Available Teaching Positions

Posted May 13, 2008

Second Grade Teacher  (Filled)

Fifth Grade Language Arts/Reading Teacher (Filled)

Sixth Grade Science Teacher  (Filled)

Art Teacher (Grades K-8) (Filled)

Posted June 2, 2008

Seventh Grade Science Teacher  (Filled)

Seventh Grade Language Arts/ Reading Teacher (Filled)

Eighth Grade Social Studies Teacher (Filled)

Newport Grammar School is currently accepting applications for the above listed teaching positions.  The school seeks individuals who are committed to promoting students' development in subject matter and skills that will contribute to their development as mature, able, and responsible men and women.

QUALIFICATIONS:

1.  Hold a valid teacher's license with appropriate endorsements.

2.  Have written, verbal, presentation and interpersonal skills.

3.  In grades 6 -8 be highly qualified in the subject area.

REQUIRMENTS:

1.  Must pass an appropriate physical examination

2.  Must pass appropriate background check

3.  Must submit a complete application packet including an up-to-date resume, transcripts, and licenses.

For more information on the above positions please contact David L. Bible, Director of Schools or Sandra W. Burchette, Principal of Newport Grammar School.

The Newport City School Sysytem is an equal opportunity employer.

Newport Grammar School

2008-2009 School Calendar

Monday   August 18   Student Registration

Tuesday   August 19     First Full Day of School

Monday   September 1   Labor Day - No School

Friday   October 10 Fall Break - No School

Monday   October 13    Fall Break - No School

Wednesday November 26   Thanksgiving Break - No School

Thursday November 27   Thanksgiving Break - No School

Friday  November 28   Thanksgiving Break - No School

Friday  December 19   School Dismiss at 10:00 - Christmas Break

Monday, December 22  - Friday, Jan 2 CHRISTMAS VACATION - No School

Monday  January 5   Classes Resume

Monday  January 19 MLK Day - No School

Friday  February 13   Winter Break - No School

Monday  February 16   Winter Break - No School

Friday April 3 In-Service Day - No School

Monday,   April 6 - Friday, April10   SPRING VACATION - No School

Monday,   April 20 - Friday April 24 TCAP TESTING WEEK

Friday May 29   Last Day of School 

In case of snow: The first five (5) days will be added to the end of the calendar. If more than five days are missed, the calendar committee will reconvene to determine how the additional missed days will be made up.

July 17 & 18 Teacher In-Service - Dr. Rick Duvall

For the Newport City School Salary Schedule 2007-2008 (Updated 9-4-07)

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Newport Grammar School is now providing English as a Second Language (ESL) tutoring for any student in kindergarten through eighth grade who doesn't speak English at home or whose native language is not English.  Eighth grade language arts teacher Lenora Douglas recently earned an additional endorsement on her teacher's license that qualifies her to teach English as a Second Language.  Mrs. Douglas's primary goal is to give extra assistance to her ESL students' individual needs.  However, Tennessee has an ESL curriculum in place, and all ESL students are required to take an achievement test, the English Language Development Assessment (ELDA), as well as the TCAP test each year.  Mrs. Douglas says she is excited to have the opportunity to provide extra help and support for students who may otherwise fall behind because of language barriers.  The ESL tutoring class meets after school on three days a week in Mrs. Douglas's classroom .

Effective July 1, 2007, school systems are prohibited from hiring any individual whom the department of children's services has found to have committed abuse against a child or whose name has been placed on the state's vulnerable person's registry or the state's sex offender registry.  School systems are required to submit the names of all potential employees to DCS prior to employment to determine if the potential employees were found by DCS to have committed child abuse.  This will be in addition to the criminal history record check conducted by the TBI.

Starting this fall Newport Grammar School will serve the majority of the  special education students in grades 4-8 in a setting called inclusion.  Inclusion is a commitment to educate each child in the classroom he or she attends during the school day.  Rather than removing the students from their regular, classroom inclusion involves sending the special education teacher and assistant into the classroom to work with the student. This prevents the student from being singled out having to leave the room for classes.  Inclusion has been used in grades K-3 for a couple of years and has been very successful.

Our students are now discovering a new way of learning science.  They are now allowed and encouraged to experience this subject through various hands-on activities.  Each grade level comes to the science lab once a week for an average of one hour.  Here they explore each expected learning standard in a new and exciting way.  The classroom teachers as well as the science lab instructor are on hand to guide them through each experience.

At the end of the school year, each child will have been exposed to major laboratory equipment.  All grades complete mini courses in microscope use and triple beam balances.  The metric system is in continual use in the measurements of length, volume, mass, and area. Our students are encouraged to think globally on many issues and will be well acclimated to the scientific community's body of knowledge.

Two goals are set for the science lab.  Number one is to simply learn by doing.   Number two is to have fun!   Student excitement is nearly tangible when dissections are near.  Fourth grade will be examining an owl pellet and classifying actual bones they find.  Fifth grade has so far enjoyed creating cell models that mysteriously appeared as water balloons.  Some sixth graders have possibly complained of counting beans while in actuality they were mimicking biological mark and recapture methods to estimate the population of particular organisms.  Playing with play-dough may sound elementary, but our seventh graders enjoyed creating cell models labeling all major cell organelles.  Of course eighth grade gets to have the most fun by creating paper pets and allowing them to have off spring and analyzing their genetic make-up.  Each grade level benefits from the experience and looks forward to returning.  No day has passed without hearing the question, "What are we doing in science lab next week?"

Newport Grammar School has "Gone Green" and is in partnership with "Keep Cocke County Beautiful" to make a difference in our environment.  At the beginning of this school year we joined the green movement by agreeing to work toward recycling all paper products .  The school was outfitted with a special outdoor recycling bin to collect mixed paper and is eager to receive smaller bins for individual classrooms and offices in our school.  The bins are being provided through grant money received by "Keep Cocke County Beautiful."  Mixed paper is easy to spot once you get started.  Our teachers and students are making a conscious effort to recycle   items like magazines, notebook paper, copy paper, newspapers, junk  mail, etc.  We hope this effort will carry over into the homes and more people will join us in this endeavor to save landfill space.

Members of the Newport City Board of Education are: Front row: from left to right Stacy Munn and Charlotte Mims, Chairman of the Board. Second row: from left to right Mickey Powers, Jan Sneed, and Bobby Smith, Vice Chair of the Board

The Board will meet on April 28, 2008 in the Primary Building Office. The Pre-meeting will begin at 5:30 with the Business Meeting beginning immediately following the pre-meeting.  Among the items on the agenda are:  Approval of low bid to replace the roof over the cafeteria and other sections of the main building; approval of second readings of amendments to policies dealing with the separation practices of school employees, recruitment of director of schools, and military leave; approval of field trips and employee travel; approval of three year technology plan; approval of textbook adoption; approval of bid to purchase and install suspended ceiling in the cafeteria; and renew the Director's contract for one year- July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009.

Due to the new BEP 2.0 Funding Model, Newport Grammar School will be receiving $257,000 additional dollars for the 2007/2008 school year.  Three percent of the new money will be directed toward teacher raises.  Another $102,000 will be used to address and improve student achievement.  NGS plans to address and improve student achievement by hiring a reading specialist and a science lab instructor as both fit into our improvement plan.  The state will be monitoring the use and effectiveness of the money spent on improving student achievement.

BEP 2.0 calls for the salary unit cost for teachers to increase to $38,000 from $36,515.  Funding for at risk students will be increased to 100%.  More funds will also be available for English Language learners and translators.

The new funding formula is based on the district's capacity to raise local revenues for education from its property and sales tax ba se.  The new formula is being phased in at fifty percent for the current year.

The Newport City School System is searching for students with disabilities within the District. The following are considered to be handicapping conditions: speech-language impaired, learning disabled, blind, deaf, health impaired, physically impaired, seriously emotionally disturbed, mentally retarded, gifted, autism, hearing impaired, multi-handicapped, functionally retarded, or developmentally delayed. If you have a child that is not currently enrolled in the Newport City School System that meets one of the above conditions, please call the Special Education Department at Newport Grammar School at 423-625-0686

All doors will remain locked until 7:30. There is no duty teacher available to supervise until 7:30. The cafeteria doors will not be opened until 7:30. For those students who need to come before 7:30, Newport Grammar offers a daycare service that parents may want to consider. There is a charge for these services but it will take students beginning at 6:30 each morning. Please contact Stacy Dawson at 625-0323 if you need more information. Students need to be picked up by 3:15 unless staying after school for tutoring or study hall. Our daycare provides after school care for students. The administration will be contacting parents of students who are picked up late on a regular basis.

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