Haywood County Schools Brownsville Tennessee

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Haywood County Schools
900 East Main Street
Brownsville, TN 38012
Phone: 731-772-9613
Fax: 731-772-3275
Email: battled1@k12tn.net
haywood.k12.tn.us

Doris Battle, Editor

Our appreciation goes to Director of Schools George Chapman

It is certainly fitting that the June 2008 “Notebook” should be dedicated to Director of Schools George Chapman. He has led our school system since 2000, overseeing many changes with the great leadership, wisdom and the utmost dedication to the children of Haywood County.

It has been under his direction that our schools met the challenge of the No Child Left Behind directives, succeeding in making this community proud of their hard work and successes. Under his direction we have expanded our curriculum to meet the needs of all the county’s children, and we have mounted a campaign of informing and uniting all citizens behind the local school system.

The job of Director of Schools is a monumental one, because there is nothing more important than our children. Director Chapman always kept that as his motivation and encouraged his staff to raise the bar to give our children an advantage in the world they must live in after school.

I have also appreciated my years of working with him. Director Chapman has been a wonderful “teacher” and mentor to me and his other staff members, the school administrators and teachers.

For his dedication and for all the many hours of hard work Director Chapman gave to this community, we offer our sincerest appreciation and wish him the best in his retirement and future endeavors.

Haywood Junior High School
1201 Haralson
Brownsville, TN 38012
731-772-3265

Principal – Dontye Bradford (bradfordd@k12tn.net )
A native of Brownsville, Dontye Bradford is a Haywood High School graduate. She earned an undergraduate degree in elementary education from Lane College and graduate degrees in curriculum and instruction and in administration and supervision from the University of Memphis. She was a teacher at East Side Elementary for 16 years before moving to Haywood Junior High as assistant principal. Mrs. Bradford is in her third year as principal of HJH after serving eight years as assistant. She has a son and is the widow of the late Arnell Bradford. She has served on the Brownsville-Haywood County Chamber of Commerce Education Committee and is an avid sports fan.

Assistant Principal: Don Sims (simsd@k12tn.net)

Joining the staff in the 2006-2007 school year as assistant principal and athletic director at Haywood Junior High School is Don Sims. Mr. Sims is a 1975 graduate of the Department of Defense High School in Heidelberg, Germany, where his father was stationed with the U. S. Army. He attended the University of Illinois and worked part-time for Wal-Mart before opting to delay his college education in favor of a 20-year career in retail sales and management with Wal-Mart. Starting as a part-time employee, he worked his way up to SuperCenter manager before retiring. He then pursued his desire for a college education and earned a bachelor of science degree in education from the University of Tennessee-Martin. He taught middle school science and math in the Crockett County School System for three years and completed a master of science degree in education supervision this year. He has been married to his wife, Jennifer, for 25 years, and they have twin daughters, Jessica and Leighanna, who are sophomores at the University of Tennessee-Martin.

Mission Statement: The mission of the faculty and staff of Haywood Junior High School is to instill in our students a lifelong desire for learning and to equip them with the necessary academic, technical, and social skills that will enable them to become productive, contributing members of our community, state, and nation.

For the school’s website, click on www.haywood.k12.tn.us/hjh/

Haywood Junior High students receives awards

HJH Top Ten
Earning Top Ten recognition in the HJH Class of 2008 are (seated, from left) Reeves Garrett (99.9165), Seth Tillman (99.6245), Taylor Primrose (98.7495), Madison Eubanks (98.2495), and Brionna Fields (97.208); (standing, from left) Alycia Johns (97.083), Kaylee Avant (96.583), Patrick Sellari (96.458), Jay Clinton (96.458), and Karla Cisneros (96.2915).

Citizenship Award Winners
Eighth graders who received Citizenship Awards were (from right) winner, Xavier Cole; honorable mention, Seth Tillman, Chelsey Owens and Reeves Garrett. Making the presentation for the Brownsville Exchange Club was Mrs. Hope Cannon.

On Tuesday, May 20, the eighth-grade class of 2008 gathered for the last time at HJH to say farewell to their junior high school experience. Director of Schools George Chapman, Assistant Director Doris Battle, Principal Dontye Bradford and Assistant Principle Don Sims, with the help of teachers and representatives from the school’s Partners In Education presented awards recognizing the students for academic and other achievement.

The Top Ten students this year are (in order, starting with Number 1) Reeves Garrett, Seth Tillman, Taylor Primrose, Madison Eubanks, Brionna Fields, Alycia Johns, Kaylee Avant, Jay Clinton, Patrick Sellari, and Karla Cisneros.

Also receiving recognition were the eighth-grade Citizenship Award winners. Xavier Cole was the winner, and Reeves Garrett, Chelsey Owens and Seth Tillman received honorable mention. Mrs. Hope Cannon, representing the Brownsville Exchange Club, made these presentations.

Among other awards, five students qualified for state recognition in the Duke University Talent Identification Program. These students scored at or above 95th percentile on the national norms of a standardized achievement test. To participate, a student must take the ACT or SAT test that are designed for college-bound high school students. A student who participates and qualifies for state recognition is in the top 25 percent of the Talent Search pool. The five students honored were Connor Coulston, Sarah Lewis, Morgan Marlar, Molly McAdams, and Rebecca Pearson.

Haywood Junior High School students who have made first honor roll all year were:
8th Grade - Kaylee Avant, Reeves Garrett, Taylor Primrose, Seth Tillman; and 7th Grade - Sarah Lewis, Morgan Marlar, Molly McAdams, Rebecca Pearson, Hannah Roberts, and Jasmine Taylor.

Receiving the Haywood County Academic Excellence Awards at HJH were Kaylee Avant, Jay Clinton, Xavier Cole, Houston Cozart, Madison Eubanks, Brionna Fields, Reeves Garrett, Dwight Johnson, Rachel Johnson, Kaitlyn Kaiser, Sara Long, Nijaa Murray, Chelsey Owens, Taylor Primrose, Patrick Sellari, and Seth Tillman.

Recipients of this award must score advanced in all four areas of the TCAP
Achievement Test (reading/language arts, math, science, and social
studies). They also must have at least a B average with no grades below a C, and a satisfactory conduct record.

HJH Warrior Awards were also given, as well as Writing Assessment Awards, Academic Achievement Awards, Principal’s Awards, President’s Awards for Academic Excellence, Perfect Attendance Awards and awards for subject areas at the school.

About 275 eighth graders will advance to the ninth grade at Haywood High School in the fall of 2008.

HJH receives replica of historical piece

Haywood Junior High recently received a full-size replica of Rembrandt Peal’s famous “porthole” portrait of George Washington and a flag that was flown over his home at Mount Vernon, Virginia. These came as part of an official Celebration Kit from Mt. Vernon’s school outreach program. The portrait hangs proudly in the HJH library, in honor of one of our founding fathers, George Washington. HJH will also be receiving more projects, lesson plans, and programs to help honor America’s first president. HJH Principal Dontye Bradford and Assistant Principal Don Sims are pictures with the framed portrait.

HJH Track team named to All-Tournament

Haywood Junior High School track team members named to the All-Tournament team were Andre’ Douglas, Khadeja Hodge, Dakisha Watkins, Tim Moore, Demitri Boyd and DeMarious Douglas.

Four students excel in Guitar Hero contest

The Guitar Hero Competition was an incentive-based video game competition in which teachers rewarded cadets who did their best on the TCAP test throughout the week. Teachers submitted names of students they considered to be outstanding cadets on a daily basis. At the end of the week of testing, 30 students were selected to participate in the competition.

Participants included Jalen Bond, Brent Crawford, Maranda Dempsey, Jayme Evans, Rachel Johnson, Reeves Garrett, Alfredo Aguirre, Josh Avery, Chevia Hughes, Matthew Hooper, Charles Moody, Ashlyn Young, Andrew Tarkington, Allix Lonon, Blake Bolden, Sheronica Mercer, Ashley Wellington, Zanebria Henderson, Raeanne Williams, Jay Clinton, Houston Cozart, Dwight Johnson, Dalton Jones, Patrick Sellari, Seth Tillman, Jesus Acevedo, Christian Canada, Alycia Johns, John Person, and Andrew Thomas.

After four rounds, the first-place winner was Seth Tillman, second place went to Blake Bolden, third to Brent Crawford, and fourth to Christian Canada.

On Monday, May 19, the top four students had the opportunity to compete against staff members Mrs. Bradford, Coach May, and Ms. Coulston.