Welcome to Johnson Creek Public Schools

MISSION STATEMENT:

WE, THE MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF JOHNSON CREEK, BELIEVE IN THE POTENTIAL OF ALL AND ARE COMMITTED TO DEVELOPING LIFE-LONG LEARNERS WHO VALUE THEMSELVES; CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR COMMUNITY; AND SUCCEED IN A CHANGING WORLD.

New MS/HS Principal

The Johnson Creek School District is happy to announce the selection of Cale Vogel as the MS/HS Principal/Athletic Administrator replacing retiring Principal Eric Ranzen. He will also assume the athletic administration responsibilities currently being handled by retiring Athletic Director/Teacher Ken Johnson. Cale will be publically introduced to staff during a Wednesday afternoon staff meeting this week.

Mr. Vogel emerged as a finalist out of a field of 38 applicants. Six applicants were interviewed earlier this month by a group of staff, a student, administrators, parents, and a school board representative, with the two finalists being interviewed by the full Board on May 15th.

"We had six excellent applicants who were interviewed and two very qualified finalists. Mr. Vogel’s experiences, personality, and leadership style seemed to be the best fit for our building and administrative team, " Dr. Garvey remarked.

Cale lives in Lake Mills with his wife Emily and two sons, Jack (5) and Charlie (2). Cale is a Watertown High School graduate who earned a political Science degree from Cardinal Stritch and a teaching certificate from UW-Milwaukee. Mr. Vogel holds a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from UW-Whitewater and a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from UW-Madison.

Mr. Vogel served the Lake Mills school District for six years as a Social Studies teacher, Athletic Director and Coach. He currently is the Athletic and Activities Director at Brookfield East High School.

"I want to thank Dr. Garvey and the Board for this exciting opportunity. I am humbled by the responsibility and looking forward to building positive relationships with the community, staff and students. Johnson Creek provides the ability to invest in the area I currently live and I can’t wait to get started, " Mr. Vogel said.

Mr. Vogel will begin July 1st, 2013.

Converting WKCE Cut Scores to NAEP

Measuring Student Achievement on State Tests

The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) in an effort to ensure Wisconsin students are college or career-ready, are holding students to a higher level of performance on state tests. Beginning in 2012-13, fewer students will attain a ranking of proficient or advanced on state tests than in the past. Each year, Wisconsin public school students in grades 3 to 8 and 10 take the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examinations (WKCE) in reading and mathematics. This year, the WKCE tests will be scored using tougher benchmarks. These new benchmarks are based on those used by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The NAEP is sometimes called “the Nation’s Report Card” because it is the only measure of student achievement in the United States that allows the comparison of student performance across states. Overall, Wisconsin students outperform the national average on NAEP.

This step is part of the State's transition to the next generation of student assessments intended to help parents and teachers get a more complete picture of each student’s learning more quickly. Wisconsin will continue to use the WKCE tests for two more years. In 2014-15, we will switch to the Smarter Balanced assessment system which features more rigorous content and standards. This will replace the reading, language arts, and mathematics portions of the WKCE tests.

The lower state test results expected this year are not a reflection of the abilities of students or teachers, but reflect the higher expectations being placed on students and schools. All students and schools across the state will be measured in this manner, not just schools in the Arrowhead School District.

The following is a diagram to display the changes from the WKCE scores for advanced and proficient to the NAEP scores that will qualify as advanced or proficient

     The stars in each diagram represent the same student scores on the State Exam (WKCE).  The ones on the left are scores using the WKCE measures with the cut line indicating the scores above the  line are advanced and proficient.  The diagram on the left represent the identical scores but the cut line for being advanced and proficient, using the NAEP measures, is much higher resulting in less student scores  meeting the standard to be proficient/advanced.  The change is in how students are measured and does not reflect a change in students academic achievement.