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New Hanover County Schools Observe Graduation Awareness Week

Governor Michael Easley has proclaimed September 7-13, 2008, as "Graduation Awareness Week" (GAW) in North Carolina. During this week, educators, community leaders, faith-based representatives, parents and students are encouraged to come together to raise awareness of why it is important for North Carolina's economic development that all students graduate.

As a way to promote Graduation Awareness Week in New Hanover County Schools, Hoggard High School's DASH students will "take on" a challenge course on Wednesday, September 10, 2008, at UNC-Wilmington, 601 S. College Road, Wilmington, NC, from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Challenge Course activities are coordinated by NHCS Experiential Education to engage students through "hands-on activities" to promote decision-making, problem-solving and communication skills.

New Hanover County Schools offers a variety of schools and programs to foster high school graduation:

Lake Forest Academy
Isaac Bear Early College High School
Mary S. Mosley Performance Learning Center
Wilmington Early College High School
Communities In Schools of Cape Fear
Hoggard High School's DASH grant program
Why Try Curriculum
NHCS/Communities in Schools of Cape Fear grant program: Connect
New Hanover County Juvenile Day Treatment Center

In addition to NHCS' Drop-Out Prevention programs, graduation coaches are available in all of the traditional high schools: Ashley, Hoggard, Laney and New Hanover. At Laney High School, Beth Keller, graduation coach, encourages the school’s administrators to display school pennants, colors and mascots from their high school, college or graduate school they graduated from to show students the importance of graduation and initiate conversations about the benefits of graduation.

A powerful drop out prevention tool called Inside Out is also available in all NHC middle and high schools. A copy of this DVD is also available at each elementary school by contacting the school’s counselor or social worker. This documentary features prison inmates promoting education and was created to help young people and their parents understand the importance of staying in school and the probable consequences if they don’t.

For more information, contact NHCS Safe and Drug-Free Schools/Dropout Prevention Coordinator, Beau McCaffray, at 910-251-6161, ext. 401, or emccaffr@nhcs.net.
 

 

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9/08/08