Presenters in State College

Mr. Kelley and Mr Walsh both presented at the Pennsylvania Association for Middle Level Education's Summer Institute event on June 27 and 28 in State College. Mr. Kelley was the Keynote presenter on Tuesday and his topic was "Getting Students Excited About Writing." He also presented a session on Monday entitled "Conferring with Digital Devices." Mr Walsh co-presented a session with Dr. Joe Johnson of Edinboro University entitled,"Technology Tools To Engage Middle School Learners." ‪#‎PattonProud‬!

Keynote at Longwood

The weekend of March 5th, Family and Consumer Science teachers Betsy Ballard and Kimberly Hisler were keynote speakers at Longwood Garden’s School Gardening Event and Kick-Off for the spring growing season. The Patton Garden project was showcased and former students, Brendan Boyle and Declan Boyle, were introduced to talk about how the Patton Project inspired them to create their successful Brown Bag Lunch Program.  As the premier school gardens in Chester County with 30 raised beds yielding over 10,00 pounds since the inception less than six years ago, Patton remains the inspiration for many other programs both state and nationally.  With over 49 schools and 121 sites in Chester County Patton’s Gardens have become the model for the Chester County Food Bank and were huled to have so much attention focused on our program. The Brown Bag Lunch program was inspired by The Patton Project FCS class, which showcases giving back to community and beyond.

Patton Knows Shrek!

The Patton Hawks really enjoyed this year's UHS production of Shrek The Musical! And did you know that besides all the former Hawks involved in the this year's performance, Patton Music Teacher Yvette Stratton served as the Vocal Music Director? Mrs. Stratton worked with the high school students for months to learn the challenging music. Congrats on a fantastic and fun production!

Patton Presenters

Patton will be well represented at the upcoming Pennsylvania Association for Middle Level Education Conference in State College at the end of this month. Sixth grade teacher Beth Nanis will be presenting a session entitled "But I Can’t Find It! Strategies for Going Paperless" while math teachers Stacy Remphrey & Megan Zimmermann will be presenting a session entitled "Using Manipulative to Meet Common Core Math Standards." Eighth grade teachers Josh Thomas, Hillary Brogan, Stacy Remphrey and sixth grade teacher Janice Lear will present a session about a popular eight grade activity, "Creating your own Amazing Race: Combining Fun with 21st Century Skills." Technology Teacher John Walsh will also be presenting and his session is entitled, "Start a Professional Learning Network (PLN) with Twitter." Good luck to all the Patton presenters!

Scott Stoltzfus and UHS TechEd teacher Mike Berkeheizer are presenting at the National ITEEA conference (International Technology and Engineering Educators Association) in Washington DC in March. The title of their presentation is "K-12 3D Printing in the Classroom". This is also one of the conferences that our TechEd program will be recognized for the "Program of Excellence" award for PA.

Book Love Podcast

We are Patton Proud of 8th grade teacher Brian Kelley who was interviewed by teacher, author, and advocate, Penny Kittle, on her Book Love podcast. In it, Mr. Kelley had the opportunity to share a story about the impact of student choice in his classroom. His segment begins at the 12:20 mark and only runs for a few minutes. Follow this link if you would like to listen: https://goo.gl/aDlnTb