January 18, 2012

After your return from the Christmas holidays, I hope each of you have gotten off to a great start. I have heard a lot of positive comments on how profitable the professional development was on January 2, 2012.

So far we have dodged the bad weather and I hope this can continue. We have not used any of our snow days so far this school year. Last year about this time we were out of snow days or really close. If the weather continues to cooperate with us, we can take the holidays on the days that we have built into the school calendar.

We had some great test results in April/May 2011. I believe with the great teachers in our district and the training that has taken place this school year, our test results in April/May 2012 will be better than ever. My desire is for all teachers in tested areas to have a 200 plus QDI and a 2% growth this school year. I realize so many of our teachers have had these results each year, but with our teachers' great ability and desire, we will be close to a 100%. I beg of each of you to take advantage of every day, every hour, and every minute.


Malcolm Kuykendall
Superintendent of Education
Tishomingo County School District