Students in the Spotlight
Congratulations to the following Sullivan County students for their achievements:
Angel Welch
Central High School
State CTE Student Officer
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Colonial Heights Middle School Odyssey of the Mind Teams 
Both CHMS teams won 1st place in the State in their Problem Divisions. The OM students who competed are Emily Beversdorf, Morgan Burke, Ford Crum, Tyler Hudson, Valerie Lick,
Ben Peters, Clara Roller, Cassie Rose, James Wagner, Garrett Ward, Grant Wilmoth, and
Drew Whitinger.
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Megan Turner
Bluff City Middle School
3rd Place winner in the Regional Spelling Bee
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Sullivan South JROTC Cadets Zach Bryson, Wes Mann, and Kayla Hobbs have soloed this year as part of the Flight Foundation program. Jacob Lockhart is currently in solo training and has been awarded for academic excellence. In the last ten years, SSHS cadets have been awarded $5000 for academic excellence. For the sixth year, the SSHS ROTC took first place in the Rehobeth Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery Challenge.
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Sullivan North
Culinary Arts Students
Dylan Barton, Miranda Heck and Megan Schwarz
won first place in the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America state-wide competition in Nashville at the Art Institute. They are now eligible to compete at the national level in Orlando, FL. |
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| Parents,
Our students have just completed a busy week of TCAP and EOC exams. We appreciate all the hard work of students, parents, teachers, and everyone involved in our schools! As we near the end of our 2011-2012 school year, students will continue learning and start looking toward next year. Some upcoming dates to consider:
May 14 - Inservice Day (students do not attend)
May 17 - Graduation at Sullivan Central and Sullivan East
May 18 - Graduation at Sullivan North and Sullivan South
May 24 - Student's Last Day (1/2 Day)
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Innovation Academy of Northeast Tennessee - STEM Platform Update
The Governing Board officially named the STEM platform school "Innovation Academy of Northeast Tennessee." A logo and website are currently under development. Information will be sent out next week via email and flyers explaining the concept of the school, conveying parent information meeting dates, and application information.
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| Cedar Grove Elementary Open House
Cedar Grove Elementary School will be hosting a community open house on Saturday, May 5, 2012 from 1 - 4p.m. Community members are encouraged to attend this celebration of an outstanding school. Memorabilia will be on display throughout the school and refreshments will be served in the cafeteria.
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Parenting With Less Stress
Sullivan County School's Special Education Department will be conducting a parent meeting on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Department of Education Building, 154 Blountville Bypass, Blountville, TN in the downstairs board room. The topic is "Parenting with Less Stress: Understanding Child Behaviors and Techniques for Improving Negative Behaviors". Teresa Neal, M.Ed., Sullivan County School's Behavior Interventionist, will be conducting the meeting.
For more information call Debbie Hamilton at 354-1593.
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| STEM Partnerships for Education
Sullivan County Schools, in partnership with Northeast State Community College and area businesses, plans to implement an applied mathematics program founded by Perry Wilson. Wilson demonstrated his "If I Had a Hammer" program at Northeast State Community College on May 3rd. Participants experienced the hands-on, applied approach to learning fractions and measurement.
As part of the program, fifth grade students are engaged in a 2-hour construction and learning session that results in a free-standing 8' x 11' modular house, complete with windows, roof, and door. While building the house, students move from construction phases to short group activities and demonstrations designed to reinforce the academic and real-world lessons incorporated in the build. The house can then be taken down and rebuilt by other classes. The follow-up curriculum then helps students make real-world connections to abstract mathematical concepts.
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Perry Wilson, Founder, If I Had a Hammer; Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey; Tonya Foreman, Eastman Chemical Company; Matt DeLozier, Northeast State Community College; Sandy Watkins, Sullivan County Schools STEM; Dr. Jubal Yennie, Sullivan County Director of Schools |
More information on the "If I Had a Hammer" program can be found here.
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Read for My School Campaign
By reading from the Pearson Foundation's digital libraries, Holston Elementary earned 111 books to add to their media center and classroom libraries.
The Pearson Foundation provides a free, online, digital library at www.wegivebooks.org. Every time a book is read, We Give Books donates a book to a partner organization. Teachers can also find daily activities to use with students to build and improve literacy skills.
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Cougar Courage 3K Race
The Cougar Courage 3k will be held on May 12, 2012 at 9:00 a.m.. Early registration available until Saturday, May 5th. Please encourage your students to participate as well. The pricing has been set up to allow as many as possible to participate. There will be a new special award for winners in each age group!
For more information contact:
Ruth Leonard
ruth.leonard@sullivank12.net (423)354-1200
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| TCAP and EOCs in Final Grade Calculations
Beginning this school year, the state of Tennessee is requiring that TCAP scores be incorporated into the second semester (spring) final grade for the subjects of mathematics, reading/language arts, science and social studies. The student's TCAP score will comprise 15% of the final second semester grade. For every student in grades 3 -5, the Tennessee Department of Education will calculate the TCAP conversion on a 1-100 scoring range and submit a score to the district for each of the content areas.
For high school students, End of Course (EOC) exams count 12.5% of the student's final grade in the course.
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