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Caroline Manning Third-grade teacher
Brennen Elementary School
This WeekMay 4, 2016 Volume 29, No. 21
Richland One is pleased to announce the finalists for 2016-2017 Teacher of the Year and Classified Employee of the Year. The re-cipients of these two prestigious honors will be announced at Celebration 2016, the district’s employee recognition banquet, on May 19 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.
Richland One Teacher of the Year nominees submit applications based upon the state Teacher of the Year application packet. A district committee selects the five highest-scoring candidates as finalists. The five finalists are interviewed by the selection com-mittee members who also view videos of the teachers at work in their classrooms. Richland One’s Teacher of the Year represents the district in the state competition.
The Classified Employee of the Year award is open to all classified employees and goes to an individual who works full-time or part-time in any capacity in a classified position. A district committee reviews the nominations and selects the finalists. The finalists are judged during an interview session and on-the-job observations at their work sites.
Congratulations to this year’s Teacher of the Year and Classified Employee of the Year finalists!
Alison Espinosa Mathematics teacher
A.C. Flora High School
Danielle Odom English teacher
Hand Middle School
Michelle Allen English teacher
Dreher High School
Andrea Lance Social studies teacher
Crayton Middle School
2016-17 Richland One Teacher of the Year Finalists
• MichelleAllen – English teacher, Dreher High School• AlisonEspinosa – Mathematics teacher, A.C. Flora High School• AndreaLance – Social studies teacher, Crayton Middle School• CarolineManning – Third-grade teacher, Brennen Elementary
School• DanielleOdom – English teacher, Hand Middle School
2016-17 Richland One Classified Employee of the Year Finalists
• MaxcineBowman–School nurse, W.J. Keenan High School• Constance Daniels – Instructional assistant, Heyward Career
and Technology Center• CharmainePrimus–Social worker, W.G. Sanders Middle School• ChristenaReed–Principal’s secretary, Hopkins Middle School• KimberlySmith–Instructional assistant, Dreher High School• LeslieWalker–Secretary/bookkeeper, Hand Middle School
District announces finalists for Teacher of the Year, Classified Employee of the Year
Maxcine Bowman School nurse
W.J. Keenan High School
Leslie Walker Secretary/bookkeeper
Hand Middle School
Charmaine Primus Social worker
W.G. Sanders Middle School
Constance Daniels Instructional assistant,
Heyward Career and Technology Center
Kimberly Smith Instructional assistant
Dreher High School
Christena Reed Principal’s secretary
Hopkins Middle School
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May 2-6Teacher Appreciation Week (May 3 – National Teacher Day) – Thank you to all of our outstanding teachers in Richland One for educating and inspiring our 24,000 students every day!
National School Nutrition Employee Week – From preparing healthy meals for our students and adhering to strict nutrition standards to navigating student food allergies and offering ser-vice with a smile …. thank you to our Nutrition Services staff in Richland One for everything they do to feed our students!
May 5Superintendent’s School Improvement Council, Volunteer and Partner Awards Program, St. Andrews Middle School auditorium, 6:00 p.m.
May 7W.J. Keenan High School will hold a mattress fundraiser from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. in the school’s gym. Name-brand mattresses will be available for purchase for 30-60 percent off retail pricing. Ma-jor credit cards will be accepted. Delivery will be available. Prof-its from every mattress sold will go directly to support Keenan’s athletics programs. Contact Coach Dennis Shoemaker at [email protected] if you need additional information.
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Conference presenter proposalsRichland One’s 2016 Closing the Achievement Gap Conference will be
held Friday, October 14. Teacher-presenter proposals will be accepted by the Closing the Achievement Gap Conference Steering Commit-tee from May 9 through June 30. Go to tinyurl.com/r1cag2016 for the presenter proposal form. If you need additional information, contact Tammy Moye Johnson, chairperson, at [email protected] or 400-1669.
Richland Recycles DayRichland Recycles Day will be held Saturday, May 14 from 8:00 a.m.
– 4:00 p.m. at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds. This is a great op-portunity for Richland County residents to dispose of all types of items that are not collected curbside and should not go in the trash, such as household chemicals, electronics, tires and cooking oil. The event also will offer paper shredding. For a list of items accepted at this major re-cycling event, go to www.rcgov.us/richlandrecycles.
Reunion breakfastA reunion breakfast for all administrators, faculty and staff who
worked at the former Olympia Treatment Center from 1988-1999 will be held May 21 at 10:00 a.m. at Golden Corral on Forest Drive. For more information, contact Delores Goodwin at 695-5717.
Classroom Innovation Teacher GrantsRichland One is accepting applications for the district’s fall 2016 Class-
room Innovation Teacher Grants. The $500 grants are designed to al-low teachers to implement innovative educational projects that will enhance their classroom instruction. All Richland One teachers are eli-gible to apply for the grants. Applications may be downloaded from the Employee Intranet at www.r1intranet.org.
Grant applications are due by 5:00 p.m. Thursday, June 23. Completed applications should be sent to Karen York in the Office of Communica-tions (mail code 550), located on the second floor of the Stevenson Ad-ministration Building. Contact Karen York at [email protected] or Colette Dryden in Curriculum and Instruction at [email protected] for more information.
For Your Information
The Richland One Office of Communications Team won nine awards for excellence in school public relations through the 2016 Rewards for Excellence Program sponsored by the South Carolina chapter of the National School Public Relations Association (SC/NSPRA). The Com-munications Team won awards in the following categories: newslet-ter, photography, public service announcement (PSA), special purpose publication and television programming. The awards were presented during a luncheon held April 29 at the South Carolina State Museum. Shown are (from left) KarenYork, director of communications; MitchWyatt, Web administrator; and Tristan Nall and Chrystal Burgess,broadcast communications specialists. Not pictured are EdithCaudle,public information manager, and RachelPhelps, executive assistant.
News & Notes
District launches Returning Student Enrollment Verification process
This month, parents of students who are currently enrolled in Richland One and will be returning to a Richland One school for the 2016-2017 school year need to complete the new online en-rollment verification form.
Parents of currently enrolled/returning students can access the link to the enrollment verification form through the PowerSchool Parent Portal, an online school-to-home communication system for parents to check grades, attendance, etc.
A link to the Parent Portal can be found on the district’s website, www.richlandone.org, or go to https://powerschool.richlandone.org/public/. Parents should contact their child’s school to get de-tails about setting up a Parent Portal account. The district is asking parents of currently enrolled/returning students to complete the enrollment verification form by May 31.
The new online verification process provides parents with a quick and easy way to update their address, phone number and other in-formation, including emergency contacts. Parents also will be able to complete the forms for bus transportation and student medical information. The verification process form can be completed us-ing a computer, tablet or smartphone with Internet access. District schools and the Registrar’s Office will make computers available for parents and guardians without computers or Internet access.