Moore Intermediate School’s ATP demonstrated that its Action Plan for Partnerships is a flexible document that can be “tweaked” and improved each year to engage more and different families for student success in school. The Moore Lions Club is a group for at-risk male students that teaches, models, and gives its members opportunities to practice essential social and communication skills.
Florence, SC
Calling All Families
The Action Team for Partnerships (ATP) met early in the school year to discuss the activities that were planned for the year and how to increase the number of families who participated. The team adjusted the plan by retaining activities that were previously most successful for attendees, and by developing new activities that would be of interest to parents. The ATP also redesigned communications so that all families received timely information, advanced notice, and reminders of upcoming events.
One additional activity was a Math Carnival. Math teachers created games for families to enjoy at the event. They created a Power Point presentation and handouts with math activities that families could have fun with at home. These also were sent to parents who could not attend but who wanted to participate at home. The ATP fine-tuned some workshops and added Grandparents Week for seniors to visit their grandchildren’s classrooms for information, demonstrations, and an ice cream social. Teachers implemented Good News Calls to contact each student and family during the year with an encouraging-good-news message. Moore Intermediate School’s ATP demonstrated that its Action Plan for Partnerships is a flexible document that can be “tweaked” and improved each year to engage more and different families for student success in school.
Moore Lions Club
At Moore Intermediate School, it is a priority to promote young men of strong and positive character. The Moore Lions Club is a group for at-risk male students that teaches, models, and gives its members opportunities to practice essential social and communication skills. The club’s goal is to decrease students’ office referrals and suspensions, and to increase time spent in the learning environment. This year, the Lions Club exceeded these goals. The young lions are becoming engaged, productive school and community citizens.
With parental consent, seventeen male students who were struggling in some way at school were invited to participate in the Lions Club. These 5th and 6th grade boys met twice monthly to discuss social, behavioral, and academic topics that supported the school’s ROAR (Respect, Opportunity, Accountability, and Responsibility) expectations. Male role models from the community came to club meetings to discuss character, positive behaviors, and making the right choices in difficult situations. Throughout the year, parents signed their child’s log that recorded what was discussed and what their child learned about character and positive behavior at each club meeting. Parents also logged ways their child displayed these positive character traits at home. To celebrate the students’ achievements, the boys, families, and community members attended an end-of-year banquet.
Moore Lions Club is featured in Promising Partnership Practices 2015.
