Educational Relevance

The Discipline Matrix is a progressive disciplinary model to be used by staff that brings consistency to student consequences for minor behavior infractions. Teachers are empowered to address student behavior issues before it moves to administration. It identifies inappropriate student behaviors and provides consequences for their actions but also allows fairness in providing students opportunities to make informed decisions.    

When implemented with fidelity and consistency, school climate becomes more positive and the culture of student learning is enhanced. 

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The Turnaround 4C Plan is your educational map for the school year to improve student success. This starts with developing a strong culture where all groups, students, teachers, and parents, feel safe and comfortable in their school, where they feel that they matter.

Your game plan goals are to build a positive climate, create a unified working environment, have a viable curriculum that will improve test scores and increase a school’s overall GPA, and finally, build up leadership density in the school. 

In addition, the school improvement plan includes

• why these goals are important to improving the school this year
• who it will be impacted in reaching these goals
• identify your indicators of success

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Bryan Wright at at [email protected] 

Mark McBeth at [email protected] or 

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The last piece of the Turnaround 4C Plan is Connections. Bryan and Mark discuss how Connections is the interwoven piece that makes the other three components; Climate, Culture, Curriculum successful and sustainable part of the process. In addition, they share how relationships between teachers, students, administration and community build connections and how each group buy-in contributes to the success of improving a school. 

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Bryan Wright and Mark McBeth discuss part three of the Turnaround 4CPlan. 
Once Climate and Culture is implemented with fidelity, schools are ready for true academic change that is sustainable. This usually occurs in year three. 

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Welcome to Educational Relevance, a platform for experienced educators to share proven successful strategies to educate today’s students. 

Bryan Wright, who has over 25 years experience as a lead school administrator, along with Mark McBeth, who also has experience as a school administrator, will continue sharing the Turnaround 4C Plan to improve any school. The 4Cs stands for Climate, Culture, Curriculum, and Connections. 

Climate is who we are. Culture is what we do. Culture is when climate's expectations become norms. It’s imperative to build a strong school climate and culture to make improvements long lasting. 

Every school needs to have four goals to attain as well as be able to measure in order to embed the culture. The four goals are first, to enhance the culture, second, set up a viable curriculum, next, student engagement, and finally build leadership density, 

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Part Two of the Turnaround 4C Plan
Bryan Wright and Mark McBeth discuss tools used to build a positive school climate in order for students to feel safe in their school which will increase student learning. Tools such as norms vs. rules, and being visible in the community. 

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With the new school year fast approaching, learn about the Turnaround 4C Plan. A proven method used over the past twenty years to improve school test scores, increase attendance, lower disciplinary rates, and for high schools, increase graduation rates. 

Topics discussed:

• Each component of the Turnaround 4C Plan
• Why improvement starts with your school’s climate (not school curriculum)
• Developing your code as the educational leader and the impact it will have on your school’s success.
• This series will delve into each component of the Turnaround 4C Plan and share proven successful tools and methods to improve your school. 

To learn more about the Turnaround 4C Plan please email Bryan Wright at [email protected] or Mark McBeth at [email protected]

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Dr. Jerry Valentine, who is a professor emeritus at the University of Missouri, brings over 50 years of experience to the educational field. His strategies have been utilized in over 35 states currently in several international countries.

Dr. Valentine will share information on higher order thinking in order to positively impact academic success. 

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Dr. Jerry Valentine, a professor emeritus at the University of Missouri. Jerry brings a half century of knowledge and experience and is sharing the instructional practice inventory which involves an opportunity to collect data and communicate with educators about what is happening inside the classrooms to engage students.

For more information on this process, contact Dr. Jerry Valentine at  [email protected]

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Sue Alexander and Dr. Sarah Jerome share ideas on being a creative thinker in order to develop consensus and build a vision in your schools and school district. These educators have decades of successful school leadership experience to share. 

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