Sunday, March 9, 2014

March Madness Report

I want to take a moment to extend THANK-YOU's to our wonderful community for their dedicated support to our students during the basketball season. The amount of fans at the Home and Away games was the largest I've seen in years. Genesee is a community that travels well. When the teams traveled to St. Maries for the State Play-in games, Genesee fans almost filled the visitors side of the bleachers! The state tournaments had equal support, and the atmosphere at the state tournaments was incredible.
THANK YOU Genesee Fans for your continued support of our students!!

Below is the report for March.

Secondary Report March 2014
·         Academics
o   First Semester pass rate was 96.9%  129/133 students passed all of their classes.
o   I have been keeping track of the pass rate since January 2011. Here are the pass rates from each semester.  1/11-93%   6/11-96%   1/12-99.25%   6/12-96.1%  1/13-96.8%    6/13-97.6%    1/14-96.9%    I attribute these high rates to the teachers being available to help (and sometimes prodding) students to complete their work and missing assignments. 
o   Dual credit number for comparison-
§  Fall 2012       Dual Credits-9       Tech Prep Credits-39
§  Spring 2013  Dual Credits-60     Tech Prep Credits-74
§  Fall 2013       Dual Credits-6       Tech Prep Credits-20
§  Spring 2014  Dual Credits-140   Tech Prep Credits-39
§  The numbers will vary from year to year based on the class sizes, classes offered and how the credits are offered and how many students take advantage of the opportunity. The year-long classes offer the dual credit in the spring, that’s why the numbers are so much higher in the spring.
o   The Sophomore class went to the UI Library to learn the structure and organization of how resources are cataloged. Students had to find books that they had already looked up at home in the various sections of the library.

·         Activities
o   Student Participation Rates
§  Sports & Activities overall  97%
§  Sports 81%
§  IDFY 70%
§  FFA 55%
§  BPA 28%
§  Music 25%
o   Team GPA’s are very close to GPA’s from 2012 and 2013.
o   BPA has had 22 students qualify for state (96%).
o   FFA has had 20 students qualify for state (57%).
o   Music students participate in the Jazz Festival next week on Thursday and Friday.
o   Jazz Concert with the University of Idaho was held in Moscow at the UI Music Building on Monday March 3rd, 7pm. Students and community members were bused to Moscow through a grant from the Latah County Arts & Cultural Committee.
o   Two students were selected to the Idaho All-State Treble Choir. The event will be held in mid-April on the NNU campus.


·         Athletics
o   Congrats to the Girl’s basketball team with a 4th place finish at state! The team missed Academic Champions by .05 of a point in overall GPA.
o   Congrats to the Boy’s basketball team with a 3rd place finish at state!
o    JH Bball has begun, and games will run through the end of the month. The schedule is set up in quads this season for the whole league.
o   Spring sports first practice was Feb. 28th.
§  21 students are out for Softball-we will be trying to secure some JV games so everyone gets some playing time throughout the season. Coach Thompson and Coach West are back again to lead the team. First game is March 14th versus Lewiston JV.
§  15 students are out for baseball- Kevin Maurer is our new Coach, and he is assisted by Brad  Neumayer. First game is March 15th versus Kendrick in Juliaetta.
§  17 students are out for Track- Mr. Sams is coaching, and he is assisted by Bob Schwenne and Anna Cantrell. First meet is March 22 in Lapwai.



·         Vision 21
o   There was a PRIDE Assembly on Feb. 28th. Mr. Morrow included AG Week games into the Minute-to-Win-It games, including dressing a goat!
o   The Calculus students completed the “Bottle Project.” Students from each of the 4 schools worked together in teams to determine bottle specifications then designed their own 20 oz. bottle.
o   The 8th grade Health class is starting work on the healthy meal unit.

o   The Junior class is working on the Holocaust in US History and English 11. Mrs. Booth and Mr. Hanson are collaborating projects as the students learn about this period in history.