LHS Vision

Our Vision:  To provide a high quality education to all students so they will become respectful, responsible, and resourceful citizens.

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Core Purpose

Core Purpose:  The LHS Core Purpose is to  provide a challenging, rigorous curriculum empowering all students to be successful in the 21^st century.

Guiding Principles

Lincoln High School is a community of learners who:

• Promote and value quality instruction by providing meaningful, engaging, and challenging work.
• Focus on high achievement for all students.
• Celebrate all achievements for each individual.
• Provide opportunities to meet the individual needs of all learners.
• Value all individuals and their contributions.
• Work together to accomplish our core purpose.
• Provide positive role models with high expectations.
• Exhibit actions that reflect integrity.
• Practice flexibility in our learning communities.
• Communicate positively with all.
• Provide everyone a clean, comfortable, safe, and distraction-free environment conducive to learning.
• Foster responsibility, respectfulness, and resourcefulness in the school community.
• Provide appropriate instruction in adequate time.
• Provide all students with diverse cultural aesthetic and academic experiences.
• Promote, value, and cultivate leadership for all members in the school community.
• Participate in systemic staff development to provide continuous school improvement.Instill pride in each individual, school, and community.

Goals

The Goals of LHS are...

1.      Implement an effective, challenging, and energized curriculum that promotes academic excellence and aesthetic appreciation for each student.

2.      Expand, improve, and maintain school facilities in order to provide a positive and productive learning environment.

3.      Foster a positive image of the Talladega County Schools.

4.      To integrate technology into the school.

5.      To provide alternate programs to meet needs of at risk students.

6.      Develop an equitable, adequate funding base within Talladega County.

7.      Enhance instruction and services for students by implementing a more effective and challenging staff development program.

Alma Mater

Lincoln High, Dear Alma Mater

To thee our love we bring

To our happy school day memories

We will always sing.

Steadfast, loyal, ever true

To thee we'll always be

Gold and Black will reign forever

In our hearts to thee

LHS Continuous Improvement Strategies

Click here to download the 2008 - 2009 Continuous Improvement Plan.

Active Interventions for AHSGE preparation for Lincoln High School Students

School Organization

• Weekly faculty meetings
• Monthly departmental meetings
• Graduation Coach
• Academic interventions
• Smart goal setting
• Social service resources are available
• High school counselor
• System level interventionist
• District level counselor
• BBSST
• Corrective Reading program
• Comprehensive Reading training Course

Instructional Strategies

• Alabama Reading Initiative teaching strategies are taught in all core classes.
• AHSGE objectives are focused are the focus of all instruction daily.
• Pacing guides are used for efficient and timely implementation of instructional objectives.
• Correlation of pacing guides and the end of the month tests (EOMT) are used to measure mastery of  the objectives taught that month.

Staff Development

• Teachers disaggregate test data annually to drive instruction.
• Peer facilitated workshops are conducted annually to incorporate best practices
• Stratgic Lesson Development training

Communication

• Automated calling system to notify parents of attendance, meetings, and grading reports
• Bi-weekly mailings of progress reports for students with failing grades, mid-grading reports are required by the school district.
• Parental call logs for students with failures who have not passed AHSGE

Positive Student Reinforcement

• Student Pep rallies for behavior
• Bear Paws/ Bear Hugs
• Non uniform dress days, healthy snack rewards for students
• Link-Up Program - pairing groups of students with a Staff Mentor / Advisor during the students' tenure @ LHS

11^th & 12^th Grade Remediation AHSGE

• Math, Reading, Science, Social Studies
• Students identify strengths & weaknesses and undergo intensive reteaching of those specific areas
• Collaborative teaching between SP. Ed. Teachers
• Tutoring after school for AHSGE
• Pull out for additional instruction in core classes during the school day
• Academic Tutoring conducted by the graduation coach during the day
• Writing across the curriculum
• Reading objectives distributed across the curriculum in non-core classes

Diploma Requirements

Alabama High School Diploma Requirements

       Alabama High School Diploma

  4 credits English
  4 credits Social Studies
  4 credits Math
  4 credits Science
  1 credit PE Life
  ½ credit Health
  ½ credit Fine Art
  1 credit Business Technology Essentials (BTE)
  0 credit Foreign Language
  5 Elective Credits

24 TOTAL Credits - Students must pass all parts of the Alabama High School Graduation
Exam

 Alabama High School Diploma with Advanced Academic Endorsement

  4 credits English
  4 credits Social Studies
  4 credits Math (higher level)
  4 credits Science (higher level)
  1 credit PE Life
  ½ credit Health
  ½ credit Fine Art
  1 credit Business Technology Essentials (BTE)   
  2 credits Foreign Language (2 credits in the same language)
  5 Elective Credits

26 TOTAL Credits - Students must pass all parts of the Alabama High School Graduation Exam