Yamhill Carlton School District School Board Report
March 2016 Board Meeting
Yamhill Carlton High School
Enrollment
DATE / 9/8/15 / 10/6/15 / 11/2/15 / 12/2/15 / 2/1/16 / 3/1/169th Grade / 80 / 79 / 81 / 82 / 83 / 84
10th Grade / 104 / 104 / 104 / 104 / 104 / 106
11th Grade / 86 / 83 / 85 / 85 / 85 / 90
12th Grade / 104 / 98 / 99 / 101 / 102 / 102
EOSP / 4 / 4 / 4 / 4 / 4 / 4
Total / 386 / 368 / 381 / 384 / 386 / 394
14-15 Totals / 419 / 414 / 406 / 403 / 394 / 383
YCHS Donations:
Yamhill Carlton Together Cares $450.00 Class of 2017 Prom committee
Sean Nonamaker $80.00 Wrestling Mat Fund
Linda Lenyo $50.00 Wrestling Mat Fund
Charmel Hendricks $1,000 Matt Cutter and Framing Supplies
Upcoming Events:
March 1: Math Essential Skills Day
March 1: FFA Sectionals
March 2: Student Council Meeting
March 2: Academic Awards
March 3: Jostens Visit @ Lunch
March 3 - 6: Spring Play “Much Ado About Nothing”
March 7: Qtr 3 Grades Due
March 8: Winter Athletic Survey
March 9: Winter Sports Dessert
March 10: District Band Concert
March 11:Link Open Gym
March 11: Oregon Ballet Assembly
March 16: Celebrate YC Assembly
March 16: Senior vs Staff Basketball Game
March 16: Spring Sports Tailgate
March 17: District Orchestra Concert
March 18-March 21: FFA State Convention
March 21-March 25: Spring Break
March 30: Link Spring Egg Hunt
Leadership
February
8th thru 12th – Crushes for Your Crush fundraiser for Juliette’s House
16th – Winter Sports Assembly (Advisory)
18th – Oregon West Winter Service Project (5 ASB officers and an Advisor from each of the league schools to Capitol Manor Retirement Center in West Salem to perform skits/dances for residents and do other interactive activities with the residents from 9- 11:30 a.m.
22nd thru 26th – Canned Food Drive Competition between YCHS and YCIS for the local food banks. Winning school receives an ice-cream bar feed. Over 1,000 cans of food collected between the two Schools. YCIS was the winner of this years competition.
March
2nd – Student Council Meeting 4th period (All ASB officers/Class Officers/Club Presidents meet to give reports, consider Constitutional Amendments, vote of new clubs, dissolve inactive clubs, consider other ASB business.
16th– Seniors vs Staff Charity Basketball game (Srs vs Staff game donations taken for Doernbechers and the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society – Pennies for Patients program) 6:30 p.m. YCHS Gym
16th – Celebrate YC Assembly – Co-sponsored with YCHS Admin to celebrate and recognize YC success and special abilities/achievements
Link
February
9th– Link Valentines (Link Leaders pass out candy and Valentines to freshmen during Advisory)
March
11th – Link Open Gym Night (Free pizza, door prizes, basketball, pool, air hockey, dodgeball, Rock Star Video game for all freshmen and junior/senior Link Leaders from 6-8 p.m. at the YCHS Gym - Free)
29th – Link Spring Egg Hunt (junior/senior Link Leaders and freshmen hunt 800 plastic eggs filled with candy and three special eggs with gift cards on the football and soccer fields during Advisory)
FFA
On February 26th our students competed at the FFA District Convention and here is a run down on their success:
○Elsie Duyn was 7th in advanced Job interview out of 18.
○Elsie Duyn, Abbey Berhorst and Nicholas Sheridan ran for a district office. Nicholas was elected as Secretary.
○Elsie Duyn won in swine, sheep and diversified livestock proficiency areas and moves forward to state.
○Liberty Greenlund was officially selected as a state officer candidate for the district.
○Hayley DeHaan won beef proficiency and goes onto state.
○Abbey Berhorst Scrapbook goes onto state competition level as well after winning 1st.
○Dustin Talbott, Philip Spencer, Lisie Luttrell, Julia Brewer and Ryan Berhorst were all committee members and delegates throughout the day.
●Nicholas Sheridan placed second at district sophomore public speaking and is competing at the sectionals level.
ASPIRE
· Currently signed up for ASPIRE are 88 students: 60 seniors, 18 juniors, 12 sophomores and 4 freshman. All seniors have mentors and some juniors. 30 students, including freshmen and sophomores, are wait-listed for mentors.
· ASPIRE mentors are: Chuck Archer, Kate Chasuk, Sue Crocker, Liz Crocket, Jan Davis, John Donehoo, Janet Herring-Sherman, John Litster, Annette Madrid, Dede Small and Jo Weinstein.
· During the month of February, ASPIRE mentors volunteered more than 64 hours to helping YCHS students.
· YC had access for the first time this year to “FAFSA+” data, a data reporting system still in its infancy. This enabled us to know which students had successfully submitted FAFSA applications – or not. If something on an application needed to be verified, or if an application had been rejected – we were able to let students know. Of the 31 that had been submitted, about 40% had issues. Mentors worked tirelessly to help their “mentees” get things fixed before the March 1 deadline, as the FAFSA had to be in place by the deadline for the Oregon Promise Grant and OSAC scholarship application. The next FAFSA+ report should show us how successful our efforts were.
· Hard copy applications, or online instructions, for nearly 50 local scholarships are currently posted in folders in the Senior Hall near ASPIRE. A list of these awards is now available on the YCHS/ASPIRE web page, as well as links to several other scholarships lists and search engines. That list was also sent home with the recent Senior Newsletter.
· All ASPIRE student files have been updated with first term transcripts and second term schedules. These are for Mentor use only and are housed in a locking file cabinet to ensure confidentiality.
· ASPIRE’s student aides have been working on updating our website page; filing, updating forms, copying and posting scholarship applications; and researching setting up a YC ASPIRE account and using Hootsuite to schedule posts.
· Mentors worked on notifying juniors they are working with – that March 5 is the first time the new SAT will be given. Links to College Board and the Khan Academy will be circulated, so students can learn about the changes. And, Khan Academy, in conjunction with College Board, is offering FREE SAT prep for the first time.
· YC ASPIRE Coordinator and Regional Director for ASPIRE were on hand during Trades Day to help seniors in writing scholarship essays and/or completing applications.
· Below is the mid-year review furnished by ASPIRE “central” in Eugene each year:
In addition to ASPIRE data, we thought you might be interested in the most recently published FAFSA completion numbers for your school, compared to the same date last year.
Janet, so glad to see you were able to bring in 11 volunteers. I know it is an ongoing challenge in Y•amhill to recruit new folks as mentors. Thanks, as always, for the great work you do with your students -- you make such a positive difference in their lives; they, and we, are so lucky to have you!
Principal's Report
With first semester officially being in the books this is a great opportunity to take a look back at the work we have done over the first half of the school year to recognize and celebrate our successes and address the areas that we still need improvement. Looking at the course passage rates that I have included in the board report, I am very happy with the high number of very successful students. I am however concerned with the high number of failing grades that I see specifically at the freshman level. At the high school we will be implementing a new schedule for the 2016 – 17 school year. This new schedule that I have included in my report this month will allow me to catch credit recovery needs in the moment through a series of academic “flex periods” that will be built in to all teacher schedules. This new schedule will also allow for increased elective options for students, as well as lower numbers of students and core academic classes allowing teachers to pay more individual attention to those students who need the extra support. I will be happy to explain this during the board meeting on Monday should you have any questions with regard to the direction the high school is headed.
We were also honored to host our second of our “I AM YC” campaign interview with 1962 YCHS graduate Tom Jernstedt. Tom has gone on to achieve incredible things since his graduation from YC and is widely considered to be the father of the final four and also currently sits on the college football playoff committee. He served in the NCAA for well over 40 years and offered many pearls of wisdom to our students. The link to his interview is posted on the high school webpage and I would encourage you to take a look at it when you have a moment as it turned out great!
Charan and I just returned from a trip to Georgia leading a group of teachers to Atlanta to visit a few high schools that have fully operational career academies. We will share what we learned during our individual board reports on the 14th.
We are excited to get rolling into 2nd semester and continue our positive momentum as we close out the school year.
Semester 1 Mark Distribution
A / B / C / F9th / 267 / 65 / 94 / 115
10th / 379 / 104 / 147 / 73
11th / 257 / 105 / 121 / 95
12th / 297 / 82 / 92 / 47
Total / 1200 / 356 / 454 / 330
Less than 3 Credits / 3 or More Credits
9th Grade / 26 / 51
Less than 9 Credits / 9 or More Credits
10th Grade / 19 / 77
Less than 15 Credits / 15 or More Credits
11th Grade / 20 / 61
85% Cohort Graduation Rate
The class of 2016 is working hard to reach this stage on June 12th. The vast majority of our seniors have finished up all of their essential skills through the hard work of our language arts and math teachers through a series of workshops over the course of the last few months. This is been a major focus in order to allow students and teachers to concentrate on passing classes and attain credits over the last few months of school as opposed to having the essential skills still hanging over their head. Kudos to all of these hard-working students and teachers for accomplishing this goal before spring break which has always been our hope. Over the past few weeks, I have had many conversations with students and parents with regard to their particular circumstance and the unfortunate reality that choices they made early on in their high school career are now making their graduation less likely.
These are always incredibly difficult conversations to have however they are not new conversations as all the students and parents have been told on numerous occasions what their particular circumstance is and what they need to do in order to rectify it. Unfortunately not everyone has done their part and they will be looking at a fifth year of high school. This is obviously not our first choice, however this is something we are prepared to do in order to make sure they finished up their business and are ready to move on to the next station in life, even if it is not quite on the schedule that they would have hoped or expected.
Some of the seniors could potentially finish up over the summer and they will be given every opportunity to do so, if the workload is not too much as there are a handful will only have a couple of classes that need to be finished. If the student to finish by August they will count towards our cohort graduation rate. I however am not optimistic that this group will reach the same level as the class of 2015. With that said we will continue to push them to the finish line one way or the other.
Increase Smarter Balance Test scores by 10%
In April we will be beginning our smarter balance assessment of the junior class. As I have mentioned in past reports there have been some changes to the assessment system this year and students will no longer be required to do the performance task which was a part of both the mathematics and language arts assessment in years past. This change will shorten the time needed to administer the assessment and we hope will make it a little less time intensive that caused some students to experience testing fatigue which I believe led to some of the negative scores that we saw. All students fully understand the importance of this assessment and that their positive performance ties directly into their graduation for next year, as well as the impact it has on our school as a whole.
The vast majority of our students take language arts with the same teacher Rachel Henry and the assessment will cover a two-week chunk of her time during the first two weeks of April. Once all students have finished their language arts assessment they will transition directly into the mathematics assessment which is a little more complicated seeing as though most of our juniors are spread across various levels of mathematics and will require us to do more of a pullout model in order to get everyone through. Having the vast majority of this done April will allow us to catch any stragglers during May that we may have missed for one reason or another.
Increase attendance to 95% at all grade levels and all students
The attendance initiatives that we put in place at the beginning of the school year continue to pay dividends as all of our classes have remained over 90% attendance for the entirety of the school year thus far. Second semester is when we begin to see a slide in attendance especially for seniors. In the most recent mailing that I sent out to parents I made it abundantly clear that all seniors who would like to participate in graduation festivities to include graduation ceremony need to demonstrate successful attendance and that they could potentially be in jeopardy of missing out on these opportunities should their attendance fall below the 90% mark.
The end of the school year is no time to let your feet off the gas pedal quite the contrary it is the time that is incredibly important to be here and finish strong in order to make sure that seniors are ending their Yamhill Carlton journey on a high note and the rest of our students are ending their school year strong setting yourself up for success during the 2016 – 17 school year which will be upon us in short order.