Author: Tanner Atha

Inspired by their love of animals, two students from the Honors Core Infusion program at the Innovative Hub recently completed a passion project to improve the quality of life for dozens of animals awaiting adoption at the Columbus Humane Society. After reaching out to Sarah Tayse, Director of Operations at Columbus Humane, Lola and Lucy coordinated a donation drive that brought in over 200 new items, including much needed toys and food for dogs and cats. In addition, the Honors Core Infusion students engaged in a day of design by creating enrichment items to help reduce cat and dog anxiety, including lick plates and pup cups for the dogs and treats and toys for the cats and kittens. Congratulations to Lola and Lucy for following their hearts and making a difference!

Congratulations to these Embrace, Empower & Inspire Award winners, Beth Petty (Intervention Specialist Slsp), Lane Vanderhule (English Teacher), Daniel Mcduffie (Social Studies Teacher), and Bryan Brewer (Bus Driver).

These staff members go above and beyond the expectations of the Hilliard Way and truly make a difference in our district. If you know a staff member that goes above and beyond their way to make a difference, you can nominate them for next month’s award by clicking HERE!

Seniors!
Scholarship applications are now in Schoolinks.
Make sure to fully read Descriptions, Directions and Deadlines!

Schoolinks!

Step 1 – Log into SchooLinks

Step 2 – on the left side, click on “finances”

Step 3- Click on “Scholarship Match”

Step 4 – Students will need to fill out an “eligibility chart” only takes a couple minutes

Step 5 – Click on “District Posted” in top right 

Step 6 – Complete the applications

At the beginning of the nine weeks, the students at the Arrow Program embarked on creating their own passports. Over the course of the quarter, the students will be traveling to different countries in the French-speaking world and completing various activities, tasks, and projects along the way. They will earn a “passport stamp” for each country visited.

Today, the students applied their newly acquired knowledge of the French numbers from 0 to 20 by participating in a “trip to Cameroon.” As they completed their task sheets, students roamed around the classroom to learn more about Cameroon. By completing the activity, they earned a stamp on their passport.

For the past 16 years, the competition cheerleading teams from all three high schools and middle schools get together for one evening of cheer. Cheerfest started in 2008 to get all the schools together to showcase their competition routines. Former coaches and cheerleaders evaluate the performance of each school. Each coach uses the feedback to perfect their routines for the season. Hilliard Cheer is the only school district in the state with more than one high school that continually places within the top 10 at states each year. Each school has won numerous OCC, State, and even National championships. Our robust middle school programs serve as a foundation for these exceptional programs.

This year at Cheerfest, three former coaches were inducted into the first class of the Hilliard Cheer Hall of Fame, recognizing their commitment and dedication to our cheer programs’ history. Each has made a lasting impact on our programs.

Carolyn Dougherty, a retired teacher, coached middle school sports for over 30 years. She laid the foundation for all our programs.

Aimee Jordan, an intervention specialist at Brown, coached at Heritage and Darby. She moved to Bradley when it opened and earned a State Championship the first year.

Michelle Miller was a coach and teacher at Darby High School for 17 years. Her passion for teaching and coaching was well-known throughout all of our cheer programs.

For the first time this year, the cheer programs collaborated to offer a scholarship to a senior athlete who demonstrated leadership not only in their cheer team but also in the school and community. Congratulations to all of our inductees!