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Three Pattonville School District teachers earned their certification as a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT).

Drummond Elementary second grade teacher Ashley Burd and first grade teacher Amber Wilson each earned certification in Generalist/Early Childhood and Remington Traditional English learner specialist Michele Hill achieved certification in English as a New Language/Early and Middle Childhood Path 2. 

NBCT is considered the gold standard in teacher certification and is designed to develop, retain and recognize accomplished teachers and to generate ongoing improvement in schools nationwide. Certification is awarded by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), and NBCTs can keep their certification active by completing a Maintenance of Certification (MOC) every five years.

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The Pattonville community programs department earned two grants worth nearly $3,000 from USA Lacrosse to support lacrosse programming for middle school students.

Pattonville earned a 2021 First Stick Youth Equipment grant worth $1,450 which provided the district with equipment for 10 field players and one goalie. Pattonville also earned a $1,500 grant from the USA Lacrosse National Diversity Grant Program.

“We will be using these grants to build the feeder program at the middle school level,” said JoAnn Greenwell, community programs supervisor. “This will offset some of the cost to make the sport more affordable to all students.”

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The Pattonville Heights Middle School cross country team won the district’s first intramural cross country meet. The 2-mile race organized by the community programs department was held at Remington Traditional on Wednesday with the course going through Vago Park. The high school cross country team attended to run as the rabbit and to cheer on and mingle with the middle school teams. Every participant received a free treat from Kona Ice after the race.

Team results

  1. Pattonville Heights Middle School (25 points)
  2. Remington Traditional School (32 points)
  3. Holman Middle School (94 points) 
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There are many ways to reward students for good behavior. A Remington Traditional teacher dyed her hair blue to reward hers. 

Libby Hilker, a second grade teacher, rewarded her students for earning more marbles than her in August by changing the color of her hair. 

“Every time they do something exceptional or just way above and beyond or if I notice a really great act of kindness, they get a marble,” she said. “Anytime they need to work on something a little bit, I get a marble.”

The class decided they were going to make a challenge out of it and at the end of the first month of school, the students had 208 marbles. Hilker had only 188. 

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Remington Traditional sixth grader Stephen Stewart Jr. was given a once-in-a-lifetime behind-the-scenes tour of the Maryland Heights Police Department.

Stewart was the first student selected by Officer Jeff King for the school's new Student School Resource Officer (SRO) Program. He arrived in style riding in King's D.A.R.E. police car and made personal connections with staff members in every department. 

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First graders at Remington Traditional sold cold drinks, water and snacks to staff members in order to raise money to buy new playground equipment.
 
They pitched the idea to principal Dr. Don Furjes and then opened the First Grade Snack Stand for business.
 
Before the end of the year, they raised enough money to purchase two new items for the primary playground: stepping stones and a large Connect 4 game.
 
The first grade teachers are Ms. Kelley Dent and Ms. Allison Grigone.
 
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