Category: Academics

• PMHS students place in top 3 in Governor’s STEM Competition

  A team of Penn Manor High School students was among the top three finishers in the “Governor’s Jobs First Regional STEM Competition,” held Feb. 14 at Lancaster Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13. The regional STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) competition challenged students to design and build a prototype product that would enhance the local community. Teams…

• Manor FFA students receive PA Farm Show honors

  Two dozen Penn Manor High School students won numerous awards recently at the Pennsylvania Farm Show representing Manor FFA. Eleven students earned Keystone Degrees, and one student, Arilyn Tegtmeier, earned a first-place award for her project on animal nutrition. Arilyn was competing in the Agriscience Fair Animal Systems Division. Her project is an analysis of…

• New library curriculum a novel mix of research, teamwork, hands-on building

  Penn Manor elementary students are building zoo displays, space stations and national parks in a new curriculum that combines research skills, creativity, teamwork and hands-on building in an unusual setting – school libraries. The Project-Based Makerspace Curriculum challenges small groups of students in grades four through six to build the structures out of Legos, magnetic…

• PM ag teacher named Turn the Key recipient

  Penn Manor agricultural education teacher Meagan Slates is one of 36 teachers nationwide to receive the 2016 Teachers Turn the Key professional development scholarship from the National Association of Agricultural Educators. Slates, who is in her third year at Penn Manor, was selected to represent Pennsylvania. She was nominated for the award by her peers…

• Manor MS earns third straight Distinguished School honor

  For the third straight year, Manor Middle School has been named a Title I Distinguished School, one of only 96 of Pennsylvania’s more than 3,000 schools to achieve the honor. Manor is among the top 5 percent of Title I schools in the state, based on progress made in the past year to narrow the…

• Teacher’s book inspires William Howard Day award

  A book written by Penn Manor history teacher Todd Mealy has helped inspire a new award in honor of a local education pioneer. The Pennsylvania Public Education Foundation recently presented the inaugural William Howard Day Award to Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale, recognizing his outstanding contribution to public education. DePasquale was honored for being “a tireless…

• 54 inducted into Penn Manor National Honor Society

  The Penn Manor chapter of the National Honor Society welcomed 54 members following an induction ceremony Oct. 5 in the high school cafeteria. To qualify, the Penn Manor High School juniors and seniors had to maintain a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.85 and demonstrate strong leadership, service and character traits. The 2016-2017 inductees include:…

• Penn Manor schools earn top state academic rankings

  

  For the third year in a row, Penn Manor High School is one of the highest-rated schools in Lancaster County, according to School Performance Profiles released this month for all public schools in Pennsylvania. Manor and Marticville middle schools also earned high rankings, while district elementary schools earned a range of scores. Penn Manor High…

• Penn Manor Technology Director publishes ‘Open Schoolhouse’ book

  The Penn Manor technology team virtually wrote the book on implementing open source software in education with its innovative 1:1 Student Laptop Program, the largest of its kind in Pennsylvania. Now, the head of the school district’s tech team, Charlie Reisinger, has written a book explaining how other schools can do it, too. “The Open…

• PM English teacher earns national recognition

  Congratulations to Lindsay Feger, recently selected to receive the Pennsylvania Leadership Development Award from the National Council of Teachers of English. Feger, a first-year English teacher at Penn Manor High School, is one of only five teachers nationwide to receive the award, which recognizes an early-career teacher who has demonstrated a capacity for professional leadership.…