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Kunkel Artists to be Featured as Part of 2012 Youth Art Month

February 24, 2012 in Spotlight by John Brougher

Five students from John C. Kunkel had their art work entered in the Sargent Art K-12 Student Art Exhibition in the Honors Suite Gallery at the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Harrisburg Pennsylvania. Kunkel students Justin Yohn, Nicole Altland, Madison Baumgardner, Angelina Torres, and Victoria Lopez had one piece of art chosen by their art teacher Jared States for exhibition. Each art teacher throughout Pennsylvania may submit five works of student art. The exhibition is from March 3, 2012-April 28, 2012 and coincides with 2012 Youth Art Month which is held annually during the month of March. The five fourth grade students had their winter landscape art work chosen for its creativity and artistic skills demonstrated. Congratulations Kunkel Artists!

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Stacey Miller is First Teacher to Have an Art Lesson Published in SAS

December 1, 2011 in Spotlight by John Brougher

Stacey Miller, MAMS Art Teacher

The District is proud to announce that Stacey Miller, Middletown Area Middle School Art Teacher, is the first teacher in the state to have an art lesson that she individually prepared placed into the Department of Education’s Curriculum and Instructional website know as “SAS.” SAS stands for “Standards Aligned System” and is a comprehensive approach to support student achievement across the Commonwealth. SAS provides teachers across the state with exemplary lesson plans for each subject. In Pennsylvania, Curriculum Frameworks include Big Ideas, Concepts, Competencies, and Essential Questions aligned to Standards and Assessment Anchors and, where appropriate, Eligible Content.

David Deitz, Advisor to the Arts and Humanities, for the Pennsylvania Department of Education wrote the following comments: “please accept my congratulations on having Stacey Miller’s lesson plan Words and Images: The Connection Between Artist Charles Demuth and Poet William Carlos Williams published on SAS. Click on the highlighted link above to see Mrs. Miller’s lesson plan. Stacey teaches this plan to her eighth grade classes, and has now offered this in a very rigorous format for use by Pennsylvania Art Teachers. As an aside, this is the first plan in the Arts and Humanities to be created by an individual teacher (as opposed to a group of teachers from a Governor’s Summer Institute) to reach publication on SAS. Please be sure to congratulate Stacey and inform the Middletown community of the academic contribution being made by a Middletown teacher!”

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