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The restructuring option that Lenoir County Public Schools and E.B. Frink faculty selected for
E.B. Frink Middle School is the Focused Intervention Model (developed by LCPS) which
reconstitutes the school into smaller, autonomous learning communities.
Our Focused Intervention Model spans over the six key elemental components for effective
restructuring initiatives, including:
• Scientific, research based intervention curriculum programming for reading and math
• Instructional provisions for core and supplementary aids and materials
• Concise and prescriptive data management systems for all students in Reading and
Math to assess, benchmark, and progress monitor individual student performance
• High quality professional development for all math and reading content teachers in
scientific, research-based instructional methodologies.
• Establish a school-based instructional Student Success Team to support teachers with
students that have identified curriculum and behavioral weaknesses.
• Sustained LEA support personnel to assist with curriculum implementation, data
collection systems, data analysis, and curriculum delivery aligned to individualized
student need.
E. B. Frink Middle School will restructure and implement the focused Intervention Model as its
primary instructional delivery model. All Students that score a mid-level III or below on the
North Carolina End –of-Grade Test were given placement tests for the scientific, research-based
intervention curriculum series, SRA Reading and SRA Math prior to the end of the 2009-2010
school year. Students that score one or more grade levels below their current placement in
reading or math will be homogeneously grouped to receive either or both SRA Reading and SRA
Math intervention programs in addition to their grade appropriate North Carolina Standard
Course of Study curriculum.
These students will benchmarked and progress monitored consistently throughout the program in
order to ensure that students progress as quickly, yet as comprehensively as possible to bring
them up to grade level proficiency. Teachers will be trained in data collection systems that allow
them to develop instructional practices for each student. Teachers will maintain class data
collection series, as well as individual student portfolios to show progression of skills. Teachers
will receive high quality professional development, initial, and refresher training in both SRA
Reading and SRA Math prior to the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year.
We welcome your involvement at E.B Frink Middle School. There are many ways to participate,
including becoming a member of the Parent Teacher Organization, offering your input to the
School Improvement Team, volunteering, and attending parent conferences with your child’s
teacher(s), making sure that your child is prepared and attends school each day, and monitoring
your child’s homework.
E.B. Frink Middle School will have its annual meeting to develop our parent involvement
policy and to review parent rights under Title I and other information on October 6, 2010,
at 9:00 a.m. and again at 6:00 p.m. (in case the first meeting time is not convenient for you).
The Title I district-wide parent involvement policy will be reviewed this fall and you may want to
be a part of that review process. If you have questions about this opportunity, please call Abbott
Hunsucker, Director of Federal Programs, at 252.527.1109.
Lenoir County Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, creed, marital status,
age or disability in its programs, activities or employment practices. The Public Information Officer is the Title IX
compliance officer and can be reached at 2017 West Vernon Avenue, Kinston, North Carolina, (252) 527-1109.