The 2021-2022 building-level Teacher of the Year (TOY) and Support Staff of the Year (SSOY) honorees were surprised by special presentations. These staff members were nominated by students, parents and co-workers and chosen as the honoree from their building by their fellow staff members. They are:
In-person classes are canceled tomorrow, Feb. 24, in the Pattonville School District due to impending weather conditions. All district and school offices are closed. Tomorrow will be a virtual learning snow day for students. Students will take part in independent learning activities at home with online teacher support. Teacher’s hours of availability to support student learning will be shared on their student learning platform or via email. Other school and district staff will work from home unless other arrangements are made with their supervisors. All custodians, regardless of shift, should report to work at 10 a.m. As an awareness for family schedules, tomorrow’s virtual learning snow day will not need to be made up in the future, but this is the last virtual learning day Pattonville can use. Any future emergency days will either be a delayed start day or a traditional snow day.
In-person classes are canceled today, Feb. 18, in the Pattonville School District due to road conditions in some parts of the district. All district and school offices are closed. Today will be a virtual learning snow day for students. Students will take part in independent learning activities at home with online teacher support. Teacher’s hours of availability to support student learning will be shared on their student learning platform or via email. Other school and district staff will work from home unless other arrangements are made with their supervisors. All custodians should report to work at their normal time unless they receive other instructions from their supervisor. As an awareness for family schedules, today’s virtual learning snow day will not need to be made up in the future.
Students in the Program for Exceptionally Gifted Students (PEGS) at Rose Acres won a $10,000 grant in 2020 to purchase three hydroponic towers and have now put the grant project into action. They wrote the grant to show students how to grow healthy foods and to provide the food to the community.
Two years ago, Aliyah Brown and Eva Pulley were in third grade and wrote the grant for the Super Health, Super You Challenge created by Novo Nordisk, a multinational pharmaceutical company devoted to defeating diabetes. What started off as just an assignment to learn about grant writing under teacher Robin Chang’s direction was named a winner in the contest and the students received the funding to purchase the hydroponic towers.
“Since we’re back in school full time now after COVID, we were able to purchase the towers and we put them all together so we could start growing stuff,” said Pulley, who is now in fifth grade.
In-person classes are canceled today, Feb. 17, in the Pattonville School District due to anticipated weather and road conditions. All district and school offices are closed. Today will be a virtual learning snow day for students. Students will take part in independent learning activities at home with online teacher support. Teacher’s hours of availability to support student learning will be shared on their student learning platform or via email. Other school and district staff will work from home unless other arrangements are made with their supervisors. All custodians should report to work at their normal time unless they receive other instructions from their supervisor. As an awareness for family schedules, today’s virtual learning snow day will not need to be made up in the future.
The Pattonville Board of Education on Feb. 8 approved the selection of four educators to serve as administrators in Pattonville schools, effective July 1.