Did You Know?
 | All Jenkintown teachers are "Highly Qualified" according to the definition of the U.S. Department of Education. |
| On the 2005 PSSA test for 8th and 11th graders Jenkintown scored in the first quintile of all schools in Pennsylvania for both math and reading scores |
| Philadelphia Magazine ranked Jenkintown High School among its top 50 high schools in the metropolitan region, 28th to be exact. Relatively low teacher salaries actually hurt the ranking of the school under their methodology. (We think it should have been #1.) |
| Middle-High School Language Arts teacher Tamara Craven has achieved the prestigious National Board Certification in English |
| Gifted support teacher Mark Stover was selected as a finalist for Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year! He was featured in a May 24, 2006 article on the front page of the Times Chronicle (see here). |
| Eighth grade math classes pilot tested a curriculum unit developed by NASA |
| Dave Seitz and Marybeth Paone chaperoned eight 5th graders on their ISSE trip to Australia from March 23 to April 10, 2006 |
| English as a Second Language teacher Josette Sadowska was awarded a prestigious Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund scholarship to study in Japan in the fall of 2005 |
| Sixth grade teacher Teresa M. Morretta has written two books with a
colleague entitled Practical Approaches
for Teaching Reading and
Writing in Middle Schools (2000) and
Poetry Workshop for Middle School: Activities That Inspire Meaningful
Language Learning (2003), both published by the International
Reading Association |
| Middle-High School Social Studies teacher Daniel Chittick, faculty sponsor of World Affairs and Model United Nations, attended the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia's conference "Islam and the West" on May 1, 2006, which included as speakers Vice President Richard Cheney, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, noted scholar of Islam Professor Bernard Lewis, Senator Joseph Biden, author Walter Russell Mead, and PBS journalist Judy Woodruff. |
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Seven teachers in the elementary school, Karen DeMarco, George Vafiadis, Tom Roller, Bonnye Kelman, Megan Knox, Doris Heise and Mark Stover coached our three Reading Olympics , who were winners of two blue ribbons and one red ribbon at the competition held at Hatboro Horsham High School. |
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TV Turnoff Week was a huge success in the elementary school with 128 students participating. |
| 100% of our staff are certified in CPR! |
| Edith Guay and Christine Fylypovych organized and chaperoned the high school exchange trip to France from March 31 to April 14, 2006 |
| Dick Detwiler and Mike Brophy chaperoned World Language students' trip to Spain in April 2007. |
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