White Knoll Middle School 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 challenging academic program delivered by competent and caring professionals in an engaging classroom environment. In Lexington School District One and at White Knoll Middle School, our vision is to empower EACH child to design the future. To see that vision become reality, we focus on two key priorities. These are to build relationships with students and parents with a focus on Capturing Kids’ Hearts and to provide excellent instruction and student engagement in all classes every day.
At WKMS we believe that relationships are the foundation of all learning. We are working to “capture kids’ hearts” by getting to know each other, building social contracts, celebrating together, and affirming each other. We have also worked together to build a culture of kindness throughout our building through the use of a kindness curriculum in our advocacy time. In addition, we welcome all opportunities to work together with our parents and community.
We also believe that a high level of student engagement is critical to learning. Towards that end, all of our teachers have worked to implement an instructional model that incorporates focused direct instruction, individual and collaborative student work, teacher conferencing, and the use of quality digital resources.
Like all schools across the state, our resolve, resources, and talents have been put to the test this spring as our school has been closed. We, of course, missed our students tremendously, and we look forward to being together again in the fall. I am, however, happy to report that thanks to a good foundation of resources and skills, support from Central Services, the creativity, and care provided by our teachers, the support of our parents, and the diligence of our students we were able to work together for a successful fourth quarter of school in an E-Learning environment.
As we look to the future, we will endeavor to apply the lessons learned during this COVID school year to improve the delivery of instruction and care for students and families next school year. We will meet this challenge as we have others in the past, empowering EACH child to design the future because we are ONE.
Don Hardie, Principal
Mark Hoduwanec, SIC Chair
