DISTRICT: INFORMATION
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Each building is equipped with security monitors and requires visitors to sign-in to protect the children and adults within them. The Gahanna Police Department patrols the residential areas and roads surrounding the schools, and monitors the parking areas. At the high school, campus supervisors' number one responsibility is to know the student body. They monitor arrival and departure times, lunch hour and deal with issues of behavioral support for our staff.
Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools has a Crisis Management Plan with protocol to respond to emergency events that occur or could compromise safety. The development of our plan included community law enforcement, fire officials, teachers, building principals, and central office administrators.
Rather than treat technology as a standalone concept, G-J Schools has chosen to provide our students with a more real-world experience by infusing technology into the daily educational experience. Teachers create an expectation that students employ technology-based tools to research, study, analyze, and report their findings, just as they would in the 21st century business world. This removes the drive to use technology for its own sake, and focuses instead on the Graduate Profile goals for becoming a proficient technology user and building the technology foundations that increase students’ skills and strengthen their confidence. The G-J Schools are always seeking ways to offer technology solutions and enhancements in cost-effective ways. A state-of-the-art technology center provides technical support for all the district's schools and features a training center for staff and students.
SBAC's vision and leadership is responsible for creating the Gahanna-Jefferson Education Foundation, an agency that promotes excellence in the school district through funding competitive grants and the facilitation of scholarships. To find out more about becoming part of this vital link, view the School Business Advisory Council area of this Web site.
State of Ohio Achievement tests are administered in May for grades 3 through 8 with the exception of the third grade reading achievement, which is administered in both October and May. A literacy readiness test is administered to entering kindergarten students during the first six weeks of the school year.
High school students must pass the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) in order to earn an Ohio high school diploma. The purpose of the OGT is to ensure that Ohio students receiving a diploma show at least a high school level of achievement; measure the level of reading, writing, mathematics, science and social studies skills expected of students by the end of 10th-grade; and to meet federal law for high school testing.
The OGT is administered to all students in the spring of their sophomore year. Students can continue to take the tests in the fall and spring of their junior and senior years, and in the summer.
The district offers intervention assistance to all students who are not successful on any achievement test section. This intervention takes place either in the classroom through the school year and/or through summer intervention programs. High school students needing to pass the OGT also receive intervention assistance in their areas of need through focused instruction within the context of a regular class, summer intervention, and through retaking the OGT several times during the year.
Strategies implemented through Comprehensive Improvement Plans at both the district and individual building levels address improvement in student scores at every grade level.
Concerning the OGT, students may graduate and receive a diploma without passing all five tests if they meet all of the following requirements: