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Behavioral services
special education
There are seven special education teachers at South Heights, serving students
from PreSchool through 5th grade.
Our special ed teachers are:
Amber Stone, Veda Gower, Carol Tapp, Pam Ballou, B.E. Martin
and Stacey Daley.
There are three speech teachers
at South Heights:
Manda Roberts, Linda Stroud and Nannette Beard.
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• Cara Jameson
Behavior Specialist
• Yvonne Hall
Counselor
• Abbi Long
Behavior Intervention Specialist
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• Nancy Felty
ACE Room Supervisor
• Trish Bartlett
Behavior Assistant
• Debby Holsing
Program Assistant
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Several years ago, South Heights began a journey to improve the behavior at our
school in a positive way. We joined a state initiative called the K.I.D.S. Project. It was a three year venture in which we developed our own plan based on
teaching expectations and positive interactions. The KIDS team was developed with members that represented various areas of the
school. They attended several trainings a year, and developed lesson plans for every
aspect of the day. We have procedures for our common areas, a common language
and a common set of expectations. We evaluate and adapt our plan as the need arises. Classroom Discipline is focused around the CHAMPS program by Randall Sprick. It also relies on teaching the expected behaviors, so that students know what
they are supposed to do.
ACE Room
ACE (Alternative Classroom Environment) Room is a place where students may go to
when they have received a discipline referral, or sometimes they just need a
place to calm down. In this room, they do their class work for a period of the day, or occasionally
for the entire day. The focus is always on doing the right thing and exhibiting Champ behavior.
The Admiral’s Club
This club was created to show appreciation to those students who come to school
every day and do not have any behavioral problems. Each homeroom teacher chooses two students per week to be selected. These selected students will receive a certificate of appreciation, a sucker and
get to spend about 15 minutes with an adult mentor as a way of saying thank you
to that student. We are hoping that everyone will be a member of the Admiral’s Club by the end of the school year. The goal of the Admiral’s Club is to encourage positive behavior and perfect attendance.
S.T.A.R. Program
The Striving Toward Achievement and Responsibility (S.T.A.R.) program focuses on
working with those students who have exhibited the need for some extra work in
the areas of social skills, problem solving, anger management, teamwork,
responsibility, etc. The Star counselor meets with weekly groups and other
students as needed during a school year. Teachers and guidance counselors
recommend those students who may benefit from this program. The S.T.A.R. Project Coordinator conducts supportive groups three times weekly,
meets individually to set goals with each student and works with each student
individually on an as needed basis to help make that student successful. The S.T.A.R. program focuses as an area of prevention for those students who may
be considered at-risk. The S.T.A.R. program also collaborates with the U.K. Cooperative Extension
Office through the 4-H program to get these targeted students involved in
productive after school activities.
SST PROGRAM
The Student Success Team (SST) is a grant funded through the Department of
Juvenile Justice. SST will serve students attending South Heights Elementary,
Jefferson Elementary, North Middle and South Middle Schools. Ten students will
be targeted at each school. Parental permission must be given to participate in
SST. SST focuses on students who have truancy problems and academic concerns.
The students identified to participate in this program will have weekly contact
with a social worker to help them work toward perfect attendance and receiving
improved grades. Incentives will be offered to create improvements in these
areas. Also monthly parent meetings and events will be scheduled to encourage
the parents’ assistance for further accomplishments with their child. The social worker,
student and parents will maintain weekly rapport to discuss the progress of the
student. The students will participate in individual and group counseling on a
weekly basis. The social worker will stay in contact with parents regularly
through phone calls, home visits, individual conferences and parent group
meetings. SST will also offer four family events per school year.
South Heights Special Education program offers both resource and collaboration.
Students are sometimes brought to the special ed resource rooms for small group
and individual instruction. Special Ed teachers also teach collaboratively with
the regular classroom teachers, to offer accommodations for the student who
need it. Students go through a thorough testing process for special ed and are
place according to Kentucky guidelines. Some of the specific learning
disabilities we work with are EBD (Emotional Behavior Disorder), MMD (Mild
Mental Disability), other health impaired, visually impaired, developmentally
delayed, and speech. All students in Special Ed have an IEP.
The TEACCH classroom at South Heights offers a different approach to education
for students with special needs. The class offers a highly structured program
which revolves around visual schedules, structured classroom environment,
visual task, and varied instructional styles. Throughout the school day,
students follow a visual schedule prompting them where to be and what to work
on at any given time. While in the TEACCH classroom, students spend some time
in their individual work areas developing independent work skills. Individual
work utilizes visual structure which enables students to look at the task and
know the steps necessary to complete each job. Students also participate in
small group instruction, one-to-one teacher directed instruction and computer
assisted instruction. Learner styles are addressed through a variety of
activities employing pencil and paper, manipulatives, drill and practice,
discussion, role playing, fine motor and gross motor movement.
psychologist
family resource center
• Laura McGrail
M.S., Psy.S.,
Head School Psychologist
Grants Coordinator
• Sandi Hazelwood
Family Resource Center Coordinator
(270) 831-5083
Laura serves South Heights and Spottsville Elementary Schools. Her office is located at South Heights Elementary. Laura has been a school
psychologist with Henderson County Schools since 1986. As our school's psychologist, she conducts individual assessments of students
to determine if they have an educational disability and qualify for special
education services, consults with teachers and parents regarding strategies for
helping students succeed academically and behaviorally, and coordinates our
school's Student/Staff Support Team.
As Head of the district's School Psychology department, Laura supervises
Educational Evaluators, coordinates school psychology services for the
district, assists the Director of Special Education in developing procedures
for school psychology services, and serves as the district Crisis Counseling
Response Team Coordinator. As Grants Coordinator for the district, Laura assists schools and the district
in developing programs to meet student needs, prepares district-level grant
proposals, consults with schools to assist with school-level grants, maintains
a website of grant opportunities, and trains staff members in grant writing
techniques.
The mission of South Heights Family Resource Center is to remove the barriers
that prevent children from learning and reaching their full potential. Most often removing those barriers involves filling needs that involve the
entire family. Whether your child needs school supplies, clothes, or just a little tender
loving care, we are here. Services offered include: service learning projects, child care, literacy programs, adult education
referrals, health services and referrals, parent and child education and
referrals, attendance monitoring and assistance, instructional behavior
assistance, home visits and other services as deemed necessary.
The FRC will be offering the Weekend Backpack Program to help meet the needs of
our less fortunate student population. The program will be a joint effort
between the FRC and several local churches. Identified students will be
provided with a backpack each Friday afternoon containing nutritious snacks to
supplement their food source over the weekend when school breakfast and lunch
are not available. The program is intended to be a nutrition-based supplemental
food sup-ply to help ensure that students that may not have enough food in
their homes will not have to go hungry over the weekend.
South Heights FRC collaborates with all local assistance agencies to provide
needed services for our families. We also collaborate with school system based programs such as our media center,
Even Start, Pre-School and Head Start.
Our Family Resource Center is open each weekday from 7:00 A.M. until 3:00 P.M.,
with other hours by appointment if necessary.
language & MATH lab
• Kathy Harrison
Language Lab Teacher
• Mary Sue Slaughter
Language Lab Teacher
• Nanette Beard
Language Lab Teacher
• Rachel Ray
Math Teacher
A new component to the South Heights reading program is the Language Lab. It uses a research-based program by Lindamood-Bell Literacy.
There are three components of this program: Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing (LiPs),
Seeing Stars and Visualizing and Verbalizing. Using a rotating schedule, all
Kindergarten students will be serviced. In addition, identified 1st- 5th
graders will be served on a remediation basis. The instructional process is
active and discovery based, using direct student-teacher interaction. LiPs
creates interest in, and curiosity about sounds. Seeing Stars is an integrated
reading and spelling program. Visualizing and Verbalizing targets language
comprehension and critical thinking skills.
MATH GRANT
South Heights is thrilled to have been chosen as a recipient of the Math
Achievement Fund grant. This is a competitive grant that was proposed by the
Kentucky Center of Mathematics in order to help increase student achievement in
the area of math. Using a rotating schedule, first and second graders who
struggle in the area of mathematics will receive math intervention daily using
a research-based curriculum call Number Worlds. Number Worlds is an intensive
intervention program that focuses on fun activities that build foundational
math skills and prepare younger children to understand more complex concepts
later. Students will use hands-on activities and technology in order to
maximize their understanding of early mathematical concepts.
daycare
• Tabrisha Ruby
Family Childcare Supervisor
(270) 831-5083
The Afternoon Lagoon Childcare Program
South Heights offers an on site, licensed wrap-around childcare program called
the Afternoon Lagoon. Childcare is available each day that school is in session from 6:15 am to 6:00
pm. Childcare is also available during breaks (most days) and summer. All of our staff members must complete a minimum of 12 clock hours of yearly
child development training in addition to being CPR and First Aid certified.
Call 831-5083 for Childcare rates
We offer a variety of rates depending on the level of care required. All day,
wrap-around and after school child care is available.