Shout Outs

“REACH” Excellence in Teaching and Learning…

Shout-Out to Dr. Laura Smith for creating the above logo that will be the new ‘REACH…Lead-In for recognizing individual or group accomplishments. Thanks for your creativity. I like the symbolism.

Shout-Out to SGA students: Maya Dawit, Shiela Crisostomo, Alden Grobicki, Jahin Patwary for being the primary presenters during the most recent HCPSS Board of Ed meeting representing Long Reach High School and our learning community.. Thanks for all of your investment of time, preparation and attention to your delivery processes to ensure success and the reputation of Long Reach High School as an outstanding educational community. The Bd of Ed members were very complimentary and appreciated the information. They were also quite impressed with the many LRHS initiatives that have had a positive effect on our environment, including the acquisition and implementation of sensors for energy conservation, the many fundamental humanitarian efforts (locally, nationally and internationally) to help our follow citizens who are in need, and most recently, the efforts to assist those folks devastated by the earthquakes in Haiti…l Please think of the future to duplicate these outstanding presentations.

Shout-Out to LRHS ITLs and Administrators for completing in such a timely fashion our own ‘very professional’ and ‘Very Professional Day’ Student Engagement Agenda for 22 April 10. Since our experts are within these walls, I believe that you will be very impressed with the learning events scheduled.

Shout-Out to Glen Smith for organizing, facilitating and supervising the County Math Team Meet competition this week. Our students did very well and our school looked even better. Thanks for all of your efforts.

Shout-Out to Tonia Miser for her role in maintaining the stability and equilibrium academically supporting two classes of reading while helping to facilitate the transition of Janet Freeman through her recent retirement. Tonia also took over the responsibilities of Janet’s course work and the care of her students to ensure that the students did not miss the essential curriculum continuing to maintain their success continuous improvement. We would again like to welcome Mary Grace Benson who will be our long term substitute and who has taken on a huge challenge to support our students until the end of the year.

Shout-Out to the LRHS English Department for responding as a veteran team to multiple challenges that required sensitive and caring efforts to establish and maintain the most effective academic environment possible under the circumstances. I am very fortunate to have you all as colleagues.

Shout-Out to Robin Flood for sponsoring, organizing, supervising and facilitating the HCPSS Dance Festival Competition. This annual event provides students an opportunity and the proper platform to perform in front of an audience made up of adults and students from all parts of the county in a very competitive manner.

Shout-Out to Ms. Rice and her outstanding LRHS Cheerleaders for taking 1^st Place Varsity January 28 , 2010 in the Urbana High Winter Invitational Cheerleading competition. Ms. Rice is exhausted and rightly so… You continue to make me very proud. Thank you for all of your efforts.