Meet Your SCPS Leadership Team | |
To begin the new school year, each week, you'll meet a different member of the SCPS leadership team and learn more about what education means to them. | |
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Dr. Shawn Gard-Harrold
Asst. Superintendent for ePathways
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What's Cool in Our Schools | |
Rainbow Elementary Class Gets a BIG Surprise
On Patriots Day, Mrs. Haaland's class wrote letters to our local firefighters to thank them for their hard work and for being heroes. To the delight and surprise of our students, they received a special "thank you" of their own with hats and stickers for their kindness.
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Lyman High Students are Making Global Connections | |
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This year, Lyman High School has partnered with Kizuna Across Culture (KAC) for a unique learning experience for students at Lyman and in Japan. This program pairs 2nd and 3rd year students with English classrooms in Goto Nagasaki-ken, Japan! Mrs. Barbara Ihns led her class through Omiyage (Souvenir) Exchange, a cultural gift exchange where both American and Japanese students create curated cards and even pack some gifts for each other!
"What I love most about this program is that it has allowed my students the opportunity to meet other students from a different country and develop a real connection, a found commonality, and share mutual interests!" said Mrs. Ihns. This exchange allows both American and Japanese cultures to celebrate their differences while allowing the opportunity for them to learn more about each other!
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Mrs. Ihns continues, "From my perspective, they are learning two things first and foremost: that they don't have to be 'perfect' in their language in order to communicate. They already know that Japanese is one of the most difficult languages to learn, but as they see their counterparts make mistakes in English, they realize errors don't really matter- they get it. Also, I think all the students come to understand how we are all more alike than different." | |
Author Nancy Springer Visits Oviedo High School's Book Club
Oviedo High School's Book Club had the awesome privilege of famed author and writer of Enola Holmes, Nancy Springer who visited their book club. Springer participated in group discussion, and she even autographed their books! Our students were incredibly inspired and appreciative of this unique experience.
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Congratulations Lawton Elementary! | |
Third grade students at Lawton Elementary who read the genre of the month and passed the Accelerated Reader (AR) test get to have a picnic lunch for all of their hard work! Awesome job, 3rd grade! Go Panthers! | |
Lake Howell High School's Law Club Takes the State Title | |
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The Sunshine State Showdown is a state mock trial competition hosted by Florida State University’s Law Program. Among the most competitive mock trial competitions, schools drive and even fly in from all around Florida to compete every Fall. Annually, this event hosts between 16 to 20 teams with the majority being private schools. Lake Howell went head-to-head with the back-to-back state champions, American Heritage, who have a long history in Florida Mock Trial with their pre-law program. Lake Howell High School's Law Club not only beat them 2-0, but placed first and third overall in the state, while also taking home seven individual Best Attorney/Witness awards!
"Honestly, I could not be more impressed with their work. Even throughout the weekend, when at times they thought they were losing rounds, the students kept saying “keep moving forward”. It really did feel like we beat all the odds at this competition." said Mr. Amos Privette, Lake Howell High School's Mock Court Coach.
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Each October, National Principals Month recognizes the essential role that principals play in making a school great. Principals are among the hardest working, yet often least recognized individuals in education. SCPS would like to recognize and thank of all hardworking principals that impact our students and school!
Thank your principal today by clicking here!
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Community Involvement Division Wins Grant to Provide Reading Assistance to Struggling Students
We are so excited to share that Misa Mills, Manager of Community Involvement, and Lara H., a Dividend Reading Acceleration Program (RAP) leader won a grant from the Foundation for Seminole County Public Schools to purchase more materials to expand their program to serve more 1st and 2nd grade readers who are struggling.
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Pictured left to right: Jean VanSmith, Executive Director of the Foundation for Seminole County Public Schools, Misa Mills, Manager of Community Involvement, Lara H., RAP Trainer and Leader. | |
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We all know that Seminole County Public Schools has the best teachers! Now is YOUR chance to nominate a teacher that is making a difference to be featured for Spectrum News 13 A+ teacher segment. Just click the link below to nominate a teacher who inspires you!
Nominate a Teacher Now
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Vote for Goldsboro Elementary Magnet for an Additional $2,500! We are in the LEAD! | |
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It’s been almost a year since WOW!’s $45,000 donation to the Kids Space Lab at Goldsboro Elementary Magnet. They recently submitted their partnership for a broadband/cable industry award, and their project has been chosen as an ACA Connects Community Champion finalist!
Now it’s time to rally all our supporters to vote (as often as possible) for the Goldsboro Elementary Magnet project to win an additional $2,500 for the school's space lab.
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SCPS Receives CPR Donation from DUDA | |
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Did you know it is a state requirement for all 9th and 11th graders to have CPR training? Hagerty, Oviedo, Lake Howell, and Winter Springs High Schools will each receive one CPR learning kit donation from DUDA. Thank you to the DUDA Family for their generosity and helping our SCPS students with life-saving CPR training.
"Sharing our blessings is a cornerstone of DUDA’s business practices. We share 10% of our annual, after-tax earnings with the Duda family’s three charitable foundations. With the business’s portion, we seek to support local organizations and institutions that serve the communities where DUDA operates. Our giving is focused on faith-based institutions, conservation efforts, educational institutions, children and youth programs, various industry relations organizations, and healthy living initiatives. We were blessed to be able to give back generously to our communities this year, and as part of this, we were able to partner with the American Heart Association to give one CPR kit per high school in the areas where we operate in Florida and California. In total, 14 CPR kits will be donated to provide life-saving educational opportunities." - Cathleen Conley, Manger.
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Pictured left to right: Bonnie Schwartz, Heart Walker Development Director, Cailtin Pachoud,Senior Heart Walk Development Director, Mike Rice, SCPS Assistant Superintendent of High Schools, Tracey Chapman, DUDA, Mary Lane, SCPS Teaching and Learning, Serita Beamon, SCPS Superintendent, and Michael Weitermann, RN, SCPS Medical/Health Services Coordinator. | |
Orlando Magic Surprises Hagerty High School | |
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The Orlando Magic surprised Hagerty High with tote bags for students to shop in Avalanche's Attic! The Avalanche Attic is a donation-based area on the campus at Hagerty High for ANYONE - teacher, staff, or students to shop for free! There are everyday items such as jeans, t-shirts, sweaters, dresses, shoes, purses/backpacks, leggings, and essentially anything you could want or need for teens or adults, women and men.
SCPS is so grateful to them for this incredible donation that will make shopping so much easier. We also want to say a special thank you to everyone who has donated to the Avalanche Attic to ensure needs are met on our campus.
For more information about how you can donate new or gently used items, please Click Here.
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Free College Fair for SCPS Grades 6-12 | |
FREE Virtual Eclipse Viewing Watch Party | |
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Join the staff of the Emil Buehler Planetarium, Central Florida Astronomical Society, and the Seminole State College Library for an out-of-this-world eclipse viewing watch party on Saturday, October 14, 2023.
Planetarium Director Derek Demeter will share his view in the path of totality with the whole world through a solar telescope set up in the remote desert of Utah. Frank Kane of the Central Florida Astronomical society will showcase his view of the eclipse seen here in Florida through his telescope, "Scopey McScopeyface."
They will also be talking about the science of eclipses and other fun topics! Guests are encouraged to ask your questions of the science panelists!
The eclipse watch party will begin at 12 pm EDT or 10 am MDT. Annularity begins at 10:28 am MDT or 12:28 pm EDT. Maximum eclipse for Florida will be 1:32 pm EDT.
The watch party will be streamed from the Emil Buehler Planetarium official YouTube account here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiDICYf4VKw
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Explore Your Future at Seminole State! | |
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All SCPS Seniors are invited to Decision Day at Seminole State’s Sanford/Lake Mary Campus on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. Transportation options are available. Permission slips are due to guidance counselors by 11/3/2023.
Attendees will tour the Raider Center athletic facility, enjoy games, photo ops, and free food while learning about the College's 200+ academic and career programs, scholarships and ways to pay for college. Join us for Decision Day, and see how you can Go State. Go Far.
To learn more, visit sem.st/dd and register for the event!
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Free SCPS SCPS/UF Community Math Night | |
Open House at Seminole State College | |
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Our Mission
The mission of the Seminole County Public Schools is to ensure that all students acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be productive citizens.
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400 E. Lake Mary Blvd.
Sanford, FL 32773
407-320-0000
www.scps.us
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Seminole County Public Schools
Educational Equity - Notice of Nondiscrimination
Any form of discrimination or harassment can be devastating to an individual's academic progress, social relationship and/or personal sense of self-worth. As such, the School Board will not discriminate nor tolerate harassment in its educational programs or activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including sexual orientation, gender status, or gender identity), disability (including HIV, AIDS, or sickle cell trait), pregnancy, marital status, age (except as authorized by law), religion, military status, ancestry, or genetic information, which are classes protected by State and/or Federal law (collectively, "protected classes").
The Board also does not discriminate on the basis of protected classes in its employment policies and practices as they relate to students.
Equal educational opportunities shall be available to all students, without regard to the protected classes, age (unless age is a factor necessary to the normal operation or the achievement of any legitimate objective of the program/activity), place of residence within the boundaries of the District, or social or economic background, to learn through the curriculum offered in this District. Educational programs shall be designed to meet the varying needs of all students.
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