Phoenix

NEWS OF THE SCHOOL
Middle School creates peer-to-peer philanthropy program
The Middle School service
learning group,
Panthers CARE, this year
initiated a new approach
to service learning called
Peer-to-Peer Philanthropy.
Building upon the Lower
School after-school program
already underway with students
from the Westminster
Neighborhood Center (highlighted
in the Spring 2007 issue
of The Park Tudor Phoenix),
the Middle Schoolers joined
students from the Westminster
Center and presented a plan to
the principal of Indianapolis
Public School (IPS) #14 for
potential collaboration. The
majority of the students from
Westminster attend IPS #14,
which has a student population
of more than 600 students
in grades kindergarten through
six and has the greatest number
of children in need in the
state of Indiana. The proposal
was accepted, and the project
was launched.
Middle Schoolers plan to
The Indiana Foreign Language
Teachers Association
(IFLTA) has named World
Language Department Chair
and Lower School Spanish
teacher Claudia Nole Teacher
of the Year for Grades K-8. She
was selected for the honor from
among five teachers of Spanish
and Portuguese, German,
French, Japanese and Classical
Languages at the Indiana
Foreign Language Teachers
Conference on November 3.
Last May, Señora Nole was
selected as World Language
Teacher of the Year by the
Indiana chapter of the American
Association of Teachers
of Spanish and Portuguese
(AATSP). As a result of that
honor, she was nominated as
Indiana Foreign Language
form a lasting partnership with
the kindergarten students and
will follow their progress as
they progress through sixth
grade at IPS #14.
Already this school year,
Middle School student representatives
have helped escort
IPS #14 kindergarten students
on a field trip to an apple
orchard, hosted a Halloween
party, read and donated books,
and worked individually and
in small groups with the kindergarteners.
The students also
made take-home food bags for
the Thanksgiving and winter
holidays, so students would be
able to prepare food for themselves
when their parents were
at work.
Seventh graders Brooke
Hasler and Reilly Martin
shared details of their experiences
during an Upper School
assembly, and Upper School
students became involved over
the holidays, collecting donations,
buying gifts and participating
in a holiday party
Claudia Nole named World
Language Teacher of the Year
Teacher of the Year. She now
is one of 17 teachers entered
into competition for Foreign
Language Teacher of the Year
for the 17-state Central States
Conference of Foreign Language
Teachers, which will
be announced in May. Upper
School Spanish teacher David
Malcom received the IFLTA
Teacher of the Year award
for Grades 9-12 in 2004. He
is currently vice president and
president-elect of AATSP.
Señora Nole also was
selected to serve as the grades
K-8 representative on the Indiana
Department of Education
panel charged with revising
the state’s standards for World
Languages for grades K-12.
The revised standards will be
published in June.
for IPS #14. The School #14
students also had the opportunity
to “shop” for gifts for
their parents, which were then
gift wrapped by Park Tudor
volunteers.
The successful school partnership
was recently highlighted
in a feature story in “The
Indianapolis Star.”
Eighth graders Grace Barlow and Jacque Oppelt fill grocery bags with
healthy snack food before the Thanksgiving holiday to share with students
at partner school IPS #14.
Samantha Moulier ’07, Hannah Ladendorf ’12 and Madalyn Vonderohe ’12
celebrate with students from School #14 at their holiday party on December
21.
16 PARK TUDOR PHOENIX SPRING 2007