PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY SCHOOLS

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• FROM COMPETENCE TO EXCELLENCE
• Principals Supervisors Workshop
• Chatham Middle School
• August 13, 2007

Mr. James E. McDaniel
Division Superintendent
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We aint no country school no more! Spoken by a
rural Tennessee student
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An optimist sees an opportunity in every
calamity a pessimist sees a calamity in every
opportunity. --- Winston Churchill
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Never interrupt someone doing what you said
couldnt be done. --- Amelia Earhart
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Champions arent made in gyms. Champions are
made from something they have deep inside them
a desire, a dream, a vision! --- Muhammad Ali
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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds
strength to persevere and endure in spite of
overwhelming obstacles. --- Christopher Reeve
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Life can only be understood backwards but it
must be lived forwards! --- Soren Kierkegaard
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• School Division Standards of Learning Scores

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Stanford 10 Results
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• Number/Percent of Fully
• Accredited Schools

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• Drop Out Rates

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• High School Graduation Rates
• (Based on No Child Left Behind Formula)

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• High School Completion Rates
  
  (Based on No Child
  Left Behind Formula)

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• Continuing Educational Plans
• of High School Graduates

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• Percent of Graduates by Type of Award

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Percent of Highly Qualified (HQ) Teachers
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• Percent of Graduates Enrolled in at least one (1)
  Advanced Placement (AP) and/or
• Dual Enrollment (DE) Course

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• Percent of students attending school

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• Number of Suspensions per year (Division)

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• Percent of Students on Free and Reduced Lunch

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• Percent of Special Education Students Enrolled

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he
stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but
where he stands at times of challenge and
controversy. --- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It isnt sufficient just to want youve got to
ask yourself what you are going to do to get the
thing you want. --- Franklin Roosevelt
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• ARE WE THERE YET?

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One can never consent to creep when one feels an
impulse to soar. --- Helen Keller
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Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) Incentive
Program
Criteria
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Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) Incentive
Program
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE Increase the percentage of
third graders reading on grade level PERFORMANCE
MEASURE Percentage of students passing the
Grade 3 state reading assessment increases
annually (95 state goal)
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Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) Incentive
Program
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE Increase the percentage of
students enrolled in Algebra I by grade
8 PERFORMANCE MEASURE Percentage of students
enrolled in Algebra I by grade 8 increases
annually (45 state goal)
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Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) Incentive
Program
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE Increase the percentage of
high school students taking Advanced
Placement, International Baccalaureate, and
dual enrollment courses PERFORMANCE
MEASURE Percentage of high school students
enrolled in one or more AP, IB, or dual
enrollment courses increases annually (25 state
goal)
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Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) Incentive
Program
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE Increase the number of
career and technical industry certifications,
state licenses, or successful national
occupational assessment credentials earned by
high school students PERFORMANCE MEASURE Number
of career and technical industry certifications,
state licenses, or successful national
occupational assessment credentials earned by
high school students increases annually or
relative to enrollment (15,000 state goal)
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Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) Incentive
Program
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE Increase the percentage of
high school graduates earning an Advanced
Studies Diploma PERFORMANCE MEASURE Percentage
of high school graduates earning an Advanced
Studies diploma out of the total number of
diplomas awarded increases annually (57 state
goal)
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Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) Incentive
Program
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE Increase the percentage of
students who receive a high school diploma
recognized by the Board of Education PERFORMANCE
MEASURE Percentage of high school students
earning a diploma recognized by the Board
as compared to ninth-grade enrollment four years
earlier increases annually (Target TBD in 2008
using new formulastate interim target 80)
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Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) Incentive
Program
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE Increase the percentage of
schools that are fully accredited and making
Adequate Yearly Progress PERFORMANCE
MEASURE Percentage of fully accredited schools
in each division and the percentage of schools in
each division making Adequate Yearly
Progress increases annually (100 state goal)
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Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) Incentive
Program
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE Increase the percent of
at-risk four-year olds who are being served by
the Virginia Preschool Initiative
(VPI) PERFORMANCE MEASURE Percent of eligible
school divisions that participate in the Virginia
Preschool Initiative for at-risk four-year-olds
increases annually (100 state goal)
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Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) Incentive
Program
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE Increase the percentage of
students achieving at higher levels of
proficiency on state assessments PERFORMANCE
MEASURE Percentage of students in each
subgroup achieving Advanced Proficient on state
assessments increases annually
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Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) Incentive
Program
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE Increase the percentage of
students maintaining literacy proficiency
throughout their adolescent years PERFORMANCE
MEASURE Percentages of students passing the
Grade 5 state reading assessment and Grade 8
state reading and writing assessments
increase annually (95 state goal)
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Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) Incentive
Program
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE Increase the percentage of
schools offering foreign language instruction in
the elementary grades PERFORMANCE
MEASURE Percentage of elementary schools
offering foreign language instruction
increases annually
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Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) Incentive
Program
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE Increase participation in
the Governors Nutrition and Physical Activity
Scorecard Awards Program PERFORMANCE
MEASURE Number of schools that are registered
users of the Scorecard and number of schools
that earn Governors awards increases annually
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When you start with an honest and diligent
effort to determine the truth of the situation,
the right decisions often become self-evident.
You cannot make a series of good decisions
without first confronting the brutal facts. ---
Jim Collins
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Life is not easy for any of us. We must believe
that we are gifted for something and that this
thing must be attained. --- Marie Curie
Nobel Prize for Physics - 1903
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We will either find a way or make one! ---
Hannibal
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Today we sailed on. --- Christopher Columbus
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Many of lifes failures are people who did not
realize how close they were to success when they
gave up! --- Thomas Edison
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Nothing will be attempted if all possible
obstacles must first be removed! --- Samuel
Johnson
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Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla.
You dont quit when youre tired you quit when
the gorilla is tired. --- Robert Strauss
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In every triumph there is a lot of try! ---
Frank Tyger
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STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE IN 2007-2008!
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