Good Sunday evening to all!
College and Career Readiness
--I have used this term a great deal in recent weeks and use it frequently with our
students as this has become one of our major focal areas for the middle and
high school students. We are continually planning and preparing courses
so that our students can be as prepared for college or a career after
graduation. I want to take this opportunity to discuss why this idea of
our students being college or career ready is important, not only to the school
but specifically for the students.
1. Meeting the ACT Benchmarks in math, reading and English is the main way to
becoming declared college ready. This benefits the student who is college
bound by allowing him or her to enter the college of their choice without
having to take remedial courses. If students do not meet this benchmarks,
they can still apply for admission to college and will likely be accepted but
admittance could be conditional which means the student would have to take
additional courses/classes due to not meeting those benchmarks.
Ultimately, this translates into more money and more time since they will be
required to take the remedial courses before taking the required courses for
specific degrees. Encourage your student to take advantage of the
programs that we offer to help ensure that they meet these established
benchmarks. Currently, we offer ACT prep assistance through an on-line
company (TCA) with our juniors who will take the ACT in March. Our
juniors have taken two practice ACT exams and have received student-specific
feedback and instructional plans that are individualized for each student based
on the practice assessments. If these students are utilizing this
feedback with the TCA program, we believe that overall student performance will
be impacted. We are working now on a plan for our sophomore students to
begin working on the TCA program, as well. The link for this program can
be found on the high school’s web page located on the district website.
Students can work on this program at any time they wish.
Mrs. Erica Cassady, a new teacher at RHS, is also offering after school sessions to
help students who want to improve their reading and English ACT
benchmarks. If your student is interested, please have them contact Mrs.
Cassady for more information. Higher ACT benchmarks can also increase a
student’s chance of receiving scholarships and other opportunities that
normally would not be available to them.
2. By law, if students do not meet ACT benchmarks in the areas of math, reading
and/or English, then we must provide them with senior transitional courses in
those areas so that they can be remediated for the COMPASS and KYOTE
assessments during their senior year of high school.
3. Career Readiness—students can be declared Career ready by completing three or
courses in a specific career pathway and by passing the appropriate assessments
for those programs. Many of our students will be eligible for an industry
certification at the completion of their specific pathways. Graduating
high school with a specific industry certification will only help improve the
student’s possible employment opportunities. We will begin working more
closely with our middle school students to help them identify pathways as early
as possible so that they can register for the necessary courses needed.
Finally, I have shared in recent weeks new students added to our original list of
college and career ready students. Below you will find the listing of all
our RHS Seniors who have been declared college and/or career ready at this
point. Please join me in congratulating these students on this
accomplishment and to praise them for the hard work they have put forth in
obtaining this honor.
Kaelyn Adler
Henry Bouldin*
Kaitlynn Cisney*
Kayla Costelow
Darian Duncan
Trey Farlee
Jason Fox
Jeffrey Fox
Emilie Gill
Enchante Hampton
Kelsey Harris
Sydney Herndon
Rashawn Jones
Jessica Kennedy
Jake Landreth
Brittney Lyne
Laura Grace Marksberry
Rycki Faith Morris*
Ethan Mullen
Christian Naylor
Aaron Paul
Caitlin Starks
Devonna Sydnor
Jayla Townsend
Malis Vanna
*These students are college AND career ready!
We will continue working with all of our students so that more students can receive
these important classifications before graduating.
PROGRESS REPORTS—due to technical difficulties on Friday, we were unable to run progress reports. These reports will be run on Monday and sent home with students
at the end of the day. We apologize for the issue!
Upcoming Events:
Monday
· RHS Girls Bball vs. Fort Campbell (A) 6:00
· Progress reports sent home
· 10th grade students will meet with a Jostens rep to receive information about class rings.
Tuesday
· RHS Academic Team Regional Competition—Hopkins Co. Central
· RHS Boys Bball vs. Warren Central (H) 6:00
--The ball game will be declared a “white/red out event” for the American Heart
Association. Students may purchase t-shirts at school for $5.
Wearing the t-shirt on Tuesday night will get them free entrance into the ball
game. All proceeds from the sale of the t-shirts will be donated to the
AHA.
Wednesday
Thursday
· RHS Bball Freshmen/JV vs. Todd Co (H) 6:00
Friday
· RHS Swim Team Regional Competition—Owensboro
· RHS Boys/Girls vs. Todd Co. (H) 6:00
· RMS Behavior Celebration—school dance
Saturday
· RHS Archery Team—regional competition (Rescheduled event)—Logan CO High
· RHS Academic Team Regional Competition—Quick Recall and
Written Assessments—Hopkins CO.
Wishing everyone a safe, WARMER and productive week ahead!
Thanks,
Kim McDaniel