February 17-21, 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 February the Character Education word is Kindness. Kindness is the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate; kindliness, kind heartedness, warm heartedness, affection, warmth, gentleness, concern and care. During the month of February show Kindness to someone.

Greetings all,

I am excited to share all of the results from our college audition fair yesterday, at Burke High School in Charleston, SC.

Listed below are the schools that were represented during yesterday’s fair:

1. Florida A&M University

2. South Carolina State University

3. Benedict College

4. Bethune-Cookman University

5. Fayetteville State University

6. Allen University

7. Hampton University

8. Livingston College

9. Johnson C. Smith University

10. Virginia State University

11. North Carolina A&T University

12. Southern University

13. Tuskegee University

14. Vorhees College

15. Savannah State University

Our students walked away with $1,800,500.00 worth of offers to attend these universities and to participate in there concert, jazz, marching or small ensembles while attending these universities. All of our students received at least one offer, and almost all of them are awaiting emails with offers from Florida A&M, Hampton, Johnson C. Smith and Southern University, and it’s still not over!!!!! We have about 5 more that will audition on March 8, 2025 for a number of other schools.

I am SO proud of all of our Bulldog Band members, some of them are beginning to realize that there are other options and opportunities…. and now they have some decisions to make. Let’s encourage them over these next few months leading to graduation.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR BULLDOG BAND SENIORS!!!

On Thursday, February 13, 2025, the MCHS Beta Club hosted it's 2025 Beta Club Induction Ceremony. Students pictured are old members as well as the newly inducted members. Hats off to Advisors: Godzetta Whittington, Jacqueline Cousar and Sharyl Gross.

Thank you Sergeant Kim Peterson for all you do at MCHS. We appreciate you!

Monday, February 17, 2025

• Attendance Recovery (Media Center) 7:30-8:30 AM
• Lesson Plans are due to department chairs by 8 AM
• Instructional Walkthroughs and ADEPT Observations
• Varsity Girl's Basketball Playoff game vs Orangeburg Wilkinson HS @ 6 PM (A)
• Bulldog Boost 3:30-5:30 PM

• Early Dismissal @ 1:30 PM
• Attendance Recovery (Media Center) 7:30-8:30 AM

• Instructional Walkthroughs and ADEPT Observations
• Admin and Counselors meeting @ 9:30 AM
• Bulldog Boost 1:45-3:30 PM
• Varsity Boy's Basketball Playoff game vs Kenan HS @ 6 PM (A)

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

• Early Dismissal Day @1:30 PM
• Attendance Recovery (Media Center) 7:30-8:30 AM
• Instructional Walkthroughs and ADEPT Observations
• Bulldog Boost 1:45-3:30 PM

• Intercession

Friday, February 21, 2025

• Intercession

Friday, February 21, 2025 and Saturday, February 22, 2025

• Wrestling State Individual Championship @ Florence Civic Center

Saturday, February 22, 2025

• Saturday Attendance Recovery 8:30 AM-1:30 PM

Principal Johnson

• 11th and 12th Grade IGP night 5-8 PM
• Black History Spirit Week: Melanin Day (dress in shades of black and brown)
• Literacy and Legacy Reading with the Devine 9 (MCHS Media Center) @ 11:45 AM
• Bulldawg Boost 3:30-5:30 PM

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

• End of FA recovery for first semester
• Sr Cap and Gown picture day
• Black History Spirit Week: Inspired Day (dress as an iconic figure)
• National Youth Survey-Selected Classes
• Cultural Karaoke (MCHS Commons Area) @ 12 PM
• Bulldawg Boost 3:30-5:30 PM
• Talent Show (MCHS Commons Area) 6:00 PM

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

• Early Dismissal Day
• Black History Spirit Week: Day of Excellence (dress to impress)
• Harlem in Vogue: Fashion Show @ 12 PM

Thursday, February 27, 2025

• Black History Spirit Week: HBCU Day (wear your favorite HBCU apparel)
• Job Shadowing Day
• Bulldawg Boost 3:30-5:30 PM
• Gospel Explosion (Commons Area) @ 6 PM

Friday, February 28, 2025 and Saturday, February 22, 2025

• Black History Spirit Week: For the Culture (wear your favorite cultural attire)
• Black History Program: Shades of Excellence (MCHS Gym) @ 2:15 PM

• Saturday Attendance Recovery 8:30 AM-1:30 PM