Atlanta Public Schools Peyton Forest Elementary, Price and Usher middle schools use Roots and Wings/SuccessFor All Strives to that every child leaves elementary school with both http://www.atlanta.k12.ga.us/parents_students/school_improvement/new_american_sc
Extractions: Curriculum Areas Extracurricular Programs School Improvement Programs Education Links ... SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS : NEW AMERICAN SCHOOLS President, New American Schools New American Schools is part of an ambitious effort for APS to implement research-based school reform aimed at improving student performance and encouraging higher levels of achievement for students on all grade levels. New American Schools (NAS) is a proven leader in the school reform movement. Avoiding the one-size-fits-all concept, which has hampered the usage of other reform programs, NAS features flexible research-based school designs to address local school needs:
Press Releases: has been adapted to meet the specific needs of middle school and high school learners. resultswere seeing are testimony to the success that Interactive http://www.academicsystems.com/Company/Media/Expansion_Into_SED.asp
Extractions: Lightspans Academic Systems Expands into Secondary Schools Early Implementations Show Success Mountain View, Calif. (April 22, 2002) Academic Systems, the higher education division of Lightspan, Inc. and a leading provider of interactive multimedia instructional programs for college students, has expanded into the secondary education market. Early implementations of Academic Systems award-winning, technology-based Interactive Mathematics in both middle schools and high schools have demonstrated that the curriculum gives teachers a powerful tool to help teach mathematics effectively. As state and federal agencies mandate that students achieve proficiency in mathematics and demonstrate it on assessment tests , secondary schools are facing increasing pressures to find innovative and effective ways to teach Algebra and other mathematics courses. Moreover, increasing numbers of middle school students are required to successfully complete Algebra before entering high school
Technology Success Stories you'd like to share your own success story, please e ll be helping to plan the school'snetworking system graders at Charles F Patton middle school in Unionville http://67.104.102.68/externalsurvey/techsuccess/tssummaries.asp
Extractions: Technology Success Stories Teachers across the country are doing great things in their classrooms and communities with the help of new technologies. Weve received lots of technology success stories and have selected some that we hope you'll enjoy. If you'd like to share your own success story, please e-mail us at NTA@qeddata.com or click here . All submissions will be reviewed and selected stories will be posted on our Web site. We will contact you if your submission is selected. Update your school's Technology Information Ozarks Effort Brings Computer Skills to Isolated Community Witts Springs is a community of 50 in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas where the closest town is 25 miles away. "People in this area are desperate to learn computer skills," writes Donna Castro, Technology Coordinator at Witts Springs School. Thanks to Castro's efforts and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, they now have the opportunity. At Witts Springs School, every computer is connected to the Internet, every classroom has a minimum of four multi-media computers, and 23 adults are currently enrolled in a basic computer class. Castro's computer savvy students not only teach the adults, but when Witts Springs new elementary school opens next year, they'll be helping to plan the school's networking system and run cable!
Extractions: Super Secondary School Invitational at 2000 Annual Meeting by Mary Rose Szoka de Valladeras Students from the Heights School in Maryland and the Nysmith School for the Gifted in Virginia, both middle schools, participated in the Secondary School Invitational at the U.S. Hydrogen Meeting. As part of the activities, students made their own fuel cells from cardboard, styrofoam, pipe cleaners, and yarn, then combined them into stacks. T T he genesis of the Secondary School Invitational was the Dr. Bob Show. Inspired by the experience of lifetime professional educator Dr. Robert Reeves, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen Program created the Dr. Bob Show in 1996 to teach students about the properties and potential of hydrogen. M.R.S. Enterprises expanded the Dr. Bob Show into the DOE/NHA Secondary School Invitational. It has been a great pleasure to serve as host for this fun-filled event, now in its fourth year of production. T I n 2000, middle school students from the Nysmith School for the Gifted in Virginia and the Heights School in Maryland participated in the Invitational, along with their teachers Diane Carlivati (Nysmith) and Andy Reed (Heights). A D W I A A balloon filled with hydrogen fuels a tiny fuel cell-powered toy car under the direction of a middle school student at the AM2000 Secondary School Invitational.
The Star If they graduate from school able to do that George W. Bush for the state's successin meeting Principal Bryan Mutnik said Peekskill middle school is a school http://www.thejournalnews.com/weekly/013003/st0130mills.html
Extractions: /* You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines. */ var pageName="Mills gets close look at Peekskill students' progr [01-30-03]" var server="" var channel="" var pageType="" var pageValue="" var prop1="Weekly" var prop2="The Star" var prop3="" var prop4="" var prop5="" var prop6="news" var prop7="" var prop8="" var prop9="" var prop10="" /********* INSERT THE DOMAIN AND PATH TO YOUR CODE BELOW ************/ /********** DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING ELSE BELOW THIS LINE! *************/ var s_code=' ' Mills gets close look at Peekskill students' progress BY BRIAN J. HOWARD (Original publication: January 30, 2003) Peekskill eighth-grader Jill Moczarski knows her school isn't perfect. It's small for the number of students there, the lockers need replacing and it could use a bigger auditorium. But you judge a school by how well its students perform, she figures, and Peekskill Middle School's improvement on the eighth-grade English Language Arts assessments last year was among the most dramatic in the state. "Just because the building's bad, doesn't mean the students are," Jill said.
Arlington Public Schools - Kenmore Middle School YES (Youth Experiencing success) and the Kenmore Study Club elective courses thattouch on the school's focus and not offered at other Arlington middle schools http://www.arlington.k12.va.us/schools/kenmore/brochure.html
Extractions: Address: 200 S. Carlin Springs Road, Arlington, VA 22204 Phone Number School hours: 7:50 a.m. to 2:20 p.m. Office hours: 7:30 a.m. to 2:40 p.m. Link to School Web Site: http://www.arlington.k12.va.us/schools/kenmore/ Local School Report: 2002-2003 School Year Virginia School Performance Report Card: Data as of June 1, 2001 Principal: John Word Kenmore Middle School is an arts and communications technology focus school where the Arlington middle school curriculum is taught through the arts and communications technology. Although the school has a prescribed attendance zone, students from throughout Arlington County can attend Kenmore upon request. Students are engaged in learning activities every day which involve dance/movement, drama, visual arts, music, and many forms of communications technology. This delivery method, unique to Arlington, provides students with alternative ways to learn the curriculum. Based on Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, which states that people gain knowledge through musical, visual, verbal, logical, kinesthetic, interpersonal, intra personal and environmental cues, the program encourages students to use all eight intelligences. Thus, learning at Kenmore is active, hands-on and connected to real fife experiences. Kenmore's arts and communications technology focus emphasizes what students should know and be able to do in a complex information society. Students learn and are evaluated on the county-widc academic curriculum objectives with a continuing emphasis on basic skills, acquisition of knowledge and thinking proficiency. The primary difference between Kenmore and other Arlington middle schools is the infusion of the art disciplines and communications technology throughout the curriculum.
Gifted Learners And The Middle School: Problem Or Promise? of Young Adolescents, 1989) that middle school programs should of learning withinlarger school settings, (2 a solid academic core, (3) ensure success for all http://ericec.org/digests/e535.html
Extractions: August 1995 Historically, tension has existed between gifted education and middle school education (Tomlinson, 1992), leaving some advocates of each educational practice suspicious of the other, and leaving middle school students who are advanced in one or more dimensions of learning in a sort of educational no-man's-land. While some legitimate areas of disagreement are likely to persist, there are enough areas of shared belief to bridge the practice between gifted education and middle school education. This digest provides an overview of (1) some areas of agreement between the fields, (2) some areas of tension, and (3) some promising directions that could engage educators in mutual planning of appropriate services for all middle school students, including those we sometimes call "gifted." Shared Beliefs of Gifted Education and Middle School Education There are at least three areas of common concern shared by gifted education and middle school education.
Summer Professional Development High school Phonemic Awareness A Key to Reading success Level All Teaching InternetResearch Skills Level middle school High school Strategies for http://www.landmarkschool.org/newsite/cf/spd_list.cfm
Middle School - Principal's Message Our mission at Nooksack Valley middle school is to create a program that supportsa Our school improvement efforts are aimed at ensuring success for all http://www.nooksackschools.org/ms/ms_principal.htm
Cyberfair Philippines 2003 success Stories. Children from an elementary school in Zebbiegh, Malta, constructed Middleschool students from Stockholm, Sweden are building a multilingual http://www.cyberfair.ph/cfsuccessstry.html
Extractions: Home 2002 Cyberfair Highlights Register Now At A Glance ... Contact Us Success Stories "CyberFair will help fulfill some of the promise of the Internet as a platform for bringing the world's cultures, schools and young people together," said Vinton G. Cerf, co-inventor of the Internet and senior vice president of data architecture at MCI. "We hope it will promote the notion of knowledge sharing which has been such a positive factor in the evolution of the Internet for all its history." Here are a few stories that support CyberFair's objectives: 1) Schools learned more about the world wide web and how to create web pages The Yuba Feather Elementary School, who's entry was on the American Indian Early Childhood Education Program, was the first in their district to create web site. Then they (3rd and 4th graders) went to the junior high to teach the older students about creating web pages.
Results of a comprehensive restructuring, Canton middle school in southeast initiative andhave a success, (central office During the school year, they monitor teacher http://www.nsdc.org/library/results/res12-97rich.html
Extractions: RESULTS - December/January 1997 When former Baltimore Supt. Walter Amprey said principals should be empowered to run their schools as they saw fit, Canton Middle School principal Craig Spilman took the authority and ran with it. After six years of a comprehensive restructuring, Canton Middle School in southeast Baltimore is a solid success with three years of improving test scores, greater student attendance, and fewer suspensions, a staff that is focused and enthusiastic about school improvement, and a model of school improvement other schools could adopt. "Most principals were too timid to try this,'' Spilman said. "But, if you take the initiative and have a success, (central office and the school board) will leave you alone, even if they don't agree with the way you're doing things.'' Canton's ambitious school improvement efforts have been funded by the Carnegie Corporation and the Maryland State Department of Education. The formation of a School Improvement Team in 1991 kicked off the change efforts. Spilman is a member, but not chairman, of the 28-member team which includes teachers, administrators, parents, and community representatives.
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Extractions: As the asset movement has gained momentum nationwide, the need has grown to demonstrate the positive impacts of the assets on youth. The OMNI Institute, as part of their two-year evaluation of the asset movement in Colorado, developed a focus group study to explore the central questions around the impact of an asset-building organization on how youth are engaged. As a result of their analysis they identified two major domains of positive change for youth participating in asset-building efforts. OMNI's analysis of youth focus group data uncovered two main domains of positive change for youth participating in asset-building efforts.
Extractions: Popular Young Adult author Lurlene McDaniel will be visiting our students on Wednesday, April 16. Her first visit to AMS was 16 years ago when an AMS student wrote her a letter, and she has been back every three years since. Ms. McDaniel's popularity has grown tremendously in those sixteen years, and it's a great honor that she thinks enough of us to keep coming back! Ms. McDaniel will be speaking to the entire middle school at 8:30 that morning, and will be signing books throughout the day. We'll have several titles for sale for those who are interested. Come and meet Ms. McDaniel! Pictured above: Heidi McCorkle an Robert Pratt represented AMS in the Region 1 Spelling Bee competition held February 20, at North Metro Tech in Acworth. Robert Pratt won 1st place, out-spelling 29 other competitors from the individual schools inRegion 1. As Region 1 Champion, Robert qualified to represent Region 1 in the Bartow County Spelling Bee. Robert was 1 of 11 excellent spellers to compete. Although Robert did not come home as Bartow County champion, he represented Adairsville Middle School with style. Contratulations, Robert. We are proud of you!
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Extractions: Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge to Deliver Keynote Address at Commencement Greenhouse Attracts First Company; Gets $33.33 Million in State Funding Boyarski Named New Head of Design School; Buchanan Credited for Restructuring Curriculum Prestigious Seminar for Women Held at Business School ... SCS Honors Best and Brightest at Annual Awards Ceremony CFA Honors "Exceptional Staff Who Help Make College a Success" Nierenberg Chair of Design Plans to Continue Ties with Design School NCAA Champ Leads Swimming Team to Best National Finish College of Fine Arts (CFA) Dean Martin Prekop presented awards to Karen Ferguson, Amy Stabenow, Dana Martinelli and Christian "Todd" Brown at CFA's annual staff awards ceremony last month. Prekop described the program as a celebration of "exceptional staff members, as well as all of the staff contributions that have helped to make the college a success." Awards were given for Excellence in Job Performance, Citizenship and Innovation. A Rookie Award was also presented. Winners received a cash award and certificate.
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