History
For over
twenty years Partners In Education, local businesses, organizations,
and individuals have been providing area classrooms with the Temple
Daily Telegram as a supplement to classroom curriculums. The
Partners In Education program has been a vital link between schools
and an important source of information - the daily newspaper.
Through the Partners In Education program, area students from Kindergarten
through High School use the newspaper to enhance a variety of subjects
including basic reading and letter recognition to economics, history,
geography, grammar, and math. Very young students search out and circle
the letters of their name on the front page, math students learn to
calculate averages using sports page statistics, and high school economics
students learn to live on a budget using classified and sales ads
for jobs, housing, food, and transportation.
Involvement
From September
through May the Partners In Education program also provides monthly
tabloids to classrooms on various subjects. Titles for the 2006-2007
supplemental materials include "Read, Write, Relate", "Constitution
Comics", and "We Love Animals". Each tabloid is chosen
to coincide with a specific monthly event such as Literacy week in
September, Geography Awareness in November, and the Holiday season.
The Partners In Education program also sponsors the annual Golden
Apple Awards. These awards are a way to support local teachers by
recognizing teaching excellence by encouraging students and former
students to write a short essay about a teacher who has impacted their
life in a positive way.
Partners In Education has also been sponsoring the annual Bell County
Spelling Bee for over twenty years. Students from all Bell County
public and private middle schools are invited to participate in the
contest each spring. The coveted "Traveling Trophy", awarded
to the winning school, currently resides at Travis Middle School.
Each Autumn, Partners In Education sponsors the "Tribute to My
Hero" essay contest. All students in the area are eligible to
send in an essay that details a person in their life whom they consider
a real hero.
The Partners In Education coordinator also conducts tours of the Telegram
facility for school groups or organizations and is available to give
presentations for individual classrooms, organizations, or school
wide programs.
For more information about the Temple Daily Telegram's Partners in
Education program, email
the Partners in Education Coordinator.