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Bowdon High
School
Faculty of BHS
 26
teaching slots
 6 of our 26 teachers – BHS grads
 Average years teaching – 17.5
 Average years teaching at BHS – 10
Students of BHS
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460 students grades 9-12
90 seniors
74 / 90 began Bowdon as freshmen
Special Education teachers tutor
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Before each GHSGT retest administration,
our Special Education teachers tutor our
seniors who need to retest.
Idea behind this – those teachers read the
test every time it is given, and they work
well with students who need the retest
11th grade on the football field
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BHS has one ELA 11th grade teacher
At the start of the school year, she takes
her students to the football field and has
them visualize their graduation and talks to
them about passing the graduation tests
and receiving their diploma the following
year.
Writing tutorials
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Generate a list of students from the writing
predictor tests they take as sophomores, as well
as recommendations from their 10th grade ELA
teacher
Our English department and graduation coach
tutor students in jeopardy of not passing the
Writing test twice a week during their planning
period.
Tutoring begins five to six weeks before the
Writing test
GHSGT tutorials in Math and ELA
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We pull retired Highly qualified math and ELA
teachers from the Bowdon community to come in
and tutor our juniors who are in jeopardy of not
passing the GHSGT in these subjects.
The tutors stay a full day or two days each week
and meet with students during their elective
classes.
Program runs from MLK day to the GHSGT
Faculty mentors
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List of our economically disadvantaged
juniors
Faculty members choose the ones with
whom they have a good rapport
Meet with the students informally
Senior Saturday school
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We offer Saturday school twice first
semester only for seniors who are failing
their classes needed to graduate
Organized and run by our graduation coach
30 minute review of the GHSGT
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Before each GHSGT test, the teachers lead
a 30 minute review just prior to the test
administration on that day
20-25 students in each classroom
Department chairs organize the review
Night school scholarship to at-risk
seniors
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For those seniors who need a night school
class to graduate but cannot afford tuition,
we have a fund where BHS could pay that
student’s tuition
Only for seniors in their second semester
Application which includes an essay –
administration judges and awards
GHSGT prep class
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1st time we are offering this
Only for 2nd semester --- juniors in jeopardy
of not passing the GHSGT take a study
skills class
Select juniors based on 8th grade CRCT
Hand deliver notices
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At the end of the 3rd nine weeks, we hand
deliver letters to parents of our seniors
notifying the parents that their student is atrisk of not graduating in May.
Life after Bowdon
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Bulletin board on our front hall
Pictures of seniors with colleges they are
accepted to or the branch of military they
are joining
Name-calling
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Know our students and call their name in
the hallway during class changes