Waipahu High Wins High Achievers Contest !

2010 Achieve 3000 Leadership Conference
(from left-right)
Maggie Cox - BOE Member
Saki Dodelson - CEO Achieve 3000 Inc.
Cindy Arakaki - WHS Language Arts Teacher
Frances Alcantara - WHS Student Winner
Dr Eileen Clarke - BOE Member
Breene Harimoto - BOE Member
Sheldon Oshio - Waipahu Complex Area Sup

Congratulations to Frances Alcantara, a senior at Waipahu High School for winning the Hawaii High Achiever Award representing the Waipahu Complex Area Schools. Frances, along with her Language Arts teacher Mrs Cindy Arakaki received the special awards at the Achieve 3000's 2010 Hawaii Leadership Conference at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel on February 4, 2010.

This award went to only one class in each complex area whose students completed the most KidBiz/TeenBiz multiple choice news activities from November 17, 2009 to December 20, 2009--with average first try scores of 75% or greater. Frances was the highest performing student in Ms Arakaki's Period 2 class ! Congrats again to Frances and Ms Arakaki's Period 2 class, you made Waipahu High & Waipahu Community very proud !

Achieve 3000 Final Contest of the Year !

You've paved a road of success this year...now get into the exit lane for Achieve3000's final contest!

It's proven that the more students use TeenBiz, the more their reading skills improve. At the Exit to Excellence, you'll find a world of opportunity before you.

Students have already been enrolled in Exit to Excellence and you don't need to do anything but participate. Just complete at least eight multiple choice news activities from Monday, March 1st, until Saturday, April 10th. (These are the activities that come after the article of the day - part of step 3. Each activity has eight questions.)

To be sure you put forth your very best efforts, we're giving out extra points for high scores. Every time a student does an activity, your class earns a point. For every score of 75%, the class earns two points. And for every score of 88% or higher, the class earns three points! The class with the most points (on average, per student) wins a Party-in-a-Package, delivered to your school about 3 weeks after the contest is over.

Achieve3000 will give you the drive to take on the world!

WHS Lexile Performance from Pre-Test to Interim Test

Back in August 2009 when our students took the Teenbiz Pre-Test compared to when our students took the Teenbiz Interim Test in January 2010, as a school, we had an average Lexile gain of +46 points (+5%) and a reading level gain of +.9 (+14.5%).

Congrats Waipahu ! Let's continue to IMPROVE !!!

Stats as of 2/3/2010...

Total Students who have taken two tests: 1756

Pre-Test (taken August 2009):
Avg Reading Level: 6.2
Avg Lexile: 939L

Interim-Test (taken January 2010):
Avg Reading Level: 7.1
Avg Lexile: 985L