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Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools recent-ly went through an external review to be con-sidered for re-accreditation through AdvancED. AdvancED is “a non-profit, non-partisan organi-zation that conducts rigorous, on-site external reviews of Pre-K-12 schools and school systems to ensure that all learners realize their full poten-tial” (www.advanc-ed.org). Districts that receive accreditation must recertify every five years.
The accreditation process is quite extensive and reviews all aspects of a school district which are categorized within three areas: impact of teach-ing and learning, capacity of leadership, and use of resources. While ECPPS will receive a full
report from AdvancED at a later date, the initial exit report was positive and the team has recom-mended us for accreditation.
The AdvancED team was highly complimentary of the district’s strategic planning process and of the intentional efforts to align our practices and policies to fulfill the adopted plan and to drive success for our students. “ECPPS will continue to work toward full implementation of the strategic plan as well as continue the forward momentum of the Learning Focused framework and other initiatives in place as we strive for excellence,” said Superintendent Cartner.
LET’S CONNECT
I cannot begin to express how proud and thankful I am of the hard work of staff and students within this great district. I say often that it is an exciting time to be a part of ECPPS and that is never truer than it is right now.
Our district currently has an incredible for-ward momentum that will result in posi-tive results for children and our commu-nity. We are in full implementation of our Learning Focused framework to redesign how we are teaching and reaching our children. I am confident that this effort will increase student achievement across the district and ensure our students are reaching their full potential academically. We are very focused on teaching and sup-porting our students beyond academics and therefore, have implemented a new character education curriculum this year as well as continued support of positive behavior intervention.
The Elizabeth City Pasquotank Early College preparations are heavily under-way. We anticipate announcing the prin-cipal very soon and having them begin work in early March.
Many, many great things to share and celebrate. ~ Larry W. Cartner, Ed.D.
www.ecpps.k12.nc.us
A BRIGHTER FUTURE BEGINS TODAY
A publication of the ECPPS
Office of Community Schools
Tammy W. Sawyer, Director
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www.ecpps.k12.nc.us
ECPPS NEWS AND INFORMATIONMARCH 2017
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ECPPS Receives Accreditation Recommendation
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Northside Establishes Makerspace
NC Beautiful Grants Awarded
ECPPS Announces Child Care Conference
Coast Guard Teams Up With RRMS STEM
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EMPLOYEES EXCEEDING EXCELLENCE
NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFICATION
RENEWALS
SHEEP-HARNEY ELEMENTARYNC BEAUTIFUL GRANT RECIPIENT
EMPLOYEES EXCEEDING EXCELLENCE
ECPPS SOCIAL WORKERS
HOLIDAY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
“Explore ECPPS” ..... A Tour of SchoolsPasquotank County residents are invited to “Explore ECPPS” .... a wonderful opportunity to tour Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools. As community members, it is important that you have firsthand knowledge of how our schools operate and provide instruction for the children of Pasquotank County.
The tour will be held on Friday, March 10th, beginning with breakfast from 8:00 to 8:30 am at the ECPPS Administrative Offices on Halstead Boulevard. We will begin our tour at 8:30
am. Lunch will be prepared by the amazing cafeteria staff at Northeastern High School. The tour will end around 3:30 pm at the Administrative Offices with a question and answer session.
We will be traveling by bus to visit Weeksville Elementary, River Road Middle, Northeastern High and P.W. Moore Elementary. To register for this opportunity, please visit www.ecpps.k12.nc.us or contact Tammy W. Sawyer, Community Schools Director/PIO at 252.335.2981, ext. 142.
PCHS Science Club Participates in Street Clean-Up
The Science Club at Pasquotank County High School participates annually in the Adopt-a-Street project and picks up trash on Colonial Avenue, from the W.C. Witherspoon Memorial Library to Water Street. The City of Elizabeth City requires clean up a minimum of three times per year, but the PCHS Science Club strives to clean up at least three times per semester. On Saturday, February 11th club members met to pick up trash. Members had a chance to talk with a few community members downtown who expressed their appreciation of seeing young people taking care of the town and out doing good work on a Saturday morning.
ECPPS is pleased to announce our first Child Care Providers Conference, Sharing School Readiness Expectations, on Saturday, March 4th from 8:30 am - 12:30 pm. The conference will be held at Sheep-Harney Elementary School, located at 200 West Elizabeth Street. The conference will include a light breakfast, four sessions sharing school readiness expectations and a Community Resource Panel. The topics of the four sessions include: Language & Literacy, Meaningful Math, Welcome to Pre-K, and Let’s Go to Kindergarten. All child care centers and in home child care provid-ers in Pasquotank County are welcome and invited to send two representatives (director/assistant director, lead teacher, etc.) to the conference. The conference will provide an opportunity for school district staff to network, collaborate and share school readiness expectations with participants to ensure children entering school are prepared socially, behaviorally and academically.
As part of the ECPPS Strategic Plan, the Family and Community Center will focus on developing relationships with child care centers throughout the community. These relationships will provide an avenue to align the instructional practices of the child care providers with the readiness expec-tations for students entering kindergarten. “This conference is an excellent opportunity to establish positive working relationships with the child care providers in our community, building the capacity for our students to enter kindergarten well pre-pared for an engaging learning experience,” said Superintendent Cartner. Please visit www.ecpps.k12.nc.us for conference registration as well as an informational flyer about this event. This information is located under the Family & Community Center’s page which can be accessed by selecting the orange button on the ECPPS website. For questions or information related to the conference, please contact Susan Buckner at 252.331.1699 or [email protected].
Coast Guard Base E-City Teams Up With RRMS for STEMCoast Guard members have been partnering with River Road Middle School this year through a pro-gram called Partners in Education. They have been a tremendous asset to the STEM program at River Road and are extremely dedicated to providing support with the various aviation modules in the STEM curriculum. River Road has been fortunate to have at least six Coast Guard members faithfully report each week to work with students during rocket time.
Students have visited the air station at Coast Guard Base E-City and toured the various planes and facilities. So far this year, the Coast Guard mem-bers have been teaching and instructing students on designing and building model planes. The next project will include the study of hot air balloons.
RRMS is grateful for the support of our Coast Guard and looks forward to continued partnership oppor-tunities. Coast Guard Partners in Education for RRMS STEM this year include: PO David Downham, CPO Orlando Posada, CPO William Restall, CPO Andrew Rosewall, CPO Greg Stewart, and PO Ryan Theobald.
ECPPS Announces Child Care Conference
UPCOMING
FEB/MARFEB 28: Battle of the Books - ECMSFEB 28: An Evening of Jazz - PCHS Band Fundraiser - 6 PMMAR 2: PCHS Dual Enrollment Parent Meeting - 6 PMMAR 4: ECPPS Child Care Providers Conference (Sheep-Harney)MAR 10: ECPPS Tour of SchoolsMAR 13: Family & Community Ctr Nutrition SeriesMAR 16: ECPPS Parent Academy 5:15 pm - PW MooreMAR 20: BOE Committee Mtgs - 2 PMMAR 27: BOE Regular Mtg - 7 PMMAR 31: END OF 3rd NINE WEEKS GRADING PERIOD
MORE INFO ON EVENTS ATwww.ecpps.k12.nc.us
The Elizabeth City Police Department requested the assistance of ECPPS in making Valentine’s Day extra special for 410 nursing home or assisted liv-ing residents this year.
Students enrolled in the After School Care Program made cards for each resident which were deliv-ered by the Police Department on Valentine’s Day. This was an excel-lent opportunity for the police officers and ECPPS students to give back to the community and demonstrate caring.
Pictured: Addison Foster, 4th Grader at Sheep-Harney
AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM JOINS WITH
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Weeksville Student Presented Check for Cabbage
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MATTHEW BRANNON - PCHS BAND STUDENT7TH CHAIR - FRENCH HORNS
NC BANDMASTER ASSOC. EASTERN DISTRICT
NC Beautiful Grants AwardedSheep-Harney Elementary School and River Road Middle School are recipients of the Windows of Opportunity Grant through NC Beautiful. Sheep-Harney received $1000.00 and River Road Middle received $1487.40. Both schools plan to use the grant funds to build greenhouses and plant various flowers and vegetables.
Mr. Steve Vacendak, Executive Director for NC Beautiful, along with Tim Aydlett, NC Beautiful Board Member, held check presentations at both schools on Tuesday, January 24th. The schools are excited to begin the new projects and look forward to sharing in this learning opportunity with their students.
According to ncbeautiful.org, the mission of NC Beautiful “is to foster environmental stewardship through education and outreach to perpetuate the natural beauty of North Carolina.” The Windows of Opportunities Grants are given out to classroom teachers across the state each year. Teachers can sub-mit applications to be considered for grants up to $1500 between July and November.
NHS Eagle Award WinnersNortheastern High School presented the Eagle Character Award, for the second nine weeks, to the following students: Kelis Alexander, Keith Bennett, Hina Braddy, Chandler Brown, Kelvin Brown, Dalton Crutch, Nick Doepker, Ashley Fowler, Cortnie Fowler, John Godwin, Shalimar Jernigan, Vanessa Jimenez-Santos, Brian Jones, Megan Jones Monique Kesling, Elizabeth Knight, Stephanie Manuli, Tiara Payton, Joshua Phelps, Grace Port, Colin Riddick, Laura Rosenberger, Hayley Rosewall, Alexis Ross-Diggs, Jayd Ryan-Bland, William Seals, Breawn Smith, Taijiera Stallings, Chrislyn Terry, Keara Thompson, Lauren Winslow, Amari Wood
Northside Establishes MakerspaceStudents at Northside Elementary School have been actively involved in the media center’s new Makerspace. According to Diana Rendina at renovatedlearning.com, “A Makerspace is a place where students can gather to create, invent, tinker, explore and discover using a variety of tools and materi-als.” Patricia Daniels, media specialist, introduced students and teachers to the Makerspace concept in December, and since then students have been learning first-hand how the laws of science work. Fourth and fifth grade students, working in groups of 2 or 3, collaborated in building a variety of K’NEX® projects based on the science concepts of force & motion and simple machines.
The K’NEX® Education Sets provide students with an opportunity to combine real-world applications with science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) concepts. Students were engaged and energized as they expanded their knowledge and understanding of the STEAM concepts associ-ated with amusement park rides, robots, automobiles, planes and physical structures. Students were involved in hands-on, inquiry-based learning, while interacting and collaborating with other students through discussions of ideas and concepts about force, energy, and motion. Also included in the K’NEX® construction projects were simple machines and their real world connections. Examples of the simple machines built include:• wheel & axle = well & paddle boat• inclined planes = ramps & a wedge for splitting wood• spur gear system = crank fan• crown & gear system = eggbeater• lever = a balance & a wheelbarrow• pulleys = elevators & a block & tackle used to lift car engines• screw = Archimedes screw used to lift liquids & grains in a
hollow tube
Second grade students built Wiggle-Bots using materials from Teacher Geek. Students were given a battery pack, a motor, a variety of gears to choose from, magic markers and decorative items to create their Wiggle Bot. The Wiggle Bots would then dance around the table on their colorful magic marker legs and create as one student put it “an artistic masterpiece.”
The JROTC classes from Northeastern and Pasquotank County High Schools participated in the Raiders com-petition on Saturday, February 11th at John A. Holmes High School in Edenton. The PCHS JROTC placed third in the Raiders competition. PCHS Cadet 2Lt Adrain Sanchez (front row left) placed first for the male one mile challenge with a run time of 5:57. PCHS Cadet A1C Jesse Dennis (front row right) placed first for the female curl-ups and the female push-ups challenge with an amazing 63 curl-ups and 63 push-ups respectively.
JROTC Raiders Competition
Joel Overman, 4th grade student at Weeksville Elementary School, participated in a cabbage growing contest sponsored by Bonnie Plants last spring. His cabbage was the winner at Weeksville Elementary and his name submitted for a drawing by the Commission of Agriculture for a $1000 scholarship.
Joel was the winner for North Carolina and was presented a check for $1000 on February 7th during an assembly program at Weeksville Elementary. The check was presented to Joel by Tommy Fleetwood from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and Chuck Roten from Bonnie Plants. Overman is the son of Barry and Jeannette Overman.
The National Junior Honor Society at River Road Middle School, under the guidance of LaShekia Brothers, collected school sup-plies and donated the items to Pasquotank Elementary School.
The supplies collected included pencil pouches, paper, notebooks, pens, pencils, and crayons.
Junior Honor Society at RRMS Donates Supplies to Pasquotank Elementary
www.ecpps.k12.nc.usECPPS NEWS~INFORMATION~PHOTOS
The Pasquotank County High School Band Presents
AnEvening
of JazzFeaturing
The Panther Jazz Collective
Towne South Church of Christ2224 Peartree Rd, Elizabeth City, NC
February 28th(Snow Date March 3rd)
6:00pm Seating 7:00pm Show
Dine in Tickets $10 Carry out Tickets $8Carry out available starting at 5pm
3rd Annual
Silent auction during dinner, items donated by area businesses
with spec ia l guestsWayne James and “Connected”
Family & Community Center www.ecpps.k12.nc.us
To register, please visit the district’s
webpage. If you have questions, please
contact Susan Buckner at 331-1699 or [email protected].
Schedule for the Day
8:30 – 8:50 Registration/Light Breakfast
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome
9:15 – 9:40 Session 1 – Language & Literacy
9:45 – 10:10 Session 2 – Meaningful Math
10:15 – 10:40 Session 3 – Let’s Go To Kindergarten! 10:45 – 11:10 Session 4 – Welcome to Pre-K!
11:15 – 11:30 Tour of Pre-K & Kindergarten Classrooms
11:40 – 12:20 Community Panel
Closing Words/Door Prizes/Certificates
“Explore ECPPS”….A Tour of Schools
Friday – March 10, 2017
Pasquotank County residents are invited to “Explore ECPPS”—a wonderful opportunity to tour Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools. As community members, it is important that you have firsthand knowledge of how our schools operate and provide instruction for the children of Pasquotank County. The tour will be held on Friday, March 10th, beginning with breakfast from 8:00 to 8:30 am at the ECPPS Administrative Offices on Halstead Boulevard. We will begin our tour at 8:30 am. Lunch will be prepared by the amazing cafeteria staff at Northeastern High School. The tour will end around 3:30 pm at the Administrative Offices with a question and answer session. We will be traveling by bus to visit the following school sites:
To register for this opportunity, please visit www.ecpps.k12.nc.us or contact Tammy W. Sawyer, Community Schools Director/PIO at 252.335.2981, ext. 142.
Weeksville Elementary School Northeastern High School
P.W. Moore Elementary School River Road Middle School
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E C P P S V I S I O NIn a changing world, ECPPS will prepare all learners to be produc-tive, competitive, and successful citizens.E C P P S M I S S I O NTo ensure and provide an innova-tive, responsive, and safe environ-ment that prepares and engages all learners.
E C P P S G O A L S• Every student in ECPPS will graduate from high school pre-
pared for work, further education, and citizenship.• Every student in ECPPS will have a personalized education.• In ECPPS, every student, every day will have excellent educa-
tors.• ECPPS will have up-to-date financial, business, and technol-
ogy systems to serve its students, parents, and educators.• Every student in ECPPS will be healthy, safe and responsible.
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ECPPS Parent Academy
Education & Information Sessions for Parents
Thursday, March 16, 2017Dinner Available - 5:15 pm(Hotdogs, Tots, Baked Beans, Veggies)
Parent Academy Schedule (on back)(Act iv i t ies avai lable for students Pre-K to 5th grade for parents at tend-ing the academy)
Registration: www.ecpps.k12.nc.us
ECPPS: Preparing Globally Competitive Citizens!
ELIZABETH CITY- PASQUOTANK PUBLIC SCHOOLS
PREPARING GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE CITIZENS
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