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State Superintendent of Schools Dr. John Barge
will be traveling to Newnan to visit two Coweta County Schools
on Friday, August 26, just three weeks after the start of the
new school year.
Superintendent Barge will spend several hours at Smokey Road
Middle School visiting classes and then having lunch with staff
and students before traveling to Newnan High School to spend a
few hours visiting classrooms.
“The Coweta County School System, Smokey Road Middle School, and
Newnan High School are excited to have the opportunity to show
off the hard work and success of their staff and students,” said
Dr Laurie Barron, principal of Smokey Road Middle school. Barron
and Dr. Doug Moore – principal of Newnan High School - plan to
demonstrate some of the innovative approaches both schools are
using to engage and prepare all students to be college and
career ready.
At Smokey Road Middle School, Dr. Barge will be able to see the
innovative and highly successful three-teacher math class model
the school employs, and some of their approaches with behavior
interventions, both of which have contributed to continued
improvement in achievement, discipline, and attendance. He will
also visit some of the school’s award-winning connections
programs and see some of Smokey Road’s efforts with preparing
their students to be college and career ready through their
students’ work with gacollege411 and their partnerships with our
charter high school, the Central Educational Center, and with
their feeder high school, Newnan High School. Barron will also
be able to show the superintendent some of the other innovations
and successes that have led to Smokey Road being named a
National Breakthrough School and a stop on last year’s Bus Trip
Across Georgia.
At Newnan High School, Dr. Barge will witness first-hand some of
the different approaches the school has been using in reading
and math programs to help drastically improve achievement for
all students, resulting in English and math graduation test pass
rates exceeding 90% for all students in 2011. Dr. Barge will
also visit the Vietnam War class that is helping bring the
Moving Wall to Newnan in October.
The school will also demonstrate their innovative Education
20/20 program in action, where students are involved in credit
repair and credit recovery.
Barron was able to invite Dr. Barge to Coweta County when she
met him this summer at the Georgia Association of Educational
Leaders conference, where she was a presenter.
“Probably the most important thing that Dr. Moore and I want to
show Superintendent Barge is the close working partnerships that
exist between my school and Newnan High School and the Central
Educational Center. We want him to see that we’re really working
together to prepare students for college and the work force, and
that we have to help students look at college and career from
sixth grade on.
For middle school students, some of those partnerships include
making sure that students leave the 8th grade with an
individualized high school plan, a robotics class at Smokey Road
conducted in partnership with CEC, weekly visits to the school
music program by Newnan High School’s band teachers, and CEC
students who teach at the school as a part of the school
system’s Teacher Pipeline program.
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