digital cameras and camcorders, sound and video editing software, and projection devices to produce a multi-visual presentation titled Ridgeway Middle School: Choosing to Embrace Diversity 360 Degrees. This student produced project will incorporate the school's visual and performing arts departments, and will also focus on the multi-generational histories of the RMS students and their families. The finished work will be presented during the diversity fair on Wednesday, May 16th, 2007.
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Photo (from L to R): Hal Harmon - Instructional Facilitator, Dr. Roderick Richmond - Principal
Mrs. Linda Simmons - Assistant Principal, and Ken Greene - Music Teacher
From Vol. 50, 4/2/07, of the
Award-Winning Teachers Gear Up for Best Buy Shopping Spree; Teachers from Five Schools to Spend Thousands of Dollars
on High Tech Learning Tools
Teachers from five Memphis City Schools who won technology grants from Best Buy hit the store aisles Saturday morning, March 24, to spend thousands of dollars on new, high-tech learning equipment. They had have the store to themselves for an hour before it opened at 10 a.m..
Teachers from Ridgeway Middle, Snowden and Oakhaven, Winchester and Brownsville Road Elementary Schools won the Best Buy grants for their commitment to creatively integrating technology into core curriculum. Ridgeway Middle was one of only 50 schools from a national pool of 8,000 to receive the $15,000 prize. The others won $2,500 apiece.
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