Around Our Schools Shout Outs February 2012: Vol. 3 Shout Out to Our Super Speller! Principal Greg Holland from Western Middle proudly shared the following news: “Congratulations to Western Middle 6 th Grade student Meghna Mahadevan for winning the Times-News Spelling Bee!” Check out the story from the Times- News http://www.thetimesne ws.com/articles/last- 52392-western- spelling.html Shout Out to Two Very SMART Staff Members! Dottie Small teaches 5 th Gators at Garrett and is an Advanced eCoach. She let me know about this great news: “Chris Small (Woodlawn and my husband!) and I have been selected to teach a SMARTboard session at the annual North Carolina Technology in Education Society’s (NCTIES) conference in Raleigh. This is our second year! The event is scheduled for March and here’s our session description: Chris and Dottie will equip you with Smartboard lesson ideas for centers, whole group, small group, and independent groups in all subject areas. You will leave this session inspired and prepared to engage ALL students with your Smartboard.” Thanks Chris and Dottie for sharing your SMARTS!
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Around Our Schools Shout Outs February 2012: Vol. 3
Shout Out to Our
Super Speller! Principal Greg Holland
from Western Middle
proudly shared the
following news:
“Congratulations to
Western Middle 6th
Grade student Meghna
Mahadevan for winning
the Times-News Spelling
Bee!” Check out the
story from the Times-
News
http://www.thetimesne
ws.com/articles/last-
52392-western-
spelling.html
Shout Out to Two Very SMART Staff Members!
Dottie Small teaches 5th
Gators at Garrett and is an
Advanced eCoach. She let
me know about this great
news: “Chris Small
(Woodlawn and my
husband!) and I have been
selected to teach a
SMARTboard session at
the annual North Carolina
Technology in Education
Society’s (NCTIES)
conference in Raleigh. This
is our second year! The
event is scheduled for
March and here’s our
session description: Chris
and Dottie will equip you with Smartboard lesson ideas for centers, whole group, small group,
and independent groups in all subject areas. You will leave this session inspired and prepared to
engage ALL students with your Smartboard.”
Thanks Chris and Dottie for sharing your SMARTS!
Around Our Schools Shout Outs February 2012: Vol. 3
Shout Out to Sylvie and Ms.
Whitley’s Class!
Letitia Geary, music teacher for
the Blue Jays, sent this in:
“Sylvan’s mascot, Sylvie, has been
busy soaring from room to room
to encourage good attendance
from all students! She lands in the
classroom with the highest
attendance rate for the week.
Congratulations to Heather
Whitley’s 5th grade class for
earning a visit from Sylvie for the
second time! Sylvan students and
staff are continually discussing the
importance of good attendance,
and are tracking their individual,
classroom, grade level, and school-wide attendance rates.” Congratulations!
Shout Out to
Hillcrest!
Principal Dr. Devon
Carson shared news
about this great
partnership: “Jackie Kane
and the Alamance
Republic Women’s
Association donated
some books to Hillcrest
Elementary for their
2011 Literacy Project.
The group donated
books about the White
House and our
Government.”
Around Our Schools Shout Outs February 2012: Vol. 3
Shout Out to Steven Cobb, WWHS Bulldog!
It is always amazing to find out about unique interests,
hobbies, and passions of our students and staff. Check
out this recent Times-News story about Steven Cobb,
Williams High senior, and his fave thing to do. How many
other high school licensed pilots do you know? http://www.thetimesnews.com/articles/williams-52230-school-
cobb.html
There’s even more to this story………
Steven’s T-N story went NATIONAL on the Aircraft Owners
and Pilots Association website, too! Click on this link and
scroll down to the Pilot’s Spotlight section and you can
read the Times-News story featuring Steven from their
Remember last week’s story about the Western High robot team? Well, I got a report about the
event held at Elon University by “robot mom” Elke Ruggaber: “The scrimmage went really well!
Our team from Western won with the alliance of a home school team from Burlington. We had
a ton of fun as you can read in the link below from the Greensboro News & Record. http://www.news-record.com/content/2012/02/05/article/robots_scrimmage_at_elon
News 14 had us briefly on their program too—here is the script they ran:
AREA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS MET AT ELON UNIVERSITY YESTERDAY TO COMPETE.
GUILFORD AND ALAMANCE COUNTY STUDENTS TOOK PART IN A ROBOTICS
SCRIMMAGE...WITH STUDENT-BUILT ROBOTS.
IT'S PREPARATION FOR THE UPCOMING STATEWIDE "FIRST TECH CHALLENGE" IN
GREENSBORO. ON A 12-BY-12 FOOT FIELD...THE STUDENTS USED THEIR ROBOTS TO PLACE
RACQUETBALLS AND BOWLING BALLS INTO PLASTIC CRATES TO SCORE POINTS...AND
DEMONSTRATE CREATIVE AND PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS.
THE FIRST-TECH CHALLENGE TAKES PLACE FEBRUARY 25-TH AT NORTH CAROLINA A-
AND-T STATE UNIVERSITY.
That’s next Saturday! The kids are finalizing the robot design and finish up with their
programming.” Good luck Warriors!
Around Our Schools Shout Outs February 2012: Vol. 3
Shout Out to Teachers” Aging
Gracefully” at A-W!
Carole Smith, curriculum facilitator, sent in
this “old wives’ tale” about some of her co-
workers:
“To celebrate the 100th day of school, some
Alexander-Wilson first and second grade
teachers went "all out". Second grade
teachers; Rachael Vanderford and Christy
Phillips and first grade teachers; Ashely
Vroom, Morgan Thompson and Janna
Shoffner "aged" 100 years! What a surprise
their students got when they found an "older"
teacher in their classroom. This surprise,
along with a lot of exciting 100th day
activities, was a great way to celebrate the
100th day of school.”
What fun!!
Hey, do they even make pink sponge curlers
anymore?
Around Our Schools Shout Outs February 2012: Vol. 3
Shout Out to an Eastern
Eagle Flying High!
Assistant Principal Wendy
Nelms shared this great news
from the Eagles’ nest: “We at
EHS would like to give a Shout
Out to Aoife O’Neill! She is an
outstanding English teacher
here and she has been selected
to represent EHS at the district
level TOY competition! Ms.
O’Neill carries herself very
professionally and holds all of
her students to high standards.
Here are some of the words
written by a few colleagues:
Ms. O’Neill makes special
connections with students,
handles classroom
management and parent
communication
brilliantly…provides rigorous,
challenging work on a daily
basis…her students are actively engaged the entire class period. She stays very busy at EHS.
She is a leader with and extremely helpful to Mrs. Nelms with the Graduation Project.
She is on the Leadership Team and is Co-Sponsor of the Debate team. She stays after school to
help students and always says “yes” when asked if she can add on one more task to her busy
schedule. We are proud to have Ms. O’Neill represent EHS as TOY. We know she will do well!”
Shout Out to Haw River and Big Hearts!
Shadonna Gunn from HRE sent this in: “This fundraiser is headed by
our Kindergarten teacher, Sandy Peele.
Haw River Elementary annually participates in the “Pasta for
Pennies” fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Last
year, students donated $2041.00 which set our goal for this year.
Last week, students learned about the disease and participated in a
role play scenario that illustrated what happens with the blood cells
when they are not healthy. Based on the first week of participation, we are well on our way to
surpassing our goal! Our students have donated $1,143.75 so far! That’s the most we’ve ever
collected in the first week of the campaign!!! We are so proud of our students for being so
generous! They may be little, but their hearts are big!”
Around Our Schools Shout Outs February 2012: Vol. 3
Shout Out to Teachers! Here is your personal invitation provided by NCAE District 4A:
NCAE District 4A is hosting the movie, MITCHELL 20, to inspire you and to remind you why you
love teaching and how important our skills are to the advancement of our profession. You are
cordially invited to a screening of “Mitchell 20” an inspirational movie about educators in
Phoenix, AZ. These teachers have the same types of students and poverty levels we see in our