Mountain Brook City Schools Superintendent Dickey Barlow models on the catwalk at last year’s Schaeffer Eye Center Fashions for the Foundation event. This year’s fashion fundraiser will be Sept. 16. Journal file photo
Fashions for the Foundation Is Sept. 16 Mountain Brook City Schools students, teachers and parents will take turns on the catwalk for a good cause at an upcoming fundraiser. The Schaeffer Eye Center Fashions for the Foundation event will be Sept. 16 at 11:30 a.m. at The Club in Homewood. The event will benefit the Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation. The foundation has several projects benefiting schools in Mountain Brook, including an iPad pilot program, a model interactive classroom, and new books and technology supplies at each of the system’s six school libraries. The foundation holds a summer learning conference at Mountain Brook High School each year and established the Mountain Brook Center for Innovation to give teachers a place to research ideas for their classrooms. The foundation also helps provide the salaries for the school system’s math coaches. The students, teachers and parents participating in the fundraiser fashion show will model the latest styles from several Mountain Brook stores. Tickets to the Schaeffer Eye Center Fashions for the Foundation are $50 each or $800 for a table of eight. Doors open at 11 a.m. For more information, contact Anne Womack, the foundation’s director, at mbcsfoundation@bellsouth.net or 4140042 or the Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce at 871-3779.
ACT Scores Up in Vestavia Hills for Second Year Students in Vestavia Hills City Schools raised the district’s average composite ACT score for the second consecutive year, scoring more than five points higher than the state composite average, ACT reported last week. According to ACT officials, 433 Vestavia Hills students took the ACT in the 2013-14 academic year. Those students who took the test scored an average composite of 25.8 on a 36-point
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scale. The average composite for the 37,985 students statewide who took the test was 20.6, according to ACT. This marks the second year in a row that Vestavia Hills students raised the district’s ACT average. VHCS students scored an average composite of 25.6 in 2013 and 25.3 from 2010 to 2012. ACT also announced Wednesday that 58 percent of Vestavia Hills testtakers had met or surpassed all four of its “college readiness benchmark scores,” which ACT defines as the scores needed to indicate a 50 percent chance of earning a B or higher in college-level English, algebra, social science and biology. More than two-thirds of Vestavia Hills students met or surpassed at least one of the college readiness benchmark scores, ACT reported. By comparison, only 21 percent of test-takers statewide met the benchmark in all four areas. “We are proud of the hard work that has gone into preparing our students for this standard of success and for their postsecondary endeavors,” Vestavia Hills Superintendent Sheila Phillips said. “We will continue to focus on providing educational experiences that prepare our students for this level of assessment.”
Homewood Group Will Host Forum on Oct. 28 The Safe & Healthy Homewood Coalition, in conduction with Bradford Health Services and the Addiction Prevention Coalition, will host an informational forum on teen marijuana use at Homewood High School Oct. 28. The free event will be from 6-8 p.m. at the school at 1901 Lakeshore Drive. Seating is limited, and parents are asked to register early at http://goo.gl/ ajc6kl. The forum will be led by Kevin A. Sabet, who has more than 18 years of experience working on drug policy. Sabet is the director of the Drug Policy Institute at the University of Florida and an assistant professor in the College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. He is the co-founder of Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana). From 2009-2011, Sabet served in the Obama administration as the senior adviser to the director at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Cassady Joins ISS Staff Indian Springs School has a new director of admission and financial aid to start out the new school year. Birmingham native Claire Cassady has joined the school as Director of Admission and Financial Aid. Cassady will Claire Cassady lead enrollment initiatives and organize on- and off-campus admission events for Indian Springs, which is nationally recognized as a leader in coed boarding and day education for grades 8-12. Cassady previously served as Assistant Director of Admission &
Financial Aid at Saint Mary’s School in Raleigh, N.C., where she coordinated campus visits for prospective students and their families, managed the school’s financial aid budget, and served as dormitory head, ninth-grade class adviser, and 11th-grade speech mentor. A 2011 graduate of Vanderbilt University, Cassady received her B.S. in Child Studies from the Peabody College of Education. Before college, she boarded during grades 9-12 at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tenn., where she was awarded the school’s first Distinguished Scholar four-year merit scholarship. The daughter of ISS alumnus Ed Cassady ’76, she attended Advent Episcopal School in Birmingham for grades K-8. “I am thrilled to be joining Indian Springs as the new Director of Admission,” Cassady said. “For over 60 years, Springs has cultivated a sense of curiosity and a love of learning in its students. I have admired the school since my childhood visits to the campus with my father, who is a very proud alum, and I look forward to working with students and families from across the state, the country, and the world to continue Springs’ tradition of excellence.” Indian Springs School is a private day and boarding school in North Shelby.
Pizitz Students Build Robots Over the Summer Rising sixth-graders at Pizitz Middle School spent part of their summer break learning to build robots and entering their creations in contests. At the Pizitz Middle School Robotics Summer Camp June 9-12, 20 students built and competed with 10 robots. Many of the students will join the Pizitz Middle School robotics team when school starts in August. The team participates in several competitions throughout the school year, including state contests in Huntsville and Mobile, nationals in Dallas and the world championships in Anaheim, Calif. The students will also have a chance to attend the VEX Robotics International Summer Games next year in Honolulu.
Crestline Teachers Attend Summer Workshops Teachers at Crestline Elementary School in Mountain Brook spent part of their summer back in the classroom. Chris Jakicic, an author and consultant, came to the school June 12-13 to lead workshops on understanding the role of essential standards and designing assessments to measure the standards and guide instruction.
Jakicic met separately with the Crestline Elementary kindergarten through third-grade teachers and the fourth through sixth-grade teachers. The Crestline Elementary School PTO provided the funds for the workshop, lunch for the teachers and a stipend for those attending. Crestline Elementary Principal Laurie King said Jakicic’s workshops were so effective that the school hopes to bring her back on Jan. 5 to continue working with the teachers.
Special Board Meeting Planned in Vestavia The Vestavia Hills Board of Education has called a special meeting that will be held next week. The board will meet at 6 p.m. on Sept. 9 to vote on the school system’s 2014-2015 budget. The board has met several times in public budget hearings over the last few weeks to hammer out the details of the new budget for Vestavia Hills City Schools. Public budget hearings were also held on Aug. 27 and Sept. 3. The Sept. 9 meeting will be held in the board room at the Board of Education meeting at 1204 Montgomery Highway. For more information, visit www. vestavia.k12.al.us.
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