Category: Academics

• Manor principal Edwards named Research Fellow

  Congratulations to Manor Middle School principal Dr. Dana James Edwards, who has been named a Research Fellow by the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators. Edwards, who has been a principal at Manor for 13 years, recently received a doctoral degree in educational administration from Immaculata College. His dissertation topic was “Teacher and Administrator Perceptions of…

• 14 PM students earn Scholastic Writing awards

  Congratulations to the 14 Penn Manor students who won awards for outstanding writing in the 2014-2015 Lancaster County Scholastic Writing Awards competition, sponsored by Lancaster Public Library. Another student, Veronica Cazillo, a high school freshman, won first-place for an editorial in the Newspaper in Education writing competition. Penn Manor students won 16 Scholastic Awards, including seven…

• Manor MS designated a ‘Distinguished School’

  

  Manor Middle School has been named a 2014-2015 Title I Distinguished School by the state Department of Education’s Division of Federal Programs. Only 96 of Pennsylvania’s more than 3,000 schools achieved the Title I Distinguished School designation this year. Manor earned the recognition based on progress made in the past year in narrowing the achievement…

• Two PM schools earn ‘High Achievement’ honors

  Two Penn Manor schools have been honored by the state Department of Education as “High Achievement” schools, based on improvements in student academic performance. Manor Middle School and Penn Manor High School are among only four schools in Lancaster County and fewer than 90 schools statewide to be designated “Reward High Achievement Schools.” They qualified…

• Manor FFA members earn national awards

  

  Manor FFA and several of its members earned national awards recently at the National FFA Convention in Louisville, Ky. Three members who graduated from Penn Manor High School in 2012 – Tyler Bauman, Alex Cantey and Caleb Hess – received the American FFA Degree. Less than 1 percent of all FFA members earn that recognition,…

• School Performance Profiles released

  

  Penn Manor schools had mixed results on School Performance Profile academic measures released this week by the state Department of Education. The district’s secondary schools posted gains from last year, while elementary school scores declined. Of note, Manor Middle School received the highest SPP score (89.6) of all middle schools in Lancaster County. SPP scores…

• PA Secretary of State addresses PM students

  

  Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele visited Penn Manor High School Thursday to talk to students about the importance of voting. Aichele heads the Pennsylvania Department of State, which administers Pennsylvania’s electoral process and oversees the licensing of nearly 1 million business, health care and real estate professionals. She urged students who are eligible…

• PM dedicates the new Hambright ES

  

  With the ringing of a historic bell, Penn Manor School District dedicated its new Hambright Elementary School Sunday before a crowd of more than 100 dignitaries and other guests gathered in the school’s bright, airy multipurpose room. Millersville University President Dr. John Anderson was keynote speaker for the ceremony, which marked the opening of the first…

• Crowther earns PA technology education honor

  

  Penn Manor technology education teacher Nick Crowther has received the Elementary Teacher Excellence Award from the Technology and Engineering Educators Association of Pennsylvania. He was nominated for the award by Krista Cox, principal of Eshleman Elementary School, where Crowther teaches applied engineering to students in grades one through six. He also teaches at Letort Elementary…

• Students, parents get first glimpse of Hambright

  

  More than 200 students, parents and family members got to explore Penn Manor’s brand-new school Thursday as Hambright Elementary School hosted an orientation prior to Monday’s start of the new year. Visitors got to tour classrooms in the school’s three color-coded wings, meet teachers, administrators and other staff and check out the brightly lit music and art…