Spotlight on Education - July 2015

The media center inside Baggett Elementary School.

SPOTLIGHT ON EDUCATION

BAGGETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

JORDAN MIDDLE SCHOOL

DISCOVERY HIGH SCHOOL

Discov-ery High

School in Law-rencev-

ille is set to

open in August.

(Staff Photo:

Keith Farner)

Furniture and supplies have been regularly delivered this summer across the front entry-way of the new Discovery High School in Law-renceville.

Cindy Weaver works to stock the media center last week at Jordan Middle School in Law-renceville.

GRAVES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Graves Elementary School in Norcross sits on a hill over-looking Graves Road.

Graves El-ementary

School Coun-

selor Luke Ingram,

left, helps first-grade

teacher Ian Andre

hang a bulletin

board last week.

Baggett Elementary

School first-grade teacher

Angela Gray works in her

classroom last week.

(Staff Photos: Keith Farner)

Jordan Middle School in Law-

renceville is one of four new schools

opening in Gwinnett

in August.

Four new schools mark start of school year

LAWRENCEVILLE — John Campbell jokes that opening a school is kind of like birthing a baby.

Next month will be the third time in his career that’s he’s opened a school as principal, and since they’ve been several years apart, Campbell said he forgets the immediate experience and

how hard it was until he goes through it again.

“Then you see the joy and pleasure you have with your child,” said Camp-bell, who opened McConnell Middle School in 1996 and Osborne Middle School in 2004. “You can see where there’s enough time in between where I kind of forgot how hard it was.”

In his 41st year in education, Camp-bell is set to open the new Discovery

High School in Lawrenceville in Au-gust. Given that long career, Campbell received two different reactions from his wife and Gwinnett Schools CEO/Superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks.

His wife was blunt: “What are you doing?” she asked. Wilbanks, however, asked Campbell if he could commit to 10 years, to which Campbell simply laughed.

“I should be retired according to

most people, this would be the appro-priate time to retire,” Campbell said. “I get a renewed purpose in doing this stuff. I need to work. I love it. I love being able to make a difference. This is a big, big job and I thought, ‘What a great way to end my career.’”

Perfectly comfortable at Osborne, Campbell said he could have coasted

By Keith [email protected]

OPENING NEW DOORS

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spotlight on educationColleges celebrate milestones, expansions

If you have any con-nection to Georgia Gwin-nett College, chances are your calendar in mid-September will be busy.

As part of the school’s 10th anniversary celebra-tion, the Lawrenceville college has set the week of Sept. 14 as Celebra-tion Week with several activities including a cookout, Building C groundbreaking and an unveiling of a Kaufman portrait as the school honors its first president, Dan Kaufman.

Throughout the sum-mer, the school’s Twitter feed has marked memo-ries of milestone events during the history of the college using pictures and the hashtag #GGC10.

In February under the Gold Dome, the school launched the anniver-sary celebration with the Gwinnett legislative del-egation, including Senate President Pro Tem David Shafer, R-Duluth, and Rep. Buzz Brockway, R-Lawrenceville, who presented resolutions honoring GGC President Stas Preczewski.

Throughout the events, school officials have boasted that the school is the ninth-largest and fastest-growing institu-tion in the state.

At its inception, then-Gov. Sonny Perdue called GGC a “model for our university sys-tem” and a celebration in August 2006 featured a ribbon-cutting, speeches from dignitaries and 107

students.Another fact officials

repeat is GGC is the state university system’s first new four-year col-lege in 100 years. While the college experienced crowded classrooms in its early days, and in recent years a parking transition that irritated some students, the spring semester enrollment was nearly 11,000 students. Within two years, GGC plans to cap its enroll-ment at 13,000.

“Georgia Gwinnett is not just about numbers and growth, but it is about the lives that have been transformed through an educational institu-tion that has grown up alongside its students,” Preczewski has said in a press release. “A product of Gwinnett County for Gwinnett County and the region, GGC was created by those who knew best the needs of its citizens and its economy.”

The school created a special section of its

website to celebrate the anniversary.

Among the aspects school officials are par-ticularly proud of is di-versity, and in November GGC reported its student body being 38.7 percent Caucasian, 31.4 percent African-American, 15.6

percent Hispanic, 9.4 percent Asian/Pacific Islander and 4.9 percent other/not reported.

Those figures con-tributed to GGC being named the most ethni-cally diverse college in the South, of public and private institutions, according to U.S. News

and World Report’s 2015 college rankings.

Gwinnett Tech to begin registration for North

Fulton campusEarlier this year, state

elected officials and edu-cation leaders celebrated an upcoming milestone among technical colleges

in Georgia when Gwin-nett Technical College held a groundbreaking for its new North Fulton campus that will wel-come students in January.

The campus is located at Old Milton Parkway and Ga. Highway 400 across from the Avalon shopping center.

The $24 million campus is scheduled to begin registration this fall, and open in January with a 100,000 square-foot building expected to cost $6 million annually to operate. The building will have 35 classrooms, labs and offices. The site is expected to eventually support four three-story buildings and the parking necessary to serve up to 10,000 students.

Gwinnett Tech has served North Fulton since 2010 and now offers con-tinuing education, adult education and dual en-rollment for high school students.

Gwinnett Tech Presi-dent D. Glen Cannon has said the new campus sig-nals economic prosperity.

The campus will focus on the growing areas of information technology, health sciences, life sci-ences, early education and business.

The new campus will add to numbers that count Gwinnett Tech among the fastest-growing two-year col-leges in the country with more than 18,000 students across all of its programs. Last year, it awarded the high-est number of associate degrees in the state and had nearly 700 technical certificates issued.

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An artist rendering of a 95,000-square-foot building on a 25-acre parcel in Alpharetta that will serve as a new $24 million campus for Gwinnett Technical College set to open in January. (Special Photo)

Georgia Gwinnett College will celebrate its 10th anniversary in September with a se-ries of events and activities. (File Photo)

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The new school year also means new faces in the prin-cipal’s chair in 13 schools across Gwinnett County.

The four brand-new schools will have experi-enced Gwinnett principals who have led other Gwin-nett schools, including John Campbell at Discovery High School, who has more than four decades of experience in education, including previous roles as principal at McConnell Middle School and Osborne Middle School.

Campbell, the longest-tenured principal in Gwin-nett, came from Osborne Middle, which he opened in 2004.

Campbell’s Gwinnett career started in 1982 as a counselor at Parkview High, and throughout the 1980s,

he was an assistant principal at Parkview and Norcross High, and later a principal at South Gwinnett High and Trickum Middle.

In 1991, he moved to the district office as the director of student support services and staff develop-ment. Campbell returned to

a local school in 1996 when he became the principal of McConnell Middle. Outside of Gwinnett, Campbell also worked in DeKalb County Schools and in Ohio.

Before he was named principal of Discovery late last year, Campbell was ac-tive in the district’s Creativ-

ity, Innovation and Entre-preneurship Team, which helped develop programs at Discovery.

Baggett Elementary School’s principal, Char-lotte Sadler, was previously the principal at Parsons Elementary. Sadler also has served as an assistant princi-pal at Grayson Elementary School, Cooper Elemen-tary School and Winn Holt Elementary School. Sadler taught at Kanoheda Elemen-tary School and at several schools in DeKalb County.

Parsons’ new principal will be Tamara Perkins, who was an assistant principal at Berkeley Lake Elementary School. Perkins’ leadership experience also includes working as an assistant prin-cipal and a data administra-tor at Cedar Hill Elemen-tary. In addition, the former adjunct professor at Ashford University spent time teach-ing at Alcova Elementary School and Lawrenceville Elementary School, where she also was a local school technology coordinator.

Nesbit Elementary’s principal the last six years, Clayborn Knight, was tapped to open Graves El-ementary in Norcross. Be-fore he led Nesbit, Knight was an assistant principal at Winn Holt Elementary School and a teacher at Nor-cross Elementary School.

Knight’s replacement at Nesbit is Marketa Myers, a 14-year veteran educator whose experience includes serving as an assistant prin-cipal at Benefield Elemen-tary School and a teacher at Simonton Elementary School and Norcross El-ementary School.

Benefield Elementary will have a new principal, Shonda Stevens, after Me-lissa Walker left to open Jor-dan Middle School, a new school in Lawrenceville.

Walker led Benefield for the last five years and was previously an assistant prin-cipal at Richards Middle School and a special educa-tion lead teacher at Crews Middle school. She has also taught in the Clayton County School District and in school districts in Califor-nia, Texas and Germany.

A Gwinnett educa-tor since 2001, Stevens transferred from Jackson Elementary, where she was an assistant principal for the past eight years. She is also a former literacy coach and second-grade teacher.

At Harbins Elementary, Cindy Truett’s retirement gave way to Jennifer Chatham taking over the leadership role. Chatham has previously served as an assistant principal at Lovin Elementary School, Crews Middle School and McCon-

nell Middle School.Suwanee Elementary lost

Michele Smith to Jenkins Elementary, where she previously served as an administrative intern and assistant principal.

The former teacher also spent time instructing students at Dacula Middle School and Cedar Hill Elementary.

Smith’s replacement is Emily Keag, who was an as-sistant principal at Harmony Elementary School and then Hull Middle School before she was named principal at Suwanee. Keag was also a special-education coordina-tor with the Emotional Be-havior Disorder Program as well as an assistant principal at Loganville High School and a special education lead teacher at Crews Middle School.

Vivian Stranahan’s retirement gave way to a promotion for Jonathan Day at Mulberry Elementary School, where he previously worked as an administrative intern and then assistant principal at the school. He also spent time teaching stu-dents at Dacula Elementary School, McConnell Middle School and Lilburn Middle School.

Dacula Elementary School will be led by Holly Warren. Prior to taking the principal position at Dacula, Warren served as an as-sistant principal at Bethesda Elementary School and most recently at Beaver Ridge Elementary School.

Shiloh High’s new princi-pal, Danyel Dollard, comes from Duluth High School where she was an admin-istrative intern and then assistant principal. Dollard taught at Radloff Middle School and at schools in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Eric Parker, the principal of Shiloh since 2011, left for a position outside of GCPS.

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Thirteen new schools to open with new principalsBy Keith Farnerkeith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com

John Campbell

Jennifer Chatham

Melissa Walker

Holly Warren

Shonda Stevens

Danyel Dollard

Charlotte Sadler

Jonathan Day

Tamara Perkins

Clayborn Knight

Michele Smith

Marketa Myers

Emily Keag

Diverse Summerour moves to new building, programs

NORCROSS — The condominium community is no more.

When students arrive at the new Summerour Middle School next month, they won’t see the 12 trailers that last year served as class-rooms for gifted students in a school that swelled to 1,580 students. Now the school — formerly in a building which opened in the early 1960s — is at a new address within eyesight of the old tract.

The new 240,000 square foot building, a one-of-a-kind design in Gwinnett County with body-sensored heating and air conditioning systems, cost $23.69 mil-lion to build, offers views of Stone Mountain on a clear day. A state-of-the-art media center, broadcasting studio and wider hallways are among the first things visitors notice.

“This new building is like a shot in the arm to this community,” Principal Dor-othy Jarrett said. “Let’s face it, there’s a certain sense of pride that comes along with a new building. It elevates your pride in your school, and elevates the pride in the community.”

The group of trailers, which Jarrett jokingly labeled with that nickname, didn’t make the move to the old Norcross High School site at 321 Price Place. The school expects to welcome 1,621 students on Aug. 10, and they’ll be fed from Stripling Elementary School, Beaver Ridge El-ementary School and Nor-cross Elementary School.

The school will host a “meet your teacher” and

see the new school event on Aug. 6, and Jarrett said it will be crazy.

“But we are ready for the crazy; it’s an exciting crazy,” she said, and added that Aug. 3 will feature an event where teachers will board school buses from 1 to 4 p.m. and go out in the community to meet students and families. “I want my teachers to see where my kids live. I want them to get a better understanding of where they’re coming from, because the most important thing for teachers is to build relationships with kids, and the more you know about your kids, the more you’re going to build great relation-ships and be able to influ-ence them to work hard.”

The highly diverse school has about 65 percent Hispanic students and 25 percent African-American students, while 95 percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. This has led Jarrett to pursue a “90/90/90” goal, meaning the school has 90 percent

minorities, 90 percent pov-erty, but scoring 90 percent achievement in measured core academic results.

“That whole free and reduced lunch thing? That’s how they eat. That’s not how they learn,” Jarrett said.

Jarrett actually occupied the building earlier than expected because of sum-mer school and a student ambassador program while construction crews contin-ued to work.

One of the highlights of the school is a new outdoor garden behind the school that’s already produced a harvest from nearly 10 fruits and vegetables.

The school also will have Gwinnett’s first standardized uniform dress code, which Jarrett said is designed to improve focus and, in turn, academic results. The dress code will be navy blue, white or light blue Polo-style shirts and black, navy or khaki pants with belts required.

It’s been recommended, but not required, at the

school for the previous three years. Jarrett presented to district leaders academic research of grades improv-ing and behavior issues diminishing.

“That culture of excel-lence also has to do with ‘What does that profes-sional student look like,’” Jarrett said. “We know from research that when students are dressed for success, they do better in school. … When all of the atten-tion is taken off of who has on what … we’re taking that out of the mix. We’re focusing on teaching and learning.”

Jarrett said parents had requested that she make the dress code mandatory so their children wouldn’t argue with them about what clothes to wear. The school offers packages of four Po-lo-style shirts, two bottoms and a sweater for $100.

The school also has several unique classroom or learning areas, includ-ing two computer labs, a state of the art Innovation

Lab, two business labs, four music rooms, an art room and new Theater Arts and Family Consumer Science

programs. The school also offers the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program.


The new Summerour Middle School, a 240,000 square foot building in Norcross, cost $23.69 million to build. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner)

Principal Dorothy Jarrett points out some vegetables at an outdoor garden behind Summerour Middle School. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner)

Media Specialist Lee Robertson stands in front of a room of stored textbooks last week at Summerour Middle School. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner)

Principal Dorothy Jarrett checks out new furniture in the media center at Summerour Middle School last week. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner)

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Schools

into retirement, but the challenge that Discov-ery offered, including an academy model of learn-ing, along with personal finance and entrepreneur-ship curriculum from Junior Achievement, was too appealing for Campbell to pass up.

“My level of commit-ment is I’m here now and I’ll give it everything I’ve got, and I’ll do that for as long as I’m here,” Camp-bell said.

Campbell has two grandsons and two grand-daughters on the way, and one commitment his wife required of him this sum-mer when he took the job was to take one week off to spend time with family at the beach.

In August, Campbell and three other principals will open four new schools across the county, including three in Lawrenceville and one in Norcross.

The construction equip-ment and hard hats are on their way out. The tempo-rary blue paint, paper signs and piles of empty boxes are headed for the recycling and trash bins.

Discovery creates the district’s 19th cluster of schools which welcomes students from a set atten-dance zone that will relieve Central Gwinnett and Berk-mar high schools. Opening new schools has become commonplace in Gwinnett as the district has generally grown by a couple thousand students each year over the last decade except at the height of the Recession.

“The district has become increasingly efficient with its management pieces,” Campbell said.

Many of the principals and teachers in the new schools said a fresh start, and the chance to create a school’s culture from the beginning were among the reasons they chose to work at their school.

At Graves Elemen-tary, for example, there’s a program called “G-DART” which integrates dance, art, rhythm and theatre. At Jordan Middle, the curricu-lum will be deployed using a “gradual release” format where a teacher performs a given topic, and then moves into guided instruction. The school also has a music technology component. Baggett Elementary will offer Spanish.

At Discovery, perhaps the most publicized of the new schools, students from across the county begin-ning in middle school will learn personal finance

and entrepreneurial skills, including creating and running a viable business through a partnership with Junior Achievement. Lo-cal businesses have also contributed sponsorships and employees volunteering their time.

Many of the principals and their staff were ready to enter the building as soon as possible, and some began working before construc-tion crews were finished in June or early July. Clayborn Knight, the principal at Graves, said the school has almost been a second home as he’s worked there six, or sometimes, seven days a week. And some days, he’s asked his staff to leave at 7 p.m. so Knight himself could go home.

“It’s exciting because what’s different about open-ing this type of school is the excitement, everybody’s feeling it,” Knight said. “The staff has wanted to be here all along. They’re giv-ing up their time because they are excited about the activity.”

That work ethic was similar at Baggett where Principal Charlotte Sadler held a “Moonlight Madness Move-in” event where the idea was to work through the night as soon as the building was available. But when just four staff members remained at about 2:45 a.m., Sadler sent them home.

While many of the schools have a diverse staff from across Gwinnett,

Knight has teachers coming from San Antonio, Phoenix, Indiana and New Jersey.

While hiring from around the country is one thing the four new principals have in common, they’re also aware of growing pains and adjustments to moving into a new building. It could be how to order another product for a teacher, report a leaking air-conditioner or checking a reference on a new hire as Knight did on Wednesday.

All of it points, eventu-ally, to Aug. 10, after the teacher orientations and “meet your teacher” and teacher training events are in the rearview mirror.

“It’s building,” Campbell said. “The excitement is building.”

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BACK TO SCHOOL BY THE NUMBERS:

• GCPS projects 176,000 students this year.

• About 2,800 of those are new this year.

• 136 total facilities will be in operation by August.

• The district now operates 79 el-ementary schools, 28 middle schools and 21 high schools.

• Gwinnett trans-ports more than 129,429 students twice a day, the third largest trans-porter of students in the country.

• Gwinnett oper-ates more than 1,926 school buses

• Gwinnett runs 7,903 routes per day

• Gwinnett has 52,232 bus stops

• Gwinnett drives more than 132,000 miles per day (more than 30 round trips to Los Angeles per day)

• Gwinnett drives more than 23,500,000 miles per year.

NEW SCHOOLS OPENING IN AUGUST:• Baggett Elementary School(Located in the new Discovery Cluster, stu-dents will feed into Richards Middle School.)2136 Old Norcross Rd., LawrencevillePhone: 678-518-6652Principal: Charlotte Sadler71 instructional areas — 1,125 student capacityConstruction cost: $15,776,603

• Graves Elementary School(Located in the Meadowcreek Cluster, stu-dents will feed into Radloff Middle School.)1700 Graves Rd., NorcrossPhone: 770-326-8000Principal: Clayborn Knight71 instructional areas — 1,125 student capacityConstruction cost: $18,602,145

• Jordan Middle School(Located in the Central Gwinnett cluster, students from Jenkins Elementary School and Simonton Elementary School will feed into the new Jordan Middle School.)8 Village Way, LawrencevillePhone: 770-822-6500Principal: Melissa E. Walker65 instructional areas — 1,050 student capacityConstruction cost: $15,913,799

• Discovery High School(Anchors the new Discovery cluster, which in-cludes students from Richards Middle School, Alford Elementary School, Baggett Elementary School, Benefield Elementary School and Cedar Hill Elementary School.)1335 Old Norcross Rd.LawrencevillePhone: 678-226-4250Principal: John Campbell99 instructional areas — 1,925 student capacityConstruction cost: $70,279,864

Carol Ward works to stock the media center last week at Jordan Middle School in Lawrenceville.

Jordan Middle School in Lawrenceville is one of four new schools opening in Gwinnett in August. (Staff Photos: Keith Farner)

Discovery High School Principal John Campbell stands in front of his school’s logos as he prepares to open his third school in Gwinnett County Schools in an education career that enters a 41st year in August.


spotlight on educationGCPS enters second year of academies, language immersion

In March, South Gwin-nett High School invited more than 60 outsiders to its school.

The hope was that the professionals in a range of fields and industries would offer valuable feedback to students in a new kind of learning format introduced last year across Gwinnett County Public Schools. The students spent five weeks working in groups in two-hour blocks on Wednesday afternoons to develop skills their teach-ers hope they one day use in a work environment.

Students were asked to develop a project based on criteria that matched their academy, including examples such as a busi-ness plan, sustainability or biological warfare.

The hope for teach-ers was the “authentic audience” would offer a new perspective and the judges would have differ-ent expectations than the teachers.

South Gwinnett was one of five schools last year that launched Col-lege and Career Acad-emies. They are designed to give students a glimpse into a post-high school college or career path, and the ability to job shadow or pursue internships.

They also have the chance to conduct project-based learning, which is a kind of learn-ing where students solve a problem by collaborating with peers. While Central Gwinnett, Lanier, Mead-owcreek and Shiloh high

schools launched acade-mies last year, the district this year is rolling out those formats to Berkmar and the new Discovery High School.

The academy model also offers local business-es an avenue to partner with a school through employee volunteers, job shadowing, internships or

other sponsorships.Discovery’s facility will

also include the new Ju-nior Achievement Discov-ery Center at Gwinnett, which will provide Gwin-

nett middle-schoolers with hands-on programs in consumer education and personal finance.

A popular new pro-gram for three elemen-tary schools will enter its second year, as Trip, Annistown and Bethesda elementary schools will offer a dual language immersion program for kindergarteners.

The schools will ex-pand this year because last year’s kindergarten students will continue their language skill de-velopment in first grade. Annistown and Bethesda elementary schools offer English-Spanish programs while Trip Elementary offers an English-French program.

In December, Jon Val-entine, director of foreign language for GCPS, said students were already showing production of the new language, meaning they can write it. Typical-ly, listening and speaking come first when learning a foreign language

“The students are beating expectations for every goal that we’ve set,” Valentine said. “Our goal at this point is to find out why, so we can replicate it and support it.”

Representatives from the French Consulate visited Trip in December, and several state educa-tion leaders, including State School Superin-tendent Richard Woods, visited Trip in April.

The popularity of the program meant 25 stu-dents last year were put on a waiting list, but since none of the current stu-dents left the program, the students on the waiting

list couldn’t join. Virin Vedder, who previously was an assistant princi-pal at Trip and is now a foreign language instruc-tional coach at the district level, said students on the waiting list wouldn’t have the knowledge base to join the program in first grade.

With more than two dozen students already signed up to join the program in August, the challenge for administra-tors and district leaders is finding enough quali-fied applicants to fill the teaching positions for the growing program.

To teach in an elemen-tary dual language immer-sion program, teachers must be certified to teach early childhood educa-tion, but also be fluent in the foreign language. That yields a very small pool of applicants.

Valentine previously worked at the Georgia Department of Education and said he’s envisioned a Korean dual language immersion program in Troup County because of the Kia plant there. He added that he has a friend who works in Wyoming where a Chinese program is offered.

“If Wyoming can have a Chinese dual immersion school,” Valentine said, “anybody can have a dual immersion school.”

When the program started, Valentine said it was designed with help from the business com-munity that believes that Gwinnett is a destination for international com-panies, and they need a globally competitive workforce.


South Gwin-nett High students, from left, India Evans, Galilea Garcia and Eriel Fields present their project in March to judge Karl Heisman of Sum-mit Chase Country Club. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner)

Gwinnett School Board member Carole Boyce, far left, Trip Elementary Principal Ruki-na Walker, State School Superintendent Richard Woods and State Board of Educa-tion member Mike Royal prepare to talk on the morning announcements during a visit this spring at Trip Elementary. The officials visited the school to learn more about its French-English dual language immersion program that began this school year with kindergarteners. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner)

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