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Booker Middle musician is Teacher of the Year | | |
IN TUNE WITH TEACHERS: In his acceptance speech as the the district's Teacher of the Year, Booker Middle School music teacher Victor Fernandez told his colleagues that "the work you do every day...is the most important job in all the world." Photo courtesy Prestige Portraits by Lifetouch.
SARASOTA - Victor Fernandez, a music teacher and orchestra director at Booker Middle School in Sarasota, was named the Teacher of the Year for the Sarasota County School District in a ceremony held Jan. 26 at the Hyatt Regency Sarasota.
Fernandez will represent the school district at the Florida Department of Education-Macy's Teacher of the Year gala in July and serve as the community spokesperson for the teaching profession throughout the 2012-2013 academic year. He was selected from three finalists, who also included Jessica Gardner of Gocio Elementary School and Danielle Fisher Tanaka of Venice High School. Read more...
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Students meet former first lady Laura Bush | | |
STUDENT SUMMIT WITH MRS. BUSH: North Port High student Tedra Mason, left, and Sarasota High student Juleah Aiken, right, meet former first lady Laura Bush Jan. 11 at the Van Wezel Hall in Sarasota. The Q&A session with 17 students was part of the Ringling College Library Association Town Hall Scholars Program. Photo courtesy Robert Pope Photography and the RCLA.
SARASOTA - Students from Booker, Riverview, North Port, Sarasota, Suncoast Polytechnical and Venice high schools, Sarasota Military Academy, as well as private schools Cardinal Mooney and The Out-of-Door Academy, have been selected as Town Hall Scholars for 2012, the third year of the program.
Through the generosity of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County and the Ringling College Library Association, approximately 100 students will have the opportunity to attend the Ringling College Library Association Town Hall Lecture Series at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, meet the speakers and ask them questions. This year's lecturers are former first lady Laura Bush, economists Roland Fryer and Steven Levitt, General Stanley McChrystal and TV commentator Bill O'Reilly.
Each high school senior who attends the lectures is eligible to compete for one of 15 $2,000 Town Hall Scholarships, funded by the Rosemary and Lou Oberndorf Town Hall Scholarship Fund in partnership with the Community Foundation and the RCLA.
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Grant helps train students and staff in CPR | | |
HANDS-ON LESSON: Tylyn Langieri, a sixth-grade student in the Venice Middle Young Marines Program, learns cardio-pulmonary resuscitation during a CPR Anytime class. Master Sgt. John Abbot, VMYM program commander, helps guide her in the lesson.
SARASOTA COUNTY - Nearly 400 students and staff at several local middle and high schools and departments in the Sarasota County School District have learned cardio-pulmonary resuscitation through a program known as CPR Anytime, and more are being trained every month. The project is being made possible with a $15,000 grant to the school district from the American Heart Association.
The district has received 600 Family & Friends CPR Anytime kits as part of the grant. The kits allow an entire class to quickly be trained in CPR and ensure consistent training across schools. Students and staff watch a video, then instructors help them practice CPR on mannequins provided in the kits. The program has provided training at Booker Middle, Venice Middle, the Student Leadership Academy, Booker High and Sarasota High, and will train students and staff at Suncoast Polytechnical High School in March. Read more...
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'Green' tour set for Atwater Elementary | | |
POWER TO THE PUPILS: Students from Julie Eidson's third-grade class at Atwater Elementary School check out the school's 10kw solar array, one of the many "green" features of the LEED Silver-certified campus. The local chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council will give a tour of Atwater Feb. 16.
NORTH PORT - The Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council will celebrate the "green" features of Atwater Elementary School in North Port at an educational presentation and tour of the school from 6-7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 16. Atwater is the second LEED-certified public school building in Sarasota County. LEED, a designation of the USGBC, stands for Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design. Atwater is LEED Silver-certified, as is Woodland Middle School, also in North Port. The meeting and tour, which will include an exploration of the school's energy-saving, "green" LEED features, will begin in the school's media center (Building 1). The cost of attending the presentation and tour is $10 for USGBC members, $15 for non-members and $5 for students. Registration may be submitted online at www.sustainabletampabay.com or by registering at the school before the meeting, starting at 5:30 p.m. Read more... |
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Sarasota County Schools News Briefs
In January the Florida Department of Education issued the first numerical ranking of school districts in the state, ranked by overall student achievement on FCAT tests, annual learning gains among all students and annual gains among the lowest-performing students. The Sarasota County School District was ranked fourth highest among the state's 67 county-wide school districts. Schools also were ranked; among the highest-ranked in their categories were Pine View School, Laurel Nokomis School, Suncoast Polytechnical High School, Sarasota School of Arts & Sciences and Sarasota Middle School. Read more...
Alta Vista Elementary School will rededicate the restored 1967 Veterans Memorial in front of the school at 9:30 a.m., Friday, Feb. 17. The restoration was spearheaded by Athanasio Efthimiades, a junior at Suncoast Polytechnical High School and a member of Boy Scout Troop 895. Read more...
The final School Board-approved calendars for school years 2012-13 and 2013-14 are available by clicking on the links in this sentence and on the district website.
The School Board of Sarasota County prohibits discrimination in its educational programs, services or activities, or employment conditions or practices. To read the full text of the School Board's nondiscrimination statement, click here.
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