Shout Out to the 3rd

annual Success by

Design Conference!

Robyn Hadley sent in the following:

“Thanks again to everyone for your

hard work, support and attendance in

helping us to execute our 3rd “Success

By Design” conference at Cummings

High School. We had more than 300

participants from Alamance County

and several other counties!

Evaluations were very positive!!”

Here are just a few of the winners of great door prizes sponsored by local businsses: Cap & Gown

Winners: Terell Bellamy, Western; Christen Neal, Williams; Aree’ana Crisp, Middle College; Jennifer

Warriner, Cummings; David Keeler, Eastern; Kyasia Starnes, Graham,;Charity Curtis, Southern

Netbook: Courtney Blakenship, Williams

iPad: Destiny Gilchrist, Cummings

Shout Out to Haw River Elementary! School counselor Norma Thompson let me know this: “Haw River Elementary held an appreciation

event for parents, volunteers and community supporters on Wednesday, Oct 26th, from 4:30 until 6:00.

We served refreshments and students sang 2 songs to entertain the crowd. We held this event to thank

our wonderful parents and community partners for their support for our children and staff.” After the

event, I asked her how it went. She was very pleased: “We had almost 150 people! 3 board members

visited with us: Patsy Simpson, Tony Rose and Brad Evans; Jean Maness was also there. 2 groups of kids

sang songs (one in English and one in Spanish). We handed awards to recognize volunteers, community

partners and parents.”

Shout Out to Graham

Middle School! Melvin Diggs, Principal Intern

from GMS, sent this in: “Graham

Middle School hosted the

Piedmont Triad Leadership

Academy (PTLA). PTLA is

an intensive, year-long

clinical administrative cohort that

was formulated by a partnership

of Alamance-Burlington Schools,

Asheboro City Schools, Guilford

County Schools, and Winston-

Salem/Forsyth County Schools in

conjunction with UNCG's

Department of Educational

Leadership. It is designed to

prepare educators with a specific skill set to lead in Title One/high-needs Schools. The current members,

made up of 21 members, were challenged by Graham Middle School's Principal, Teresa Faucette, to "let

every decision you make be about KIDS FIRST and if it is not, you may want to examine why you are

making it!" Dr. Alisa McLean, our Assistant Superintendent of Student Services, admonished the cohort

to "know and understand the value of your Student Services teams, they can make a huge difference."

Other guest speakers included current Graham Middle AP's Rhoda Graves and Brie Butler who gave

insightful hints into making a successful transition into the role of school administrator. ABSS will host

two other sessions in the spring semester. In this photo, ABSS's PTLA members, (left to right) Hollis

Wroblewski, Shadonna Gunn, and Melvin Diggs are all smiles with Dr. McLean during the successful

sessions of instruction and inspiration.”

Shout Out to Cummings/Broadview Orchestra Students! Cindy Smith is Broadview/Cummings orchestra director, and she let me know about this:

“This Saturday, 3 bass students from the Cummings and Broadview orchestras will be attending the

UNCSA (UNC School of the Arts) Bass Day at the School of the Arts in Winston Salem. They will spend a

day attending workshops, master classes, and rehearsals and then perform in a “mass bass concert”

with more than 50 other bass players of all ages and playing levels. They will also enjoy a little taste of

campus life, eating at the school’s cafeteria, and then attend a professional bass and cello concert that

evening. All around it will a big day of music-making and exploring life after high school options.”

Shout Out to Graham High! David Bouldin from GHS sent this in: “Graham High School Occupational Course of Study Students

volunteered their time Saturday, October 22nd at the Hospice Flea Market Car Show and Sale. The sale

and car show was a huge success. This was a wonderful opportunity for our OCS Students to gain work

hours and experience in the community. A special thanks to Mrs. Julie Payne for all of her hard work

organizing and supervising students at the event. Our students worked hard all day long. They set up

sales displays, provided customer service, maintained a clean work environment, and restocked items

from the warehouse.

Mrs. Payne and myself job

coach Occupational Prep 2,

3 and 4 students second

block Tuesday through

Friday at the Hospice Flea

Market. This is a part of the

students’ community-based

training hours in the

Occupational Course of

Study. The group that came

Saturday is a mixture of all

of our OCS students at

Graham. We have worked

at some great places over

the past few years. Hospice

has been a great job site for

the students this year

though!

In the photo: from left to right: Becky Bouldin- OCS Teacher, Brandi Holt, Charmaine Livingston, Steven

Vasquez-Morales, Achille Deluca, Kim Pellerito- Our Hospice Job Site Coordinator, Julie Payne- OCS Job

Coach. I am in the back- David Bouldin- OCS Teacher, and our son and little helper Charlie Bouldin is in

the front.”

Shout Out to the

Western High

Dream Team! Linda Hines, school

counselor at A. O.

Elementary sent in this:

“We'd like to do a Shout

Out to the Western High

School Dream Team!

They came to A.O.

on Wednesday of this

week for Red Ribbon

Week and did a

FANTASTIC presentation

for some of our students.

Their presentation was

entertaining, interactive

and very informative.”

Left to right / FRONT ROW: Heather Morton - Jamie Sommers - Claire Dockrill - Madson Bell - Nigel Carlton

Left to right / BACK ROW: Cody Rice - Paschal Geoffrey - Danja Worden - Lindsey Dishner - Tyler Miles - Michael

Bell

Special Thanks to the WAHS Dream Team!

Shout Out to Turrentine Middle and Science! Today, Friday October 28, Turrentine Middle 8th grade science students had an outstanding

opportunity. Students in Ms. Melaine Rickard’s science classes performed 6 “green grid” renewable

energy experiments with NC State electrical engineering graduate students from the university’s

FREEDM (Future Renewable Electrical Energy Delivery & Management) Systems Center.

What’s also impressive is that Alamance-Burlington Schools is the only place this program is happening

across North Carolina because we are the only K-12 partner school district with this project from NC

State and the National Science Foundation! There are 7 universities around the nation involved, and

NCSU is one. Ms. Rickard is a 2011 Kenan Fellow with NC State and assists their researchers with

planning science lessons for students! Look out Duke Energy!

Shout Out to Alamance Citizens for Education and Elon U!

Alamance Citizens for Education & Elon University's Project

Pericles Invites You To The

Release Party for

Make Art Happen Alamance Citizens for Education and Elon University's Project Pericles are hosting a free event for the

public to launch the Make Art Happen CD on Friday November 4, from 5p.m. to 10p.m. The event will

be held in front of Company Shops Market, located on East Front Street.

Bring your chairs, have dinner and drinks (cash bar) while enjoying music from four of the bands on the

CD:

Too Far Gone, Josh Lambert Band, Back Porch Orchestra, and Harvey Dalton Arnold Blues Band

Make Art Happen is a project that highlights the importance of arts education in Alamance County

public schools with the support of local musicians. The project is producing a CD of talented local

musicians and is offering it to community for purchase. All of the proceeds will go towards forming a

grant program that will benefit any public school in Alamance County that has a need for arts education

funding. Each CD is $15, great gifts!

Make Art Happen also helps Elon University students by giving them valuable opportunities to promote,

sell, and market the CD.

Shout Out to Hillcrest and Government! Karen Traywick, second grade teacher sent this in: “Hillcrest 2nd grade classes will be studying ‘Local

Government’ next week. We contacted Burlington Mayor Ronnie Wall to talk to our students about his

job, what he does, what is expected of him, etc. He has agreed to come @ 9:00 on Tuesday, Nov. 1st to

speak w/ all of our classes!”

Megan James, new school counselor for the Hornets said: “At our first Student Council General Body

meeting on Tuesday, November 1st at 2:00, we will be visited by two Burlington City Council members:

Mr. Jim Butler and Mr. Celo Faucette. They will be speaking with students about their responsibilities as

City Council members, what they think it means to be a leader, what they’ve learned from being a

leader and some of their favorite things about their job. The students worked very hard on the

campaign and are very excited about participating in our first Student Council at Hillcrest! Students,

counselors and administrators will be attending the meeting. The students attending include the 5

officers (grades 4 and 5) that were elected on October 17th and the classroom representatives (one per

class in grades 3-5) totaling about 20 students.”

Shout Out to Southern High FFA! Southern FFA advisor Nick Anders sent this news about the Patriots’ award-winning program, and boy,

have they been busy! “In August, twenty-six Southern Alamance High School FFA members traveled to

White Lake for the 21st consecutive year. The campers spent five days competing in various activities

and learning different leadership techniques at FFA Camp. Southern’s two teams competed to win the

camp banner, which is awarded to the team who gets the most points competing in activities against

other FFAs. Competitions lasted for three days. The three main events were softball, volleyball, and

water ball. Water ball is

basically playing softball in the

water with a dodge ball.

Southern also competed in

checkers, shuffleboard, canoe

races, basketball and ping

pong, among others. It was a

head to head battle between

the two Southern Alamance

teams in all three major

events. In the end, the upper

classmen dominated the

underclassmen and brought

home the camp banner for

the third year in a row!”

“On September 20th and 21st, the

students of the Southern

Alamance FFA Chapter

participated in Farm to Table Day

at Cedar Rock Park, an event

where students and workers from

the community volunteer to

teach fourth graders the various

parts of agriculture and farming.

Some students taught at booths,

such as Plant Science and Farm

Equipment, while others led the

groups of children from place to

place. Students worked for the

entire morning and afternoon,

helping the kids learn more about

the environment. Farm to Table

Day opens the eyes of our

younger generation and allows them to be more in tune with their planet and the nature that exists all

around them.”

“On September 29, the

Southern Alamance FFA

Chapter traveled to Eastern

Randolph High School for the

Regional Leadership

Conference. This year around

30 members and two of our

very own Regional officers,

Alan Capps and Haley Lohr,

went. At the conference,

members from the West

Central FFA Region came to

participate in different

workshops to help them learn

to be better leaders and FFA

members in their communities.

The workshops included how to

dress professionally, how to be

a professional in the real world,

and other workshops on

professionalism. There was also

a canned food drive, where each school brought a number of cans they had collected in the present

weeks. This year Southern FFA took 769 cans of food. The canned food collected in the weeks before

RLC was brought back to Alamance County and donated to Loaves and Fishes Ministry Food Bank. The

Regional Leadership Convention was a wonderful opportunity for FFA members to better their skills as

citizens.”

Southern High FFA State Winners! The Southern Alamance FFA Chapter took a group of 19 students to the North Carolina FFA State

Convention. The students spent two nights in the downtown Sheraton in Raleigh, North Carolina. All of

the events took place in the

Raleigh Convention Center.

The students competed in a

variety of competitions ranging

from Creed speaking to Nursery

and Landscape. There were also

three of the chapter’s members

who went and worked at a thrift

shop for community service.

Those members were Max

Crouse, Alan Capps, and Dalton

Curtis. The Creed speaker for

Southern Alamance was Katie

Way. The Tool Identification

team consisted of Jon

Pendergraph, John Teague, Alex

Patrum, and Graham Kirkpatrick. John Teague got the individual high score and the boys placed third in

the state as a team. Southern Alamance had three plant identification teams that competed at the state

level. The Introduction to Horticulture team members were Drew Hanford, Austin Greeson, D.J.

Johnson, and Blake Oakley. Austin Greeson, Drew Hanford, and Blake Oakley all tied for high individual.

The team received first place in the state as a whole. The Floriculture team members were Summer

Holland, Jess Patterson, Drew Riggins, and Colt Robertson. Summer Holland was the second highest

individual in the state and the team received second place in the state as well. The Nursery and

Landscape members were Amber Palmer, Ethan Farlow, Zack Ferguson, and Will Carden. Ethan Farlow

was the second high individual in the state and the team placed second as well in the state.

Shout Out to Nathan Page at BMS!

Jodi Hofberg, Middle School Math Curriculum Support Team, sent this shout: “Nathan Page was a

presenter at the NC Council of Teachers of

Mathematics in Greensboro! He shared how the

individualized, web-based program ALEKS is used

in his math classroom at Broadview Middle

School to motivate students for success. Thanks

for representing ABSS at a state conference!”

P. S. If you will keep reading and look at the link

below for the Everything Song………you will see

the results of what happens when Mr. Page

ducks into the nearest phone booth…….

Shout out to Broadview Middle!

Folks, BMS is bringin’ it!!!

If this doesn’t put you in a great mood for the weekend and make you proud to work for Alamance-

Burlington, I can’t imagine what could…….

Cindy Smith, orchestra teacher for BMS and CHS sent me this news about two outstanding

productions by BMS students and staff:

“Broadview Middle School just submitted not one but TWO videos to the eInstruction Classroom

Makeover Contest! Mrs. Peres-da-Silva, our Teacher of the Year, had a group of 7th grade students who

wrote a rap and created an accompanying video. It’s very creative and impressive! Mr Page, 8th grade

math teacher, also submitted an outstanding video that was a collaborative effort involving his classes,

my orchestra classes, Mrs. Penn’s Chorus classes, with help from art teacher Mrs. Burrell, Mrs, Paisley,

and many others. We are waiting to see if we make the finals!

If we do, we will need votes from everyone to help us win the big prize…$75,000 of technology from

eInstruction. Here are the links to go view the videos and rate them:

Mr. Page’s “The Everything Song” http://2011classroommakeover.shycast.com/submission/show/1911

Mrs. Peres-da-Silva’s “eInstruction+Students=The Future”

http://2011classroommakeover.shycast.com/submission/show/1485

Shout Out to Alexander Wilson Relay for Life! We just happened to find out about this great event…….by accident! A-W is raising money for

Relay for Life and having a blast doing it. They’ve got all sorts of stuff going on……. Secretary

Jennifer Foust let us in on the fun: “1st grade paper dolls; 3rd Grade is Black Eye Peas; Kindergarten is

Rock Paper Scissors. Also, for Relay for Life fundraiser, the children can do Scary Hair and donate .50!

That is really neat. Today we raised $152.63 for Relay! We have some really amazing hair do’s.”

Do you recognize these paper dolls? They are first grade teachers at A-W:

Morgan Thompson, Stephanie Slaughter, Ryan Wade, Janna Shoffner & Jenny Smith

Check out the pumpkins in disguise! A-W is raising money for Relay for Life by having folks vote for their

favorite decorated pumpkins. Too cute! Do you see Big Bird,The Hamburger McPumpkin, the Tar Heel

Ram and the pink M&M, Humpty Dumpty and Clifford the Big Red Dog just to name a few?

Shout Out to Garrett Gators! Kris L’Heureux sent this in: “Today, the Storybook Theater came to Garrett to perform 3 plays to kick-off

the school's reading incentive program. For the next 7 mos. each student has a goal of 25 nights of

reading and there are classroom goals that 80% of the class will read their 25 nights each month. Mr.

Achey has promised a neat treat if the whole school meets their goal!” Wonder what it will be?

Shout Out to E. M. Yoder! At E. M. Yoder, Mrs. Slagle’s fifth grade class learned about the Kids Path program (a service of Hospice)

that helps children deal with loss. They created a community project during the month of October. The

fifth graders asked other students in the school to bring in poly-fill and fabric to donate to the program

to help make teddy bears. They collected a total of 132 pieces of fabric and 33 bags of poly-fill.

Shout Out to our

2012 ABSS Wells

Fargo Principal of the

Year! Just announced

today………drum roll,

please……….

Cynthia McKee is our

winner!

Congratulations! Dr.

Cox and Mark Doane went

out on prize patrol this

morning to surprise our

winner. As you can see,

Coach McKee was busy and

hard at work with ABLP this

morning.

Shout Out to our 2012

ABSS Assistant Principal

of the Year!

Congratulations to Pam Henline,

Queen of the Bobcats!

Pam is our winner! Dr. Cox and

Mark Doane interrupted a very

busy AP this morning intent on

handling five things or more at

once when they arrived to

surprise her. She stopped just

long enough to receive her

beautiful flowers and congrats

from the boss.

Here’s another Shout Out for Pam! From Deborah Oxendine and the entire cafeteria staff at BMS: “Ms Pamela Henline here at Broadview

deserves a Big Shout Out for being AP of the Year! Ms Henline is a very important part of Broadview and

is very special to all here including our Cafeteria staff. We are very proud of her!”

Shout Out to Elon Elementary! The Little Phoenix marched in a Book Parade today captured by Board Member Tony Rose’s camera. Do

you suppose that Principal Jack Davern knocked down the Chik-fil-A cow and stole his cow suit?

If Ms. Carr and Mr. Davern were really standing side by side, it would be hard on the eyes!