Superintendent’s Message

Great Expectations Model School

Honea Path Elementary School has just been named a Great Expectation Model School. Great Expectations is a professional development program that teachers, staff and administrators use to create an ideal learning environment and an exciting school atmosphere. It provides refreshing skills that inspires teachers to not only teach well but to enjoy teaching. While public education has become so challenging for our teachers today, Great Expectations helps teachers focus on the “why we teach” and to keep the purpose of teaching about transforming students’ lives through education.

Great Expectations started in the midwest and now covers five states with over 64,000 teachers trained. Honea Path Elementary is now one of 89 Model Schools across the country. What does this program look like at Honea Path Elementary?  You will find our students answering questions in complete sentences. You will find our students supporting and encouraging felllow students. You will find our students engaged in their learning. In three years, office referrals have dropped by over 50% across all grades. Respect for others is evident throughout the school.

How did Honea Path Elementary get to this point? Great Expectations requires that to be a Model School, 90-100% of the teachers must successfully implement 100% of of the 17 classroom practices daily. What type of practices? Each classroom has a greeter that is tasked to make visitors feel welcome. Every students’ work is displayed in some form. Students celebrate the success of others.

We are thrilled about Honea Path Elementary becoming a Great Expectation Model School, but more so excited about the transformation happening with our students. If you are interested in seeing the difference at Honea Path Elementary, please schedule a visit to come observe our students and teachers excelling!

Dr. Richard Rosenberger

Mission & Vision