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School Improvement Recommendations
 * 1) I recommend that a program is put in place at Krimmel Intermediate to build teacher comradery. I would suggest having a teacher of the month program with special privileges given to that teacher like a parking space or free lunch. Other things that would help teachers get to know each other better would be to have a weekly morning breakfast social meeting. I believe that if teachers get to know each other better they will find working for a common vision to come as second nature.
 * 2) I recommend that teachers have a common conference period with the other teachers in their department. In the past we have been able to do this by teams (subject/grade level) but I believe it would benefit teachers to meet and discuss curriculum alignment from grade to grade.
 * 3) I recommend that a credit recovery program is implemented for each 6 weeks period. Credit recovery cannot meet a need at the last minute or just before the year is over or 3 weeks in the summer. If a student is struggling they need to catch up with that material before they move onto the next 6 weeks.
 * 4) I recommend a writing program is implemented similar to the DEAR (drop everything and read) program that we have used in the past. We know that our writing scores need to improve after reviewing the STAAR scores for this year. We could have a time period each week were every student in the school stops to participate in a writing task.
 * 5) I recommend that a study skills class be implemented as a mandatory class for all students to take at sometime during 6th, 7th or 8th grade. This class would be very beneficial for student to learn how to stay organized and study for their classes before entering high school.