United Effort Campaign​
United we stand, divided we fall!
​Let's unite our efforts to educate our children!
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Student Effort
​When addressing the issue of failing schools, student effort is often overlooked. Student effort contributes considerably to learning and without it, academic achievement is beyond the bounds of possibility. It is our mission to help students build a strong educational effort and decrease the dropout rate. We want our kids, despite their circumstances, to come to school ready to learn. We want our kids to be "undroppable."​
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School Effort
​ Class size, quality of teachers, access to resources, school climate, standardized tests and school enrollment are some of the factors that are examined when attempting to identify a failing school. But what about truancy, profanity, social aggression, blatant disrespect, sexual explicitness, and violence? These are a few of the behaviors plaguing many classrooms. Is it fair to evaluate teachers under these conditions? When you seriously examine instruction that works, it requires not only intentional activities from the teacher, but it also requires specific behaviors of the learner. What would happen if parents increased their efforts to send their children to school ready to learn? Wouldn't it be easier to identify teachers that are unqualified and schools that are truly failing. How can we unite our efforts to create a better learning environment so that qualified teachers can do the job they were trained to do.
Click here to see attributes of an effective learning environment​
Parent Effort
​A lack of parental involvement is the biggest problem facing public schools. Decades of research shows that when parents make a sincere effort to be involved students have higher graduation rates, better attendance and grades, lower rates of suspension, and fewer instances of violent behavior. A major goal of the United Effort Campaign is to emphasize the "Essential 7" to parents and help them to understand its correlation to the academic success or failure of their child. In addition, we will teach them how to utilize their school's SIS to consistently monitor their child's effort in the classroom.
Community Effort
​Faith Based Institutions
We need faithful clergymen to increase their efforts to equip parents with the necessary tools to guide their children toward academic success.
Local Businesses
We need local businesses to join our campaign through committed representation in the community PTA.
Community Organizations ​
We need community organizations to participate in an infrastructure that will allow respectful, regular and productive dialogue that will lead to action.
F.Y.I.
20 Bad High School Habits​
Let's unite our efforts to break bad school habits. Jessica Lyons, in an article about bad high school habits, suggests that students need to work on breaking bad habits before college. Read Lyons full article by clicking the link below.
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CaluclateMyGrade.com will not only help you compute your overall grade, but it can also help you determine what grade you need to get on the final exam and your GPA.
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Common Core Standards
Common Core Standards will be fully implemented in the 2013-14 school year. The Council of the Great City Schools provides Parent Roadmaps to the Common Core.