Panthers Achieving Credits and Enrichment

PACE promotes students taking ownership in thier work and engaging in a tangible reward when their work is completed. The reward for students who complete all of their work is being released for 6th period! Those who have missing assignments will attend 6th period and participate in PACE. We want to provide students every opportunity, complete with transportation, to become academically successful. We hope that students attending PACE will see the connection between completing homework when it is due and understanding content within classes and realize how essential it is to be responsible for their own learning -- In life, you cannot take a zero, so just do the work!

PACE will take place during 6th period and be used when homework is not completed. Our intent is to give a realistic expectation for not doing the work: Pick up the PACE and do the work. Please recognize that PACE is not a form of punishment. It was developed to motivate our students by helping them realize they can be successful if they do their best, consistently; like PACE, all of our programming, curriculum and assessments for students are based on a core system of beliefs:

  1. All work given to students is worthwhile and necessary for their academic development. Practice is essential to skill development, and just like musicians, actors, and athletes cannot skip practice, students mus complete homework.
  2. All students will complete and turn in every assignment given them - no excuses.
  3. Students are missing a vital component of their educational development if they neglect to complete their homework. We refuse to accept the apathy of not doing homework from students. If we assign it, it will be done.
  4. The most common reason for students not being successful in a class or not earning the grade they desired is failure to complete ALL of the assignments.

PACE will take place in the library from 2:45 - 4:00 (6th period) on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, and transportation will be provided. Students will be assigned to the the library to finish their missing assignments. The work will be collected by the PACE director and placed into teacher mailboxes.

Students attending PACE will be required to write a letter to their parents explaining why they are not doing their homework. This letter will be the key to the completed work counting as credit. Parents must sign the letter and students must turn it into the teacher after attending PACE. Prior to completing the essay, all work will be collected and graded, but it will not be counted until the letter and parent signatures have been turned into the teacher.

It is our belief that by participating in this program, students who have struggled in classes previously for not turning in their work will experience:

  1. Increased learning
  2. Better grades
  3. More informed parents

The Process

When students do not turn their homework for the third time teachers will begin PACE:

  1. Teachers will use these webpages to add students and assignments to the PACE database.
  2. The student is responsible to bring the assignment to PACE along with any needed materials. If they do not, they will be assigned another session.
  3. Parents will be notified that their child is attending PACE per the communication from their child.
  4. Students will write a letter to thier parents documneting why the work was not completed, and the letter must be signed by a parent and turned in to the assigning teacher. Once received, the teacher will forward the letter to the discipline office.
  5. If the student did not finish during PACE, the director will assign another period.
  6. Students who do not work during PACE will be asked to leave and receive a discipline referal.
  7. Students who do not attend PACE after having it assigned will attend the Alternative to Suspension program at TLC.