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Bower Hill
Teacher to Attend PA Summit
Elizabeth
Wardzinski, a
third grade teacher at Bower Hill Elementary School in the
Peters Township School District, was selected as one of 100
teachers from Pennsylvania to attend the annual Keystone
Technology Integrators Summit at Shippensburg University this
summer.
Wardzinski, one of
two nominees from PTSD, was selected from more than 600 nominees
from across the state to attend this event. All expenses for the
trip were paid for by the state. At the summit, Wardzinski
attended seminars, workshops, and special presentations given by
leaders in the forefront of technology integration in the
classroom.
Student Helps Set
State Record
Brighid
Knoll, who recently
started her senior year at Peters Township High School, has been
commended for helping Pennsylvania set a new state record with
50 individual, team, chapter, and state awards at this summer’s
Future Business Leaders of America National Awards Program in
Chicago. Knoll placed sixth in the nation in her competitive
event, Business Procedures.
During the
conference, Knoll competed with representatives from other
states for top honors in the Business Procedures competition.
She earned the chance by placing third in the Pennsylvania state
competition. The top three place winners from each state sent a
representative to the National Competition. Knoll was recognized
on stage at the National Awards of Excellence Program where she
received her trophy.
Pennsylvania had the
second-highest number of award winners at the National
Leadership Conference. FBLA is the premier student business
association. Its mission is to bring business and education
together in a positive working relationship through innovative
leadership and career development programs.
Lauren Giesey,
Brighid Knoll, and Erin Knoll were all part of the Pennsylvania
student delegation that made up 300 of the approximate 7,200
members in attendance at the National Conference. Mrs. Kathie
Sekely and Mrs. Vivian Lane are the faculty sponsors of the PTHS
FBLA.
PTHS Awarded $81K HP
Tech Award
PTHS was awarded a
2007 HP Technology for Teaching Leadership Award designed to
transform and improve learning in the classroom through
innovative uses of technology.
The award will bring
the district $81,000 in cash, technology, and professional
development programs.
PTHS was selected
for reinvestment because of its success integrating HP
technology into the classroom curriculum, demonstrating
measurable impact on student achievement, and proposing
innovative plans to expand their programs to have broader impact
on student success.
The PTHS grant team
is composed of the following five faculty members: Susan
Hlebinsky, Project Leader, Andrea Gearhart, Debbie Kendrick,
Dana Kirtz, and Erin Wakefield.
During the 2006-2007
academic year, HP Technology for Teaching grant projects
impacted more than 42,000 students. Of the 130 projects HP
funded in 2006, 15 were selected for the Leadership award in
2007.
In addition to HP
equipment and cash, the teachers will receive customized
mentoring from the International Society for Technology in
Education (ISTE,www.iste.org) to help broaden their learning
about how to best incorporate their HP technology into the
classroom.
Since 2004, HP has
contributed approximately $44 million in HP Technology for
Teaching grants to more than 850 schools worldwide. Information
about the 2007 HP Technology for Teaching program and grant
recipients is available at www.hp.com/go/hpteach.
Principal Named to
Prestigious Drexel Committee
Thomas
Hajzus, PTHS Principal,
was recently named to a 10-member committee of parents, with
accompanying college faculty and administration at Drexel
University. The committee reports to the Dean of Student Life
and is referred to as the “Resource Network for Parents and
Guardians of Drexel University Students.
This committee’s
mission is to serve as the primary resource network for parents
and guardians of Drexel University students. The aim is to
function as student advocates, and as the parent/family liaisons
with Drexel University faculty and staff to ensure that each
student receives the best quality education
and support while attending one of the nation’s greatest
universities.
The vision of this
committee is “to improve the quality of living, learning and
every aspect of campus life for our Drexel University students
for today and tomorrow as well.”
Dr. Hajzus believes
that more links need to be made to higher education so as to
better understand the changing dynamics affecting college
students and their parents.
“These experiences
should then translate into the needed discussions, in-service
and training at the high school level to better prepare our
administration, faculty, parents, and students for the
challenges ahead of them,” Hajzus says.
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