Volume 12 Issue 1 August 20, 2014

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The RevolutionWelcome Back, Patriots!

Inside this issue...

People pg 2-3 Schools pg 4-5 Sports pg 6 Schools pg 7 People pg 8

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KATE EDSONEditor-in-Chief

While students scram-bled to finish their sum-mer assignments and tried to enjoy the last days of vacation, new assistant principal Megan Wood was busy learning the ropes of a whole new school. Wood replaced associate principal Raynell Stokes, who retired over the sum-mer after 22 years at AHS and 37 total years in educa-tion. This year will be Wood’s 14th year working in schools, as she previously taught social studies at both Jouett and Henley and served most recently as an instructional coach, a position that helps teachers to “implement new things in the classroom,” accord-ing to Wood. With her background as both a teacher and an instructional coach, prin-cipal Jay Thomas and the interviewing committee thought Wood “brought a lot of wonderful things to the table.” “What stood out to us from her was her instruc-

tional leadership,” Thomas said. Wood knew she wanted to be an educator in high school, as a result of spend-ing her summers as a camp counselor. She also “taught swim lessons, so I’ve always loved working with kids.” Since she can’t imag-ine working without kids, Wood looks forward to get-ting to know the students here at AHS. “As an in-structional coach you don’t really have a set of stu-dents or a class of students, you’re kind of in and out of the classroom,” Wood said. “So [this year] I’ll be able to develop some relation-ships and get back into re-ally knowing the students, which is what I’m really ex-cited about.” Wood’s individual re-sponsibilities as assistant principal this year include overseeing field trips, spe-cial education, yearbook, the new music studio, and volunteer coordination. As a whole, the administration will be working to tackle changes such as an unusu-ally large student body and the newly implemented one-to-one student-to-

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ThinkPad ratio for the freshmen class. “I think one-to-one will be exciting, but I think dealing with the logis-tics of one-to-one...will be challenging,” Wood said.

New Assistant Principal Joins AHS

New assistant principal Megan Wood checks information on her com-puter. Wood is excited to join the AHS faculty, after working at Jouett and Henley as a teacher and instructional coach for the past thirteen years.

“I think [one-to-one and increased enrollment] are probably the two biggest challenges.” All in all, Wood is enthu-siastic about the new school year. “As an instructional

coach I was in three differ-ent buildings, so I’m look-ing forward to being part of one building, and being part of one community,” she said. “...I’m excited to be here.”

2 The Revolution August 20, 2014People

Who’s That? Meet the

Christopher BarnesCTE

Charlotte University, football at NC Central, and NC Wesleyan

11th year teachingFamily time, watching sports, and bodybuilding

Katie ChristieEcology & Biology

VT & Liberty University

4th year teachingCooking, taking long walks with her pug, Disney

Samuel CookNinth and eleventh grade English

8th year teaching

Hiking, playing video games

Andrea DavisTenth and Eleventh grade English

University of Virginia

2nd year teaching

Hiking, playing tennis, coaching

Michael FarabaughMESA Chemistry, AP Chemistry

William and Mary, Perdue Grad school, Michigan State

17th year teachingCooking, puzzles, word games, family time

Joe FrankfurthEnglish 9

Western Michigan University

10th year teaching

Fishing, hunting, hiking

Angie HeapsEnglish

Franciscan University of Steuben-ville

1st year teachingReading, writing, sewing

Brandon IsaiahAlgebra 1, Core +

University of Virginia

11th year teaching

Playing football, video games, speng-ing time with family and friends

Lindsay JobeFunctional skills, Special Education

Liberty University, Bridgewater Col-lege

3rd year teaching

Playing with animals, hiking, fishing

LaNika BarnesRegistrar

North Carolina Wesleyan College

1st year as a registrar

Reading, cooking, sleeping

Patricia MawyerAttendance

James Madison University

Scrapbooking, riding horses, cook-ing

Meet the newest additions to Albemarle! The Revolution staff is glad to welcome all

the new teachers and faculty, and wishes them the best

first year as Patriots.

What class are you teaching?Which college did you attend?How many years of experience

do you have?What’s your favorite hobby?

Photos and information compiled by Bailey Bush and

Alex Leslie

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New Faces Around AHS

Trevor PrzyuskiFilmmaking, TV production

Northwestern University, DePaul University

14th year teachingFilmmaking, music, acting, coaching baseball

Crystal RandallEarth Science

JMU, Johns Hopkins

8th year teaching

Playing soccer, video games, out-doors

Michael RomnickTenth, eleventh, & twelfth grade English

Missouri Baptist University

10th year teaching

Reading, biking

Jeff SchwalmBiology

Bridgewater College

8th year teaching

Outdoor activities, eating, playing with his kids

Jamie SherwellGuidance counselor, grades 9-12, last name B-Cri

James Madison University (under-grad0, VCU (Grad)

1st year counseling Being outside, reading

Rachel SingelArt, Photography 1

University of Virginia

1st year teaching

Running, drawing

Sarah LillyTrigonmetry, Algebra 1

William and Mary

1st year teaching

Dancing and fishing

Rodney ReddAlgebra 1, Special Education

North Carolina State University

11th year teaching

Yardwork, fishing, spending time with family

Linda SamuelSpecial Education

Mary Baldwin, California College of the Arts

16th year teachingNubian dairy goats, gardening, colo-nial reenactmenting

Michael SkalakAlgebra 2, PVCC Pre Calc/Calc

University of Virginia

1st year teaching

Playing board games, programming

Erica MooreGeometry, robotics, MESA

VT, Penn State, UVA

1st year teaching

Hiking, watching movies, knitting

Rebecca MichenorBiology, Ecology, AP Environmental

Whitman College, University of Washington

6th year teachingBiking, mountain climbing, baking, reading

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August 20, 2014Sports6 The Revolution

“There's no greater feel-ing in the world than having your classmates all rush the field after an overtime win in the state championship,” defender Bobby Leytham said.

An undefeated season for the lacrosse team led them to the State Championships on June 10 where they beat Loudoun County, 11-10. At-tacker and All-American Matt Crist scored six goals total, three during the fourth quarter that tied up

State Champs!Boys’ Lax Beats Loudon in Nail-biter

the game.With 10 seconds left on

the overtime clock, mid-fielder and captain Kevin Bernadino picked up a ground ball behind Loud-on’s goal and managed to score the winning point.

“Winning the state cham-pionship was extremely rewarding and it was nice to see all of our hard work over the past year pay off by accomplishing our team’s ultimate goal,” Bernardino said, “a lot of seniors had been working to win a state championship since fresh-man year.”

CLUB SCHEDULE September Monday, Sept. 8 Academic Wednesday, Sept. 10 Social Thursday, Sept. 11 Honor

October Monday, Oct. 6 Honor Wednesday, Oct. 8 Academic Thursday, Oct. 9 Social

November Monday, Nov. 10 Social Wednesday, Nov. 12 Honor Thursday, Nov. 13 Academic

December Monday, Dec. 1 Academic Wednesday, Dec. 3 Social Thursday, Dec. 4 Honor

JULIA HARRISONEditorials Editor

The team celebrates their undefeated season.

Bernardino, along with the other team captains Crist and Hunter Brown, relieve themselves of their positions with the hope that next year they “continue to have a strong team chemis-try.”

“I really hope that next year’s team has the same drive and will go out and achieve competitive great-ness,” Leytham said. “Leav-ing them all behind with a state championship is really bittersweet to me but I know the older guys next year will step up and lead the team to success.”

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Congratulations to Track State Champs

4x800 Relay: Zach Gentry, Ben Gersbach, Noah Smith, Ryan Thomas

800 meter: Kathryn Mayo

Congratulations to the State Champion Runner-Up

Boys’ Soccer Team

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Freshmen Bring ChangesThe Class of 2018 has ar-

rived, creating not only the largest freshman class that AHS has seen in years, but also changes in how students will access technology.

The current freshmen class has 556 students, about 37 more than last year’s ninth grade.

Principal Jay Thomas said that class sizes, however, will not expand because of a larg-er study body. “We were able to have staffing allocated to us that will allow us to keep class sizes where they are,” Thomas said. “Now, room space is a different issue.”

The school building is not changing shape from the out-side, but over the summer it received a bit of remodeling from the inside. Several stor-age areas were cleared out to serve as new teacher work-spaces as more classrooms are being used seven or eight periods in the day to accom-modate the growing student body.

Representing almost one third of the school’s approxi-mately 1,970 students, fresh-men are also in the limelight for another reason: the en-tire ninth grade is going one-to-one.

“As a county, we’ve been looking at one-to-one [stu-dent-to-laptop ratio] for several years,” Thomas said. “It’s really started in our middle schools, like Jouett, Walton, and Burley, they are fully one-to-one already.”

For five years, Albemarle has been using one-to-one computing for MESA and physics, issuing each student enrolled in those classes a laptop for internet access and other resources.

Within the next couple of weeks, all ninth grade students will receive a new ThinkPad Netbook with Win-dows 8.1 software, the same software which is now on all 1,700 of the school’s laptops. The freshmen’s Netbooks will be distributed through their English classes.

For a while, the county has discussed ways to tran-sition out of the traditional

paper and pencil method of learning and testing, and area schools believe one-to-one is a good solution.

“The computer each ninth grader is issued is the one they’re going to be having for the next four years. They will turn it back in at the end of the year, but when they come back their tenth grade year, they’re getting their comput-er back,” Thomas said.

In terms of cost, Thomas says “It’s really just the real-location of different resourc-es and funds. So it’s cost me and the school really noth-ing.” And the school plans to extend one-to-one for all of Albemarle during the 2015-2016 year, meaning every student will receive a laptop.

“One of the things that we’ve seen at other schools [using one-to-one] and even within our own school as we pilot it, is increased col-laboration among students,” Thomas said.

Assistant Principal Me-lissa Hankins said this new technology will also have great impact on students af-ter they graduate. “Our over arching goal is to prepare all of our students to be suc-cessful when you leave high school,” Hankins said.

Regardless of whether a student goes to college or joins the military or work-force, “we know technology is changing so frequently now. Part of our responsibility is

to make sure we are prepar-ing students to have the skills to be able to adapt, and to be critical thinkers and work collaboratively.”

In early August, freshmen were invited to attend one of three sessions of Albemarle’s first Patriot Academy, day-long activities to acclimate ninth graders with the new netbooks and the school. “The idea is to implement digitized learning, but also a career pathway to making good grades,” assistant prin-cipal, Tireese Lewis, said.

Lewis organized the pro-gram to also teach what he calls “social education,” which includes Patriot pride and the Patriot slogan. To make sure every student is on the track to graduate, Lewis said, “it starts with some of the small stuff.”

While part of the Patriot Academy was to learn about the netbooks, that is not the only resource for one-to-one education.

Hankins is developing a link on the school’s website just for one-to-one details, such as frequently asked questions, resources, and places to give feedback.

“We want to hear from kids and parents and staff about what’s working and not working,” Thomas said. “That’s the only way we’re going to get better and stron-ger.”

Ninth graders participate in a scavenger hunt by finding the “spirit rock” during the first day of Patriot Academy on Aug. 4.

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Freshmen Get Oriented Students Get to Know Their New School at Orientation NightRight Top: Senior Willa Lin tells new students and parents about applying for Key Club and shows them last year’s scrapbook. Left Top: PTSO members Michelle Caldwell and Lori Woods help students find their way around the building in search of their classes.Left Bottom: Caldwell mans the PTSO booth and signs new families up for the Patriot Progress newsletter.

Right Middle: Senior Rachel Birkholz mans the literary magazine’s booth and shows last year’s issue, “Primordial,” to new families.Right Bottom: Junior Devyn Alston helps her brother, freshman Landon Alston, interpret his schedule and find his teachers.