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PHOTOS | Canton ES STEM Academy Expo

Submitted by Beth Sawicki, Where U Live Producer

Thursday, November 15th, 2012, 10:15am

Barbara Jacoby | Cherokee County School District

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Liberty ES wins School Bell Award

Submitted by Beth Sawicki, Where U Live Producer

Monday, November 12th, 2012, 11:07am

CANTON, Ga. -- Canton's Liberty Elementary School has won the Georgia Association for Elementary School Principals' 2012 School Bell Award.

Dr. Nicole Holmes, principal of Liberty Elementary, accepted the award at the association's annual conference in St. Simons on Nov. 3.

Every year, 10 Georgia schools win the School Bell Award for their curriculum and organizational leadership programs. Liberty Elementary was honored for its Implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI) School-wide Program.

"Liberty Elementary has adopted a different philosophy for the implementation for RTI, which includes an active role for staff, students, parents and community," Holmes said in a statement. "It is a priority for this staff to provide parents with the support needed at home. This method has been well received by the teachers and parents."

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Second grader makes blankets for nursing center

Submitted by Gary Parkes, Community Blogger

Monday, November 12th, 2012, 8:03am

Second grader makes blankets for nursing center

WOODSTOCK, Ga. -- Carmel Elementary School student Emmalee Nichols, was challenged in Mrs. Jill Noojin's second-grade class to do a community service project.

Emmalee, age 8, made ten fleece no-sew lap blankets for the Canton Nursing Center. Emmalee said, "I care about this project because people need our help, especially older people." The challenge was made in the spirit of Community Service Day, also known as Make a Difference Day (10/22/12).

PHOTOS | Make a Difference Day 2012

Emmalee’s parents, Wyatt and Michele Nichols, were very proud of her hard work and desire to help others. Carmel Elementary is nationally known for their character education program; they currently are the State School of Character for Georgia and have also received national acclaim.

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PHOTOS | Sequoyah HS Reflections winners

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Thursday, November 8th, 2012, 11:11am

Barbara Jacoby | Cherokee County School District

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Knox ES students raise money for Milton HS coach

Submitted by Beth Sawicki, Where U Live Producer

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012, 8:19am

Knox ES students raise money for Milton HS coach

CANTON, Ga. -- Students at Knox Elementary School in Canton are pitching in to help a local family.

Mike Scott, an assistant football coach at Milton High School, has Stage IV pancreatic cancer. Scott and his family live in Cherokee County; his daughter attends Canton's Liberty Elementary School.

When the students at Knox learned of Coach Scott's diagnosis, they wanted to raise money for his family. So the school hosted a special Hat Day that netted $600 for the Scotts.

"This was a Cherokee Zone initiative, and we were so happy to be a part of it," Knox Elementary principal Kelly Page said in a statement.

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Look for JROTC cadets collecting for the Empty Stocking Fund Nov. 3-4

Submitted by msleff on Friday, November 2nd, 7:02 am

More than 2,000 JROTC cadets from 30 metro Atlanta high schools
to participate in historic fundraising effort

On Saturday, November 3rd and Sunday, November 4th, visitors to metro Atlanta Kroger stores are likely to be met by a smiling, uniformed JROTC cadet with an Empty Stocking Fund logo, as more than 2,000 cadets representing 30 metro Atlanta high schools’ JROTC programs will be working outside metro Kroger stores to raise awareness of and contributions for The Empty Stocking Fund, an Atlanta-based, Atlanta-serving non-profit organization that has been providing holiday gifts to Atlanta’s neediest children since 1926.

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3 Cherokee schools among Ga. Reward Schools

Submitted by Beth Sawicki, Where U Live Producer

Thursday, November 1st, 2012, 8:24am

3 Cherokee schools among Ga. Reward Schools

WOODSTOCK, Ga. -- Three Cherokee County elementary and middle schools are among this year's Georgia Department of Education Reward Schools.

Reward Schools are the Georgia schools with the highest performance or biggest academic gains by students in the last three years.

"These schools are shining examples of what we can achieve in public education in Georgia," Superintendent Dr. John Barge said in a statement. "I want to take what's working at our Reward Schools and replicate that in every school in the state. These are the schools making education work for all Georgians."

Boston and Woodstock elementary schools were named Highest Performing Schools. These schools are among the top 5% of Title I schools in Georgia. To make the list, a school must make Adequate Yearly Progress in all groups and subgroups in 2011.

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