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"To be successful is
to be helpful, caring,
and constructive-
To make everything
you touch a little bit better.
The best thing you
have to give is
yourself."
Norman Vincent Peale
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."
Jackie Robinson
"MY interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
Charles F. Kettering
TO deny diversity is to deny life-with all its richness and manifold opportunities.
"FAILURE
to stand
for what is morally
right is the prelude
to being the victim of
what is criminally
wrong"
"Zig" Ziglar
"OUR lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"POLITICIANS have two sets of rules: One for you and I to live by, and another for themselves."
Glenn Beck
George Washington Middle School, like the mythical phoenix, has risen from the ashes to become one of the top schools in the state of West Virginia. The school has been named a 2008 West Virginia School of Excellence by the West Virginia Department of Education.
West Virginia Schools of Excellence are selected based on the following criteria: a rigorous and challenging curriculum, a safe and drug-free learning environment, participatory leadership, active teaching and learning, an environment that strengthens teacher skills, documented student achievement and the implementation of advanced and innovative programs.
Superintendent Chuck Hatfield is especially proud of GW’s staff and community for maintaining a focus on academic excellence and student support as they worked to rebuild their school after it burned in 2000: “Rebuilding a facility was one challenge, but building a School of Excellence, in many ways, was a much greater challenge,” he said. “It took the efforts of everyone –the teachers, students and parents, administration, and the school board to achieve that,” he stated.
Principal Joann Stewart, her staff, students, and community, along with Middle School Director Tom Tull, a former GW principal, are to be congratulated on the hard work and dedication to student success that has resulted in this honor.
