Education
Local educators explore Arkansas River
Melissa Corbet of Edmond joined more than 20 educators from across the state for a week-long field expedition exploring water conservation and other current issues affecting the Arkansas River.
These teachers were selected to take part in a professional development institute called “GeoTripping on the Arkansas River,” funded by the Oklahoma Geography Education Fund and hosted by the Oklahoma Alliance for Geographic Education, an educational outreach organization housed at the University of Oklahoma.
From June 7–14, 22 Oklahoma teachers explored the hydrologic, environmental and cultural issues impacting the Arkansas River.
Doug Hurt, assistant professor in the Department of History and Geography at the University of Central Oklahoma, joined the teachers as an institute leader.
Participants began their expedition at the University of Oklahoma in Norman and continued to the headwaters of the Arkansas River by way of Kaw Lake in Oklahoma; Garden City, Kansas; as well as Pueblo, Buena Vista and Leadville, Colo.
Participants had direct interactions with Army Corps of Engineers staff, conservation district managers and United States Geological Survey experts. Upon completion of the institute, participants created lesson plans and curriculum for classroom use.
“These teachers will go into the local communities to learn first hand about water’s relationship to other natural resources and its importance to the culture and environment of every landscape it touches,” said Gary Gress, OKAGE coordinator and institute director.
“Our goal is to give our participants new insight in how to integrate geography and environmental education into their curriculum, so that they can translate that back to their students and other educators.”
More information about OKAGE is available www.okageweb.org.
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Summit puts finishing touches on new construction
Summit Middle School students settled into their new surroundings the first day of school in the fall, and this week finishing touches are being added to the Fine Arts classrooms of the new wing.
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Schools set makeup dates for snow days
Edmond Public Schools will make up the two additional snow days taken this week by eliminating a teacher in-service day scheduled for Feb. 15, and tacking on one extra day to the end of the school year.
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School nutrition pilot program to expand
The scorecard is in and Edmond Public Schools Child Nutrition pilot program earned high marks.
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Edmond joins ‘Race to the Top’
The Edmond Public School District is joining other districts across the state in pursuing a Race to the Top federal discretionary grant.
The U.S. Department of Education’s voluntary grant competition between the states is designed to foster education, innovation and reform that will lead to dramatic gains in student achievement. Nationally there is $4.5 billion available for this program, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality 2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook. -
UCO Educators’ Leadership Academy set to begin
The University of Central Oklahoma-based Educators’ Leadership Academy is accepting applications for it’s 2010-11 academies designed for education professionals in Oklahoma.
ELA customizes each academy for the specialized needs of education professionals, and currently offers a Combination Academy for K-12, CareerTech and Higher Education Administrators, a Professors Academy, a Principals Academy, a Teachers Academy and a Higher Education Department Chair Academy. -
1-30 Calendar: Edmond schools
Memorial High School
Sunday
5-8 p.m.: Baseball Banquet, commons/cafe
Monday
8-9 a.m.: National FCCLA Week, Rooms 225 & 227
9:30-10 a.m.: Freshman Winter Sports Assembly, gym
9:40-10:10 a.m.: Key Club meeting, Room 283 -
1-30 Education: in brief
OSSM recognizes students of the month
Several students from Edmond made the Oklahoma School of Science and Math’s Students of the Month list in recent months.
Junior Grant Schleifer was recognized in October.
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North basketball clinic to benefit BALTO Week
Seventeen years ago, the Edmond North High School Student Council Leadership Class wanted to begin a charity week.
Swine Week at Edmond Memorial High School was already established, and some would argue that North copied their tradition, but the students began BALTO week, a week all their own.
“The name ‘BALTO Week’ is an acronym quite fitting to our school,” said North student Callie Heerwagen. - More Education Headlines
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