Last Friday, our District sticker count was 2,723,944. This Monday morning, it is 2,780,788! Congratulations!!! Together, your students earned more than 55,000 stickers over the weekend. Leading the pack is Otter Creek Elementary School with an average of 9,915 stickers per team. Mann Magnet Middle School is leading in the total sticker count with 240,952 stickers! Congratulations to Otter Creek and Mann!!!
Some of our schools, teams, and students are ranked nationally!!!
Amanda Zraick, M.S., CCC-SLP (left), and Carol Fleming, M.S., CCC-SLP (right), were honored at the annual Arkansas Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Hot Springs on October 15. Both speech-language pathologists were nominated by Cassandra Steele, M.S., CCC-SLP; Coordinator of Speech and Hearing Services with the Little Rock School District Division of Special Programs. Sue Hale, M.C.D., CCC-SLP, President of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), was present during the awards ceremony when both Mrs. Zraick and Mrs. Fleming were recognized.
Mrs. Zraick, speech-language pathologist at Central High School, received the Paula Gober Public School Award from Arkansas Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ArkSHA). This award is given to an individual who displays distinguished clinical service in a public school setting.
Mrs. Zraick received the award because of her dedication to her profession, her school and the Little Rock School District. As a member of her school’s Literacy Team, she led the development and implementation of a school-wide vocabulary program, “Tiger Words.” She is the team leader for the district’s AAC team (Augmentative/Alternative Communication), and she supervises graduate students in speech-language pathology from the UALR/UAMS graduate program. Mrs. Zraick also works with her students and their teachers to promote a positive environment where students with speech and language impairments can succeed.
Mrs. Fleming, a speech-language pathologist at Pulaski Heights Middle School, received the Louis M. DiCarlo Award for Clinical Achievement from ArkSHA. This award is given to an individual who has shown advancement of knowledge in clinical practice as evidenced by a significant recent accomplishment.
In 2008, Mrs. Fleming developed a web-based resource related to Medicaid reimbursement, IDEA compliance and service delivery. This resource was created while she was a member of ASHA’s Leadership Development Program. At the legislative level, Mrs. Fleming continues to work towards the passage of an appropriations bill for speech-language pathologists in the public schools; she has been involved with this legislative issue since 2004.
Mrs. Fleming is the current President Elect and Chair of the Salary Supplement Adhoc Committee for ArkSHA. In 2010, she will become the President Elect of the Council for State Speech and Hearing Association Presidents. She also has been appointed to the ASHA School Finance Committee; her term will run from 2010 to 2012.
Our students are still doing a phenomenal job on First in Math! As of October 19, we’ve earned more than 2,422,500 stickers! Furthermore, our students have solved more than 7.2 million math problems!!! The estimated time on task for the District is 20,000+ hours!!!
Cathy Hayes, an English teacher at Central High School, has been named 2009 Arkansas High School English Teacher of the Year by the Arkansas Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts (ACTELA). ACTELA, an affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), is a non–profit professional organization dedicated to celebrating and improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. Hayes will receive her award at ACTELA’s fall luncheon on November 5 in Little Rock.
The administrators and cafeteria crew at Henderson Magnet Middle School paused for a photo just before serving the first lunch period on Monday, October 12, which was the first day of National School Lunch Week. Henderson loves its lunch ladies!