Page 41 Board of School Directors School District Contact Information INFORMATION ............................................................................ 833-5000 David John Chuck Information Line .......................................................................... 854-8407 (Call to hear important district news and school delay/cancellation Amaditz Puhatch Scheuble information) 835-1701 851-1499 833-1858 Central Administration 301 Church Road, Bethel Park 15102 Dick Cindy Rose Russ Dr. Thomas A. Knight, Superintendent ........................ 854-8402 Buckley Vice President Spicuzza Nancy Aloi Rose, Assistant Superintendent ................ 854-8420 835-6037 835-9166 835-9270 Matthew Howard, Assistant to the Superintendent ...... 854-8425 Leonard Corazzi, Dir. of Finance and Operations ........ 854-8425 Lee Mecaro, Director of Human Resources .................. 854-8404 Idessa Hricisak, Director of Special Services .............. 854-8410 Lori Sutton, Assistant Director of Special Services ...... 854-8410 Donna Ronald Reyer, Director of Technology Services .......... 854-8418 Cook Connie Ronald Scott Ziehler, Transportation Director .......................... 854-8414 President Ruhl Sustich Brandon Womer, Director of Facilities and Services .. 854-8615 833-6191 835-7845 831-1809 Bob Holleran, Assoc. Director of Facilities & Services 854-8604 Joe Consolmagno, Director of Food Services ............ 854-8754 Vicki Flotta, Director of Public Relations ...................... 854-8438 District Continues Kindergarten Teacher Amy Scheuneman, Athletic Director ............................ 854-8548 Use Of AlertNow Selected To Speak At Bethel Park High School National Conference 309 Church Road, Bethel Park 15102 The Bethel Park School District will Dr. Zeb Jansante, Principal .......................................... 854-8581 Franklin Elementary Kindergarten Teacher Brian Lenosky, House Principal .................................... 854-8584 continue using the AlertNow Notification Suzanne Vighetti gave a presentation about the Service to communicate via telephone and District’s Bully Prevention Jerry Roman, House Principal ...................................... 854-8591 email with parents and employees. Program at the National Sheryl Graff, House Principal ........................................ 854-8571 The primary two uses of AlertNow will Kindergarten Conference, Guidance Office ................................................................ 854-8597 be to call parents and employees as soon which was held in Las Vegas in Health Office .................................................................... 854-8550 as a decision is made on days with July. Attendance Office ............................................................ 854-8572 inclement weather, to notify them of a delay Mrs. Vighetti has or cancellation, and to email parents the Media Center .................................................................... 854-8560 championed this program Records Office .................................................................. 854-8595 school district’s weekly E-Mail Newsletter. since its inception in the If you have Caller ID, the school Student Activities .............................................................. 854-8514 District and was invited to Athletic Office .................................................................... 854-8548 district’s main number (412-833-5000) will share her expertise with be displayed when a general telephone kindergarten teachers across announcement is delivered via AlertNow. Suzanne Vighetti the country. Independence 7-8 Middle School The Caller ID will display 411 only if the 2807 Bethel Church Road, Bethel Park 15102 message is an emergency. David Muench, Principal ................................................ 854-8677 AlertNow will leave a message on any George Spalaris, Assistant Principal .............................. 854-8522 answering machine or voicemail. If you are We’re on the Web! listening to a recorded message and the Check us out at www.bpsd.org ! Neil Armstrong 5-6 Middle School AlertNow message stops, press any key The Bethel Park School District web site features (numbers 1-9) on your telephone and the updated information about school district happenings 5800 Murray Avenue, Bethel Park 15102 message will replay from the beginning. and recognitions, as well as delay and closing Janet O’Rourke, Principal .............................................. 854-8751 At the beginning of the school year, information. Our individual school pages feature more Michael Brookie, Assistant Principal .............................. 854-8756 parents will have the opportunity to provide localized information as well as lots of photos of up to three telephone contact numbers and student happenings. If you click on the Latest News sections on each Abraham Lincoln Elementary one email address to be input into the school’s home page you will see more pictures from 1524 Hamilton Road, Pittsburgh 15234 AlertNow data base through a form that will the stories you read in this issue of The Chronicles! Dr. Dorothy Stark, Principal .......................................... 854-8618 be included with back to school information, We encourage you to visit our web site often for which we hope you will fill out promptly and the latest Be@thel Park School District news. return to school with your child as soon as Benjamin Franklin Elementary possible. Should your phone or email 5400 Florida Avenue, Bethel Park 15102 change during the school year, please notify Free/Reduced Dr. Shirley Dickinson, Principal .................................... 854-8741 the school secretary at your child’s school of the change and she will update the system Breakfast And Lunch Bethel Memorial Elementary with the correct information. 3301 South Park Road, Bethel Park 15102 Parents will also receive the District’s Forms Available Eric Chalus, Principal ...................................................... 854-8506 weekly E-Mail Newsletters as a PDF attachment via Alert Now email. In addition The Bethel Park School District participates in the George Washington Elementary to the E-Newsletters, parents who have an National School Lunch Program and offers email address in the student data base will 515 Clifton Road, Bethel Park 15102 Free/Reduced Meals to those who qualify. Fred Pearson, Principal .................................................. 854-8546 also receive school-specific emails that do Applications for the 2011-2012 school year are not come from the Public Relations available on the Food Services web page under Department. “Downloads” on the right hand side of the page. Or William Penn Elementary The Bethel Park School District is they can be picked up at the Administration Building. 110 Woodlet Lane, Bethel Park 15102 pleased to be able to continue using Please be advised that even if your child(ren) Jay Johnson, Principal .................................................. 854-8678 AlertNow as another tool to improve qualified for Free/Reduced meals for the 2010-2011 parent/staff communication and look forward school year, you will still need to reapply for the 2011- to having the ability to deliver real time 2012 school year. information about all of the great things that Questions about the forms and to learn more VISIT US ONLINE @ www.bpsd.org are happening in Bethel Park. about the confidentiality of the process for your child, please call Dana Walker at 412-854-8426. www.bpsd.org August 15, 2011 Page 42 ADMINISTRATION A Message From… of the 2010-2011 school year were used to lay the ground- Systems and Business Math II. work with our teachers for re-framing our curriculum, The District recently purchased portable television NANCY ALOI ROSE including learning to use various new electronic tools equipment to enable the Media Productions students to available to us. learn about broadcast journalism and the technical aspects Substitute Superintendent Utilizing the framework of “Understanding by Design” of writing, recording, editing, broadcasting and web (UbD) we are re-working our curriculum by beginning with streaming live television shows. "The world outside our the end in mind and using the guiding questions: what do Our Introduction to Engineering Design students can schools is changing four to we want students to know, understand, and be able to do participate in Principals of Engineering, the next class in five times faster than in our at the end of a unit of study? this progression, which will provide students with theory schools." Our new curriculum will also address the PA and hands-on engineering problem-solving experiences. (Willard Daggett) Standards, Common Core National Standards that have Through a $29,000 grant received last school year been newly adopted by the PA Department of Education, from the Grable Foundation, students can earn 1 Art credit Historically, the US and the Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21) goals, and 1 Chemistry credit with the Art & Chemistry class, school system has been as well. All of these standards are designed to help which will teach students how these two subjects are very slow to change. Our students to prepare for a highly technical global society. related, by completing studio art projects that demonstrate model of instruction is the chemical properties they learn. based on a model Assessment Business students will receive hands-on experience developed in the mid Our state assessment system is also changing. The with the practices,