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Good News About Students and Staff at Greater Albany Public Schools
Memorial Middle School has been named winner of the 2008 SOLV Citizenship Award. The schools' students worked with the City of Albany on three different projects involving water quality testing, macroinvertebrate monitoring, storm drain marking, litter pickup, graffiti removal, and a peace garden.
Click here to view a student video presentation about last spring's project that earned the school the award. To learn more about Service Learning, click here.
A middle school science teacher has been named one of the Fellows in the 2008 New Science Teacher Academy. Memorial Middle School teacher Amanda Sater received a fellowship from the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). enabling her to participate in a professional development program. Read more ...
A North Albany Middle School teacher is featured in the current issue of the OMLA Newsletter. Katy Kelly wrote the article about classroom technology for the Oregon Middle Level Association (OMLA). She is featured on page 2 of the October 2008 edition.
Katy, a 6th and 7th grade science teacher who recently was chosen as 2008 Outstanding Technology Educator of the Year by the Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE), began teaching at North Albany Middle School in 2003.
In July two Albany school bus drivers attended an international safety competition in Canada. After ranking high in local and state safety exercises, drivers Janet Turner and Virginia Smythe qualified for the International School Bus Safety Competition in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Turner came in 4th out of nine total mini-buses. Smythe came in 32nd out of 45 total conventional buses. The two drivers were two of only six Oregon drivers who competed in the annual international competition organized by the National School Transportation Association (NSTA).
The "Mundos Diferentes" Hispanic Club at South Albany High School conducted a fund raising event on Saturday, May 3, 2008. The event was coordinated with Greg Roe, Executive Director of the Linn County United Way. The club donated $600 to the United Way to assist with a dental van to bring dental services to low-income families with no dental insurance. The van will come to the South Albany High School campus on June 13 and Mundos Diferentes Club members will assist in translating for the service.
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North Albany Middle School teacher, Katy Kelly, was selected as 2008 Outstanding Technology Educator of the Year by the Northwest Council for Computer Education.
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South Albany High School teacher Pam Bene', who has been teaching at South for 16 years, was named Family Consumer Sciences Teacher of the Year for the State of Oregon by the Oregon Association for Family and Consumer Sciences.
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Oregon Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance has honored West Albany High School teacher Danielle Blackwell, naming her Oregon High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year.
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South Albany High School seniors Tyler Tuner and Ryan McMinds, students in Carla Streng's AP Biology class, qualified as national semifinalists in the 2008 USA Biology Olympiad.
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