Education
11-21 Education in brief
EDMOND — Students raise money for trip to NYC
More than 40 students from Sequoyah Middle School, North High School and UCO’s new youth choir are raising money to travel to New York City in May and sing in Carnegie Hall.
Community fundraisers include a “gift wrapping marathon” set for Dec. 13 and “caroling for cash” scheduled the week of Dec. 14.
A performance with Edmond Community Choir is scheduled Dec. 5 at the First Christian Church in Edmond.
Edmond Kumon students donate 2,000 books to charity
Kumon Math and Reading Center students of Edmond recently donated more than 2,000 books to Citizens Caring for Children. This is the largest donation in Kumon North America’s book drive history and benefits the local United Way Agency that supports children entering the foster care system.
“Our book drive educated students about the importance of helping children in our community,” said RussAnn Anderson, director, Kumon Math and Reading Center of Edmond. “At Kumon, we believe all children have unlimited potential, and by giving a gift of a book, we hope to bring joy to a child in transition.”
In honor of National Book Month, Edmond Kumon students and staff organized a month-long book drive in October. Students and staff divided into teams to see who could donate the most books. The Kumon staff even started a city-wide scavenger hunt to buy books from multiple book stores.
Many of the books donated were from Kumon’s Recommended Reading List, a 280-title book list that acts as a “go-to” guide for parents and is designed specifically to cultivate a love of reading and profound understanding of the English language in children. At least a third of the books on the Recommended Reading List have won literary awards such as the Newbery, Pulitzer Prize, Caldecott and the National Book Awards, presented by the National Book Foundation.
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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.
Matthew Stewart and Jing Zhang were recognized in November. -
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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