As most students at Springville Junior High know, Quest Time is an extra period between third and fourth period to give students with deficient grades extra help. Quest Time was established two years ago by Mr. Darrell Rolfe, former principal of Springville Junior High, and the Quest Time Committee, which consists of the following faculty members at SJHS: Mr. Trent Mikesell, Mrs. Corrin Gleave, Mrs. Josie Hales, and Ms. Diane Hamilton. Quest Time was put into action last year. Since Mr. Rolfe had left the school, Mr. Van Ausdal, who had become principal of SJHS, was responsible for getting Quest Time started.
Teachers and students alike have high opinions of Quest Time. According to Quinn Gleave, an eighth grader at SJHS, he gets to see his friends more because of Quest Time, which he likes. Mr. Mikesell, administrative assistant at SJHS, said that Quest Time is “a good program because it allows us to let parents know we are trying to do something to help students who are failing. It’s also a nice break for students who are doing well which I think helps the day go by more smoothly.”
According to Mrs. Hales, business and CTE teacher at SJHS, programs like Quest Time had previously been established at other schools in Nebo School District. She said, “We here at Springville Junior had heard that Spanish Fork Junior High and Diamond Fork Junior High were using this model and were having great success. Then we as a faculty decided to try Quest Time.”
So, overall, Quest Time has been a successful program here at SJHS. But there is still room for it to improve. Mr. Van Ausdal said Quest Time could be improved by “more students taking intervention seriously and working harder.”