After five years of failing to make Adequate Yearly Progress, Everett is looking for ways to help turn their performance around. One of Everett’s ways to improve is 6’8 Robert Hurd, a leadership coach hired by the Ingham intermediate School District (ISD). He was hired to help the staff run a more efficient school with more passing students.

With a Bachelors degree from Grand Valley State University, and a Masters degree from Western Michigan, Hurd has worked at the elementary, high school and college level. He was the principal at Ottawa Hills and East Kentwood High School, and retired in 2006 from East Kentwood High School. Now he is a leadership coach here at Everett.

“I cannot sit back and not do anything about this problem”, said Hurd. “I want to be a part of the solution.

The leadership coach is part of a program called Michigan State Wide System of support, it a a process in which schools that do not make AYP 5 years in a row find ways to improve. Their job is to help come up and enforce plans to help students that are failing. There are 5,000 failing students in the elementary, middle school, and high school levels. Hurd encourages the administration, and teacher staff to focus on curriculum, instruction, and best ways to learn through use of past test scores.

Hurd hopes to make a difference and help improve student’s educational success, so they can be competitive with other students around the world.

“I am a catalyst for change,” said Hurd

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