Tag: College Board
O’Malley, Brown, Busch, To Visit Jones Elementary Today
Today at 1:30 p.m., Governor O’Malley, joined by Lt. Governor Brown, House Speaker Busch, the Maryland State Education Association, and other officials, will hold an event at Jones Elementary School to celebrate Maryland’s public schools being certified today as #1 in the nation for the fifth straight year by Education Week Magazine. Earlier this week, [...]
O’Malley Announces $336 Million For Schools
Governor Martin O’Malley today announced $336 million in school construction funding and upgrades for Maryland’s public schools in the proposed FY2014 budget. This funding continues the O’Malley-Brown Administration’s commitment to modernizing and rebuilding Maryland’s public schools. In addition, the funding will create, support and leverage an estimated 8,100 jobs. Despite making more cuts to state [...]
Arnold Teacher Returns From Prestigious STEM Fellowship
This fall, Kevin Garner, an eighth grade science teacher from Severn River Middle School in Arnold, Md., will return to his classroom with a deeper understanding of how to integrate real world science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts into classroom instruction. This understanding comes as a result of his participation this summer in a [...]
Annapolis Teacher Returns From Prestigious Fellowship Program
This fall, Beth Foster, a teacher at Annapolis Middle School in Annapolis, Md., will return to her classroom with a deeper understanding of the practical implications of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts after spending part of her summer break engaged in an immersive research program at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Wash. Foster and a [...]
Severna Park Physics Teacher Wins Presidential Award
It’s not every day that science instructors get recognized by the President of the United States, but Severna Park High School physics teacher Barry Hopkins was notified by the White House that he had been named Maryland’s winner of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). The award is the highest [...]
Annapolis Middle School Teacher Wins Prestigous STEM Award
Beth Foster, a teacher at Annapolis Middle School has been chosen to participate in the prestigious Siemens Teachers as Researchers (STARs) fellowship program taking place this summer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)Office of Science national laboratory. Beth joins an elite group of just 40 middle and high school [...]
Reading Screenings At Summit School
On Saturday, February 11th from 9am-1pm, The Summit School will open its doors for a public reading screening event for 1st-8thgrade children between the ages of six and thirteen. Although not designed to diagnose learning disabilities, this screening will afford parents the opportunity to learn about their child’s reading strengths and weaknesses. All screenings are [...]
