Greg Mathis Charter High School is helping all students develop the world class skills of the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate by ensuring that our curriculum, instruction, assessments, professional development and learning environment are structured to align with improved and sustained student outcomes in the areas of critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity. The differentiated professional development provided to teachers allows them to deliver student instruction that is developmentally appropriate and of high quality in the various subject areas. Our school continues to work toward improving literacy in order to meet the district’s goal of all children reading on grade level by implementing reading across the curriculum as a universal instructional focus in our school, with all teachers receiving continuous instructional coaching and support to improve critical reading skills for our students. School wide reading goals that align with skills such as close reading and conducting text- dependent analysis using multi-disciplinary texts are used to propel the standards-based tracking for each student. Evidence-based adaptive digital curricula are used to provide rigorous differentiated grade level texts that support inferential and critical reading skills. Our teachers also use student performance data to determine instructional gaps and implement intervention strategies including; but not limited to students being placed into flexible groups and learning centers in order to meet their individual learning needs based on the academic progress monitoring data. In addition, restorative practices, PBIS and the Re-thinkED curriculum offer our students valuable social and emotional learning support to develop the soft skills needed to support them as they navigate career or college pathways.
A key goal of our school is that students will graduate with the ability to identify and solve complex problems, think critically about information, work collaboratively and communicate clearly. Our teachers use integrative thinking, ladders of inference and the growth mindset to encourage students to examine multiple viewpoints and critically assess problems to determine viable alternatives. As a result of the focus and support that we provide students as an Alternative Education Campus, 100% of our qualified seniors graduated in June 2023. By continuing our ongoing progress monitoring and the transference of our data into actionable steps using quick cycles of correction, our students will continue to register growth in the 2023-2024 school year.
Natrice I. Henriques, Principal
Darrell Chaplin, SIC Chairman
Dr. Natalie Johnson, Board Chairman
