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Text Box: Our Mission Our mission is to provide a secure learning environment that equips all students with the social and academic skills needed to achieve post-secondary success and reach their highest potential as citizens and employees. Our Beliefs Learning: Our top priority is to ensure that all students receive a high quality education in a safe, positive learning environment, as they transition into post-secondary life, fully prepared to function in a culturally diverse and technology-rich world. Curriculum & Instruction: Teachers must implement a clear, valid curriculum and use research-based practices and differentiated instruction to maximize results for all students, as they address the learning styles and ability levels of individual students. Teachers must incorporate higher order thinking skills and challenge students to move beyond proficiency and reach their maximum potential. A Professional Learning Community must exist at each school site for the benefit of our students. The new standards in Math, Science, and Language Arts will be embedded in K-12 curriculum and instruction. Assessment: All teachers will use formative and summative assessments to maintain clear purpose, measure student achievement, and provide appropriate feedback as well as requiring that all staff members use disaggregated data and research-based information to target instruction to students’ individual needs. Collaboration & Decision Making: Healthy collaboration among all stakeholders is essential to improving a school system. Decision-making must be data-driven, must reflect stakeholder input, and must ensure equity and adequacy for all students. All stakeholders must engage in adequate and appropriate internal and external communication. Use of all funding must be priority-driven and targeted to research-based learning while addressing individual students’ needs. Policy & Procedures: The Board of Education must ensure that policies and procedures provide equity and adequacy for students; are aligned to system goals for student learning; enable students to move beyond AYP targets and; create and maintain a high performing system, while retaining highly qualified personnel at all schools.

Marshall County Schools is a K-12 school system with more than 5,300 students enrolled for the 2008-09 school year. There are 10 school sites: five elementary schools, one middle school, one career technical center, and three high schools.

All of Marshall County’s schools are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The system will pursue district-wide accreditation during the 2008-09 school year.

The Tennessee Department of Education has declared all of Marshall County’s schools in “good standing” based on the students’ performance on the 2008 assessments. The Report Card for Marshall can be viewed by clicking on the icon below.

Marshall County will join the Tennessee Diploma Project this year which raises the standards for all students. Find out more by clicking on the icon below.

Brainpop!!!

The Instructional Technology Department offers Brainpop to Marshall County students and teachers through the ENA education consortium program. A new Brainpop movie will be available on this page for parents, students, and teachers. Check it out by clicking on the movie to the left. The movie changes often so refer back. Students can use the 30,000 animation movies and quizzes at home as well. Parents should ask their teachers for the username and password. In the meantime, see this movie without having to login.

NOVEMBER NEWS

June School News

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Statewide Student Management System-Click the icon. Password protected.

Webmail logon-Click the icon. Password protected.

Access to your employee benefits — Click the icon above. Password protected.

Access to the Easy IEP logon for Marshall County– Click the icon. Password protected.

Access to the Grade Portal– Click the icon. Password protected.

Data-mining tool. Password protected.

Educational videos, video clips, newsreels, audio and video speeches, still images, and audio files for curriculum integration. Password protected.

An education search tool for teachers that aligns each website with state standards by subject and grade level. Password protected outside the district network, but not inside.

JANUARY NEWS

Marshall County Schools

700 Jones Circle

Lewisburg, Tennessee

“Linking Learning to Life”

Click on the icon above to access the district’s self study, the Tennessee Consolidated System Planning Process.

The report of the Quality Assurance Review Team for Marshall County Schools has been completed and sent to Dr. Stan Curtis, Director of Schools. To review the commendations and recommendations of the team, please click on the button above. Upon completion of the visit in March, 2009, the team recommended that Marshall County Schools receive national and international accreditation as a quality school district.

To register for the 2009-2010 Summer In-Service Catalog & Registration sessions, click on the icon to the left.

We would like to know what you think of the summer inservice sessions. Please click on the icon to the right to complete a small survey.

Safe Practices for Online Safety: Usernames

The name students choose for themselves as online usernames can greatly impact their experiences using the internet. People make judgments about others online based on just a little information. Sometimes, all they know about someone is a “username” or screen name; but that can be more than enough for predators. Students may choose screen names to get attention. Younger students will sometimes choose names with vulgar content in an effort to draw attention. People will form opinions about them based on that screen name before they get to know them, so the names students choose are very important.

Another issue is revealing too much in a screen name. There are those on the internet who are masters of manipulation; they befriend children by discovering things that can be used to build a relationship. Even adults can be manipulated online. For example, if a student uses “KarateKid2” as a username, the predator may approach them with the idea that he, too, enjoys karate as a hobby. Screen names that reveal the least information and are the least provocative are the best choices.

Information given out on the internet is worth money. For example, email addresses are sold to spammers who send unwanted email. Students should be warned about entering their email addresses on game sites.

Along with usernames come passwords. Most passwords can be easily cracked. There is actually software that can unlock a password. Use the following guidelines for creating a password:

· Always use a mix of numbers and letters,

· Use a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters,

· Use characters such as @,#,$.

· Create acronyms (take the first letter of a word in a phrase or sentence),

· Create a password with 6 characters or more (8 is even better).

Go to www.pctools.com/guides/password/ and use their free password generator to create a secure one.

The biggest threat to online security is when you give your password to others who misuse the account. The second biggest threat is when you choose a password that is easily guessed.

Take this quiz. Scores of 8 or better are excellent; less than 8 means you should rethink your online practices.

1. Does your password include the name of a family member or pet? (-3)

2. Does your password include the birth date of a family member? (-3)

3. Does your password include one or more words that could be found in the dictionary? (-1)

4. Does your password include a random set of numbers? (+2)

5. Does you password contain both letters and numbers? (+2)