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This section of the website is meant to spotlight the wonderful work and fantastic accomplishments that we see every day from employees of Metro Nashville Public Schools. If you know of someone who has done something exceptional or achieved a high level of accomplishment, please let us know! We will feature news items here, and also put some of them in our communications newsletters, Children First! and Monday Memo.
Send your news to joseph.bass@mnps.org and check back often to see it posted on this page.
MLK Track Coach Named "Coach of the Year"
Read what "The Tennessean" had to say about Coach Stephen Dorris:
Why chosen: The ninth-year coach led the Royals to their second Class A-AA championship in five years, edging 2008 champion David Lipscomb 50-48 for the team title. Ben Tankard accounted for 28 points with wins in the 110 and 300 hurdles and a second-place finish in the long jump, and Micah Wasserman scored key points in the 800 and 1600 meters. The Royals finished fourth in the Doug Hall Relays.
Quote: "We knew we had a lot coming back from a pretty solid top five finish in state. We had a junior class that won the Metro City Championships in eighth grade and Freshman City Championships in ninth grade, so the main thing was to keep all those pieces together and functioning properly. Basically we had some great distance runners and Ben sweeping it up in the hurdles. But midway through the year, if you had told us we were going to win state, we'd have been shocked."
Middle School Science Teacher Selected for FDA Workshop
Dr.Elvis H. Cherry a science teacher at H. G. Hill Middle School has been selected to attend the FDA’s Food Science Teacher Workshop in Washington DC. Twenty middle school teachers were selected. Dr. Cherry is the only Tennessee teacher attending the weeklong workshop. during which teachers will develop classroom lessons, which will be finalized when the participants meet again at the Phoenix Arizona National Science Teachers Convention. Dr.Cherry has participated in events for The Food Security Partners of Middle Tennessee; School Gardens with Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach and the USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Snack Program. Dr.Cherry plans to incorporate the FDA training in food science with the other programs in addition to conducting workshops for MNPS teachers and community groups.
Stratford Teacher Receives Great Honor
Addison Diehl, an English teacher at Stratford High School, will be honored with Amherst College’s Phebe and Zephaniah Swift Moore Teaching Award during the school’s 188th Commencement Ceremony. Diehl was nominated by a former student, Lauren Cordova, who will graduate from Amherst this year. The honor recognizes instructors and counselors who have been important in the lives of graduating Amherst students. The winners are chosen by a committee of seniors, faculty and staff from nominations submitted by members of the Class of 2009. The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m., Sunday, May 24. Congratulations, Mr. Diehl!
Stratford High Teacher Named TPAC's Teacher of the Year
Meghan Sanders has been chosen as the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Teacher of the Year for her continuing support of TPAC's Humanities Outreach program. Read more about Meghan's award here.
Metro Teacher Honored by Science Honor Society
Sally Spear, a teacher at Croft Middle Design Center was named "Undergraduate Teacher of the Year" for the Vanderbilt Chapter of Sigma Xi. Sigma Xi is a research science honor society that recognizes an undergraduate teacher each year for teaching science in a way that promotes inquiry and scientific research skills while exciting students about science. Ms. Spear was given a framed certificate and small honorarium at a banquet in the Unversity Club of Nashville at Vanderbilt. She was nominated by Ginny Shepherd, the head of the Center for Science Outreach at Vanderbilt. Congratulations, Sally!
Johnson Teachers to Present at National Conference
Dr. Judith Whalley, Ed Demesa and Jolie Simpkins, 9th grade Services Learning Teachers at Johnson School, will present a session on service learning at the 19th Annual National Service-Learning Conference, which will be held in Nashville. This is the largest gathering of youths and practitioners involved in service learning. This year the focus of the conference is celebrating service learning’s role in the regeneration of hope.
MNPS Coordinator Honored by Governor
Vickie Blair Fleming, Coordinator of the Social Work, Home Schools and Homeless Programs, was recently awarded a plaque in appreciation of nine years of outstanding service as Chairman and Board Member of the Tennessee Board of Social Worker Licensure. Congratulations, Vickie.
Gra-Mar Gets a Promethean Lab
Gra-Mar Middle is excited to announce the installation of a new Promethean lab in the school’s computer room. The lab was donated to the school by the makers of the Promethean system, thanks to the school’s computer teacher, Thomas Trenkler. Promethean Labs are designed to engage students through interactive technology.
MNPS Teacher Gets Published
The December issue of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) middle school journal, Science Scope, featured an article by MNPS teacher, Jeannie Tuschl. Tuschl is a program coordinator at the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach (CSO). In collaboration with Dr. Patrice Moss-Gray at Meharry Medical College and Dr. Todd Gary at Tennessee State University, Tuschl initiated the Volunteer Scientist-in-the-Classroom Partnership (vSCP) at Vanderbilt University, a program that allows volunteer graduate students and postdoctoral scientists, in partnership with middle school science teachers, to bring real-world science into MNPS classrooms. The article, Volunteer Scientist-in-the Classroom Partnership in Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, can be accessed via the NSTA website, http://www.nsta.org/middleschool/. |
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