“Read Across America”

Today is “Read Across America Day” in honor of the birthday of Dr. Seuss.  A huge number of community members have come into our schools today to read to children.  It’s been really exciting and I know how much the teachers and students have appreciated it.  Many thanks to Mike Wallace from the Target Distribution [...]

Thursday…..

I was walking around over in the Fine Arts area at Camden High School and came upon the juniors on the Prom Committee working on decorations. They have done an outstanding job! Really creative and well-done!
Last evening, Teacher Forum held its annual “Cornbread and Issues” session with our legislators. I think our legislative delegation was [...]

Absolutely Beautiful!

While I was up in the North Central area yesterday, I saw  the finished North Cental High School track.  Absolutely beautiful!  I know that over 80 students are out for track at NCHS this spring.  Can’t wait to see them running on the new (and long overdue) track!  A great day for the Fighting Knights!

Go ‘Dogs!

I attended the state playoff basketball game at Camden High last night.  The Bulldogs pulled off an impressive 20-point win over a very good Lake City (Florence) team in front of a capacity crowd at the “Dog Pound.”  Great atmosphere!  The ‘Dogs now go on to play the next round at a neutral site this [...]

Appalachian Dulcimers

For the past two weeks, all of my classes have been participating in a unit of instruction on the Mountain Dulcimer.  I am fortunate to have a class set of 25.  The dulcimer is a simple, stringed folk instrument that is played by fretting one string and strumming across all three strings.  They are a [...]

Meeting With The CMS Faculty

I really enjoyed spending time with the Camden Middle School faculty yesterday afternoon.  I had been invited to talk about the current status of the budget and the implications of the budget for the 2009-10 school year.  Being an old middle school teacher, assistant principal, and principal, I always find it energizing to spend time [...]

Going Paperless At Midway

The faculty at Midway designated today as “paperless day.”  The idea is to use technology in place of paper-driven activities.  When I visited this morning, I saw some really creative and engaging activities going on. Kudos to the Midway folks for pushing the envelope a little to try this.  I think there’s a lot to [...]

Doby’s Mill – Robotics Champs!!!!!

When my phone rang late Saturday afternoon, I can’t say that I was expecting good news…But on the other end of the line was Doby’s Mill Principal Ginger Catoe and the Doby’s Mill Robotics Team.  They were calling from Clemson to tell me that they had just won the state championship and would be going [...]

School Report Cards

Anyone that I have ever worked with will tell you that I am absolutely focused on accountability.  That being said, I’m not sure what the State School Report Card really tells us.  Anyone who knows anything about schools knows that there are countless variables involved in the operation of an individual school.  Therefore, it seems [...]

Awards Dinner

As always, I was honored last night to be invited to attend the Annual Awards Dinner sponsored by our local VFW and American Legion Posts.  A number of our students were honored for their successful participation in the “Patriot’s Pen” and “Voice of Democracy” competitions.  I am extremely grateful to the American Legion and the [...]