Community Engagement Events:
- Delaware Decision Makers Luncheon
- Kindergarten Registration
- Math Carnival Night at Heritage
- NCC Business Education Partnership
- NCC combined Boards Meeting
- The Churches of the Red Clay Education Forum
- Red Clay Parent Advisory Council
Trauma Awareness Month
In October 2018, Governor Carney signed Executive Order 24, making Delaware a trauma-informed state. The Executive Order directed state agencies to develop tools for training state employees and community partners on the impact of exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), to promote ACE awareness, and to improve services and interventions for children and families exposed to trauma. The Family Services Cabinet Council is leading efforts to ensure that Delaware becomes a trauma-informed state by promoting a Trauma Awareness Month in Delaware. On May 1st staff from Red Clay (Shortlidge, Stanton, and Linden Hills) were present for the inaugural event at Delaware State University.
Teaching and Learning:
Superintendent Student Advisory Council
The SSAC is a group of high school leaders throughout the district who discuss issues that affect students and come up with solutions to problems. Topics discussed included: College Readiness, Diversity, Instructional Technology, Climate/Safety, Family Engagement and support for Educators.
National Signing Day & Red Clay's 1st Annual Career Decision Day
During the first week of May, Red Clay Secondary Schools celebrated college decision day and Career. Each school’s plan took a different angle, but as a district, we celebrated students headed to Ivy League Schools like Brown, Princeton and Dartmouth, large state schools like Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Tech, and smaller schools like Marywood, Delaware State and Goldey Beacom. In addition, we recognized students that have made a decision to enter career pathway or military service. Students enlisted in the Army, Air Force, National Guard and Marines. While others are going on to modeling careers, Disney on Ice, Princeton Ballet, and many of our graduates are going directly into the workforce as electricians, auto mechanics, and health care by way of Christiana Care partnership (Project Search).
Cab Calloway Business Professionals of America (BPA) Students Earn National Honors at 2019 National Leadership Conference
Nineteen business students from Cab Calloway traveled to Anaheim, California from April 30 - May 5 to attend the 2019 BPA National Conference. Students performed extremely well in the competition portion of the conference. The results are as follows.
- Julia Chang, Harpreet Kaur, Sanjana Nalavolu and Pragya Singh placed 1st in Digital Game Design Team
- Marissa Johnson, Emily Li, Giada MacNamara, Delanie McKenzie placed 1st in Presentation Management Team
- Chandanasri Sagamreddy, Harika Chinthalapati, Ana Sofia Londono and Sarah Kupchik placed 2nd in Web Site Design Team
- Dhriti Tattari placed 2nd and Tiffany Situ placed 3rd in Business Communication Skills
- Genevieve Breen placed 2nd in Computer Literacy
- Jeremiah Rayban and Dhriti Tattari were top 10 finalists in Business Fundamentals
- Tiffany Situ was a top 10 finalist in Entrepreneurship Exploration
- Emily Li was a top 10 finalist in Graphic Design Promotion
- Meghan Virani was a top 10 finalist in Spreadsheet Applications
Skyline Middle School - KT Builders
The Skyline Middle School Team, KT Builders, placed 3rd in their division at the 2nd Annual DelDot Delaware Bridge Builders Competition. This event is a hands-on engineering competition aimed to engage students interested in the math, science, and engineering fields. The program is designed to encourage students to address real-world problems and inspire them to consider careers in transportation and civil engineering. Students used Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) and 3-D modeling software to design a truss bridge. Our Skyline Jaguars also had to develop a portfolio and PowerPoint presentation outlining their design.
Continuous School Improvement:
Stanton Middle School and Department of Education SIOP Partnership
The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model is a research-based and validated instructional model that has proven effective in addressing the academic needs of English learners throughout the United States. Currently Stanton serves a majority Hispanic and Latino student demographic with 23% of the student population being identified as English Learners.
Highlands, Shortlidge and Warner Compassionate Connections Partnership
On May 1st staff from Warner, Shortlidge and Highlands spent the evening with national renowned author of Help for Billy, Heather Forbes, LCSW. Each school continues on their journey of trauma invested schools as we work to foster and build resilient learners. Creating cultures of safety and environments with the highest of learning expectations.
District Needs Assessment
Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) in collaboration with West Ed, will be conducting the needs assessment. The process will mirror that of the recent school level needs assessment beginning with the Comprehensive Assessment for Leadership for Learning (CALL), and conclude with onsite interviews of district leadership and support staff. For the purposes of the survey, we need the district to identify and make available staff in the following areas:
- Superintendent
- Assistant Superintendent
- School Board Members
- Union Representative(s)
- Human Resource Director
- Business/Financial Director
- Curriculum Directors (Special education, Math, Reading, English Language Learners)
- School Level Supervisors
On site visits will be held from May 28 - 30th.
Teacher Appreciation Week
Celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week 2019 and #ThankATeacher with us May 5-11!
Upcoming Events
- May 9: Art SMART Show, Delaware Art Museum
- May 16: Parent Advisory Council
- May 27: Memorial Day - Schools & Offices are closed.
- May 31: Cab Calloway Commencent
- June 1: Commencement Services (A.I. du Pont, Conrad, Dickinson, McKean)
- June 3: Project SEARCH Closing Program
- June 6: First State Closing Program
- June 11: Groves Commencement