The Westview School’s Student Support Team work was one of three transitional educational projects that were placed in the spotlight during the South East Cornerstone Public School Division’s monthly meeting on Oct. 16.
Cheri Haberstock, principal of the school, walked the trustees through the program’s highlights with a visual presentation to accompany her address.
Using the large volume of data made available to them, the Westview support group can react quickly to intervention requirements thanks to the professional team that is in place, she said. This team includes the vice-principal, intensive needs and other counsellors, speech/language pathologist and class room teachers, as required. The meetings focus on different grade groupings on a regular basis within the school that boasts an enrolment of 191 students.
“We meet every Day 4 morning, no matter what,” said Haberstock. By arranging a weekly focus, emerging problems or challenges are met through continual monitoring of events as they roll out within the school.
Attendance intervention is a big issue, said the principal, explaining how the emerging issues are colour coded to indicate progress being made, or regression.
“We are more focused this year, knowing where we can get success and prevent kids from falling through the cracks,” she said.
Incidents and behaviour reports become a regular pattern for the educators and that process even includes safety plans as they reach out to identify the intensity of student needs and whether they require academic or social interventions.
In other Cornerstone business, the trustees allocated the votes they’re able to carry into the upcoming provincial convention and during the early part of the meeting, fielded a verbal report from Nathan Bromm, president of the division’s teachers’ association.
Bromm brought them up-to-date on directions and roles played or to be played by the various association sectors during the course of the academic year and thanked director Lynn Little for addressing their annual conference to outline the directions and rules that helped set the stage for the new school year.
