1. Mount Airy High School
Serves: approx. 600 students in grades 9-12
Employs: 37 classroom teachers
The Mount Airy City Schools system has recently
established a new Strategic Steering Committee.
Under this plan each school in the system has now
created new and improved School Improvement Plan.
The new School Improvement Team has found 3 main
Priority Areas:
1.) Academic & Procedural Consistency
2.) Student Career & Post Secondary Planning
3.) Consistent and Inclusive Communication

2. Goal 1:
Provide increased opportunities for students to learn through the use of 21st
century technology, extending their learning and providing more opportunities for them
to become global learners that are prepared for higher education and the world of
work.
• New Online Partnership with North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.
• All teachers will have daily access to 3 mac book carts with approximately 30 Mac Book
computers each.
• Flexible scheduling through the media center.
• All teachers will have access to communication tools to make global connections.
• Online yearbook to share with another school
• Web cameras/skype available on all mac books for global collaboration opportunities.

3. Goal 2 :
Communication between School,
Parents, and Students
• Students will have gmail accounts to communicate with each
other and teachers.
• Use 100.9 radio station (local station) to keep the community up
to date about school and highlight student achievements.
• Establish a facebook page for parents to track school news.
• Updated fusion teacher pages to track classroom activities.
• Professional Learning Communities among teachers to improve
teacher communication.

4. Future Needs
• BYOD
– Infrastructure already in place
– Develop policy for school (confidentiality,
security, & appropriate use)
• Cloud
– Cloud Server Migration FAQ
– NCEdCloud
– PowerSchool transition
– Professional development