Friday, April 24, 2009
Teacher of the year speaks with scouts
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Stephanie Doyle, Virginia's reigning teacher of the year and a former Girl Scout, recently shared her experiences with Gold Award recipients during a Scouting banquet.
Last year, Doyle, a sixth-grade history teacher at Breckinridge Middle School, started a program called GROW -- Girls Rising Onto Womanhood -- for at-risk middle school girls. Doyle helps her girls with their homework and organizes service projects and activities for them, to encourage them to do well in high school and continue on to college.
"Stephanie is a wonderful role model for our Girl Scouts," said Jen Ward, marketing and communications director for Girl Scouts of Virginia Skyline Council, in a news release. "Girl Scouting emphasizes the very values she personifies."
The Gold Award is the highest achievement that the Girl Scouts of the USA gives. Recipients earn the award by designing and carrying out a plan of activities that includes community service, career exploration and specialized interest projects to prove their leadership abilities.
Forty-four girls from the Skyline Council earned the Gold Award between March 1, 2008, and Feb. 28, 2009. Those from the Roanoke Valley are Allison Witt, Bedford; Elizabeth Hale, Bedford; Natasha Spinner, Bedford; Jocelyn Baron, Bedford; Rachel Asbury, Bedford; Amy Whyte, Bedford; Heather Welch, New Castle; Ashley Crowder, Troutville; Sarah Montgomery, Buchanan; Michelle Woody, Roanoke; Katherine Cain, Roanoke; Laura Long, Roanoke; Ashley Woolwine, Roanoke; and Danielle Ferguson, Roanoke.
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The Achievement Center has received a $100 grant to support its 2008-09 annual fund from the Phyllis and Jim Olin Fund.
The center is a school for children with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder.
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Schoolteachers in markets served by U.S. Cellular are eligible for grants to buy classroom materials and projects.
The wireless company is funneling $1 million into its "Calling All Teachers" campaign between now and May 4-8, Teacher Appreciation Week.
Teachers are urged to post requests on www.donorschoose.org, a philanthropic Web site that helps schoolteachers find money for classroom projects.
This is the second time this year U.S. Cellular is putting up $1 million to help schools across the country, and the campaign comes on the heels of the company's 2009 Calling All Communities campaign, which awarded $1 million to 10 schools.
Last year, U.S. Cellular donated more than $4 million to schools, the United Way and nonprofits serving its communities, and associates volunteered more than 10,000 hours. In 2008, the company donated more than $38,000 to nonprofit organizations and volunteered 380 hours in Virginia.
For more information about Calling All Teachers, visit www.uscellular.com/callingallcommunities or a U.S. Cellular store.
