Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, August 31, 1993                   TAG: 9308310019
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: JOANNE ANDERSON
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

TEACHERS GET TO GO BACK TO CLASS, TOO

Helping teachers incorporate APPALACHIAN STUDIES into their classrooms is the subject of a Saturday seminar on Sept. 18. Sessions will include information about storytelling, folktales, Appalachian literature, history, music, coal camps and flea markets. Cost is $28. Registration deadline is Sept. 10.

"\ UNDERSTANDING CHILDHOOD MENTAL DISORDERS" is a live videoconference scheduled for Sept. 9, 1-3 p.m. in Heth Hall Lounge A. The registration deadline is Wednesday. Cost is $35.

"\ CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS: BUILDING RESILIENCE IN CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS," also a videoconference, will be presented on Sept. 14, 5-6:30 p.m. in Heth Hall Lounge A. Registration deadline is Sept. 6. Cost is $15.

For more information or to register for any of the Continuing Education seminars, call 831-5483.

\ Business day for students of DALTON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL will be Thursday. Eighth graders may pay their fees and pick up class schedules in their homerooms 9 a.m.-noon or 1-3:30 p.m.

Orientation for seventh graders will begin Thursday at 9 a.m. Students are to report to their homerooms.

Fees for all students are $22 for book rental and $1 for a student activity fee. School opens on Sept. 7 at 8:15 a.m.

\ KELLEY M. RYAN of Shawsville High School has been named an All-American Scholar by the United States Achievement Academy. Each honored student must maintain a 3.3 grade-point average and be selected by a counselor, teacher or qualified sponsor.

Ryan's name will appear in the All-American Scholar Directory. She is the daughter of Regina and Bill Ryan of Shawsville.

\ FALLING BRANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Principal J.C. Callahan reports a wonderful first year at the school and new teachers and new banners for its second year. Olsen Kelly will teach third grade, and reading teacher Laura Williams will work half-time.

In the school courtyard, brackets are being mounted on the deck to display banners as they are acquired. This year, Callahan will be flying the new pig banner, symbolic of his kissing a pig last year when the pupils met their reading goals.

Another banner depicts kids with a school bus. Others will be collected and displayed in a colorful, courtyard combination of fluttering flags.

\ BETSY BERNARD, daughter of Heidi and David Bernard of Blacksburg, won first place in the Poem by a Student category for ages 9-11 at the 1993 Virginia Highlands Creative Writing contest in Abingdon.

\ SHAWSVILLE MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL has a new library floor, but not just because the floor was wearing. An entire electronic network has been installed under the floor for new computer systems. Students in the summer work-study program painted wall murals in the cafeteria.

Also, football coach Jerry Cannaday has emerged from his very brief retirement. After one month, Cannaday was asked to return for one year because his replacement was unable to assume the job.

\ The TEACHER INCENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM of the Virginia Commission for the Arts provides financial awards up to $300 to elementary and secondary school teachers for innovative arts resources, profession artists or arts consultants or special supplies for classroom projects. Deadline for application is Oct. 15.

Application forms are available from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, 223 Governor Street, Lewis House, 2nd Floor, Richmond 23219; or call (804) 225-3132.

\ DEDE STONE, the marketing and fashion coordinator at Christiansburg High School, recently received an award for outstanding service in adult training and development at the Annual Marketing Education Summer Conference.

Blacksburg Middle School's POSEY JONES has been named outstanding middle school agriculture teacher by the Virginia Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association. Jones has been teaching 21 years in Montgomery County and recently was appointed by the governor to serve on the Blue Ridge Council on Education and Training.

\ AUTHOR Joanne Anderson is filling in for Melissa DeVaughn, who is hiking the Appalachian Trail. If you have an interesting news item from your school, please write to Classnotes at the New River Current in care of the Roanoke Times & World-News' New River Valley Bureau, P.O. Box 540, Christiansburg 24073.