We continue to receive recognition from outside our school system. On Tuesday Tahoma High School was recognized by the College Board, the agency that administers the Advanced Placement program. The school was recognized as one of 367 earning a placement on the second annual College Board Honor Roll. You can read more about the honor on our web page and soon in the local papers. There were only 14 schools earning this honor in Washington.
School districts earn a place on the AP Honor Roll by simultaneously increasing access to Advanced Placement coursework while maintaining or increasing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on AP exams.
We need to thank Principal Duty for supporting and encouraging this program, the Teaching and Learning Department for their support and guidance, and Brooke Dillon for her day-to-day leadership and nurturing growth of the offerings and participation. Finally, we need to thank the teachers for the learning opportunities and the students for their commitment to taking these college level courses.
On the same day Rock Creek Elementary was featured on Channel 5 for their food composting program. Any of our schools could have been featured because as I shared in a previous post, all of our schools have this program. You can see the piece here. It does a nice job of showcasing students while also sharing our problem with over crowded schools.
These are two additional indicators of our success in two diverse areas. Once again, we can be proud of our school system; the commitment of the adults to creating quality learning environments and the achievement of our young people. I'm sure that I am missing many other areas of achievement and would welcome comments from readers sharing them.
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The staff at THS who challenge our most dedicated students in their AP classes provide an invaluable resource to our community. Our daughters who have been guided by them, one at Western and one a senior, have expressed their complete respect and consider these teachers an inspiration.
Ms. Dillon, Ms. Morgan and Ms. Wulfing are discussed reverently in our household, and for our daughters, no teacher has a more appropriate name than Mr. Wright. These teachers, along with all the AP staff have helped guide our eldest daughters to want to reach their fullest potential so that they may give back to others.
We also look forward to having our son and daughter, who are currently at Rock Creek, step into their challenging program in the future, and we consider it an honor to have our children under their guidance.
This respone to your blog entry only captures the tiniest tip of the gratitude felt by so many families for these teachers' dedication and expertise. Thank you, AP teachers!
Sincerely,
Jonathan and Debi Hartke
P.S. The students I hear from would really like to be able to wear their AP cords and medals for their hard work at graduation.
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