Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Request a Restorative Practices Conference

Several parents have requested restorative practices conferences to address discipline incidents at CHS and Cedarbrook. The parents and children had favorable results. Consider requesting a restorative practice conference the next time your child has a discpline incident. Restorative practices work. Check out the core principles and practices of restorative justice at http://www.iirp.org/pdf/beth06_davey7.pdf

Positive 2008-2009 PSSA Results

CHS showed siginficant improvement in test results for 11th grade students from the state standardized test results known as the PSSA . Over 72% of all 11th grade students were proficient or advanced in math and 82% of students were proficient or advanced in reading. African Americans continue to lag behind, but made the biggest improvements with math scores of 55% and reading of 67% proficent or advanced. Congratulations to the school district, students and parents for the positive improvements.