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

Miss Zimmermann on Desmos!

Patton teacher Megan Zimmermann had one of her activities selected to be in the Desmos.com Hall Of Fame!  She created an activity to help her students understand systems of equations.  The Desmos team periodically searches through the activities that users create and select a few to be featured.  Her activity will now appear in user searches at the site teacher.desmos.com with her name and collaboration from the Desmos team.

Grant Program Winner

The American Immigration Council is proud to announce Brian Kelley as one of two winners of the 2015-2016 Community Grants Program. The grant program is an initiative to provide educators and/or community organizers with the resources they need to implement a successful immigration curriculum or community-based project. Both winners have developed student-centered storytelling projects that engage students and families in writing and sharing immigration stories, past and present, while also demonstrating the important and varied contributions of immigrants to our country. Congratulations to Brian! Read all about it here.

Patton Presenters

Congratulations to Patton 8th grade Creative Writing teacher Brian Kelley as he co-presented on November 21 at the NCTE National Convention in Minneapolis. The presentation, "Seeking Authenticity: Student-Produced Media in a Participatory Culture" is a panel presentation to advance the composition and wide distribution of student-generated media. We are Patton Proud!

On October 16, Patton social studies teachers Janice Lear and Josh Thomas co-presented a workshop at the Pennsylvania Council for Social Studies annual meeting in Harrisburg. Their presentation is titled, "Using DBQ's to Drive Deeper Understanding". DBQ's are document-based questions, where students are given opportunities to practice analyzing primary source documents, and synthesizing what they have learned into a cohesive writing piece. Patton was represented at our state capital!

Patton math teachers Stacy Remphrey and Glen Lewis presented at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Regional Conference on October 23. Their presentation was entitled "Desmos + Algebra 1 = Deep Understanding x Fun" and is all about the awesome Desmos graphing software they use in their classes. Patton Proud in AC!

Pie In The Face!

The annual Unionville Relay for Life raised lots of money to combat cancer and Team Patton Power raised close to $5,000. And 7th grade made a big contribution to that with the Pie A Teacher Contest! Here's how it looked -- up close!