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The SewaneeMountain MESSENGER Vol. XXVIII, No. 41 Friday, November 9, 2012 Sewanee Elementary Tracy Cit y Leads the Way in TCAPs Looks at Broadview & North Lake Named Reward Schools by K. G. Beavers, Messenger Staff Writer Downtown With Tennessee’s new accountability system to show progress in public school testing, there are new reporting categories including reward, focus and priority status. Th ese new categories replace the No Child Left Behind Renewal status designations of target, school needs improvement, corrective action A steering committee in Tracy and restructuring. City is developing a downtown revi- In Franklin County, North Lake Elementary and Broadview Elementary talization plan. On Oct. 11, the mayor are reward schools based on performance. A reward school can be in the top 5 and board of aldermen of Tracy City percent of overall performance in profi cient and advanced achievement goals. approved the plan. Members of the A reward school can also be in the top 5 percent of schools where progress is committ ee are Jeremy Fultz, president achieved the fastest, based on value-added scores and growth in TCAP reading/ of Tracy City Business Club; Nadene language arts, math and science. Moore, chairman of the water board While SES had the top TCAP scores in almost all testing categories across of Tracy City Utility District; Sue the county, SES is not a reward school. Parrott, Grundy County member “We did not meet the gap closure with our economically disadvantaged of Southeast Tennessee Tourism students,” said SES principal Mike Maxon. “Th at subgroup did not grow enough Board; Emily Partin, commissioner, Grundy County Board of Commis- academically,” he said. Sewanee United at the Area 5 AYSO tournament on Nov. 3 only allowed one goal dur- SES also had a decline in two subgroup scores between the 2011 and 2012 sioners; and Larry Phipps, mayor ing 180 minutes of regulation soccer. Goalie Larson Heitzenrater (far right) stopped of Tracy City. reading/language arts TCAP test. In 2011, 60.5 percent of economically dis- this att empt. Photo by Paul Klekott a advantaged students were profi cient and advanced. In 2012, 55.3 percent were Th e steering committ ee applied to profi cient and advanced. the Tennessee Department of Eco- In 2011, 81.8 percent of SES students with disabilities scored profi cient and nomic and Community Development advanced in reading/language arts. In 2012, 78.5 percent scored profi cient and for admission to its Tennessee Down- advanced profi cient/advanced in reading/language arts. Civic Association Considers towns program; the group hopes to (Continued on page 10) learn if it has been accepted by the end of 2012. Tennessee Downtowns Future of Local Playgrounds is designed to help communities as by Kevin Cummings, Special to the Messenger they embark on a comprehensive Fiction Readings by Tony Th e pirate ship “set sail” last spring, and Elliott Park is sparse, but community revitalization eff ort. In developing its momentum is building to improve playgrounds in Sewanee. Tennessee Downtowns application, Earley and Randall Kenan Emily Puckett e, a Sewanee math professor and mother of a six-year-old, is members of the steering committ ee one of the strongest voices for bett ering local play areas. Puckett e began discus- have seen great enthusiasm within Fiction writers Tony Earley and Times Notable Book. He has writt en sions with University offi cials about playgrounds aft er the University removed a the downtown business community Randall Kenan will read from their a young adult biography, “James Bald- wooden pirate ship, a log cabin and a metal car that were in disrepair from Elliot for revitalization. work at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 14, win: Author,” and two works of non- Park. Now basically all that remains is a swing set and chin-up bar. Th ere are 55 active businesses and in Gailor Auditorium. Th e readings, fiction, “Walking on Water: Black “I’m really involved because I saw the diff erence when things were in that organizations in the downtown area book signings and reception that will American Lives at the Turn of the park and people would come,” she said. “And the absence of things in that park of Tracy City and 19 commercial follow are free and open to the public. Twenty-First Century,” which was ... A whole summer was going by without people gathering there, and children buildings vacant, leaving a vacancy Earley is the author of a story col- nominated for were missing that opportunity.” rate in excess of 25 percent. Th ere are lection, “Here We Are in Paradise,” the Southern Puckett e, who grew up in Sewanee, said this is a unique and diverse com- two buildings in the downtown area which won him recognition from Book Award, munity and the playground off University Avenue was a prime spot for people that have been placed on the National both Granta and the New Yorker as and “The Fire to “associate and communicate.” Register of Historic Places. Th ere are one of America’s best young fiction Th is Time.” He She told the Sewanee Civic Association at its regular meeting on Nov. 7 fi ve additional sites that have historical writers, and two novels, “Jim the Boy” is also the au- at the EQB Building that she is seeking help from local stakeholders to bett er or recreational value: the gymnasium and “Th e Blue Star.” He has also pub- thor of the text playgrounds by considering the best locations and new equipment, and possibly of the former Grundy County High lished a collection of personal essays, for Norman consolidating maintenance of playgrounds. School; the former Tracy City depot, “Somehow Form a Family.” His stories Mauskopf’s roundhouse and engine repair shop, Tony Earley Money and manpower will be available, and the University has expressed have appeared in numerous publica- book of pho- willingness to help, Puckett e noted. She added that the Civic Association might along with the contiguous Boy Scouts tions, including the New Yorker (most tographs, “A be a prime candidate to handle maintenance. of America park, the site of the former recently “Jack and the Mad Dog”), Time Not “I really think (helping with playgrounds) is right down our mission and we Shook School with the remaining Harper’s, Granta and Esquire. Earley Here: Th e Mis- can really get something done if we get a litt le more focus and numbers together,” gymnasium; the site of the Wooten held a Tennessee Williams Fellowship sissippi Delta.” said Th eresa Shackelford, association president. “It goes right along with what Mine and Coke Ovens; and the site as Writer-in-Residence at Sewanee in He teaches cre- the Civic Association of old did.” of the former Sam Werner Lumber 1997. He is the Samuel Milton Fleming ative writing at Association member Doug Cameron, assistant Sewanee fi re chief and a Company. Professor of English at Vanderbilt Uni- the University lifelong resident, noted that in the past there were community workdays at the Tracy City’s application is available versity. In the New York Times Book of North Car- playgrounds, and citizens have a history of spearheading large projects, such for review at the Grundy County His- Review, Ellen Currie praised Earley for olina at Chapel Randall Kenan as Sewanee Elementary School. torical Society Heritage Center, 465 his “wonderful gift for deep observa- Hill. Some of the other public play areas are at St. Mark’s Community Center, Railroad Ave., Tracy City. To provide tion, exact and wise and oft en funny.” Author Terry McMillan said, “Ran- the playgrounds in the Woodlands community, at the Sewanee Community comments or for more information, Kenan is the author of a novel, “A dall Kenan is a genius; our black Center and at the Sewanee Youth ballfi elds. contact Parrott at (931) 592-5201 or Visitation of Spirits,” and a collection Márquez. He weaves myth, folktales, In other business at the Nov. 7 meeting, Lisa Rung was selected as the Civic (931) 592-6008. of stories, “Let the Dead Bury Th eir magic and reality like no one else I Association’s new treasurer. Rung, who works at Otey Parish and is an active Dead,” which was a finalist for the know, and he doesn’t miss a beat.” Scout leader and community volunteer, replaces longtime treasurer Rocky Mor- National Book Critics Circle Award, Th is event is presented by the Se- ris, who stepped down to pursue a new business venture, the Monteagle Diner. a nominee for a Los Angeles Times wanee Writers’ Conference and the Kiki Beavers announced that the Sewanee Community Chest, the Civic Election Book Prize for fi ction and a New York department of English. Association’s program to help local Results charities, has reached 32 percent of its fund-raising goal of $90,000. on page Th e next meeting of the Sewanee 6 Civic Association is tentatively sched- uled for sometime in January. P.O. Box 296 Sewanee, TN 37375 “Clear Cut” by Jason Brown (above) is one of the pieces by Knoxville-artist Jason Brown in his exhibition, “SEAM,” opening at the Carlos Gallery in the Nabit Art Building on the Sewanee campus. Brown will give an artist’s talk at 4:30 p.m., today, Nov. 9, in the Carlos Gallery, followed by a reception. See page 8 for details about the exhibit. 2 • Friday, November 9, 2012 • Th e Sewanee Mountain MESSENGER THE SEWANEE MOUNTAIN MESSENGER Letters 418 St. Mary’s Ln. P.O. Box 296 Sewanee, Tennessee 37375 BOXTOPS BIG BOON FOR SES Phone (931) 598-9949 To the Editor: Fax (931) 598-9685 Sewanee Elementary School and Email [email protected] Contributors the SES Parent-Teacher Organization www.sewaneemessenger.com Phoebe & Scott Bates would like to thank everyone in the Jean & Harry Yeatman John Shackelford community who has clipped, collected Laura L.