Westside High School (Macon, Georgia)

Westside High School
Address
2851 Heath Road
Macon, Georgia, 31206
USA
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
Vice principal Dr. Sharon Smith
Dr. Kim Reining-Gray
Mr. Richard Mathis
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.

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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:

  1. 1. We will utilize all available technological resources.
  2. 2. We will take what we learn through professional training and apply it to our daily teaching practice.
  3. 3. We will engage students in authentic, hands-on learning using current technology.
  4. 4. We will use a variety of ongoing assessment tools to monitor the success of our technology integration and will adjust strategies as needed.
  5. 5. We will share teaching tools we discover and create with our co-teachers.

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References

  1. ^ a b "Westside High School Public School Profile". http://www.publicschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/20294. Retrieved 2006-03-07. 
  2. ^ "Living in Macon: About education". Archived from the original on 2007-02-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20070203033615/http://cityofmacon.net/Living/lvngedu.htm. Retrieved 2007-03-07. 
  3. ^ Georgia Scholastic Press Association (2006). "2005-2006 Staff Awards". The Winner's Circle 2006. http://www.grady.uga.edu/gspa/Forms/2006.StaffAwards.pdf. Retrieved 2007-03-06. 

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Educational Institutions in Macon, Georgia
Schools of the Bibb County School system
Elementary Schools
Alexander II Magnet School • Agnes Barden Elementary School • Bernd Elementary School • Brookdale Elementary School • Bruce Elementary School • Burdell-Hunt Magnet School • Burghard Elementary School • Burke Elementary School • Sonny Carter Elementary School • Hamilton Elementary School • Matilda Hartley Elementary School • Heard Elementary School • Heritage Elementary School • Ingram-Pye Elementary School • Jones Elementary School • King-Danforth Elementary School • Lane Elementary School • Morgan Elementary School • Porter Elementary School • Rice Elementary School • Joseph B. Riley Elementary School • Skyview Elementary School • Springdale Elementary School • Rosa Taylor Elementary School • Union Elementary School • Vineville Academy Fine Arts Magnet Elementary School • L. H. Williams Elementary School
Middle Schools
Appling Middle School • Bloomfield Middle School • Howard Middle School • McEvoy Middle School • Miller Core Knowledge Magnet Middle School • Rutland Middle School • H. G. Weaver Middle School
High School
Central High School • William S. Hutchings Career Center • Northeast High School • Rutland High School • Southwest Magnet High School • Westside High School
Specialty schools and programs
Joseph Neel Academy • Butler Childhood Academy • Renaissance Academy
GHSA Class AAA Region 2
Sub-Region A
Sub-Region B
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