New School
Board Members Elected
On November 7 Shaker voters elected
three new members to the Shaker Heights
Board of Education: Lisa Cremer, Ayesha
Bell Hardaway, and Heather Weingart.
Cremer is a
community
organizer whose
professional
experience in
social work has
focused on public
and mental health
initiatives.
Bell Hardaway
is an Assistant
Professor at Case
Western Reserve
University
School of Law
and a graduate
of Shaker Heights
High School (’93).
Weingart is a school
community leader
with professional
experience
in business
and club
management.
All three
member-elects have
children in Shaker Schools.
They will join current members Jeffrey
Isaacs and Bill Clawson and will be sworn
in at the January 9 Board meeting.
Dawn Sizemore Named
Coordinator for Innovative
Center for Personalized
Learning
Dawn Sizemore
has joined
Shaker Heights
Schools as the
coordinator
for the
Innovative
Center for
Personalized Learning.
A 1999 graduate of Shaker Heights High
School, Sizemore has extensive experience
in nontraditional learning, online
learning, and instructional leadership.
Most recently, Sizemore was the
principal at Lake Erie Preparatory
School, an ICAN School in Cleveland.
She was responsible for the planning,
implementation, and evaluation of the
educational program. She had previously
served as the school’s dean of Student
Learning and Instruction and its
associate principal.
Prior to her work at ICAN, Sizemore
spent 10 years working in education
in Phoenix and Nashville. She was the
coordinator of Instructional Services at
Maricopa Community College in Tempe,
Arizona; a Lead Curriculum Developer at
Grand Canyon University, which enrolls
40,000 students in a traditional campus
and online learning environment; and a
career and technical education instructor
at the National College of Business &
Technology in Nashville, Tennessee. She
began her teaching career in the classroom
at Metro Nashville Public Schools.
“I have a lot of different lenses
through which I view nontraditional
learning,” explains Sizemore. “I’m excited
that I still get to work with kids, but I’m
also still an administrator. And now I can
draw on my knowledge of online learning
for students and to expand what’s offered
to staff and to the community.” SL
NASA In-Flight
Educational Downlink
Brings Outer Space to Shaker
Nearly 900 Shaker students from grades
K-12, teachers, parents, and guests filled
the High School Large Auditorium on
November 1, for the District's first-ever
NASA In-Flight Education Downlink with
International Space Station astronauts Joe
Acaba and Mark Vande Hei.
The session, which lasted 20 minutes,
gave 17 Shaker students the opportunity
to ask questions they had previously
submitted to NASA about life on the
International Space Station.
“For years, the High School
planetarium has been a valuable learning
resource for our students’ knowledge
and understanding of outer space,” said
Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum
Dr. Terri Breeden. “This downlink enabled
students to see the real-world applications
of what they’ve studied.”
Shaker Schools was selected through
a competitive process for the Downlink,
thanks to Planetarium Director Bryan
Child, who applied for the opportunity
last spring. NASA was promoting
the opportunity as part of its Year of
Education on Station, which provides
extensive space station-related resources
and opportunities to students and
educators. Child was thrilled when he
learned that Shaker Schools was selected.
"For me personally, this is a once-ina
lifetime experience," Child says. "And
the main reason we do things like this is
so that the students can have that same
sense of awe."
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