Lakewood City SchoolsREPORTCARD

A Lakewood community newsletter March 2016

INSIDE: LHS Cinema, Times earn first in contest

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PTA Reflections honors student creativity

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Mobile health clinicpilot a success

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Winter sports season highlights

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See CONSTRUCTION Page 3

District devises plan to cover shortfall in construction budget See SCHOLASTIC Page 4

Freshman Seth Marroquin won a Gold Key in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards regional contest for this mixed media piece.

Artists honored in national contestStudents from Lakewood High

School, West Shore Career-Tech and Harding Middle School earned a significant number of honors in the annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards regional competition, including six Gold Key winners.

Winners of a Gold Key, the highest honor given, are seventh-grader Mira Getrost, eighth-graders Kitty Crino and Halina Dreger, freshman Seth Marroquin and seniors Alex Rosul and Owen Smith. Gold Key winners move on to be judged at the national

level of the 92-year-old competi-tion. Crino also won the regional prize for Best Poetry.

Lakewood students were also well-represented at the Silver Key and Honorable Mention levels. Five students won eight Silver Keys, including two by junior Ned Bruere. Twenty-six students earned Honorable Mention desig-nations for their art or writing.

The Cleveland Institute of Art hosts the regional competition that recognizes creative achievement

Senior Alex Rosul earned a Gold Key for his self portrait.

Six Gold Keys in Scholastic competition

Superintendent Jeff Patterson informed the Board of Education at its Jan. 19 meeting that estimated costs for the construction of Grant, Lincoln and Roosevelt elementary schools and the new wings at Lake-wood High School are approximately 6% over budget, or nearly $6 million variance. The District plans to cover the $6 million through a proposed agreement with the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission (OFCC).

“We have a very robust team working on this,” said President Tom Einhouse, “and will continue to work hard in getting this (agreement) done.”

A combination of factors are be-hind the overrun and are beyond the control of the District. The factors include construction costs that have spiked beyond projected inflation rates - particularly in Cuyahoga County, higher than anticipated tran-

sition site costs, costs associated with historical preservation, unexpected issues with unsuitable soil at all sites and a higher cost of environmental remediation at two of the sites.

The District and its project part-ners in the Ohio Facilities Construc-tion Commission, plan to approach the OFCC to petition for additional funding to help offset the overage.

District set to implement online payment system for cafeteriasThe District will soon start im-

plementation of a new electronic lunch payment system that the Board of Education approved at its Feb. 16 meeting. The system will allow parents to pre-load money into their student’s ac-count via an online portal. When

the student goes through the line in the cafeteria, he or she will simply punch in a custom 6-digit code to complete the transaction.

The rollout of the new system will begin at the middle schools, tentatively slated to happen in mid-March. Next, installation

will proceed to Lakewood High, also in March. Hayes, Harrison, Horace Mann and Emerson will come online in early April. The rollout should be complete by end of April. Grant, Lincoln and Roosevelt will have the system installed once the new buildings

open in August.Nutrition Services Director

Nancy Early said that the system will make the serving line more efficient, giving students more time to eat and will provide a convenience for parents.

Parents will load cafeteria

accounts using the EZPay portal, which is already operational for the District for parents to pay school and pay-to-play fees. Families will receive student codes in a letter to be mailed home prior to each school’s start of usage of the system.

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Awards & Recognitions

Times, Cinema repeat as top award winners

HIGH SCHOOL

For the second consecutive year, both the Lakewood High School Cinema yearbook and Times news magazine earned first-place awards from the Ameri-can Scholastic Press Associa-tion in a nationwide publication competition.

The Cinema received spe-cial recognition for its cover, which was an original work of art by 2015 LHS graduate Sarah Madden. About the Cinema, the judging committee said, “Your yearbook shows excellence in the fields of writing, photography, and especially page design. It contains all the elements of an effective yearbook and will be treasured for years to come.” The editor of the 2015 Cinema was 2015 LHS graduate Amy Ritschel.

The Times received perfect

scores in the areas of content coverage, organization, and design. The judging committee said, “Your magazine shows the superior efforts of a talented and creative editor, writers, artists, photographers, layout/graphic designers, staff member and advisor. Congratulations on a well-deserved first place award.” The editor of the 2015 Times was 2015 LHS graduate Matt Morgenstern.

Both publications are advised by LHS English teacher Dennis Ebner. Congratulations to the staffs of both publications!

A link to The Times can be found on the LHS web page.

Academic Challenge team sweeps tournament

Lincoln 3rd/4th graders among top math scorers

ELEMENTARY

The LHS Academic Challenge A and B teams won both the finals and consolation finals at the 12-team Warren G. Hard-ing Quiz Bowl in January. The A Team with members Robby Fehrenbach, Alex Grunder, Fox Milenski, Ian Bell, and Brian Donahoe won all seven matches to capture first overall. The B Team, comprised of Kevin Cush, Abe Dalisky, Seamus Holian, Damian Jouriles, and Andrew van Auken, won the consolation finals, going undefeated in the last three rounds.

The varsity team also cap-tured the Southwest Conference Championship, going 9-0. This boosts the team’s four-year inter-league record to 29-1.

Congratulations to all, includ-ing advisers Bob Sedlak and Peter Petto.

Five Lincoln Elementary stu-dents were honored recently for their outstanding performance in the national Noetic Learning Math Contest. The third- and fourth-graders were among the top 10% of the 3,995 and 4,732 students who competed in each respective grade.

Noetic Learning Math Contest is a national mathematics contest students in grades 2-8. The goal of the competition is to encour-age students’ interest in math, to develop their problem solv-ing skills, and to inspire them to excel in math. More than 21,000 students representing 602 schools across the country took part in this fall’s contest.

Lincoln students who won

the National Honor Roll title for being among the approxi-mately 10% of participants are third-graders Anna Daso and Cal Holland and fourth-graders Eileen Brady, Michael Klasa and Phineas Thompson. The students are led by their teachers Sonja Kreps and Allison Martzolf. Each of the National Honor Roll win-ners also earned medals for being the top scorer on their team.

Lincoln top math scorers (from left): Michael Klasa, Phineas Thompson, Eileen Brady, Anna Daso, and Cal Holland.

PTA REFLECTIONS

Lakewood students’ creativity and imagination were celebrated at the annual Lakewood PTA Council Reflections Ceremony, held Jan. 27 at Garfield Middle School. One hundred twenty-one works from 114 artists from preschool through high school were honored. Of those 121 pieces of art, 28 student were chosen to move on to the state PTA judging.

The ceremony offered the young artists a chance to be recognized and congratulated by the superintendent, Board of Education members and other city leaders. Guest speaker Tim Hayes, an LHS graduate and founder and CEO of the Lake-wood design firm Cardboard He-licopter, shared with the audience how his time in the Lakewood City Schools shaped his interest in art and design.

The Reflections program offers students from schools with active PTAs the opportunity to create works of art for fun and recog-nition. Students in preschool through grade 12 are encouraged to submit works in seven arts areas: literature, dance chore-ography, film/video production, musical composition, photogra-phy, visual arts and special artist. All entries must follow a chosen theme, which this year was “Let Your Imagination Fly.”

Each school with a PTA can send up to 24 entries to the district level judging. Among works chosen for district-level recognition, the highest scor-ing 28 works as deemed by a

panel of nine judges evaluating on artistic merit, creativity and interpretation of the theme, move on to Columbus to compete with students’ work from around the state.

The following students’ work will move on to statewide judg-ing:

GrantCecilia WhiteamireHorace MannElliot BratkoAlexandra HortonLincolnClio BurgoyneHelen FraunfelderHelen RocheDelaney RodgersSamuel SmootEva WischhusenGarfieldSereanah HarrisEmma MurrayAlex RussellHayley WelshHardingBraeden KozelAudrey WarrenInga WilhelmyMaya GeorgeMira GetrostAubree NagelAnastasia SeckersEden SutliffNola Williams-RisengMatteo Tessier-CrewsLakewood HighGarrett BodnarEmily SuleimanStephanie HarkenriderTimmy DasoJimmy Toner

This ink drawing by junior Garrett Bodnar is one of 28 pieces that moved on to state-level judging.

The Board of Education will be asked to pass a resolution at its March 21 meeting in order for the OFCC to consider the request for additional funding at its April meeting.

The District is required to fund 69% of the overrun through money that exists outside of its general fund so that the current operating needs of the District

and its five-year forecast will not be impacted. The funding will include money from permanent improvement funds, McKinley property agreement funds, prior and current construction funds, food service funds, donations and interest earnings. The state will provide its 31% of the fund-ing if needed at the end of the project.

There is a possibility the District will not need to dip into these funds to close the cost gap.

If at the end of the project money remains in the contingency fund required by the state, then that money will go toward making up the cost difference.

Despite the budget chal-lenge, the good news is that the buildings are still scheduled to be completed according to the original timetable of the elementary schools opening in August 2016 and the high school wings ready for use in August 2017.

The new buildings aren’t the only properties on the admin-istration’s mind. After seeking community input via a commu-nity meeting and online survey, Superintendent Patterson intends to have a recommendation for the Board of Education later this month on a plan for the Franklin and Taft properties.

If the Board accepts the recom-mendation, the hope is that work on implementation can begin in May.

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This Garfield Middle School student was one of 112 students and staff served by the Cleveland Clinc Children’s mobile school health clinic.

The Lakewood High School Student Council recently presented a check for $3,300 to The Gather-ing Place. The money was raised from two t-shirt sales the students held to raise money to help fight cancer and to honor three staff members fighting cancer. Pictured from left: Student Council Secretary Paula Atfield, staff member Mona Atfield, Lisa Walsh of The Gathering Place, staff member Andrea DeVries, Student Council President Angela Vogli and staff member Anne Giffels.

Making a Difference

Mobile health clinic project a success

The Student Services depart-ment of the Lakewood City Schools has scheduled its next Parent Council meeting for Tuesday, March 22 from 6-7 pm at Harding Middle School. The meeting is open to the public and will focus on IDEA (Individu-als with Disabilities Education Improvement Act) funds and budget.

Parent Council meeting March 22

The District’s pilot program that has put a Cleveland Clinic Children’s mobile school health clinic on site at Harrison El-ementary School and Garfield Middle School has been such a success that the District is plan-ning to include two more schools in the program.

In the fourth quarter of the school year, the mobile health clinic will begin to serve stu-dents at Harding Middle School and Lakewood High School.

While at Harrison and Garfield, the clinic has served students with 113 appointments and provided 190 immunizations. Staff members have also taken advantage of the convenience of the mobile clinic with some receiving flu shots on site.

“We are very satisfied with the level of service that CCH’s mo-bile unit has provided to Lake-wood students in need of basic health care,” Student Services Coordinator Bob DelQuadri said.

“ We look forward to continued growth with our partner, Cleve-land Clinic Children’s.”

With new vaccination require-ments coming for the 2016-2017 school year, the mobile unit will be a help for parents. “The mo-bile unit will be holding immu-nizations clinics throughout the District to assist families obtain required vaccinations with mini-mal interruption to classroom instruction,” said District Nurse Katy Corrigan.

District to expand service to Harding, Lakewood High

The District recently launched a pilot in-school vision exam program with Ocular Services Management and Dr. Pete Mogy-ordy. The first test of the program was at Emerson Elementary earlier this school year, when 13 students received complete eye exams, with six of them given prescriptions for eyeglasses.

Since then Dr. Mogyordy has visited Harrison, Roosevelt and Hayes as well. The aim is to have Dr. Mogyordy and his team visit every elementary school in the District by the end of the school year. An optician joins Ocular Services Management on its visits to assist students who need them in selecting eye-glasses. The optician will then return to school with the glasses

to ensure a proper fit.The exams are paid for by

parents’ insurance and govern-ment assistance programs and vouchers for those who do not have insurance.

Dr. Mogyordy approached the District about instituting an on-site program after his company had success with the same type of mobile program at area nurs-ing homes.

“Our students can’t achieve academic success if they are hav-ing trouble seeing. Data indicates that 80% of what a child learns in school is through their eyes” said Bob DelQuadri, Coordina-tor of Student Services. “This program will help ensure that our students are as best prepared as they can be to learn.”

District starts in-school vision exam program

in area 7-12 grade students. The young artists compete

for cash prizes, medals, and scholarship awards. A panel of local professional artists, art educators, writers, and writing educators jury the exhibit and select the awarded pieces from nearly 3,000 entries. Students who receive Portfolio Awards and Gold Key Awards continue to the national competition held in the spring in New York City.

Congratulations to all the winners and teachers Dayna Hansen, Anne McQuay, Arline Olear, Autumn Sabin, Amy Sedlak, Jennifer Lewis and Ruth Pangrace.

Gold Key Winners: (7-10% of regional entries)Kitty Crino, 8th grade – Poetry Halina Dreger, 8th grade – Short story Mira Getrost, 7th grade – SciFi fiction/fantasySeth Marroquin, freshman –Mixed MediaAlex Rosul, senior – PaintingOwen Smith, senior – Photog-raphySilver Key Winners: (10-15% of regional entries)Ned Bruere, junior (2 mentions) – Drawing and IllustrationGrace Kraidich, 7th grade – Poetry Isabel Ostrowsky, 10th grade – PoetryWillow Rosser, 7th grade – Short

storyOlivia Nagy, sophomore – Mixed MediaHannah Randall Nietzsche, senior – PhotographyIsabel Romeo, senior – Drawing and IllustrationMadeline Schwartz, junior – PhotographyHonorable Mentions: (15-20% of regional entries)Hannah Brown, sophomore – Drawing and IllustrationNed Bruere, junior (3 mentions) – Drawing and Illustration, Comic Art and DigitalDominic Brunori, senior – Digi-tal Art; teacherZoe Budzar, senior (2 men-tions)– Printmaking and Mixed Media

Ella Chanter, 8th grade – PoetryShaun Chapman, senior – Film & AnimationAmayah Coburn, sophomore – PhotographyHalina Dreger, 8th grade – Flash fiction Evie Gregg, senior – Short storyClaire Hylton, freshman – Mixed MediaKazimir Klein, sophomore – PhotographyHalle Krebs, junior – Drawing and Illustration Anastasiya Kurylyuk, senior – Drawing and IllustrationJace Lee, junior – DesignLauren Lowell, junior – Photog-raphy Sara McMillen, junior – Draw-

ing and IllustrationJessica Paul, junior – Drawing and IllustrationHannah Randall Stars & Slur-pees – Film & Animation Trevon Rogers, senior – Pho-tographyIsabel Romeo, senior – Art PortfolioZena Shean, sophomore – Mixed MediaStephanie Shaffer, 8th grade – Short story Laura Shields, 8th grade – Flash fictionGenevieve Thurman, senior – Photography Owen Smith, senior – Photog-raphyGabby Toms, 7th grade – Short story

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Junior Kelley Reis qualified for the State Tournament for the second straight year.

Winter highlights: state meets, records

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The varsity winter sports season had some great highlights including five state champion-ship qualifiers and several new school records.

Junior Kelley Reis qualified for the swimming State Tourna-ment in the 100-yard-backstroke. She finished tied for 12th place and set a new school record with a time of 57.67. Junior Will Rodriguez qualified for the wrestling State Tournament in the 126 weight class by plac-ing fourth in the District meet. And finally, Indoor Track & Field athletes Jimmy Toner (pole vault); Clare Toole (pole vault)

and Ben Kessler (high jump) qualified for their State meet.

Highlights from some of our other teams:

Boys’ basketball (9-14): Lo-gan Swift-Stewart broke the re-cord for points scored in a game with his 44. All Conference hon-ors: Logan Swift-Stewart (2nd team); Justin McDonald and Jack Witri (Honorable Mention)

Girls’ basketball (13-12): Reached the District Semifinals. All Conference honors: Olivia Nagy (2nd team); Christin Dona-hoe & Ryann Greenfield (Honor-able Mention)

Ice Hockey (4-23): All Con-

ference honors: Jacob Gregory and Donny McCrae (Honorable Mention)

Swimming & Diving (10-3): The team sent 16 swimmers to Districts. All Conference honors: Preston Polen (1st Team, 100 butterfly); Evan Gainous (2nd team, 100 butterfly); Kelley Reis (2nd team, 50 freestyle and 100 backstroke); Nicholas Ferrone, Evan Gainous, Colman McGuan and Preston Polen (2nd team, 200 freestyle relay); Luke Healy, Julia Neff, Liz Pearlman, Ben Swartz(Hon. Mention)

Indoor Track & Field: Jimmy Toner set school records

with vaults of 14’6 and 15’Wrestling (5-9): Besides Ro-

driguez’s State qualification, four wrestlers placed at Districts. All

Conference: Roman Krizan (1st team); Andrew Nicholson, Will Rodriguez (2nd team); Tyson Davis, Pa Luh (Hon. Mention)