Word: stiglbauer
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...business, divvying up the remaining $1,200 of the $1,600 that their churches have collected this year for the school. A pizza party is planned; new book bags are promised to some of Hand's poorest kids. Before they break, once again with a prayer, Hand principal Jeanne Stiglbauer slips in a final request: "Standardized testing is coming up, so please keep all our students and teachers--and their principal--in your thoughts...
...Stiglbauer has a great talent for enlisting aid--from clergy, police, civic groups, parents, teachers, businesses and even higher powers. That talent has helped transform this once downtrodden school into one of the highest-achieving in South Carolina. "Often educators don't like to ask outsiders for help," explains Stiglbauer, who took over Hand six years ago. "But I say, 'Let them lift...
...Stiglbauer's first day of school, the police had to arrest students in nine fights--all before the morning bell. Inside the school--where test scores had stagnated below the 50th percentile--students routinely told off teachers. In response, Stiglbauer hired a gruff former New York police detective as her disciplinarian in chief. Her staff hauled the parents of truants into family court. And once kids were in her grasp, Stiglbauer never let them go. She "invited" struggling students to intense early-morning, after-school and summer drill sessions. But the bonus classes became so popular that close to half...
...Stiglbauer and her staff promoted diversity by encouraging all kids to join the school's sports teams, technology classes and arts electives. While all Hand's test scores have increased, those of black students have surged the most: 85% in the past five years. As test scores rose, families who had fled to private and parochial schools started returning. Then real estate agents began to drop mentions of Hand's achievements into their pitches about heated pools and tree-lined cul-de-sacs. Mary Lu Dalton, Hand's curriculum coordinator, switched her son from a Catholic school to Hand three...
...bigger challenge will come next fall. District officials are so impressed with Stiglbauer's performance that they've asked her to leave Hand to head a struggling Columbia high school. Stiglbauer, who lives three blocks from Hand and whose son will begin the sixth grade there next fall, has promised not to stray too far. "A long while ago," she says, "I forgot where I stopped and these students started...
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