Instructional Support ~ IS ~ spreads across programs, agencies, and schools.

Job Description:

The Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent for Instructional Support writes and directs grant programs to supplement K-12 students' academic, health, emotional, social, and physical well-being. This staff member interacts and collaborates with system adminisrators,local teachers. involved parents, community agencies, business partners, and other vocational, state, and local stakeholders.

Personnel Director

System Student Assessment Coordinator                     System Textbook Instructional Coordinator

Community Education Program Director                       System PEPE Coordinator

Character Education Development Director                   Library Media Director

Graduation Coach/DPA Director                                   Impact Aid Director

Community Outreach Specialist                                  Lee vs. Macon Compliance Coordinator

High Hopes Tutorial Coordinator                                 Children First Health Initiative Coordinator

Alternative Learning Center Counseling and Tutorial Coordinator

Indian Education and Culturial Diversity Experiences Director

The communtiy outreach program provides a parent liason who works with parents and school personnel in an efforts to maximum opportunities for student success. The program provides need assessments, interventions, referrals, home visits, and mentoring to at- risk youth in grades K-12. This service is provided through a partnership (20% of At- Risk funding) with East Central Mental Health.

Education in a community depends on the support of parents, citizens, teachers, churches, support personnel, administrators, students, elders, businesses, and any other interested parties of Banks, Alabama, Brundidge, Alabama, Troy, Alabama and Goshen, Alabama.  

Get involved with the following community and school partnership activities:

• Adult Basic Education Program
• At Risk Program
• Board Biz Newsletter
• Business Industry/Parent Visitation
• Character Education
• Community Outreach Program
• Connection Newsletter
• Extended Day Care
• 4-H
• Grandparents Day
• Healthy Schools / Healthy Kids
• Indian Program Edu-tainment Presentation
• Mobile Computer Learning Lab
• Calendar of Events
• Pike County Homecoming Parades
• Realizing Every Alabama Child's Hope
• School Volunteers
• TU Educator's Recruitment Day
• Tutoring & Mentoring Programs
• TV-52 Community Highlights

Character Education is taught in grades K-12.

Main Character Education traits taught are as follows:

C   -   Commitment

H   -   Honesty

A   -   Attentiveness

R   -   Respect

A   -   Acceptance

C   -   Compassion

T   -   Trust

E   -   Excellence

R   -   Responsibility

The Graduation Coach/ DPA Program Director leads the Graduation Coaches in finding strategies and initiatives that will aid in increasing the graduation rate and decreasing the drop-out rate of students in the Pike County School System.

The Director and Graduation Coaches collaborate with administrators, teachers, and other outside agencies to assist grades 9-12 students in achieving academic success through tutoring, classroom intervention, and counseling and guidance sessions in schools, as well as the Alternative Learning Center.

Indian Education is designed to provide academic instruction and Indian culture experiences to students determined to be of Native American descent.

MOTTO: "Plant brain seeds - Learn Indian deeds".

Project "CANOE" - Cultural and Academic Network of Opportunities for Enrichment:

The primary purpose of the Indian Education project "CANOE" is to assist schools in meeting the varied needs of students. "CANOE" promotes the national, state, and local educational goals.

Links:

National Congress of American Indians

The Personnel Director uses various methods to recruit certified personnel for job vacancies. This staff member is also responsible for ensuring that fellow administrators are following system guidelines for interviewing and recommending personnel for hire.

NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY

It is the official policy of the Pike County Board of Education that no person shall; on the grounds of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, disability, sex, religion, belief, marital status, or age; be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program, activity, employment, re-employment, or advancement.  For further information, contact Mrs. Karen Berry, 504 Compliance Coordinator, Title VI Coordinator, and Title IX Coordinator, at 334-566-1850, between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday

The Library Media Program is a vital part of learning at all schools in the system. The Library Media Specialist at each school encourage students, teachers, and community residents to check-out various types of media materials from the school library.

READ!  VIEW!  LISTEN!

The Alabama Student Assistance Plan (ASAP) is a state mandated At-Risk plan which is subject to State approval. ASAP encompasses several strategies for ameliorating barriers of At- Risk students grades K through 12. These strategies include efforts to address student health issues through Children First programs, School Nurses, and High Hopes Tutors. ASAP enables At-Risk sub-programs of students, as well as the schools' general student population, to be served by a community outreach specialist.(See Community Outreach Specialist for additional information)

Click here to print the application for Qualified Non-profit Community Organizations.