Mission Schools Essay

Toxic versus Healthy Organizations Fortunately, my first high school teaching experience was at my alma mater. When I was hired, a toxic leader was on the way out, and a veteran AP grudgingly assumed power. She was just what the school needed. She embodied professionalism. I had the opportunity to work for someone with realistic expectations which were effectively communicated and modeled. Afterwards, I taught at five toxic schools, back-to-back. The people in the highest positions had the…

Mission Statement: The P-Tank D.I.V.A.S is an organization established for adolescent females in secondary education. D.I.V.A.S stands for Determined,Inspirational,Victorious, Admired and Smarter. The main objective of the program is teach character education, promote literacy, and college awareness. Location: The organization is located at Pasquotank County High School. The high school is located in the school district of Elizabeth Pasquotank Public Schools in North Carolina.The address…

Clermont Elementary School is located in Alexandria, Virginia, and is part of Fairfax County Public Schools. Clermont’s mission is “using a professional learning community to create a safe learning environment that ensures high academic achievement for all students by offering them a rigorous and relevant education supported by relationships” (Clermont Elementary School, 2015). Based on the statistics found on the Fairfax County Public Schools, Clermont hosts 532 students ranging from…

How can Outreach360 make the world a better place? Last year in 2015 in the summer, a Catholic youth group from Our Lady of Fatima, had an idea to perform a lawn care service for people who are living with disabilities. During the project, they could not fund the project for long, but got in two months of work and completed thirty yards with a total amount of one-hundred service hours. The catholic church of Our Lady of Fatima’s youth group was certain to go with the same project while trying to…

Trinity Boys’ School. Jerry and the other kids of the school are manipulated by a teacher and a group named the Vigils which causes the chocolate war. Thus, one of the central themes of the book concerns manipulation to gain power. Jerry Renault is pondering the questions on the poster of his locker: Do I dare disturb the universe? Refusing to sell the chocolates in the annual Trinity School fund-raiser may not seem like a radical thing to do. But when Jerry challenges a secret school society…

formed in 1979, when local shelter providers, city staff, advocates, and others who witnessed homelessness came together in an attempt to serve people better and draw attention and resources to a growing crisis” (King County, 2015). The King County’s mission is to work collaboratively with other organizations to ensure safety and survival for people while they are homeless, and to end the crisis of homelessness within the city of Seattle. Organizations that combine efforts with other like…

That is Habitat for Humanity's vision and mission statement. Habitat for Humanity is a vast volunteer community where several other communities has formed from it. And from those several communities, other numerous small communities grow and become more defined. Because of that one small defined community, Habitat for Humanity has made me a person who enjoys volunteering and making a difference in my surrounding community. Kennesaw Mountain High School (KMHS) Habitat for Humanity club is an…

Public Schools It used to be easy to decide which school to send your child. You would place your child in public school or, if you had money, private school. In the 1990’s, charter schools started popping up. Since then, there has been a deterioration in traditional public schools, and charter schools are one of the culprits. What exactly is a charter school? According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary it is, “a tax-supported school established by a charter between a granting body (such as a…

It was my first year being an independent teacher for Vacation Bible School at my church. I had taken this initiative seeing no one else was up for the challenge to teach six to seven year olds, even though the meeting for VBS had been filled with adults. I had an idea of how it was often helping my older sister in past years to help take the kids from class to class, but the pressure of being in full responsibility of them was something I had never experienced. It was frightening yet exciting.…

In which the higher the test scores of the school is people tend to believe that the schools educational quality is good. Popham, acknowledges the beneficial parts of standardized testing, which is knowing “a child’s strengths and weaknesses” (Popham, 1999). Although using standardized testing is useful in some aspects. Popham’s main argument is that standardized testing shouldn’t be used to determine the quality of the education given (hence, schools having high test scores don’t necessarily…