Tech company honors Speas
for innovative teaching
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At Speas Elementary
School recently, first-grader
Chikiya Kinney started the
day for her class by stepping
up to the interactive white
board. By touching it, she
moved numbers and images
around to create a calendar
showing the month and day.
With help from other stu
dents who opened up the win
dow blinds, she moved on to
the weather report.
And then the whole class
was off to China, as teacher
Julie Merrill activated a live
video feed. Students could
look down on a street scene
and see first-hand that,
although it was morning ifT
Winston-Salem, it was night
in China.
Throughout each day,
Merrill uses interactive tech
nology for math, reading, sci
ence and such activities as
building words. The fact that
Speas is making technology
such an integral part of the
school day is one reason that
SMART Systems, the compa
ny that makes the interactive
technology used by the
school, named it one of 25
SMART Showcase Elite
Schools in the country for
2012.
SMART Systems Press Image
SMART Systems interactive whiteboards like this one are
being used to help local students learn.
Speas is one of many
schools in the Winston
Salem/Forsyth County school
system making interactive
technology integral to stu
dents' education.
"It's enhancing what the
teachers are trying to teach the
kids," said Sara Cook, the
principal.
The technology enables
teachers to do such things as
have students enter their
answers to questions into the
system, enabling the teacher
to get immediate feedback,
Cook said.
"The teacher can know
instantly who gets it and who
doesn't."
Through the live feeds,
students can not only visit
other countries but also watch
bears hibernating, something
that students at Speas have
done.
Speas had some interac
tive technology before a reno
vation and expansion that was
completed during the 2010-11
school year. As part of those
improvements, the school sys
tem spent a little more than
$163,000 to install the tech
nology in every classroom,
including such specialties as
art, music and English as a
Second Language (ESL).
Sessions to layout Medicare changes I
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Senior Services, Inc.,
and the Shepherd's Center of
Greater Winston-Salem are
offering a workshop for
individuals turning 65 (as
well as those who already
have Medicare) to learn
about the different insurance
options available, including
"Original Medicare,"
Medicare prescription drug
programs. Medicare supple
ments and Medicare
Advantage plans.
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held on Tuesday, May 1 at
the Senior Services, 2895
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dees on how to make smart
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on hand to answer questions.
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refreshments will be served.
Because space is limited,
reservations are required.
Contact Andi Reese at
Senior Services at 721-6957
for more information or to
reserve a seat.
Carver High honors
Honor Roll students
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Carver High School Principal Ronald Travis sent congratu
latory notes to 219 of his students for making the Second
Quarter Honor Role. The students were also invited to an
Academic Celebration on Wednesday, Feb. 8.
Ginger Amos, business partner chairman of the
HanesBrands/Carver High School connection, recognized the
honor students and gave them $20 gift
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made straight A's received a $50 gift
card to the HanesBrand Outlet store, an
honor roll certificate and candy.
The honor students included sopho
more Lucas Brim, who has made the
honor roll since he was in elementary
school. He wants to go to college and
study sports medicine, but he also wants I
to play football. Senior Kaitlin Sheppard I
has also made honor roll since elemen- I
tary school. She wants to be a nurse.
Travis
Freshman Jasmine Venable says she
is encouraged to keep her grades up so that she can play sports.
"I can't play sports if I don't have good grades, and 1 want
to go to college. I want to study business and culinary arts," she
said.
Tony Wall, director of Marketing and Btrsiness to Business
at HanesBrands, says that honor roll achievement is not the
only success they recognize.
"We honor Carver kids for many successes. Honor roll is
only one. It lends itself to getting them hungry for other suc
cesses," Wall said. "It makes them hungry for a better attitude,
improved attendance, improved grades, not just straight As, but
also pushing those who are potentially at risk. Success breeds
success."
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