Westside High School (Macon, Georgia)
| Westside High School | |
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| Address | |
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2851 Heath Road , 31206 | |
| Coordinates | 32°48′58″N 83°44′52″W / 32.816103°N 83.747791°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public magnet high school |
| Motto | "We Are Westside! We are the Future! " |
| Established | 1997 |
| School district | Bibb County School District |
| Principal | Mrs. Laura Perkins |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Faculty | 96 [1] |
| Number of students | 1700[1] |
| Color(s) | Garnet and Gold |
| Athletics | American football, baseball, basketball, softball, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, cross country, and wrestling |
| Mascot | Seminoles |
| Conference | Georgia High School Association (GHSA) |
| Website | Westside High School |
Westside High School is a public high school located in Macon, Georgia. Opened in 1997, it is the largest school in the Bibb County school district. They educate students in grades 9-12. Pat Coxsey was the school's principal from Westside's establishment in 1997 until her retirement in 2006. Westside's current principal is Laura Perkins. The mission of Westside High School is to graduate independent thinkers prepared for post secondary options by providing a rigorous academic, vocational and technological curriculum balanced with fine arts, fitness and athletics.
Academics
Westside is home to the district's pre-engineering magnet program and as such has some of the most up-to-date and modern computer lab facilities in Georgia.[2]
Athletics
The Westside Seminoles compete in numerous sports for which the school has received many honors and awards. Westside competes in Division AAAA of the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) beginning in the 2012-2013 school year.
Westside 24/7
Blended Learning combines face to face classroom methods with computer-mediated activities to form an integrated instructional approach. The goal of Blended Learning is to join the best practices of both face to face and online instructions. Class time can be used to engage students in interactive experiences while the online portion of the course provides students with multimedia-rich content 24/7.
A blended learning environment at Westside will allow students to be self-paced, teacher-led, critical thinkers in distance and face-to-face learning. Our teachers and students will also have the opportunity to explain their information and computer literacy through this medium.
Our project team has established the following commitments for closing the gap between our current instructional design and technology realities and our goals for meeting the needs of our students:
- We will utilize all available technological resources.
- We will take what we learn through professional training and apply it to our daily teaching practice.
- We will engage students in authentic, hands-on learning using current technology.
- We will use a variety of ongoing assessment tools to monitor the success of our technology integration and will adjust strategies as needed.
- We will share teaching tools we discover and create with our co-teachers.
References
- ^ a b "Westside High School Public School Profile". Retrieved 2006-03-07.
- ^ "Living in Macon: About education". Archived from the original on 2007-02-03. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
- ^ Georgia Scholastic Press Association (2006). "2005-2006 Staff Awards" (PDF). The Winner's Circle 2006. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
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