Successlink's Proven Practices Award

            The Holliday C-2 School Technology Program and Mrs. Mary Jane Havens were recognized on Tuesday, April 6th at the annual Technology and Science Fair by Successlink as a Proven Practice for 2004.  This award is given to 5 schools in the state of Missouri each year.  Holliday C-2 is the first K-8 districts to receive the reward.  The Proven Practice highlights Holliday's use of Technology in the curriculum all year long and then providing a night to highlight that work for the parents during the Technology and Science Fair.

            For the Technology Fair, Students in K-1st grade had their PowerPoint presentation about the ocean and about the fall on display.  Students in the 2nd and 3rd grade had made flyers about the planets using Inspiration and PowerPoints about their favorite authors.  Students in the 4th and 5th grade had completed a Webquest, Take Me Out to the Ballgame and word processing documents using poetry and short essays.  The 6th-7th-8th grades had Want Ads posted about their favorite books using word processing.  The 6th and 7th made PowerPoints about the planets and the 7th and 8th grade had completed a PowerPoint about Study Skills. Many students had participated in the Robot projects and many other projects during the year.  Successlink provided an award to the school, a proclamation from Senator John Cauthorn's office, along with a $1,000 check.  Successlink treated the Science and Technology Fair participants to cake, punch, and snacks.   Holliday C-2 School was recently fully accredited during the MSIP review of the school where Technology was sited as a Strength in the district. 

            The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and SuccessLink collaborate in an effort to disseminate the best practices from schools across Missouri. This project solicits, recognizes, disseminates, and promotes exemplary and innovative practices which have been developed and successfully implemented in Missouri. Each year, DESE and SuccessLink will identify and validate a smaller, select group of these nominations that represent the "Best of the Best". They will award a $1,000 honorarium to the educator(s) involved in the practice.