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Secretary: Patty Smith
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THE SOUTHERN REGIONAL EDUCATION BOARD KEY PRACTICES
1. Higher Expectations - Setting higher expectations and getting students to meet them.
2. Revising Vocational Studies - Increasing access to challenging vocational studies, with a major emphasis on using high-level mathematics, science, English, history/social sciences, and problem solving competencies in the context of modern business and technical studies.
3. Revising Academic Studies - Increasing access to academic-studies that teach the essential concepts from the college preparatory curriculum through functional and applied strategies enabling students to see the relationship between course content and future roles they may envision for themselves.
4. Challenging Program of Study - Having students complete a challenging and related program of study, with a technical or academic major; including four years of college preparatory English, courses in history/social sciences that meet state course requirements; and three courses in mathematics and science, with at least two credits in each course equivalent in content to courses offered in the college preparatory program.
5. Teachers Working Together - Having an organizational structure and schedule that enable academic and vocational teachers to have the time to plan and deliver an integrated curriculum aimed at teaching high-status academic and technical content.
6. Changing the Instructional Process - Having each student actively engaged in the learning process.
7. Guidance and Advisement - Involving each student and his/her parent in an individualized advisement system aimed at ensuring that each student completes an accelerated and coherent program of academic study with a vocational or academic major.
8. Extra Help and Extra Time - Provide a structured system of extra help to enable students to successfully complete an accelerated program of study that includes high-level academic content and a major.
9. Work-Based Learning - Providing students access to a structured system of work-based learning that is planned in collaboration with high-status school-based learning- high school and postsecondary - and that results in an industry-recognized credential and employment in a career pathway.
10. Assessment and Evaluation - Using student assessment and program evaluation information to continuously improve curriculum, instruction, school climate, organization, and management.
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