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ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 6, 2015

Shout Out to Southern High FFA National Champions

Congratulations to Haley Fogleman, Davis Kappert, Carly Fuller and Jacob Ray! These four amazing Southern Alamance High School FFA students are the 2015 National Nursery/Landscape National Champions! Haley, Davis, Carly and Jacob have worked extremely hard to achieve this honor. They were in Louisville, KY last week at the 88th National FFA Convention competing. Congratulations to FFA advisor and team coach Mr.Nick Anders for his hard work and dedication in helping the students achieve this award! Pictured at right: L to R: Mr. Anders, Jacob Ray, Davis Kappert, Carly Fuller and Haley Fogleman In addition, Davis earned first place high individual honors, Carly earned second place high individual honors and Jacob Ray earned 7th place high individual honors in the competition. Carly Fuller and Davis Kappert are two time FFA National Champs!! The two of them were on the 2014 Floriculture National Championship Team! Davis is a college freshman at NCSU and Carly is at UNC-CH. The National FFA Nursery/Landscape CDE is a competitive event in which FFA members test their knowledge and skills in nursery practices and landscaping. Participants must complete a general knowledge exam testing horticultural principles including plant anatomy, production, marketing, turf, landscape design and maintenance. Each participant must also complete practicums involving a landscape estimating, plant propagation or potting, identification of plants, disorders and equipment. Top Placing Teams: 1st Place - Southern Alamance High School FFA, North Carolina 2nd Place - Sonoraville FFA, Georgia 3rd Place - Louisburg FFA, Kansas 4th Place - Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted FFA, Minnesota


Shout Out from Graham and Broadview Middle Congratulations to Rebekah Davis, AIG Facilitator at Graham and Broadview Middle! Ms. Davis has been selected for the Innovative Blended Professional Learning Program called the Digital Leaders Coaches Network (DLCN) sponsored by the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation from NC State University. This year’s cohort of DLCN began Oct. 14, 2015.

Development supported by Project Tomorrow and with continuing support and partnership from the North Carolina Technology in Education Society (NCTIES), the DLCN was developed to assist schools and districts in the process of digital learning transitions, and to cultivate local capacity by providing support to those in coaching roles, as coaches are essential to leading and supporting student-centered digital learning and teaching. Ms. Davis was selected for this unique opportunity, and will join 62 other digital learning leaders from across North Carolina for the next eight months. Along with her new network of peers, she will receive ongoing, job-embedded professional learning opportunities to build her capacity in digital and personalized learning. She will also acquire strategies and knowledge related to best practices in leadership and supporting stakeholders at Graham and Broadview Middle Schools. Congratulations!

Below is a photo of Ms. Davis helping with Ms. Stuckey’s class at Graham Middle

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Shout Out from Hawfields Middle Matt Haley, Assistant Principal

Our school behavior recording at HMS is set up through Google forms and Bain Heffner has been instrumental in assisting us with scripts that provide alerts on student progress. The data collected informs us how to better serve our students to maximize every child’s potential. We appreciate Bain!

Shout Out to Cummings High Times-News Check out the great story in the Sunday, November 1 edition of Times-News about the Cavaliers’ rigorous 3-D printing project in Ms. Sue Page’s class! http://www.thetimesnews.com/article/20151031/NEWS/151039770

http://www.thetimesnews.com/article/20151031/NEWS/151039770

http://www.thetimesnews.com/article/20151031/NEWS/151039770


Shout Out from Haw River Elementary Julie Bauerband Haw River Elementary celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month by having three different contests. Each classroom was assigned a Hispanic country to represent on their door or window. David Garzon and Adriana Alvarez, Spanish interpreters, were judges for the best door display. Pictured at right: Bolivia door Pictured below: El Salvador window display


All students were encouraged to dress up in Hispanic traditional outfits or in sports jerseys of their favorite team. The class with the most participants won a fiesta! Our third event was a Hispanic Heritage Family Poster contest. Students worked with family members to show us about their culture and celebrations.

Shout Out from B E Jordan Elementary James Schuler, Technology Teacher & Webmaster

On Friday, October 30 we were pleased to welcome guest readers from Kohl's Department Store.

They participated in a program called "Kohl's Cares".

This program allows Kohl's to donate books, money and time to volunteer at schools, clubs and other organizations in our community.


During the day, these employees visited classrooms as guest readers in conjunction with our Red Ribbon Week event, "It Takes Character to Say No to Drugs."

Thank you Kohl's for supporting BEJ!


Shout Out from Elon Elementary Cheryl Howe

On Friday, October 30th, Elon Elementary celebrated our annual Book Character Parade! Our students celebrate by dressing up as our favorite book character and sharing a book about that character. Our staff dresses up as their favorite characters too! We had Chinese dragons, roller coaster grannies, cowgirls and many other characters were brought to life. It is an event that students and staff really enjoy!


What a great time!


Shout Out from Andrews Elementary Maiya Howard

Our Journalism Team had the opportunity to interview Dr. Harrison this week, and meet with a reporter who works with the Times News. They all had so much to say: "It was really cool to meet with an actual journalist." -Jayla "It was really amazing to know that we are getting a head start at journalism." -Jennifer "I think this experience will help us grow in our writing." -Meghan "I think that this experience will help bring out a little of our personality in our writing." -Journee

We are all very appreciative to both visitors for taking time out of their day, to come hang out with us!


Shout Out from Haw River Elementary Erica Trollinger

After a lot of hard work on pumpkins and a Red Ribbon week of fun here at Haw River...we raised $451.84 for United Way!! The kids were super excited about the pumpkins and there was a lot of creativity put into them by the teachers, with the ice cream cone winning!! Congratulations to our 5th grade teachers who will have breakfast provided for them as well as a small treat for the kids!! Excited to be a part of a wonderful Team!!


Check out the winning entry, the amazing ice cream cone pumpkin design!


Shout Out from CTE Lindsey Criss, Special Populations Coordinator

Congratulations to CTE Special Populations Teachers of the Month! We have two special teachers to highlight this week as CTE Special Populations Teachers of the Month. Shamonna Thomas of Graham High School and Debora McLendon of Ray Street Academy are both being recognized for their superior work with Special Populations students within their classrooms. ABSS Career and Technical Education is proud to have these great teachers! Congratulations Shamonna and Debora!

Pictured above: Shamonna Thomas of GHS Pictured at right: Debora McLendon of RSA

Shout Out from E. M. Yoder Elementary Beth Curasi, Academic Coach

The DREAM Team at Eastern High School visits E.M. Yoder!

The students from the DREAM Team (Daring to Role Model Excellence as Athlete Mentors) at Eastern High School spent a few hours visiting classrooms to talk with students at E.M. Yoder about making the right choices. They discussed with students the importance of maintaining good grades in order to not only hold themselves to high standards to be successful in life but also to participate in sports in middle and high school. The high school students did a fabulous job making their visit a very interactive one for our children at E.M. Yoder. Kagan exercises were used with some groups of students as a way to allow students to share their thoughts with others, and skits were used to demonstrate the right and wrong way to make decisions.

E.M. Yoder feels fortunate to have the partnership that we have with Eastern High School. Patrick Stokes is the DREAM Team advisor at the high school.


E.M. Yoder feels fortunate

to have the partnership

that we have with Eastern

High School!

Patrick Stokes is the

DREAM Team advisor at

the high school.


Thanks, Eastern Eagles!


Shout Out from Woodlawn Middle Heather Walker EHS Women’s Track Coach

The Woodlawn Middle Run Club finished up their club season with a 2 mile race last Saturday morning. This is the first Run Club at Middle School and these young adults have been training for the past 8 weeks! Advisers are Alarie Watson, Julie Rivers, and me.

Future track stars for Eastern High!


Shout Out from Graham High Morgan Shearon, GHS Theatre Director

Graham High School Presents Eurydice By Sarah Ruhl. This is a play that focuses on the retelling of the myth of Orpheus from the perspective of Eurydice, his wife. The story focuses on Eurydice's choice to return to earth with Orpheus or to stay in the underworld with her father, what will she choose?" English teachers and other theatre teachers! This is a great opportunity to offer extra credit for attending and have students compare and contrast the myth with this adaptation of the play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurydice


Shout Out from Williams High John Osborne and Jennifer Hogg AU Classroom

We are working on several projects to raise funds for our classroom, all created by our students! These handcrafted items are available for sale and all monies are deposited into the Williams High School Bulldogs United School Account, which is a branch club of Project Unify, and is managed by our school's bookkeeper. Throughout the year, we take life and social skill trips within the community and buy supplies for our classroom that are not provided by the school system.

Get some of your holiday shopping all done in one place! Go Bulldogs!

Contacts for purchase:

[email protected] or [email protected]

Christmas Ornament Balls $3

Car First Aid Kits: $5.00 We used recycled VHS tape cases. Each kit has bandages, ointment, tape...items you would find in a travel kit!

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Handcrafted Cards made by our student artists $2

Bow Ties: $5.00 These bow ties were made from recycled neck ties!


Shout Out to Southern High Alamance Citizens for Education The Crackens rocked the annual Education Summit hosted by Alamance Citizens for Education on Wednesday, November 4th! The 1960s era social studies class students in Mr. Matthew McCracken’s class performed 4 1960s classics and received a standing ovation for their outstanding gig. The next performances of The Crackens will be Wednesday, November 18th during 2nd and 4th block. At this performance, the band will be performing songs from the last half of the 1960s.

The Crackens band members, Jordan Mahan Joshua Mahan Prescott Kirkpatrick Jace Matthews and Grant Stainback, performed classics from the Beatles, Ben E. King and The Who.


Shout Out to Cox Toyota

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Shout Out to Eastern High Kate Cushman, School Counselor

In preparation for College Application Week, EAHS welcomed a team from College Foundation North Carolina to campus. Eastern seniors attended two workshops presented by CFNC focusing on planning for and paying for college. 15 students and 10 faculty members also had the opportunity to participate in focus groups discussing the college application process and how to encourage a college going culture. In all, over 250 students and staff took part in this event!


Shout Out from Grove Park Elementary Shadonna Gunn, Principal

This week, Grove Park hosted its annual Donuts for Dads event! It was amazing to see all of dads, uncles, grandpas, cousins, neighbors, and friends come out to support our students. We coupled it with Book Fair and Awards Day this year and ALL were packed! We love having such strong parental engagement and look forward to the great things that will come as they continue to support our efforts. Thank you to our PTA, staff, and students for encouraging the men in our lives to get involved!!!


Shout Out to E. M. Holt Elementary Elicia Limer, Assistant Principal

Thank you to all of our staff who participated in Hooray for Reading Day at Holt. You made it a success!! Our students had a blast!!! EM Holt wants to send a Shout Out to Karon Parker for all of her work in organizing the Hooray for Reading Day!!


Shout Out to A-B Early College Bonnie Roane, Principal

Students Mirakel Davis and Mariana Suarez-Vega knew that attending Early College would be challenging. They decided that creating a study group would be a help to students and found a teacher, Mrs. McNeil, who was willing to be their group's adviser. The group meets on Wednesday afternoons after school and is open to all Early College students who want to attend.

Hats off to these two students for taking the initiative to create this support!

Shout Out from Western High Samantha Seligman, School Counselor

This week Western High Seniors have worked with the counseling staff during CFNC's Free Application Week. With many community colleges and private schools represented, it gave students an opportunity to sit down and ask questions about their application.


During this time, our students completed more than 120 applications through CFNC's website, requested over 300 transcripts via Naviance, and saved $3,000! The Warriors are off to a great start in pursuing their future goals!

Shout Out from Southern Middle Sandra Johnson, AYLA Advisor

Our Southern Middle Alamance Youth Leadership Academy group (AYLA) sponsored a canned food drive over the last three weeks. We collected 2640 canned goods which is about 1200 pounds of food.! On Thursday, Nov. 5th we took it to Southern Alamance Family Empowerment (S.A. F.E) a food pantry in our school district. The AYLA students encouraged our school to donate and then emptied our many boxes and stocked the shelves to overflowing.


Shout Out to Broadview Middle Lynell Brown

Our 6th grade participated in an activity to promote the idea of" No Bullying"... because people aren’t like us. or because we don’t know others well or because we never met them or even because we are different and don’t understand these differences between people.

So, in an effort to purge bullying, picking, discrimination, we "Mixed it Up" at lunch!

At lunch, we sat with other classmates that we normally don't sit with or even know so we could get to know someone different from us, and meet some potentially new friends.


Monica Sylvestre, School Counselor for Broadview shouted: “What a fabulous activity!!!!!! This is a great example of teachers being proactive and teaching how to be respectful. We need to teach good character just as we teach math and reading and teachers can really make the difference with these kinds of activities.

WAY TO GO 6TH GRADE!”

How cool !!

#Bobcatpride


Shout Out to Community Business Partners

Seven local businesses have formed a consortium named Alamance CAP (Career Accelerator Program) to develop 4-year internship opportunities for qualified students in the rapidly-growing field of Mechatronics. In conjunction with Alamance Community College, the businesses will pay interns to work at their companies and pay for their 2-year college tuition at ACC. The first student/parent interest meeting was held in the Eastern High media center on Tuesday, Nov. 3rd with an overflow crowd of interested students and their parents. GKN representative Barbara Gorman and Technical Precision Plastics representative Penny Rudd outlined the main points of the apprenticeship program and let families know that the businesses will hold open houses in a few weeks so students can visit to see what a future career could be like. 3 more district-wide student/parent interest meetings are scheduled during the next 2 weeks for any interested high school juniors and seniors and their parents to find out more about this program:

Tuesday, Nov 10 at Williams High 6 p.m. in the auditorium Thursday, Nov. 12 at Southern High 6 p.m. in the media center Monday, Nov.16 at Western High 6 p.m. in the media center


Shout Out to ABSS Teacher of the Year Kevin Scharen

Congratulations to Kevin Scharen, ABSS Teacher of the Year!

On Friday, October 30th, Mr. Scharen was named as one of two finalists for Region 5 Piedmont Triad Teacher of the Year!

Mr. Scharen wowed the crowd at this week’s Education Summit sponsored by Alamance Citizens for Education.

Shout Out from Western Middle Melaine Rickard, AIG

Andrew and Megan Miller, former Western Middle students, visited our school to speak to students about the benefits of participating in the science fair! Andrew shared with us his wind turbine blade that he designed and tested as part of his project. Megan shared her experiences in China where she visited as an 2015 North Carolina Science, Math Technology Education Center (SMT) Scholar!


Shout Out #2 to Western Middle Paige Ysteboe, Media Specialist

Makerspace Mania at Western Middle

Students at Western Middle pack the media center each morning and Wednesday afternoons to participate in maker projects that range from programming Sphero robotics and building paper roller coasters to weaving and crafting with Perler beads!

We were also treated to a lunch and learn featuring

Bennett Harris of the Alamance Maker’s Guild. Mr.

Harris shared with us about his group’s projects and

demonstrated how his 3D printer works!


November Challenge:

What are you going to do in honor of World Kindness Day next Friday?

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