The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 91, Ed. 1 Friday, May 6, 2016 Page: 2 of 12
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2A The Baytown Sun
Community
Friday
May 6, 2016
COMING SOON
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ing soon” in the subject box.
Church Women
VFW bingo
Sunday
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post 912. 8204 N. Main,
has bingo at 2 p.m. Selling
30 minutes before. Doors
open at 12:30 p.m. Open to
the public. Call 281-642-
3514 or 832-512-5600.
Lee College group to
host benefit for victims
Exercise
Today
Exercise class 9 to 10
a.m. at the Baytown Senior
Center, 2407 Market St.
each Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. For informa-
tion contact David Weber
at 832-597-6400.
of Flint water crisis
Today
Church Women United
will hold its May Friend-
ship Day with Thrift Shop
Style Show, with registra-
tion starting at 9:30 a.m.
at St. Mark’s United Meth-
odist Church, 3811 North
Main in Baytown. Program
is "Finding Grace at the Ta-
ble.” Lunch is S5. For in-
formation contact Dorothy
Johnson at 281-427-5062.
Students in the Reaching Excellence
Against Limitations Organization at Lee
College are hosting a benefit May 10 for
Flint, Michigan, residents still reeling
from lead contamination in the city's tap
water.
“Let’s be Real for Flint,” is set for
3:30-7 p.m. in the Student Center on
campus. The event is free and open to the
public, and will include entertainment
from a live DJ, a silent auction, a bake
sale and complimentary refreshments for
those who attend.
Cash donations and cases of bottled
water will be accepted at the benefit and
sent to Flint to help victims of the water
crisis, which has created a public health
emergency that has lasted more than two
years. Lead exposure can cause behav-
ior problems and learning disabilities in
children, and kidney ailments and other
health problems in adults — and while
treatments are available that reduce the
levels of lead in the blood, there is not
yet a cure for lead poisoning.
Launched at Lee College in 2015,
R.E.A.L. is a student organization that
aims to educate and empower black
males by enhancing their skills and cre-
ating positive change. The group recog-
nizes four pillars: educating the black
male on who he was, is and can be; em-
powering the black male voice on cam-
pus and helping put their thoughts in ac-
tion; enhancing member skills to form a
strong foundation from which they can
build their futures; and creating a cam-
pus climate that helps increase retention
rates for black male students.
For more information about the bene-
fit, contact R.E.A.L. adviser Jessica Falla
at 281-425-6421 orjfaila@lee.edu.
J.0. and Maggie Horn
Couple celebrates
Quilt show
Today
Baytown Area Quilt Guild
presents "Quilt Round-Up”
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at
the Lee College Sports Are-
na. For more information
call 832-373-8092 or go
to www.baytownareaquilt-
guild.com. Show continues
Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Summer training pays off 72nd anniversary
for Goose Creek teachers
BY SUSAN PASSMORE
Special to The Sun
Line dance
Today
There is a free line dance
class each Friday from
11 a.m. until noon at the
Baytown Community Cen-
ter, 2407 Market Street.
Bridge
Today
Come play bridge each
week at 11:30 a.m. at the
Baytown Community Cen-
ter. For information call
Howard Kramer at 713-
254-0996 or Yslita Brewer
at 832-932-3939.
Art show signup
Saturday
Registration for the
Art League of Baytown’s
Spring Show, themed “Old
Friends,” will be from 10
a.m. to I p.m. today and 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday at the
Art Center, 110 W. Texas
Ave. A public reception will
be held at 2 p.m. May 15.
Casino trip
Monday
Baytown Seniors will
leave at 8 a.m. from the
Baytown Community Cen-
ter for a day trip to Cous-
hatta Casino. Cost of $15
includes snacks on bus and
$10 of free play. For infor-
mation contact Davis We-
ber at 832-597-6400.
As Goose Creek CISD teachers finish
their first year of implementing in their
classrooms the Abydos training they re-
ceived last summer, the success stories
are remarkable. The Abydos Writing
Project, formerly known as the New Jer-
sey Writing Project, under the direction
of Dr. Joyce Carroll and Eddie Wilson
who led the training in Baytown last
summer, is designed to help teachers
show students the joy of writing.
Tammy Matejka, campus instruction-
al specialist at Travis Elementary’, and
her team are successfully implementing
some form of Abydos and Jeff Anderson
training, which focuses on ten essential
aspects of good writing, campus-wide
this year, and Travis is emerging as a very
reading-and-writing-connected campus.
“Instead of forcing kids to use a for-
mula, they write about what they’re read-
ing. There’s no clear, fixed way of writ-
ing,” said Matejka. "Our students are so
comfortable with writing that they’re not
fearful of testing days, and there has been
a noticeable difference in our benchmark
and STAAR scores."
Tammy Meigh, GCCISD’s language
arts coordinator, is pleased that Abydos
has empowered teachers and student to
not only write, but to engage in all facets
of literacy as the core of learning no mat-
ter what the content.
“Abydos provides an anchor philoso-
phy about the teaching of writing that is
steeped in actual writing theory and ped-
agogy. This has impacted the practice of
trained teachers by providing them with
actual knowledge of not only the writing
process and related technical skills, but
the art and craft of writing.,” said Meigh.
“Abydos-trained teachers have the strat-
egies necessary to teach students to write
for various purposes and audiences and
are able to encourage compositional risk,
which is translating into students who
embrace writing rather than shy away
from it,”
Ashbel Smith Elementary piloted the
new Abydos Pro curriculum this school
year with kindergarten-fifth grade. Espe-
cially the fifth grade has shown a marked
Caitlin Levine, left, from Goose Creek Me-
morial High School is congratulated by Dr.
Joyce Carroll after receiving the Sara B.
Reuter Promising Young Teacher Award at
the recent 30th Annual Abydos Literacy
Conference in Houston.
J.O. and Maggie Horn
will be celebrating their
72nd wedding anniversa-
ry on Saturday.
They were married on
May 7, 1944, in Natchi-
toches, Louisiana.
At 93 years old, they
feel especially blessed to
have had each other for so
long.
Both J.O. and Maggie
are retired educators.
They are the proud
of their three children:
Linda and Bill Kilgore,
Anita and Neal Askew,
and Jamey and Stephanie
Horn. Adding much hap-
piness to their lives are
three grandchildren and
eight great-grandchildren.
The Homs look forward
to sharing thier anniversa-
ry cake with all the resi-
dents and staff at The Wa-
terford where they have
resided for eight years.
improvement in test scores.
“One aspect of Abydos Pro that we feel
has been very helpful is the conferencing
piece. Within the lessons, it allows dif-
ferent strategies for teachers to confer-
ence with students as well as students
conferencing with students, addressing
content and grammatical errors,” said
Dee Doyle, campus instructional spe-
cialist. “Overall, we like the Abydos Pro
writing and grammar curriculum. For
more seasoned teachers, it gives them a
framework to still incorporate other tools
from their tool belt, and for our novice
teachers, it is a guide that helps them
seamlessly weave reading and writing. It
truly puts the theory of integrating read-
ing and writing into practice.”
Cedar Bayou Junior School’s sev-
enth-grade ELA Team attended Abydos
training together and members have
planned together to implement strategies,
such as Invitation to Notice as warm ups.
Explode the Moment and Sharing With
Knots in the classroom.
“I think the students enjoyed the activi-
ties. It connects with them better than the
old fashioned drill method," said Sherry
Otahal, campus instructional specialist.
“We are sending more teachers this sum-
mer, and I look forward to implementing
it more completely next year.”
Celebrating your anniversary?
The Baytown Sun congratulates you on your upcom-
ing marriage anniversary. We will publish all 25th-year
and beyond marriage anniversary announcements at no
charge. You must be from the greater Baytown area to
be eligible. The first photo is free and a second photo
will cost $35. All submissions must be 250 words or
less. For questions or more information, call 281-425-
8016. E-mail address is sunnews@baytownsun.com
Lakewood Yard of the Month
The Lakewood Garden Club has chosen the home of Ron-
ald & Donna Woodard at 213 Post Oak as the Yard of the
Month for May. This beautiful, newly landscaped yard is
filled with colorful flowering tropicals and palms.
Exercise
Monday
Exercise class 9 to 10
a.m. at the Baytown Senior
Center, 2407 Market St.
each Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. For informa-
tion contact David Weber
at 832-597-6400.
Glass painting
Monday
Learn to paint on glasses,
bottles or anything glass or
metal. Classes 5:30-8:30
p.m. at Baker Road Bap-
tist Church, 900 W. Baker
Road in Baytown. Contact
832-506-1912 or lindas-
painting2947@yahoo.com.
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Bloom, David. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 91, Ed. 1 Friday, May 6, 2016, newspaper, May 6, 2016; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1066494/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.