By Keysha DrexelJournal editorThe state Department of Education has named three Over the Mountain teachers to the “Sweet 16” pool of candidates for the next Alabama Teacher of the Year.Ann Marie Corgill of Cherokee Bend Elementary School in Mountain Brook along with Hoover City Schools’ Ellen Anson of Rocky Ridge Elementary and Craig Thompson of Spain Park High … [Read more...]
Homewood Schools Spotlight Career Tech
To mark National Career and Technical Education Month, Homewood City Schools is putting the spotlight on its Career and Technical Education programs, which serve students in the sixth through 12th grades.Homewood Middle School offers the career technologies, teen connections and teen discovery programs. Homewood High School offers the food and consumer sciences and the Air … [Read more...]
Hoover Teacher, Students Earn Finley Awards
Two Hoover City Schools students and a faculty member were recently honored for exhibiting exceptional character.The school district honored its 2014 Finley Awards winners March 20 at the Finley Awards Banquet at the Cahaba Grand Conference Center on U.S. 280.Michael Zelwak, a teacher at Spain Park High School, won the faculty Finley Award. Student Finley Award … [Read more...]
How to Peg an Egg: Beeps Guide Visually Impaired Kids at Wilsonville Hunt
By Taylor BurgessJournal InternOak Mountain Intermediate School fourth-grader Rachel Hyche admits she is independent."The first words I ever said were 'I want to do it by myself,'" she said.Hyche is also a visually impaired student, but if anything, this has made her more determined to do things herself, she said.On April 5, the annual Beeping Easter Egg … [Read more...]
Green Achievement: OTM Schools Earn Green Ribbon Awards
The Alabama State Department of Education recently recognized two Over the Mountain Schools for reducing environmental impact, promoting health and ensuring a high-quality environmental and outdoor education.Homewood Middle School in Homewood and Brock's Gap Intermediate School in Hoover have been named the state's 2014 Green Ribbon Schools.Both schools are now in … [Read more...]