PASC News Inside This Issue News & Notes...................... 2 • Region A Rep Selected • Principal-Advisors-Leaders (PAL) Conferences Planned for the Fall of 2013 How Can Education Make the Grade?............................. 3 Mark Your Calendar for These PASC Summer Leadership Workshop Dates for 2013........................................ 4 Staff Applications Now Available for Workshops............. 4 State Conference to Feature Keynote by Monte Selby..... 5 Fundraising Ideas for “VH1 Save the Music” State Charity.................................... 5 Advisor Hotels Selected for the 2013 Conference.......... 6 Sunrise Mountain HS to Host NASC Conference............... 7 Service to Others Is a Trademark of the Harlan Rowe JHS Council........................... 7 IHats for Haiti: A Dollar Makes a Difference.............. 8
Volume 37 Issue 6 February 2013
Sophomore Sought for PA State Board of Education Since September 2008, a senior and a junior student have served on the Pennsylvania State Board of Education. The term of Senior SBE member Erin Agnew, of Springfield Township HS, will end with the SBE meeting on May 8–9, 2013. We are happy to announce that Emily Clark, Junior SBE member of Seneca Valley HS, will be appointed to serve as the next Senior SBE
Member. Last year’s state Board of Education reps (from left) Erin Agnew, Thus, PASC Dr. Frances Michelini, and Shannon Sullivan at the final SBE meeting for the 2011–2012 school year. has been charged with What Is the State the responsibility to select the Board of Education? next Junior SBE Member. This The State Board of Educastudent will be named this tion sets all policies regarding spring and will begin his or public school education in the her term as of July 1. HowCommonwealth. It consists of ever, Emily and the new Junior Councils of Basic and Higher Member will attend their first Education. The Board of Edumeeting together in mid-May. cation has 17 adult members continued on page 2
Energy Troopers: North Penn’s Hidden “Joule” Excerpted from the Knight Crier Online, Jewel Rama contributing writer Walking out of a North Penn High School classroom, bathroom, locker room, one notices the “Last out Lights out” stickers on the light switches. One would think that either teachers or the custodial staff would be responsible for these smiley reminders, but they are not the ones behind the cheerful labels. Actually, it is a small-unknown group within the high school known as the Energy Troopers. Comprised of about eight students, the group has been putting forth a strong effort to
steer North Penn towards a greener, more energy-efficient educational environment, and they have been very successful in doing so. Two years ago, a national organization known as “Power Save Schools” chose North Penn as one of the school districts in Pennsylvania to help train and endorse their effort to eliminate the waste of energy. A small group of NPHS students, who all share an interest in green practices and saving energy, formed a club known as Energy Troopers. Power Save Schools provided them with the proper tools and training to
allow them to go around North Penn and measure the amount of energy used throughout building. The Energy Troopers, lead by president Matt Nejako, produced a report based on the information and calculations that he and the other members had put together after doing work around the high school during the 2011–2012 school-year. This energy-saving report, which was presented to the School Board, included the objective, the methodology used, the numbers found, the calculations, the explanation of the calculations, and the continued on page 6