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PARTNERS IN EDUCATION

Sponsored by Renasant Bank

As part of the Chamber’s Education Committee goals to keep the pulse of cur-rent education in our county, the committee recently visited Canton Elementary School to learn about the Cherokee County School District’s S.T.E.M programs. The Canton ES administrative team provided a tour of the facility as well as an overview of the wonderful things happening in the areas of Science, Technolgy, Engineering and Math. Canton ES then opened their library for the committee to speak with administrators and conduct their committee meeting. Pictured above are Bonnie Ellis, Renasant Bank; Kathy Boyette, Reinhardt University; and Michelle Meek, Footprints Publishing as they watch students work together on the IPAD Table. Students left to right are Henry Loarca, Osvaldo Ruiz, Dustin Shirley, Isaiah Thomas, and Alan Balderas. Below, Principal Gwen Lince speaks to members of the Education Committee.

March

Calendar

April

17 Education Commit-tee Meeting, 8:30-9:30a.m. in the Cherokee County Chamber Board Room.

1 Begin accepting nom-inations for Partners in Edu-cation Excellence Awards. Deadline: Thursday, March 28th.

20 Begin accepting donations for Teacher of the Year Bags.

20 Last day to send in Teacher of the Year donations.

28 Deadline for applications for Part-ners in Education Excellence Awards

Education Committee visits Canton Elementary School

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2 Annual Excellence in PIE Recognition at the Chamber’s Goodmorning Cherokee breakfast meet-ing, 7:00a.m. at Northside Hospital-CherokeeConfer-ence Center.

6 Deliver Teacher of the Year Bags to schools this week.

14 Partnership Spotlight Edition 4 re-leased. Deadline for submissions of part-ner related news is May 10th.

20 Recognize Retiring Educators/Ad-ministrators this week.

Northside Hospital-Cherokee supports Creekland Middle School

Northside Hospital-Cherokee helped Creekland MS or-ganize a very successful blood drive with the American Red Cross for both the community and Creekland MS zone schools.

NSH-C has stayed busy donating funds to help Creek-land MS purchase an AED for the school as well as do-nating to the Success Maker Program. Top students in each class during the nine weeks of the Success Maker Program were given movie passes and Atlanta Braves tickets all donated by the hospital.

The hospital also partnered with Creekland MS during Aeropostale’s National Teens for Jeans Drive. Last year, Teens for Jeans collected over 1 million pairs of jeans from 12,000 schools across the nation. The jeans col-lected benefit selected homeless charities in Georgia. In three days Creekland MS collected 201 pairs of jeans for the homeless teens.

Pictured above is Creekland MS Principal, Dr. Deborah Wiseman, with Delane Cope, Northside Hospital-Chero-kee at their Red Cross Blood Drive. Pictured below left to right: Margeaux Copeland and Kevin Sedlacek, Aero-postale and Dr. Wiseman.

Reid Trego, Chairman ............................. Huntington Learning CenterChad Atkinson.......................................Modern Woodmen of AmericaKathy Bouyett............................................................Reinhardt UniversityRebecca Cooper .................................................Credit Union of GeorgiaDee Dee Doeckel ........................... Chattahoochee Technical CollegePhil Eberly ................................................................................. W.K. DicksonBonnie Ellis .............................................................................Renasant BankChuck Flagg............................................................................Cruise HolidayShelia Garrison ............................................................Individual MemberMelody Gullett ............................................................ Just Driver TrainingConnie Hopkins...................................Delta Community Credit UnionMichelle Meek................My Community Monthly Magazines/Footprints Publishing

Bill Mullin .......................................................................Individual MemberCatherine Owens .......................United Way of Metropolitan AtlantaRailene Seguin ...............................................Club-Z! In- Home TutoringClara Mae Van Brink ............AAMCO Transmissions & Total Car CareGreg Veal ..................................... Veal & Associates Home Inspections

Partners judge contest atJohnston Elementary School

A big thank you to Johnston ES’s Partners in Education for helping judge our writing stories for the Young Au-thor’s Fair. Johnston ES appreciates all the work our PIE’s do and they are eager to help at any time. Pictured are Anna Kozloff, Chick-fil-A Dwarf House; Kirk Buchholz, State Farm Insurance Kirk Buchholz Agency; and Erin McGee, Publix-Village Shoppes of East Cherokee.

The Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce Going Green Committee sponsored a two-day Newspaper Recycling Competition between ten of Cherokee County’s Elementary Schools. Boston ES collected an amazing 2,560 lbs. of newspaper during the two-day event, averag-ing approximately 5.2 lbs. per student! Great job Boston!!! Also doing a excellent job and coming in a close second with a 2,068 lbs. was Bascomb ES! Since they are a larger school, this averaged to about 2.2 lbs. per student. The following is the order in which the participating schools ranked by weight: Boston ES, Bascomb ES, Chapman IS, Sixes ES, Liberty ES, Mountain Road ES, Johnston ES, Holly Springs ES, Woodstock ES and Hasty ES.

Boston Elementary School wins Newspaper Recycling Competition.

Waste Management provided collection containers during the event and also assisted in determining weights col-lected, as well as recycling the newspapers. As a reward for their efforts and hard work, the Chamber presented each Boston ES student with a gift card for a free ice cream from one of three Chamber member restaurants; Cheeseburger Bobby’s of Canton Marketplace, Chick-fil-a of Towne Lake and IHOP of Woodstock. Seven of Boston’s PTA parent volunteers worked extremely hard to promote the event to their school. Therefore, the Chamber’s Going Green Committee also wanted to thank these parents for their hard work and presented them with a custom environmen-tally friendly insulated shopping bag which promotes not only the Chamber’s Going Green efforts but bag sponsor Express Impressions. The students, teachers and parents of all ten schools worked very hard to make this a friendly, educational and successful Recycling Competition! The Cherokee County Chamber would like to thank them all for their participation and the hard work that they put in to make it a success!

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Dr. Miles Mazzawi with Cherokee Children’s Dentistry, taught lessons on dental hygiene to the kindergarten class-es at Liberty ES. Liberty ES appreciates Dr. Miles and all his efforts!

Pictured above left to right; Addyson Herring, Presley Roe, Alli Eichenberger and Caitlin Smith as they help Dr. Miles clean teeth. Pictured at right is Marek Klos with Dr. Miles.

Cherokee Children’s Dentistry makes lessons on dental hygiene fun at

Liberty Elementary School

Macedonia ES would like to express their appreciation to Moss Family Chi-ropractic for their support of the Macedonia ES teachers and students this year. Dr. Moss recognizes that teachers who serve as grade level depart-ment chairs in the elementary schools give many extra hours for these du-ties without compensation. Therefore, he has generously supplied each of the department chairs with a complimentary one hour massage. Each month Dr. Moss supplies a complimentary 30 minute massage for Macedo-nia ES teachers who have been recognized by parents or their peers for go-ing “above and beyond”. Recently, Dr. Moss held a wellness clinic at a local church and brought by complimentary tickets for teachers to attend if they chose to do so.

Macedonia ES is also super excited to be implementing a science lab this year. The school contacted Dr. Moss and asked if he knew where they could buy a discounted human skeleton to display in the lab for students to study the human body. He immediately replied that he would like to purchase this skeleton for the lab and donate it to the school! Macedonia ES is very appreciative of Moss Family Chiropractic and all that Dr. Moss has given to the school this year. They have been a valuable asset!

Moss Family Chiropractic and Macedonia Elementary School

There are dozens of partnership success stories each mak-ing an impact on the schools in Cherokee County. Volun-teer opportunities are whatever people want them to be, as just one hour can make a difference in the life of a child. As business leaders you need to develop the human capital that exists right here in the community. Your future lead-ers and employees are eager to know you, learn from you and be inspired by you! Parternering is not just about filing papers in the front office. Partnering is about mentoring students, volunteering for special functions, providing in-ternships and/or job shadowing opportunities, sponsoring school clubs, helping with incentive awards for achieve-ment and/or attendance, serving as a judge for a school event, participating in career fairs, providing tours of local businesses for students, sharing resources, reading to a class, and many more! As you can see, there are many ways for you to make a dif-ference in the lives of Cherokee County students. Become a Partner in Education today!

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Cherokee High School student wins Just Driver Training Scholarship

Cherokee High School senior Tunde Aylinla recently re-ceived a driver education training partial scholarship from Just Driver Training. Owners Graham and Melody Gullett provided Tunde with driver awareness skills, proper vehicle control and the use of defensive driving techniques while preparing him for the driver’s exam, which he passed. The Gulletts said, true to his success on the school’s football team, “Tunde attempted the task with perseverance and determination and passed his test with flying colors.”

Pictured from left to right, Melody Gullett, Tunde Aylinla and Graham Gullett.

Students of the month at Clayton Elementary had a “Bo-Berry” good breakfast with Bojangles owner and new Part-ner in Education, Kristal Beaver. Mrs. Beaver arrived early with piping hot Bo-Berry biscuits for the students, and also presented each one with a coupon for a free kids meal at the Canton Bojangles. Pictured below are Rebecca Blocker enjoying a hot, made from scratch Bo-Berry biscuit. Carter Robertson is shown with Kristal Beaver, Bojangle’s.

Bojangle’s Hosts a “Bo Berry Good Breakfast”

at Clayton Elementary School

Partners Assist Teasley Middle School

With First Annual Bingo Night

Teasley Middle School recently hosted its first annual Bingo Night on March 1st. The purpose of this PTSA sponsored event was to elicit student and communi-ty support for the school while also raising money. No fundraising event is successful without valuable partici-pation, so in true Teasley MS fashion, students, parents, staff and community members got involved. They do-nated items for prizes in six different categories: Family Fun & Games, Dining Out, Movies & More, Sports Fanatic, Spa Beautiful, and Pampered Pet. Teasley MS Partners in Education, Scentsy Wickfree Candles, Kroger-#402, Pub-lix-Riverstone, Cherokee Lanes Bowling, Play-N-Trade-Canton, and Stevi-B’s-Riverstone generously donated many of the items for the baskets as well. Teachers do-nated their talent and time selling tickets, working the concessions, and serving as MC’s. The Teasley MS cafete-ria was full of Bingo players, and the event raised over $2,000.00! It looks like Bingo Night will become an an-nual event at Teasley MS, and we express gratitude to all who participated in making it a huge success!

Chapman Intermediate School and Ribley Chiropractic became Partners in Education at the beginning of the 2012-13 school year. Ribley Family Chiropractic hosted a teacher luncheon and massage session to honor the commitment and dedication of Chapman’s exceptional teachers. Teachers enjoyed free massages, a catered lunch, and a sweet treat. Ribley will return to Chapman soon to honor the custodial and cafeteria staff.

Pictured below top to bottom are Daniel Carrasquillo and Tara Karjane, Ribley Family Chiropractic. Teachers enjoying the amazing catered lunch are left to right, Leigh Talley and Melissa Dudek.

Chapman Intermediate School and Ribley Family Chiropractic

The Rotary Club of Canton recently participated in two of the Canton Elementary STEM Academy’s special events. Students enjoyed presentations by Rotarians during the Career Day for the 5th and 6th grade classes. Also, several Rotarians joined in on the educational fun and festivities for Read Across America Day. An amazing day was had by all, and Canton ES is SO PROUD to have such a dedicated PIE to come out and support our students. Pictures above left to right are Rotarians John Longino and Susan White. Other Rotarians who participated but not pictured includ-ed Peter Gleichman, Marguerite Cline, and Dr. Susan Padgett-Harrison. THANK YOU, Rotary Club of Canton!!!

Rotary Club of Canton supports Canton Elementary School

through Career Day and Read Across America Day

Knox ES celebrated Read Across America Day on March 1st. Media Specialist, Dixie Harper, organized guest read-ers, Seuss-y Snacks, a book mark contest, as well as the morning news crew rhyming their broadcast. Several of the distinguished guests included: Robert Wofford, Cherokee County School Board; Esther Breneman, CCSD technology department; Megan Loudermilk, Chick-fil-a Canton Riverstone Pkwy; Megan Thornton, Cherokee Tribune; Clara Mae VanBrink, AAMCO Transmissions and Total Car Care; Phyllis Miller, The Bounce House Amusement Center and Carolyn Hall, Scentsy Wickfree Candles.

Pictured are Seuss-y Snacks like Oobleck Punch and Dr. Seuss’ birthday cake for the teachers and guest readers and Clara Mae Van Brink dressed as Raggedy Ann.

Partners Speak at Knox Elementary School for Read Across America Day