Come out and enjoy a day in the outdoors with Auburn University’s chapter of the Wildlife Society. Students will spend the day learning about the great outdoors by participating in hands on learning experiences. This will be structured much like a one day camp that is designed to educate children and introduce them to some new and exciting things in the outdoors. Students won’t want to miss this action packed day! Sign your child up online today, registration is quick and easy! Just go to

https://sites.auburn.edu/academic/sfws/development/SitePages/Wildlife_Youth_Day_Registration.aspx

3^rd-5^th Graders

Saturday, March 23^rd

8:30 a.m. -3:00 p.m.

Mary Olive Thomas Demonstration Forest

If your family is experiencing financial hardship due to an unstable housing situation, your children may qualify for certain rights as defined by the McKinney-Vento Act.  For an overview of your rights under the McKinney-Vento Act, please view one (or both) of the attached flyers.

Water Festival Logo Design Finalists Chosen

Macon County's fourth graders had an opportunity to design the t-shirt logo for the 1st Annual Macon County Water Festival. Students from Deborah Cannon Wolfe, Notasulga High, and Tuskegee Public Schools submitted entries for judging.  Each design had to include this year's theme:  "The Wonderful World of Water".

The purpose of the festival is to provide our 4th graders with a fun-filled activity while learning about all aspects of groundwater and other related natural resources to include surface water, wetlands, forestry, wildlife, etc. and to instill in them a general environmental awareness and appreciation and stewardship ethic. The students will learn where their drinking water comes from and how to protect and keep it clean.

Finalists include Andrea Avery - NHS, Sarah Hassanin - TPS, Mickayla Hutcherson - TPS, Teaivous Jones - TPS, Malcolm Moss - TPS, Destinee Powell - DCW, and Dashayla Robinson - DCW,

Water Festival Details: 

Who:       4th Graders

When:    Monday,  March 18, 2013

Where:   Tuskegee Public School

Time:      Student Registration: 8:30 a.m.

The finalists were chosen by members of the Macon County Forestry Planning Committee.  The final designs are below:

Destinee Powell - DCW

Mickayla Hutcherson - TPS

Sarah Hassanin - TPS

Teaivous Jones - TPS

Andrea Avery - NHS

Dashayla Robinson - DCW

Malcolm Moss - TPS

It’s great news for Macon County Schools!
Mr. Tracy Stacy receives an Agriscience Extended Contract Grant for the 3rd Year in a Row.
Mr. Tracy Stacy, Macon County Schools’ Career and Technical Education instructor, was recently approved and awarded an $18,000.00 Agriscience Extended Contract Grant. The application is a competitive process where the application is read and scored by a team of field readers. Congratulations, Mr. Stacey, we are proud of you and know how much this award will benefit our students. We encourage all staff and faculty to seek grant resources to benefit their efforts in teaching and learning.
----Dr. Lelia W. Frank, Program Director
----Dr. Melvin A. Lowe, III, Program Coordinator
Keep up the great work!!! And, everyone, spread the good news about Macon County Schools.

An Out-of-This-World Experience

Macon County’s students were invited to attend a Black History Program in Birmingham on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 and had the awesome opportunity to meet Rocket Scientist Angelia Walker. This year’s theme is “At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington”.

When the offer was extended to Booker T. Washington High, Notasulga High and Tuskegee Institute Middle Schools, principals quickly determined the excursion would be a great opportunity for male students. Each school selected 20 students who represented Macon County well. While there, the young men had the honor of participating in the program by leading the Pledge of Allegiance along with the Birmingham Federal Agencies Partners Veterans and two other local schools. During the program, the students had an opportunity to ask the Tuskegee University graduate questions.  Afterwards, Ms. Walker took time to hang out with students and participate in a photo shoot. 

A special thanks to Mrs. Debra Pippen Johnson and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Birmingham Federal Agencies Partners for coordinating the event and extending the invitation to 60 deserving students.

Tuskegee Institute Middle School Students and Scientist Angelia Walker

Notasulga High School Students and Scientist Angelia Walker

Booker T. Washington's Students Standing to Be Recognized

Macon County Partners with Character@Heart

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character -- that is the goal of true education.”  State legislators confirmed their support of this statement in 1995 when Act 95-313 was enacted. It was then that the Alabama Legislature mandated that character education is taught a minimum of ten minutes per day in our classrooms.

Funding has never been provided to support character education programs, so school systems have had to find creative means of funding character education. Thanks to local school administrators and teachers that students have been able to participate in many character building activities outside of the classroom. Currently, Macon County has partnered with Character@Heart to find some relief. Deborah Cannon Wolfe, George Washington Carver Elementary, Notasulga High and Tuskegee Public Schools will benefit from opportunities offered by Character at Heart.

Character@Heart is a non-profit organization in Montgomery that provides character education curriculum to elementary school children throughout the state. Character@Heart was recently awarded a grant from the Daniel Foundation to assist in a new project to spread “Character Across Alabama”. The grant has enabled Character@Heart to offer its curriculum to three additional counties and/or school systems, including Macon. Character@Heart has developed a curriculum which covers the 25 mandated character traits and provides books that correspond to every trait as well as activities. The 25 mandated character traits are listed below:

Dr. Brooks affirms that Macon County Schools’ administrators and staff strongly support character education and realize that building character in our students means building children who grow to become productive adults.  As a result, a district team recently attended a training for Character Coordinators. Mr. Asberry, Ms. Williams, Mrs. Hooks, Mrs. Eula Marshall and Dr. Venesia McClaney received an overview of the Character@Heart curriculum, and a set of books was provided for the district coordinator to use while providing training to others.

For more information on Character@Heart, you may visit www.characteratheart.org. Staff includes Pam Morgan, Executive Director; Brenda Blount, Director of Development; Peggie Ennels, Administrative Assistant/Technology Coordinator and Lisa Powell, Program Support and Training.

Macon County Students to Meet NASA Scientist

Macon County’s students have been invited to attend a Black History Program in Birmingham on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 and have the awesome opportunity to meet Rocket Scientist Angelia Walker. This year’s theme is “At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and The March on Washington”.

While there, students from Booker T. Washington High, Notasulga High and Tuskegee Institute Middle Schools will have the honor of participating in the program by leading the Pledge of Allegiance along with the Birmingham Federal Agencies Partners Veterans and two other local schools.

During the program, the students will have an opportunity to participate in a Question and Answer session with the Tuskegee University graduate.

Leader, Engineer, Mentor, Rocket Scientist and Safety Guru are some of the references used to describe Ms. Walker. She has worked more than 24 years with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Marshall Space Flight Center in numerous progressively responsible positions in the Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA) and Engineering Directorates, such as: the Spacecraft and Vehicle Systems Chief of the Systems Engineering and Integration Division where she led 135 System Engineers in the development design integration, and system analysis of the United States’s next heavy lift capability launch vehicle that will carry humans and cargo into deep space and beyond. These missions are targeted for locations such as asteroids, the moon, Lagrange points and Mars.

Currently she is Deputy Director of Safety and Mission Assurance.

Before the retiring of the United States Space Shuttle, she supported the hardware propulsion elements readiness for flight for twenty years. She was NASA’s first African American female Quality Engineer for the Solid Rocket Booster and Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Elements as well as its first African American Female to serve as the Space Shuttle Propulsion Elements Deputy Chief Engineer.

Ms. Walker earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Tuskegee University; is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute; and a 2005 Fellows graduate of Harvard University School of Business Executive Managers Development Program. She also attended Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia.

Excerpt from http://alafricanamerican.com/aug.html

A special thanks to Mrs. Debra Pippen Johnson and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Birmingham Federal Agencies Partners for coordinating the event and extending the invitation to Macon County’s students.

Workforce Development Improvement Act
Macon County, Shorter, and Notasulga
If you are interested in improving your quality of living, education, employment status, and self esteem; this program is for you. If you are tired of not being able to get a job because you don’t have the necessary skills; this program is for you. If you don’t seem to be able to advance in your current job; this is the program for you. If you are facing graduation and don’t have an idea of what you want to do; this is program for you. If you just need some life/career coaching; this is the program for you.
Open enrollment with limited seat; you need to call today. The program will operate Monday – Thursday from 9:00a.m. – 7:30p.m. The program will be located in the Macon County Public School System’s Alternative Learning Center and the Career & Technical Center located at 1902 Taylor Street Tuskegee, Alabama 36083
The program will begin February 4th 2013 and the program is FREE.
For information please call:
Dr. Melvin Lowe, III, EdD – Education Coordinator / Program Administrator
334-724-1236 ext. 12089 or e-mail: lowema@maconk12.org
Or:
You may also contact Mayor Willie Mae Powell (Town of Shorter)
334-727-9190 – office
mayor@shorteralabama.com
Or: Call the Macon County Board of Education at 334-727-1600
Do not let this opportunity for success pass you by. Please encourage a person in need of these services to call. We look forward to assisting you.
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