New: Core Learning Support Program Starts at Woodhaven On Tuesday, January 11

Woodhaven Middle School is committed to helping our kids achieve high school completion and more training or education beyond that.  That goal has been coined 'High School +' by Mike Mattos, the author of the book shown above.  For the past five years I have been asking the teachers to take sole responsibility for the learning of their students.  I am proud of our staff.  They have done everything in their power to help our students get over the bar.  In fact, we are recognized in Provincial Accountability Documents as a high functioning school who does extremely well academically as measured by Provincial Achievement Tests.

Despite this we know that 15% of our kids don't pass those tests.  Our staff agrees that level of failure is unacceptable and does not meet the mission of the school.  We were determined to do something about it.  Over the next three days I will be outlining three strategies we will be employing to assist our kids/your kids.

Why three strategies... well there are multiple reasons students are not successful.  We are attempting to address three primary reasons students cannot meet expectations.  The strategies I will discuss are:
               1.  Core Skill Support
               2.  Supported Extra Time, and
               3.  Escorted Intervention.

If you have any questions about our Core Support Program please contact either myself or Mrs. Gericke at the school.