Back to School 2008

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Back to School 2008
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22,265

• Number of students that attended EVSC schools in
  2007-2008.

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6,692.43

• Number of miles traveled as part of the 2008
  Summer Enrichment and Parks program.

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13,000

• Students, staff, and familiesworked with the St.
  Marys Outreach dietician at no cost.

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1,502

• The number of students who graduated from EVSC in
  2008.

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89

• Bicycles were awarded to students in the 2008
  summer programs.

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1,752

• The number of kindergartners in EVSC in 2007 -
  2008.

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2008

• Helfrich Park becomes the first S.T.E.M. Academy
  in the EVSC.
• (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics)

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1/4

• Of a mile track outlines the back of Glenwood
  Middle School and is aligned with fitness
  equipment.

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4th

• EVSC is the 4th Largest employer in Southwestern
  Indiana.

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70

• Agencies are part of theEVSC School-Community
  Council.

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2,435

• EVSC students were seen at St. Marys Dental
  Clinic during the 2007-2008 school year.

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2008

• EVSC Graduates were accepted at 21 colleges and
  universities within the state and at 44
  throughout the country.

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22,565,594

• Total scholarships offered to seniors.

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239

• Seniors were offered scholarships of 10,000 or
  more.

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30

• Different languages were represented in our
  schools last year.

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61

• Of Lincoln students live outside the schools
  district.

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278

• Vehicles either owned or on contract with EVSC.

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2000

• Students from EVSC schools and the community
  participated in the 21st CCLC's morning programs
  this summer. 

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2008

• Plaza Park Middle School won the Healthy Hoosier
  Gold Award and received the highest score in the
  high school and middle school level.

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5

• Counties have students attending the new Tech
  CenterSpencer, Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh, and
  Warrick.

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1,063

• Students attend Scott Elementary School making it
  EVSCs largest elementary.

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• Benjamin Bosse High School was established in
  Evansville, Indiana in 1923.

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1972

• Bosse's band played in the ceremonies preceding
  the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.

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1921

• The 10,000 seat Reitz Bowl was born by accident.
  It was originally planned as a retaining wall for
  the new F. J. Reitz High School.

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1983

• Because of dwindling enrollments, it was
  suggested to close North.

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2008

• At 1574 students, North was the largest high
  school.

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7th

• Vanderburgh County is the 7th largest county in
  Indiana.

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1st

• EVSC has the largest transportation system in
  Southwest Indiana.

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234

• Vanderburgh County covers 234 square miles.

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3rd

• EVSC is the third largest school district in the
  state.

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• Total number of EVSC schools
• 5 high schools
• 10 middle schools
• 20 elementary schools
• 3 alternative schools
• 1 Technical School

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Top 300

• EVSCs rank in the nation in terms of total
  student population.

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15 to 1

• Ratio makes EVSC one of the lowest
  student-to-teacher ratios in the state.

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1st

• Place went to Tekoppel School for the Parks
  summer walking contest. 

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3,100

• The number of EVSC employees.

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1916

• Hebron was opened as a 2 room school house. The
  original school bell is located in the courtyard
  of the new Hebron.

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1901

• Howard Roosa was built as the Claremont School.
  Howard Roosa was an Evansville Courier editor.

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1892

• Cedar Hall was constructed. It has had 4
  additions and 3 name changes
• 1892 - Blankenburg School
• 1918 - Emma Roach School
• 1953 Cedar Hall School

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1955

• Fairlawn Pupils arrived on the first day to find
  their new school had five classrooms without
  desks, no bell system in operation, no heating,
  water run in from a fire hydrant, and no
  sidewalks or street paved.

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2008

• Senator Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama visit
  Harrison High School.

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63,757

• Lunches were served over 7 weeks this summer!

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1st

• EVSC has the largest food service system in the
  state.

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848

• Students on average attended the Parks summer
  programs breaking it's record for attendance for
  the 7th straight year.

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15,000

• The cost of the first public school building in
  Evansville was erected in 1855.

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160,000,000

• Total users in MySpace. If it was a country
  based on population, it would rank eighth in the
  World.

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Dr. Idit Harel Caperton, NECC 2008
1st

• Wikipedia has become the information resource of
  choice. It is free and collaborative.

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• According to former Secretary of Education
  Richard Riley . . .the top 10 jobs that will be
  in demand in 2010 didnt exist in 2004.

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• The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that
  todays learner will have 10 to 14 jobs . . .
• by age 38.

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1822

• Daniel Chute was hired to teach at a salary of
  300 a year in Evansville.

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1993

• Calbert Cheaney, a former Harrison High School
  basketball star, became the all-time leading
  scorer in Indiana University basketball history.

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1937

• In January, the still under construction
  Washington Avenue School was surrounded by flood
  waters.

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1832

• According to a tale, a new invention, the
  blackboard, was used at a school on Lincoln
  Avenue. The next year the teacher and board were
  gone.

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1918

• Evansville High School was renamed as Central
  High School after Reitz was built on the west
  side.

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2003

• Delaware Elementary Schools Principal, Jennifer
  Garland, grew up in the area and attended
  Delaware.

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Steve Chen, a co-founder of YouTube, in March 2005

• There's just not that many videos I want to
  watch
• YouTube is hosting 80 million videos and managing
  3 million user accounts.

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• Change is happening outside of school 4 to 5
  times faster than the rate of change inside of
  school.

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1915

• Bosse Field is the third oldest baseball stadium
  in regular use in the United States.

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112,000,000

• The number of blogs that the, blog search engine
  Technorati tracked in December 2007. -Wikipedia

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½

• "Winning is only half of it. Having fun winning
  is the other half."-Bum Phillips - Houston Oilers

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264

• The number of computers that the average American
  depends on per day.

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3.2 million

• Projected number of teachers employed in public
  elementary and secondary schools in 2007-08.

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1/2

• The world's population is under 25 years of age.

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200 days

• The world's average
• school year.
• In the US, it is 180 days.

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100,000

• New blogs created daily.

Steve Hargadon
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18

• New users per second are signing up for mobile
  phones worldwide.

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  - Jean Piaget, Swiss cognitive psychologist .

• The principal goal of education is to create men
  who are capable of doing new things, not simply
  of repeating what other generations have done.

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  - Bill Blackman.

• Now is the time. Needs are great, but your
  possibilities are greater.

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       - Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC

• Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.

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    Temple of Heaven Park, Beijing, China

• Wisdom helps you to win the game.
• Think carefully about your next step.

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      - Steven Covey

• The main thing is to keep the main thing the
  main thing.

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     Steve Hargadon

• A New Publishing Revolution.
• The Internet is becoming a platform for
  unparalleled creativity, and WE are creating the
  new content of the Web.

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Chris Anderson, Wired

• "Creativity is now as important in education as
  literacy.

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Judy Willis, M.D., Educational Leadership July
2007

• "Brain research tells us that when the fun stops,
  learning often stops too."

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- Louis Sullivan, architect, mentor to Frank
Lloyd Wright, "Kindergarten Chats and Other
Writings"

• "To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to
  action."

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-Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

• Study without desire spoils the memory, and it
  retains nothing that it takes in.

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- Leonid S. Sukhorukov, All About Everything

• When children stop asking questions, it's time
  for parents to ask their own.

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Ignacio Estrada

• If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe
  we should teach the way they learn.

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Adam Osborne

• The most valuable thing you can make is a
  mistake - you can't learn anything from being
  perfect.

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Abraham Lincoln

• The best thing about the future is that it comes
  only one day at a time.

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Maya Angelou

• If you don't like something, change it. If you
  can't change it, change your attitude. Don't
  complain.

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Maya Angelou

• Words mean more than what is set down on paper.
  It takes the human voice to infuse them with
  deeper meaning.

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Harrison Ford

• We all have big changes in our lives that are
  more or less a second chance.

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Colin Powell

• If you are going to achieve excellence in big
  things, you develop the habit in little matters.
  Excellence is not an exception, it is a
  prevailing attitude.

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William Gibson

• The future is here. It's just not evenly
  distributed yet.

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Anne Frank

• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a
  single moment before starting to improve the
  world.

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Hikers

• Youre almost there!

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Randy Pausch

• The wall is there for you to show how bad you
  want it.

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John Naisbitt

• Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the
  direction they are going.

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Marc Presky

• Todays students are no longer the people our
  educational system was designed to teach. 

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• As for the future, your task is not to foresee
  it, but to enable it.

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Howard Miller, New York Times

• "We will never close the achievement gap if all
  we do is measure it."

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Ron Clark

• It is the job of all great teachers and
  principals to find a way to show every child his
  or her potential and put them all in situations
  where they feel successful, regardless of their
  academics, behavior problems or other factors.