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Tinicum students build activities for MLK birthday


Tinicum's Student Council Middle School students visited a few elementary classes to help with different Martin Luther King, Jr. activities.  Sixth graders visited Mrs. Criscuolo's Learning Support class and made a 'hands collage', listing different ways they could make a difference in the community.  Seventh graders visited Mrs. Dalton's Second Grade class to help write letters to Prospect Park Nursing Home patients.  Eighth graders worked with Mrs. Said's Third Grade class to make 'I have a Dream' mobiles.  Everyone had a great time and it gave our students a chance to make Tinicum School a better place to be!   


Norwood students earn Gold Coins for PBS


The following Norwood students were special Gold Coins honorees for the school's Positive Behavior System.

SEPTEMBER: Alex Schwenke, Camryn Wilson, Anthony Alligrini, Krystal McBride, Ein Boylan,  Christine Werner, Joe Drain, Hailey Fisher, Stone Trainer, Lauren Oaster

OCTOBER: Nick Anderson, Brandon Cardell, Alessia Vanderslice, Mike Wegelewski, Eric Thomas, Billy Ketler, Deshawn Lee, Neil Hews, Sean Flynn

NOVEMBER: Mary Kate Gilfillan, Andrew Demopoulos, Mike Gallagher, Eric Thomas, Alyssa O'Neil, Emily Gilfillan, Ziggy Andrews, Makenna Harley, Matt Dailey, Lena Nong, Brianna Mathis, Anthony Rodriguez

DECEMBER: Felicia Pescatore, Jessica Hunt, Emma Birney, Megan Billbrough, Samantha Curro, Taylor Berkheimer, Amanda Bevan, Justin Gavula, Kayla Harrison

JANUARY: Chris Quattro, Morgan Smith, Dominic Curro, Haley Gonzalez, Skylar Williams, Mike Gallagher           


Kindergarten students read books, create snow people


The Chickadee Team recently read the story Snowballs by Lois Elhert.  Then they were asked to work with their family to create their very own snow person or creature using unique materials.  Some wonderful creations were sent in by all the students.


Prospect students help keep everyone warm


The students at Prospect Park Elementary worked together to help make sure that nobody in the community will go without a coat this winter. 

 

The Prospect Park School STOP Committee collected clean, gently used coats and jackets as part of the One Warm Coat community service project. Coats of all shapes and sizes were collected throughout the month of December.

 

“The response was overwhelming.” exclaimed Alissa Subranni, third grade teacher at Prospect Park.  “We collected 8 large trash bags full of really nice coats.” All of the coats are being distributed to local families through Loaves and Fishes in Prospect Park. Cheri Cook, a 4th grade teacher along with students from the committee hand delivered the coats to Loaves and Fishes in January.  

 

One Warm Coat is a national non-profit organization that supports and encourages coat drives.  It helps individuals, groups, companies and organizations across the country collect coats and deliver them to local agencies that distribute the coats free to people in need. This is the STOP committees second year running the local coat drive. 


Mrs.King's Kindergarten T1 class donates pinecone trees

With the help of dad, Mr. Mack, and Mr. Bellano (our teaching assistant’s husband!); Mrs. King's T1 Kindergarten class made 76 pinecone tress that will be dropped off the VA Hospital in Delaware.  The students also signed cards and decorated placements.  For the past seven years, it has become a "tradition" of the T1 Class to make these trees as a Community Service project.  They are placed on the patients' breakfast trays on Christmas morning, giving a little holiday cheer to those very special Military Veterans.

IHS students help make Kindergarten buddies enjoy holiday activities

Interboro High School students from Mrs. Maze, Ms. Hunt and Ms. Lesky’s classes recently visited the Kindergarten Academy to spread some holiday cheer. They joined forces with their kindergarten buddies from Mrs. Earnest and Mrs. Doherty’s classes. Together, the students made reindeer puppets and decorated gingerbread men. The kindergarten children also got to enjoy holiday themed stories read to them by the high school students. It was a fun filled afternoon for all!

Kindergarten students treated to Polar Express experience

On Wednesday, December 14th the Kindergarten Academy was treated to a special Polar Express experience.  The children were greeted by the conductor, a.k.a. Mr. Mac, and had their ticket punched to enter.  The children listened to the story told by the conductor, had a cookie and milk snack and each child had the chance to sit on Santa's lap and have their picture taken.

Glenolden Book Fair helps less fortunate

Glenolden School's BOOK FAIR held in November, not only offered books to our students, but an opportunity to help the less fortunate as well. Through a program called, ONE FOR BOOKS, sponsored by Scholastic Book Fair and initiated by our Home and School Book Fair Chairperson, Stacey Scibello,  students were encouraged to give any spare change they would like.  As a result, our students raised $100. worth of free books. These books were donated to the Edward Joseph Snyder Family Support Center, founded by Dr. Lois Snyder in memory of her husband.



Tinicum teacher helps residents get free lights

Keith Saroka, Science teacher at Tinicum School, once again arranged for a PECO/Project Need Grant, which provides a free set of LED holiday lights for each Tinicum Family.  On Saturday, November 19th, from 9:30-noon, Tinicum families enjoyed light breakfast treats and took home a free LED light set to save energy costs and help the environment. Great work, Mr. Saroka!

Kids serve as Color Guard on Veterans Day

The students in Mrs. King's Transitional First Grade class served as Color Guard for a Veteran's Day Ceremony at the Interboro Kindergarten Academy.  Veteran and active duty military family members of the Kindergarten students were invited to attend the ceremony where principal, Ms. DeSanctis welcomed and recognized our community service members.  The T1 student gave a "speech" about the military branches and all sang You're a Grand Old Flag.  SPC Jerry Richards, an Interboro graduate serving in the PA Army National Guard, helped the students make their class flag earlier in the week when he came in to talk to the children about his army duties.  Families enjoyed refreshments and made a paper star to be added to a paper ribbon which will hang in the KA as a symbol of our Interboro Community members for which we are thankful for their service and sacrifices so we can enjoy the freedoms we have.

Kindergarten Academy holds Harvest celebration

On October 31st the Kindergarten Academy held their annual Harvest Celebration.  Mrs. Jane Boyle (the new music teacher) did a terrific job preparing all the students for their songs and dances for their parents and relatives.  After the schoolwide celebration children celebrated the harvest in their classrooms with activities.
  

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Prospect Park 3rd graders donates sandwiches to Loaves and Fishes

Ms. Subranni’s third graders at Prospect Park School are helping to give back to their community. Every other Thursday, the whole class makes Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches first thing in the morning. Then the sandwiches get donated to the Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry which operates out of Prospect Hill Baptist Church.  The sandwiches are given out in the afternoons to people in the community. The students are learning an important lesson in giving and community service. It’s a great opportunity to show them how even kids can make a difference. The students are seeing how easy it is give back and experiencing a great feeling they get from helping others. “It makes me feel good to know that maybe someone who wouldn’t have had lunch or dinner, can eat the sandwich I made,” said one student.  Ms. Subranni has been running her Pb&J Project and relies on and appreciates donations from parents and staff at Prospect Park. Thanks to all who make this project successful!


Glenolden's Math Skills ADD UP

604 students from Glenolden School participated in a math contest called SUMDOG.

 Sumdog is a free math website that provides games for students to play either at home or at school. They cover 100 numeracy skills, split into 10 levels. Most are multiplayer, so you can play against thousands of students worldwide. The games are engaging so students enjoy developing their mental math skills. Glenolden School entered a 10-day contest, between Oct. 3 and Oct. 13 with the Central Susquehanna & Delaware County. 1,103 students took part and answered a total of 1,269,447 605 students from Glenolden Elementary School answered 649,653 questions correctly between them questions with 90% or better accuracy.

 Glenolden took 1st, 2nd, 5th,  6th and 9th place overall for all the counties at the end of 10 days.

COUNTY-WIDE winners were:

1st place…..Jordan Havens…..31,388 points

2nd place….Yahya Taoui…..30,458

5th place….Calvin Rolland….17,005

6th place….Jack Lawson….13,009

9th place….Sarah McFarland….8,990 points

 

We received a daily prize worth $100 in software for our school to use to help students with math skills.

School-wide winners were:

             1. Abubakarr Kamara    3,084 points

          2    Jacob McKeowan       4,365

          3    Jordan Havens           32,900

          4    Jack Lawson              11,410

          5    Yahya Taoui               33,497 (Top Winner)

          6    Jacquelyn Dunleavy    6,962

          7    Madeline Dupont         3,400

          8    Benedicta Ameyaw      6,011



Prospect Park students decorate pumpkins in service project

Students at Prospect Park Elementary had a great time decorating pumpkins as part of a Halloween themed community service project. Students who belong to the STOP Committee (Students Taking on Projects) spent the afternoon preparing treats for residents of the Prospect Park Rehabilitation Center. You could tell they were hard at work just by taking a look the desks that were covered with yarn, stickers and glue. The students created fifty mini pumpkin masterpieces that will be sent over to the Rehabilitation Center along with homemade pumpkin muffins. “The student’s wanted a find a way to give back to the elderly residents of our community,” said Cheri Cook, fourth grade teacher.

“We thought this would be a fun way for the children to show how much they care.”

 

STOP stands for Students Taking On Projects. This program was designed to encourage students to get involved in their school and community in a POSITIVE way. 4th grade teacher Cheri Cook and 3rd grade teacher Alissa Subranni run the STOP committee.


IEA makes donation of canned goods

The IEA donated over 300 pounds of food collected at Convocation to Loaves & Fishes.
Thanks from those folks and us - IHS Student Council

Glenolden Hosts Back-to-School Barbeque
Glenolden School Student Council hosted their third annual Back to School BBQ to welcome new and returning students and families. There were 200 people including representatives from Ridley Y and other community members who had a great time!
 
Glenolden hosts Community Day
Many enjoyed Glenolden Community Day, especially Glenolden teachers, who handed out books as well as treasure maps since the Interboro School District's mascot are the BUCCANEERS. Students were asked to create a map marking the special places in Glenolden, such as their house, restaurants, police station, their school and the library. Anyone who completed their map could hand it into school for a prize.

Tinicum launches special reading program
The primary team has started the Daily 5.  We introduced “good fit books” and the 3 ways to read a book.  This year we will work on “read to self” and building stamina. 

Norwood sailing toward Success with new PBS program

Norwood School students landed at the port of New York on Friday, Oct. 8 after the first month of the school's new Positive Behavior Support program. This program involves a comprehensive plan to teach key character skills such as honesty, respect and responsibility. Teachers deliver weekly lessons and apply them to the tasks performed in and out of the classroom. Students earn a reward for making it to the next port by exhibiting the skills and keeping up their academic standing. Students also can earn gold coins for exhibiting these skills. Each week a winner is drawn and both the student and teacher that gave the coin are given a reward. So far reaction to the program has been all positive and students are enjoying the trip. The next stop is London!



  

 Save Our Schools - The danger of vouchers Minimize
   
This June Governor Corbett and the state legislature cut almost $1 billion dollars in funding from our public schools. Now students across Pennsylvania are paying the price for their massive state budget cuts to education.  In many school districts:
  • Property taxes are rising;
  • Students are experiencing larger classrooms and cuts in after-school tutoring and mentoring programs;
  • Kindergarten has been reduced to a half a day instead of full day;
  • Students have outdated materials and fewer computers;
  • There are part time school nurses;
  • Fees are being imposed to play sports and participate in afterschool activities.
Right now, Governor Corbett and the General Assembly are making plans to cut even more critical funds from public schools. They want to cut another billion dollars from public schools and funnel that money into private, sectarian religious and for-profit schools.
Governor Corbett wants to spend taxpayer dollars on a voucher program that gives hundreds of millions of dollars to private and sectarian religious schools that are not accountable for academic standards or results, or for their financial doings.  Then, after funneling money away from our community schools, many children are left behind with fewer resources.
There is no consistent evidence that vouchers improve student achievement. In fact, proponents of vouchers say using public funds for private school tuition gives parents “more education choices” – but what is the “choice” when not every child gets a voucher and non-public schools can favor or exclude students based on gender, religion, ability, behavior and other special learning needs?
 
The truth is vouchers take away scarce resources from underfunded and often struggling public schools and give them to unaccountable private and sectarian religious schools. The last thing PA needs is a costly new bureaucracy that diverts money from our schools.
Taxpayer-funded school vouchers are unaffordable, unaccountable, unpopular, unproven and unconstitutional. Rather than instituting a voucher program, we need to restore funding for basic education in Pennsylvania and invest in our students and their future.
At a time when we face a huge budget deficit, privatizing public education, public transit, parks, prisons and wine and spirit stores is short-sighted, costly and irresponsible.
Please sign our petition and tell your elected officials to keep public education, public services and public assets public!
The Keystone Progress Team
  

Interboro Education Association

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The IEA is the professional organization of the approximately 290 professional employees of the Interboro School District; the teachers, nurses, counselors, librarians, and other professionals who provide education services to your children.
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Unprecedented state budget cuts put more school districts in financial distress

The Corbett Administration finally agreed to provide the financially-strapped Chester Upland School District with the funds it needs to keep its doors open, but the governor's unprecedented, draconian state funding cuts are wreaking havoc in school districts across the state.

1/26/2012 9:26:21 AM

President Obama invites Chester Upland teacher to attend State of the Union address

Sara C. Ferguson, a teacher from the Chester Upland School District said she is honored to accept President Barack Obama’s invitation to be the president’s distinguished guest for the State of the Union address.

1/24/2012 1:00:40 PM

Chester Upland Teachers, support staff thank legislators for working to secure funding to keep district schools open

Leaders of the school employee unions representing teachers and support staff in the Chester Upland School District released a January 23 statement thanking state legislators who worked to secure an agreement with Gov. Tom Corbett to avert the district’s looming financial crisis.

1/23/2012 4:41:45 PM

Band-Aid keeps Chester Upland afloat for two weeks, state budget cuts put it on the brink

A $3.2 million state funding advance will keep Chester Upland on life support for two weeks, but will not stave off a full-blown catastrophe, which could close the schoolhouse doors to 3,600 students.

1/23/2012 4:40:51 PM

Support the PSEA-Chester Upland Crisis Fund

The Chester Upland School District in Delaware County, Pennsylvania is in the midst of extreme economic crisis. On January 17, a federal judge approved a plan for the state to advance $3.2 million in state allocations to the district that it had been scheduled to get later in the year. The amount should be enough to allow the district to make payroll and meet expenses for a few more weeks.

1/23/2012 4:36:04 PM

Chester Upland teachers, ESPs pledge to work for delayed pay during school district's financial crisis

Delaware County's Chester Upland School District is on the verge of financial collapse. In June, its state funding was cut by $8.4 million, a 14 percent reduction in state aid. By December, the school distirct was virtually out of money, unable to meet its payroll and pay its bills. District officials asked the governor for an advance on the district's subsidy payments, but his education secretary refused.

1/20/2012 1:50:58 PM

Committee Weekend Cancelled

PSEA committee meetings scheduled for this weekend, January 20-21, 2012, in PSEA Headquarters and nearby hotels have been cancelled due to inclement weather.

1/20/2012 1:37:53 PM

PSEA President says school funding crisis is getting worse

As school districts struggle to compile their FY 2012-2013 budgets, the school funding crisis caused by Gov. Tom Corbett’s unprecedented $860 million in public school funding cuts is getting worse and forcing districts to cut more essential programs that help students succeed.

1/10/2012 10:56:19 AM

Advocacy makes a difference on vouchers and charter school expansion

On December 14, the state House of Representatives abandoned efforts to pass Gov. Corbett's tuition voucher plan, hearing the concerns of two-thirds of Pennsylvanians who oppose this bad policy. Shortly after, state representatives voted down a charter expansion bill by a vote of 105-90.

12/15/2011 12:35:52 PM

Video: Kids, Cuts, and Consequences

Across Pennsylvania, PSEA members are talking about the consequences Gov. Tom Corbett’s unprecedented school funding cuts are having on the students they teach. Through the Kids, Cuts, and Consequences project, PSEA members are sharing their stories and describing the impact of these devastating cuts

12/13/2011 9:52:31 AM
  

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