Reminder to Families: Monday, September 18, is a Division Professional Development Day for Teachers. There is no school for students.
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Reminder to Families: Monday, September 4 is a holiday for ACPS students and staff. Schools and offices are closed.
Weapons Detector Community Update - 8.24.23
ACPS will begin utilizing weapons detector systems in our schools in the near future. Systems will be in use at all points of the day - arrival, dismissal, mid-day visitors, etc. The following items will alert this system and will need to be handed off before students and visitors proceed through the detectors: laptops, 3-ring notebooks, umbrellas, eyeglasses cases. Assistance will be available to students and visitors as we develop new school entry routines. More information continues to be available here: https://www.augusta.k12.va.us/o/acps/page/weapons-detectors
ACPS reading specialists are attending The Virginia Literacy Act training in Charlottesville!
All ACPS activities and events for this afternoon and evening are postponed due to the forecasted severe weather. Your school's principal will communicate school-specific details of rescheduled events in the near future. No ACPS activities and events will be held in our schools or on our school grounds today, Monday, August 7. All ACPS offices are closing at 3:30 today.
Augusta County teachers and staff were invited to the Assistive Technology and Special Education Curriculum Fair last week. Teachers and staff were able to interact with the many options available for supporting all students.
These special educators are preparing to support students by participating in professional development for school team leaders and specialized reading instruction.
We welcome our eager, new inclusive preschool teachers! They have worked to learn program expectations, procedures, framework, and curriculum programming. We are excited for a new year with new opportunities!
As our division continues to grow in the Responsive Classroom philosophy, new elementary teachers and counselors attended an introduction to Responsive Classroom to support building positive, engaging classroom communities!
New-to-Augusta educators began their 2023-2024 journey yesterday. ACPS is excited to welcome these fantastic professionals!
Youth Mental Health First Aid Training was held in ACPS this week. 24 staff members from 15 schools and our Student Services office took advantage of the opportunity to learn how to support a young person experiencing a mental health challenge or crisis.
July 25 was the opening day for our bus and car drivers for ACPS!!! Driving Education Towards Success 2023-2024!
Another incredible group of elementary educators completed the four-day Responsive Classroom training last week!
This is an eager group of ACPS elementary educators who completed a four-day Responsive Classroom training.
Responsive Classroom is a philosophy that guides decisions teachers make in responding to students, the classroom environment that teachers create, and in how to teach content in meaningful, engaging, and integrated ways. It is grounded in believing the best in our students and their successes. Fun, significance, and belonging are the goal that each student experiences in a Responsive Classroom.
The language we use matters. How we teach matters. It matters so that we can support every child, every day!
This is a wonderful group of ACPS teachers who attended a 2-day workshop at BRCC hosted by V2CTM and led by Skip Tyler entitled #ChangeTheStory
Skip is promoting that everyone IS a MATH person and now is the time to #ChangeTheStory. Now is the time to shake up the system. Now is the time to make the change and to be the change. His purpose as a retired math teacher and math supervisor is to find the BETTER! It is to identify and encourage teachers to use instructional practices and strategies that we know work.
Not the new normal, the new BETTER!
ACPS Math is taking the charge to change how WE teach so that we are providing our students with high-quality, asset-based learning and #ChangeTheStory so Everyone Is A MATH Person!
From the FDHS FFA Advisors regarding their students' State Conference performance: We are so proud of our students! They work so hard and it definitely paid off!
100% Membership Chapter
Superior Chapter
National Chapter - Silver Rating
Public Relations - Gold Rating
State Champion Ag Demonstration - Chloe Phillips and Allison Rhodes
2nd Place Individual Junior Foresters - Daniel Worrell
State Champion Meats Judging - Hailey Keagy, Allison Rhodes, Chloe Phillips, Tianna Lambert
1st Place Stockmans Individual - Allison Rhodes
State Degrees - Sierra Dedo, Chloe Phillips, Alston Truslow, Brooke Truslow, Tianna Lambert, Ryan Hurst, Makenna Miller, Daniel Worrell, Braydon Eavers, Jessica Layman
State Proficiency Awards - Aiden Shiflett, Clay Lambert, Courtney Begoon
State Champion Junior Horse Hippology - Claire McNeal, Ashley Tutwiler, Avery Brown, Olivia Tarbell
State Champion Youth Discussion Meet - Courtney Begoon
2nd Place Livestock Judging
Team Members include Landon Marshall(3rd), Wyatt Marshall (8th), Dean Grogg, and Jackson Michael
3rd Place Individual in Environmental and Natural Resources- Daniel Worrell
3rd Place Individual in Junior Horse Judging - Olivia Tarbell
Food Science Team - Jessica Layman, Kaylyn Breeden, Skyler Weaver, Adyson Patnode
Environmental and Natural Resources Team - Daniel Worrell, Ryan Hurst, Jeffrey McLaughlin, Landen Lambert
Ag Mechanics - Chase Hite
Farm Business Management - Allison Rhodes, Lee Kent, Hailey Keagy
Employment Skills - Brooke Truslow
Attention families of all rising 12th graders/seniors:
Students will need a record of receiving the meningitis vaccine, a religious exemption, or a medical exemption on file at school before August 9, 2023. Students can get these vaccines from their primary care provider or by calling the local health department to schedule an appointment.
Appointments can be scheduled with the Staunton-Augusta Health Department by calling number is (540) 332-7830. Please do not wait until the last minute to schedule.
Attention families of all rising 7th graders:
Students will need a vaccine record for Tdap and meningitis vaccines, a religious exemption, or a medical exemption on file at school before August 9, 2023. Students can get these vaccines from their primary care provider or by calling the local health department to schedule an appointment.
Appointments can be scheduled with the Staunton-Augusta Health Department by calling number is (540) 332-7830. Please do not wait until the last minute to schedule.
Congratulations to the students and staff of Fort Defiance High School for being selected to receive the 2022-2023 Virginia Board of Education’s Highest
Achievement Award! https://www.doe.virginia.gov/state-board-data-funding/exemplar-awards
