Sponsored by Cooperating School Districts, Show-Me A Movie is a digital storytelling contest that provides students in grades 2-12 the opportunity to demonstrate their creativity and digital movie making skills.
A video created by seventh-grade students Becca Treat, Katherine Karsten, Kate Schrichte, Lina Qi and Nina Ruan at Rockwood Valley Middle School students in Wildwood won top honors for creativity in the 2012 Show-Me A Movie Contest. Their video, “Acid Rain Dissolving the Future,” explains the problem of acid rain and how people can make a difference. Click here to watch the video. Rockwood Valley Middle teacher Caroline Podgornik said she was impressed with her students' work. "These young ladies did an excellent job sharing their ideas and listening to each other. The result was the creation of a dynamic video with a real world message," said Podgornik. On Feb. 12, this video, along with the other category winners, will be showcased at …
Law enforcement and school district officials shared area crises plans at a Safe Schools Partnership meeting Thursday. Police-led training could be provided to teachers and administrators.
St. Louis area police and school administrators are taking security measures in schools to the next level, even to the point of perhaps conducting training for teachers about how to disarm intruders and negotiate with shooters who invade schools. St. Louis County Police Department officers and members of the Safe Schools Partnership met Thursday morning at the Rockwood School District Administrative Annex in Eureka to continue discussions about how to bolster future safety in schools. St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch said police teams are offering to survey the crises and emergency plans for the corresponding schools they service, especially to ensure everyone involved is operating from the same premises. "This meeting was about …
While the Cooperating School Districts leader says school security plans are not a "one size fits all" proposition, he is advocating for some baseline changes. But those do not include arming educators with weapons.
One of the very engaged attendees at Thursday's Safe Schools Partnership meeting hosted by Rockwood School District in Eureka was Don Senti, executive director of the Cooperating School Districts (CSD). He said superintendents who are CSD members are opposed to arming school staffers to provide security for school children. But could bond issues or new taxes designated to take care of new safety measures be in the future? "Providing security for our most precious resource should be in the capable hands of those professionals who are trained in the use of fire arms, and more importantly, who know when to use them," Senti said. "Therefore, we feel that neither volunteers or armed educators are an appropriate solution to this national problem…
Matt Frey
1:07 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Heartland Ninjutsu, located in Immaculate Conception Parish Hall, in Maplewood is still offering a free month of active shooter and disarmament training for teachers and administrators. @Stephanie: We'll extend the offer to you too. We teach very practical self-protection skills, including disarms. My partner and I both work in security and he's also an ex-cop. We've used this stuff. We know what… more ›