For the Reporter
The Auburn School District was recently awarded $561,706 as part of the Road Map Race to the Top grant. The funds are to be used for teacher leadership.
The executive committee for the Road Map Region Race to the Top grant issued preliminary awards of $2.9 million in investment funds for Project 1 (teaching and leading) as part of the second round of awards to districts participating in the consortium.
Project 1 creates a fund that districts may access to build teacher and principal content knowledge, to assist in the creation of personalized learning environments in the region’s high need schools. The emphasis of this fund is on scalable, high-impact improvements in math, science and ELL instruction as well as teacher/principal leadership.
An independent panel was assembled to score the proposals and make recommendations to the executive committee. Award recommendations were made based on points received and other factors that impact the region such as return on investment and scalability.
More students join program
A record 96 percent of students from low-income families in the South Seattle and South King County region have signed up for the state’s College Bound Scholarship, which could help pay their college tuition.
Thanks to the efforts of schools, community organizations, cities and many other partners working together as part of the yearly Road Map Project College Bound Scholarship campaign, thousands of middle school students are now on track to receive the scholarship. There are 5,560 eligible eighth-grade students in the region – the largest number of eligible students in the scholarship’s history – and the signup rate is expected to climb as applications are processed.
Elsewhere
Auburn’s Michelle Tanco graduated summa cum laude from Ursinus College with a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and computer science during commencement exercises on May 16 on the Collegeville, Pa., campus. More than 350 students received bachelor’s degrees. Tanco was one of 50 members of the class whose accomplishments earned them election to Phi Beta Kappa, the highest academic honor for undergraduate students. While at Ursinus, Tanco was named to the dean’s list and served as president of the Mathematical Association of America, the Association of Computing Machinery and Upsilon Pi Epsilon computer science honor society. She was also a peer docent at the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, on campus.
Tanco’s independent research earned her distinguished honors in the computer science department. She received the MAA Prize for Service and Excellence in Mathematics.
In 2013, she received the Miriam and Irving N. Rosenthal Memorial Award, which is awarded to a female rising senior who has clearly demonstrated an interest in pursuing graduate study in the mathematical sciences.
She completed an internship at United States Liability Insurance in Wayne, Pa., where she worked in software development. She is employed as a database consultant at TeraData.
A graduate of Auburn Mountainview High School, Michelle is the daughter of Sandi Tanco of Auburn. …
Auburn’s Robert Shoemaker recently was named to the spring semester dean’s list at Pacific University (Forest Grove, Ore.). Shoemaker was among 303 of Pacific’s 1,783 undergraduate students to achieve the high academic honor. To qualify for the dean’s list at Pacific, a student must achieve a term grade-point average 3.70 (4.00 scale) and complete 12 or more graded hours. …
Ivyann Patton, from Auburn, has been awarded a $2,500 Leona Hickman Scholarship of $2,500 for the 2014-15 academic year at Eastern Washington University. The scholarship is awarded to a continuing EWU student with a 3.8-plus GPA from King County. At Auburn High, Patton was a member of student leadership, cheerleading and the yearbook club. She graduated in 2013. At Eastern, Patton is majoring in education and is a volunteer at Sunset Elementary School. She is the daughter of Keith Scott and Michelle Patton of Auburn.
