The annual prom dress discount store front will open its doors soon at Heritage Mall. My Best Friend’s Closet, sponsored by the Albany Public School Foundation, is currently accepting donations of gently used formal gowns that they can sell to students for $10 each.
The annual dress giveaway provides a tax deduction to donors and allows students to purchase dresses for prom that may otherwise be too expensive.
Northwest Community Credit Union recently visited the following Albany District schools to present four GAPS teachers with 2016 Project Community awards:
The following statement was released by the credit union to announce the selection of these outstanding educators:
We are proud of these winning teachers, and very much enjoyed the opportunity to visit on site and surprise teachers and classes in person. The entire process, from review of nominations, selection, and surprise presentation was rewarding for our staff, and gave them an added insight into the needs and challenges of public education today.
Albany’s district educators were among recipients of Northwest Community Credit Union’s annual educational program awards presentations completed in January, providing 67 Oregon educators funding support for project needs submitted in 2016. Winners from 48 schools and non-profits in 14 Oregon communities were selected with awards funding totaling $61,000.
Albany’s District 8J educators selected for project awards from the credit union are:
Calapooia Middle School science teacher Jennifer Hill is using her Project Community funding to purchase LEGO sets for the Robotics club.
Teacher Jane Bauserman (pictured above), Liberty Elementary School, is creating a listening center for her kindergarten class to use during reading time.
Sunrise Elementary School’s Shawna Mole is jump starting STEM learning by buying materials to add to her kindergarten class’ Exploration Station.
Tangent Elementary School teacher Jeanie Mowery received materials to allow her students to access the classroom’s audio book collection.
Liberty fifth graders are participating in an intensive study of pond life, which combines elements of microbiology and art instruction.
The project, sponsored by the Corvallis Arts Center, combines the talents of Artist in Residence Cheryl French and microbiologists from OSU in teaching students about pond life at the micro-organism level and how to represent it artistically.
On the art side, students will begin to see themselves as artists and explore the basics of modes of colors. The microbiologists will help students identify and understand the wide variety of micro-organisms that are components of pond life. The project will culminate with three-dimensional pieces that will depict micro-organisms to scale, printed on fabric, using both paint and ink.
On Monday, the School Board honored Student All-Stars from Sunrise Elementary School for earning the highest scores on the 2015-16 state assessments in language arts, math and science.
South Shore students (pictured from left) are Ariana Martinez, fifth-grade science; William Southwick, fourth-grade math; Quinn Turner, fourth-grade language arts; and Christian Wechter, third-grade mathematics.
Not pictured: Aidan Downey, third-grade language arts; and Lawrence Howard, fifth-grade language arts and math.
