March 24-28, 2025

Mr. David G. Johnson, Ed.S.

Principal

Marlboro County High School

951 Fayetteville Avenue Extension

Bennettsville, SC 29512

Phone: 843-479-5900

Email Address: dgjohnson@marlboro.k12.sc.us

Our vision at Marlboro County High School is to inspire curiosity, engagement, and leadership through transformative place-based education, while collaborating with all stakeholders to develop responsible citizens and lifelong learners in a global society.

Marlboro County High School in collaboration with an engaged community, is committed to ensuring that each learner achieves his/her potential in a safe, caring, academically challenging, and diverse learning environment that will develop productive citizens for a changing world.

• All classroom doors should be locked at all times.
• Do not prop open exterior doors for any reason.
• Adhere to the duty schedule.
• Cover all drill procedures for your classroom with each of your classes.
• All faculty and staff should enter through the metal detectors each morning.
• Students should not be let out of class within the FIRST OR LAST 15 minutes of class
• If students are allowed out of class, they should have a pass. DO NOT LET STUDENTS OUT OF CLASS WITHOUT A HALL PASS
• Please be visible, standing outside of your doors during class changes and transitions.

• Continue enforcing the dress code and tardy policy
• Electronic devices are prohibited during instructional time
• Lessons plans must be posted by your door
  
• Lesson agendas must be posted on your smartboards, dry erase boards, or chalkboards

Eleven Principles of Effective Character Education:

⊕ Promotes core ethical and performance values

⊕ Teaches students to understand, care about, and act upon these core values ⊕ It encompasses all aspects of the school culture.

⊕ Fosters a caring school community

⊕ Provides opportunities for moral action

⊕ Supports academic achievement

⊕ Develops intrinsic motivation

⊕ Includes whole-staff involvement

⊕ Requires positive leadership of staff and students

⊕ Involves parents and community members

⊕ Assesses results and strives to improve Character education has always been an essential part of our school’s mission.

In fact, since the founding of our nation’s public schools, character development was always an integral part of schooling along with academics. Today’s character education movement is a re-emergence of that vital mission.

Character education teaches the habits of thought and deeds that help people live and work together as families, friends, neighbors, communities, and nations. Additionally, character education is a learning process that enables students and adults in the school community to understand, care about, and act on core ethical values such as respect, justice, civic virtue, citizenship, and responsibility for self and others. Upon such core values, we form the attitudes and actions that are the hallmark of safe, healthy, and informed communities that serve as the foundation of our society.

For the month of March the Character Education word is Honesty. Honesty is telling the truth, admitting wrongdoing, being trustworthy and acting with integrity.

Monday, March 24, 2025: Freshman Academy Week

• Attendance Recovery (Media Center) 7:30-8:30 AM and 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
• Lesson Plans are due to department chairs by 8 AM
• Instructional Walkthroughs and ADEPT Observations

• D.E.A.R (Drop Everything and Read) 9:15-9:30 AM
• IGP Meetings with Counselors
• Marlboro County School District Special Called Board Meeting @ 5PM (MCHS Media Center)
• Bulldawg Boost 3:45-5:30 PM
• Track Meet @ MCHS

• JV Baseball vs Marion (A) 6:00 PM

• PLC: Algebra I @ 7:30 AM
• Attendance Recovery (Media Center) 7:30-8:30 AM and 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
• ACT Grades 11-12-POSTPONED UNTIL APRIL 1ST
• Instructional Walkthroughs and ADEPT Observations
• EOC PLC Meetings
• IGP Meetings with Counselors
• PLC: BIO I @ 10:15 AM
• D.E.A.R (Drop Everything and Read) 10:45-11:00 AM
• PLC: US History 1:00 PM
• PLC: ENG 2 3:45 PM
• SPED Department meeting @ 3:45 PM (D-139)
• Bulldawg Boost 3:45-5:30 PM
• JV Softball vs Waccamaw (H) 5:00 PM
• Soccer vs Waccamaw (A) 6 and 7:30 PM

• Varsity Softball vs Waccamaw (H) 7:00 PM
• Varsity Baseball vs Aynor (H) 6:00 PM

• Early Release Day @ 1:30 PM
• STEM Day
• Attendance Recovery (Media Center) 7:30-8:30 AM and 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
• Instructional Walkthroughs and ADEPT Observations
• IGP Meetings with Counselors
• D.E.A.R (Drop Everything and Read) 12:20-12:35 PM
• Faculty Meeting 1:45 PM
• Bulldawg Boost 3:45-5:30 PM
• MCSD Arts Show 5-7:00 PM

• Attendance Recovery (Media Center) 7:30-8:30 AM and 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
• Instructional Walkthroughs and ADEPT Observations
• Graduation Clearance Day 9:00 AM

• IGP Meetings with Counselors
• D.E.A.R (Drop Everything and Read) 2:30-2:45 PM
• Bullldawg Boost 3:45-5:30 PM
• JV Baseball vs Aynor (A) 6:00 PM

• Instructional Walkthroughs and ADEPT Observations
• D.E.A.R (Drop Everything and Read) 10:30-10:45 AM
• JAG I and I Ceremony 6:00 PM
• JV Softball vs Dillon (H) 5:00 PM
• Varsity Softball vs Dillon (H) 7:00 PM
• Varsity Baseball vs Aynor (A) 6:00 PM
• Soccer vs Dillon-Boys Only (H) 6:00 PM

Principal Johnson

On Saturday, March 22nd, MCHS Band hosted a workshop to prepare our band for the South Carolina Band Directors Association Concert Performance Assessment on April 2nd at 4:00 PM at Loris High School.

Monday, March 31, 2025

• Senior Cap & Gown Delivery
• JV Baseball vs Loris (H) 4 PM

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

• ACT Grades 11-12
• JV Softball vs Aynor (H) 5 PM
• Varsity Softball vs Aynor (H) 7 PM
• Varsity Baseball vs Loris (A) 6 PM

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

• JV Softball vs Darlington (H) 5 PM
• Varsity Softball vs Darlington (H) 7 PM

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• JV Baseball vs Loris (A) 6 PM
• Volunteer's Celebration

• School Librarian Appreciation Day
• JV Softball vs Loris (H) 5 PM
• Varsity Softball vs Loris (H) 7 PM
• Varsity Baseball vs Loris (H) 6 PM