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Rigor through
Scholastic Competition
Leon Pfeiffer
Founder and Executive Director, NCASA
Shannon Meyer
Associate Executive Director, NCASA
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North Carolina Association for Scholastic Activities
What is a CSP
A Comprehensive Scholastic Program is
analogous to your sports program.
A CSP offers scholastic competitions
and activities in many scholastic areas:
• Language Arts
• Mathematics
• Science
• Social Studies
• Fine Arts
• Cross-Discipline
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Scholastic Competitions
• Language Arts: The Quill, Poetry Out
Loud, Spelling Bee, Battle of the Books
• Mathematics: MATHCOUNTS, State
Mathematics Contest
• Science: Science Olympiad, Science
Fair, Technology Student Association
• Social Studies: National History Day,
Economics Challenge
• Fine Arts: WPU Show Choir, Art
Showcase, Dance Ensemble
• Multi-Disciplinary: Speech and Debate,
Quiz Bowl, Odyssey of the Mind,
Envirothon, Chess, Twelve
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How your CSP can provide rigor?
Why do you have a sports program in your
schools? All the same reasons apply, but with
a CSP, you gain academic rigor.
• Allows students to explore their passion
• BEST VALUE in enrichment to high
performing students
• Students learn to do self-directed research
and study
• Teaches teamwork, sacrifice, dedication
• Additional recognition for your outstanding
students
• Helps with admission to selective colleges
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How your CSP can provide rigor?
• Engages students at every level of
achievement, EVERY student should have a
skillset that can be valuable to your CSP
• Interscholastic Competitions allow students to
benchmark themselves against well-performing
teams from other schools
How can your CSP provide rigor?
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Additional
recognition for
your outstanding
students
Meredith Hemphill,
2013 NCASA
Student of the
Year
Forming a CSP in Your School
I’m Ready! Where do I begin?
1 – Find a Champion – someone with a
passion for success. Someone who won’t
take no for an answer!
This is your Scholastic Director
Usually this is an Assistant Principal or
teacher who already coaches a team.
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Jason Kline, Myers Park HS AP and Scholastic Director
Forming a CSP in Your School
2 – Get buy-in and support from
administrators.
Why? They will help with:
• Funding Sources (including district-level
funding)
• Perks for coaches
• Marketing the program
• Recognition of teams
• School scheduling opportunities
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Kathy Fox, Principal of Jay M Robinson MS of Charlotte
Forming a CSP in Your School
3 – Funding: Identify potential first-year
funding sources and educate them on the
benefits of a CSP. Secure key areas including
NCASA and competition registration, travel,
and essential resources.
- Possible Funding Sources:
- School District
- PTA
- Who funds your sports teams?
- Local businesses
- Key parents
- Direct Solicitation (ask letter)
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Forming a CSP in Your School
3 – Funding: The most successful schools
and school districts provide stipends for their
scholastic coaches. These stipends make it
much easier for administrators to find
coaches for their teams.
Cumberland County Schools provides about
$6,000 per school for coach stipends,
substitutes, travel, and hosting costs.
Cumberland County won the School District
Cup last year.
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2012 Twelve
State Final
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4 – Join NCASA, attend NCASA Conference
and Annual Meeting in May
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Forming a CSP in Your School
5 – Engage School Staff
Form a small committee to determine the
competitions in which your school will
participate.
Sell them on the benefits of the program
• Be a salesman!
• Describe the benefits of the program
through the student lens
• Perks for coaches
• Glory to your school!
• Find sponsors / coaches for each
competition
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Statesville MS
Art Showcase
team at State
Finals
Forming a CSP in Your School
6 – Market the program to students and
parents
• Build excitement
• Put up posters
• Announce on website, morning meetings
• Host a beginning of the year competition
and club fair and have students express
interest
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Lake Norman HS at West Regional Show Choir Competition
Forming a CSP in Your School
7 – Have formational meetings for each team
Engage students in first meeting with
aspects of competition to build excitement
Create a comprehensive calendar for all
school competitions so conflicts can be
resolved well ahead of time.
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River Road Middle School of Elizabeth City at 2013 Quiz Bowl State Finals
Forming a CSP in Your School
8 – Distribute funds to teams so they can
obtain resources
Have academic coaches submit predicted
budgets at the beginning of the year
Fundraise to meet unfunded programs and
to provide opportunities for enrichment
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Atkins High
School Show
Choir from 2013
Regionals
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Before the first competition ends….
9 - Engage key parents to form a
SCHOLASTIC BOOSTER CLUB
This has the same purpose as your athletic
booster club: raise funds to support your
scholastic teams.
Benchmark your athletic booster club, find a
key parent to lead the effort.
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10 – COMPETE!
11 – Celebrate your participation and
successes through websites,
announcements, school board meetings, etc.
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•NCASA Competitions:
–Twelve - Show Choir
–The Quill - Art Showcase
–Quiz Bowl - Dance Ensemble
–MS Forensics
•NCSSM Challenge Cup, NCASA Scholastic Cup
•School System Cup
•Current member LEA’s
•Website: www.ncscholastic.org
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•Vision
•Mission
•Board of Directors
•Staff – Shannon Meyer, Associate Executive
Director
•Competitions
•Partners
•Cups
•Membership Fee: $200 + $0.25 per enrolled
student
•50% Discount for LEA’s who register all
secondary schools
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Twelve
•Topics: Core Curriculum divided into 10 primary
topics, plus two Wildcard topics
•Team: 12 students per team
•Goal: Answer the most questions correctly given
the limited time per round.
•Kick-off: Topics are grouped and wildcard topics
are presented. Coach must assemble students
into four groups of three.
•Play: Questions are shown on screen and read
aloud. After 12 questions, team members
discuss answers and present answer sheet.
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Twelve MS - Topic Assignments
Group A
1) Math
5) World History
9) Health / PE
Group C
3) Arts and Media
7) Physical Sciences
11) US History
Group B
2) Technology
6) Literature
10) NC Geography
Group D
4) Life Sciences
8) Writing
12) NC Government
Twelve: Sample Competition
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12 Minutes Remaining
Twelve – Wildcard Topics
Middle School
• NC Geography
• NC History
• NC Current Events
• NC Sports
• NC State Symbols
• NC Government
• NC Colleges and Universities
• NC Native Americans
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The Quill
•On Demand Writing Competition
•Four students per team, schools may form
Varsity and JV teams
•Sample prompts are on our website, practice
prompts will be distributed to coaches
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The Quill
Middle School Text Types:
• Argumentation
• Narrative
• Informative / Explanatory
• Problem / Solution
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The Quill – Sample MS Prompt
Narrative Writing
“One morning I awoke to find that my _____ was
missing...”
Write a narrative that includes/spins off of this
statement. You have lost something important.
Take the questions that follow into consideration
as you formulate your narrative. What is it? What
lengths will you go to in order to find it? What will
happen if you don’t? Choose an appropriate format
for your creative product: a short story, a poem, a
letter, or another format.
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Quiz Bowl
•Max of 8 players per team – 4 at a time
•Players buzz-in to be the first to answer questions
read by a moderator.
•Team that answers toss-up correctly gets an
opportunity to answer a three-part bonus.
•20 toss-up / bonus questions per match
•Each match lasts about 35 minutes
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Forensics
Middle School Events:
• Humorous Interpretation
• Dramatic Interpretation
• Duo Interpretation
• Original Oratory
• Extemporaneous Speaking
• Public Forum Debate
Each school may have up to three entries per event.
Each school may have up to twelve total entries.
Top ten in each event earn Sweepstakes points.
Rule changes: Top eight scores count towards
Sweeps, Copies of speeches must be submitted at
check-in
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William Peace University
NC Show Choir Competition
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•Students sing while performing choreographed
dance routines
Art Showcase
• 5-8 students per school compete
• Each student creates their work using a different
medium
•Drawing, painting, print making, collage, sculpture,
photography, computer generated, mixed media
• Students have 7 weeks to create their work based
on the presented prompt or theme
• Students submit photographs of their work for
Regional Competition
• Top individuals and teams will advance to show their
work at the Show Choir Competition State Final
• Individual and Team Awards will be presented
•Example Prompt: “Beauty Discovered”
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Dance Ensemble
Three events under the Dance Ensemble activity for
middle schools:
- Jazz
- Hip-Hop
- Contemporary / Lyrical
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Harris Road Middle
School
2015 State Champ
Jazz/Hip-Hop
NCSSM Challenge Cup and
NCASA Scholastic Cup
• Analogous to Wells Fargo Cup of NCHSAA
• Points system is nearly identical to Wells Fargo
Cup
• 5 points for participating as a team
• 50 points for first place, 45 points for second place,
etc.
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NCSSM Challenge Cup and
NCASA Scholastic Cup
•Cup Partners:
–Science Olympiad - National History Day
–Odyssey of the Mind - Cyberpatriots (HS)
–Technology Student Association - Poetry Out Loud (HS)
–Tarheel Forensic League (HS) - Mock Trial (MS)
–NC Chess Association - MATHCOUNTS (MS)
–FIRST Lego League (MS) - Envirothon
–State Mathematics Contest (HS)
–NC Economics Challenge (HS)
–Battle of the Books (MS)
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School System Cup
• Based on the performance of schools in each
school system.
•Small School District: Top MS and HS combined
points
•Medium School District: Top four schools combined
•Large School District: Top eight schools combined
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Current Member LEA’s
• Guilford
• Iredell
• Durham
• Cumberland
• Surry
• Alexander
• Harnett
• Hertford
• Edenton-Chowan
• Cabarrus
• Newton-Conover City
• Elizabeth City – Pasq.
• Mt. Airy City
• Lexington City
• Chatham (HS)
• Thomasville City
• Hickory City
• Alleghany
• Halifax
• Pitt
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Current membership: 276 schools
Findings from NHD Study
National History Day commissioned a study
in 2011 to determine if participation in NHD
improved student performance.
YES, participation improved student
performance.
It stands to reason that similar performance
improvement would also be obtained by
students who participate in other scholastic
competitions.
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Learn more about NCASA
www.ncscholastic.org
Leon Pfeiffer
919-771-9272
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