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Welcome to the District News Page ~
Check back often to find out what's happening in "Saber" Country!
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Rachel's Challenge coming to SV
Rachel Scott was the first person killed at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. Her acts of kindness and compassion coupled with the contents of her six diaries have become the foundation for one of the most life-changing school programs in America. That program, Rachel's Challenge, is coming to Susquehanna Valley's Richard T. Stank Middle School and SV High School, Thursday, November 19.
According to information at www.rachelschallenge.org, powerful video/audio footage
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of Rachel's life and the Columbine tragedy holds students spell-bound during a one hour school presentation that motivates them to positive change in the way they treat others. This is followed by an interactive 45-minute training session involving both adult and student leaders that shows how to sustain the momentum created by the assembly. The assembly creates the “want to” or desire for positive change. The training session teaches the “how to” and ensures that the positive impact will continue.
The evening session for parents and community leaders is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. in the SV High School Auditorium. This session is similar to the assembly program and ends with a specific challenge to parents and community leaders, showing them how they can reinforce the decisions their youth are making. Entertainers, politicians, sports celebrities, educators, and even two Presidents of the United States have been impacted by Rachel’s Challenge. However, students are the target audience and they have proven that they will respond with positive words, attitudes, and actions. |
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SV High Students Shine in AP Program
Sixteen Susquehanna Valley High School students have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on AP exams. The College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) Program provided motivated and academically prepared students with the opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school, and to earn college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP exams.
At SV High School, these students earned AP Scholar Awards by completing three or more AP exams with grades of 3 or higher: Anthony Bedrin, Dylan Dougherty, Kelsey Hassig, Stephen Hassig, Alexander Martir, John Starzer, William Walden III, Bethany Watson and Samantha Williams.
These students earned AP Scholar with Honor Awards with an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams: Andrew Orzel and Leah Stark.
These students earned AP Scholar with Distinction Awards by scoring an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams: Cody McKinney, Fiona Modrak, Matthew Seidel, Russell Seidel and Morgan Wharton.
Thirteen of the SV students being honored graduated with the class of 2009. The remaining three (pictured at left top to bottom), Bedrin, Watson and Hassig are seniors this year.
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SV FACS teachers attend conference
The New York State Association of Family & Consumer Sciences celebrated 100 years in Lake Placid, NY, October 16 and 17, 2009. Charlene Reagan and Teresa Steflik from Susquehanna Valley's Richard T. Stank Middle School attended, along with more than 200 Family and Consumer Sciences professionals and students from across the United States.
At the "Celebrating the Past, Sustaining the Future" conference, experts in family and consumer sciences (FCS) content areas, such as personal finance, health and nutrition, resource management, apparel and textiles, and housing, presented strategies to help individuals, families, and communities sustain and improve the
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| quality of life while fostering a healthy environment.
The keynote speakers were Joyce Miles, an Ellen Swallow historian, and Pam Swallow, an Ellen Swallow relative and biographer. In addition to the keynote presentations and education sessions, attendees participated in numerous Centennial activities and special events. These included an Olympic torch lighting ceremony and a reenactment of a 1909 Lake Placid Club porch conversation with actors representing Melville Dewey and Ellen Swallow Richards, the founders of the discipline formerly known as "home economics" - now Family and Consumer Sciences, an intricate link between science, the environment, and human interaction.
The New York State Association of Family and Consumer Sciences represents over one thousand Family and Consumer Sciences professionals throughout New York State.
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SVHS Senior Zembek is All-American Scholar
The United States Achievement Academy has named Susquehanna Valley High School senior Michael Zembek an All-American Scholar. The USAA established this award program to recognize academic excellence. To qualify, a student must earn a GPA of 3.3 or higher and be nominated by a school instructor, counselor or other qualified sponsor. SV High School French teacher Sharon Rowe nominated Mike, whose profile will appear in the All-American Scholar Yearbook.
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Richard T. Stank Middle School students - with help from King Arthur - will be baking bread for C.H.O.W.! DETAILS HERE
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SV Board of Education elects 2009-2010 officers, gets down to business
The Susquehanna Valley School District Board of Education held its annual reorganization meeting Wednesday, July 15, 2009. Gerald Derrick was unanimously elected president of the board; Mary Haskell was unanimously elected vice president. Board Clerk Diane Kalmen administered the oath of office to the three board members who won seats in last May's election: Christine Moriarty, Timothy Stank and Raymond Storm.
Following the reorganization meeting and election of officers, the board held its first official regular meeting of the 2009-10 school year. Among the actions taken: the hiring of a new principal for Brookside Elementary School. Lynette Brunger replaces Joanne Simpson, who retired at the conclusion of the 2008-09 school year. The board also approved the hiring of high school math teacher Shauna Cody, high school social studies teacher Bret Naccarato and high school guidance counselor Colleen Callahan.
CLICK HERE to see pictures from the reorganization meeting.
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SV High School Fitness Center and Swimming Pool?
DOWNLOAD/PRINT A COPY OF THE
FITNESS CENTER/POOL BROCHURE:
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