!
