India Hook is helping all students develop the world class skills and life and career characteristics of the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate by providing a safe, caring, and academically challenging learning environment. We opened our doors in 2007 and are nestled in a small neighborhood off Twin Lakes Road.
Our work this year has been focused around the three main goals of our district: PLCs, MTSS, and Trusted Professionalism. We have participated in professional development to help our teachers become more focused in understanding our students’ literacy needs. We learned strategies to help us put a stronger focus on direct teaching of phonics and phonemic awareness. Our teachers are using the five questions of a PLC during their collegial conversations and looking at data to provide specific and purposeful interventions for our struggling students. They are finding creative and innovative ways to work with students to provide these interventions.
During the 2024-2025 school year, we will continue to focus on these three areas, continue to implement the Leader in Me framework, and begin the two-year process of becoming LETRS certified.
We will continue our partnership with Winthrop University as a Partner School. This partnership not only benefits Winthrop students, but India Hook’s teachers and students as well. We were privileged to host three exceptional Winthrop University interns. We look forward to hosting more students and strengthening this important partnership in the future.
Our plan of action continues to be to increase the number of students scoring Meets or Exceeds on the SC Ready ELA and Math assessments, increase the percentage of students meeting or exceeding target growth on ELA and Math Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) tests, continued refinement of our balanced literacy instruction through the work of LETRS professional development, providing intervention services for struggling learners, and promoting character and leadership qualities through the Leader in Me framework.
