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Headline Stories for 4/10/06 Below
Superintendent's Corner
There is much
to celebrate!
Great teachers motivate and inspire; they encourage excellence and help us to perform at a level higher than might otherwise be expected or possible. They make us proud!
Bellevue Junior High Tops 2006 Kroger Kids Kan Food Drive; Campaign Provides Food for Nearly 7,000 Children
This year’s Kroger Kids Kan food drive exceeded all expectations, and Bellevue Junior High School has a lot to do with it. For the fifteenth consecutive year, Bellevue collected more cans than any other school among the four districts that took part in the campaign benefiting the Memphis Food Bank.
“MCS Reads With the Redbirds” For Campaign Celebration April 20!
Join your fellow employees for a night of reading fun as we highlight successes of the 2005-06 MCS Reads campaign. The Memphis Redbirds, an official campaign partner, is providing discount tickets for MCS employees.
MCS Students Fight to Stay Fight Free for 50 Days
Instead of watching American Idol, students at two Memphis City Schools spent their Tuesday night BEING idolized. They were all winners of the Fight Free 50 program, which is part of the district’s Blue Ribbon Plan. The program challenged all Middle and High School students to have 50 consecutive fight free days between December 5, 2005 and March 1, 2006.
Blue
Ribbon: Hamilton High’s PPP
Plans the Work and Works the Plan
Hamilton High School’s PPP (Positive People Program) conducted a needs assessment of all its stakeholders as the first step in creating and implementing activities to address key areas of concern at the school. The needs assessment showed that attendance and punctuality were two major areas that needed work, so the teachers, students, and parents of PPP developed positive incentives to decrease the negative concerns, and came up with the “No Tardy Party” and “The Traveling Trophy.”
