Roane County Schools - Unofficial View

School consolidation. Just the mention of the words starts discussion and the lining up of pro and con supporters. Each side armed with studies, reports, experiences and opinions. The reality is that both sides can make valid points to support their arguments for keeping smaller community schools or the benefits that a large consolidated school can provide. The time is nearing that Roane

On Wednesday, January 23rd there was a school technology meeting. The primary purpose of the meeting was to meet the new Director of Technology for Roane County schools - Jerry Yarbrough. Jerry was previously head of technology in Morgan County. There are some exciting things going on in technology in the school system. I will post the meeting minutes here with all details of everything that

Last night’s school Board meeting (Jan 17th) was relatively short. There were two presentations made. Rob Dill, principal of Roane County High School and Celia Simon, a teacher at the school gave a presentation on the status of their 9th grade academy and Stephanie Walker led a presentation on a new Data Driven method for tracking students in Special Education. The Board was presented an

We have a school board meeting this Thursday night, January 15th. There is very little on the agenda. There will be reports on the status of the Freshman Academy at Roane County High and a Special Education Up-date. There will be a Quarterly Summary Financial Report December 2007 given by Eric Harbin. The only business item is a Resolution to support the Princess Theatre

Few books I have ever read had such an impact on me as The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman. In the book, Friedman talks of globalization with an emphasis on this 100 years. To a lesser extent there are a number of videos on the Internet that expand on some of the concepts that Friedman discusses. At the November, 2007 school board meeting, the video Did You Know was shown. That