Page Ten N/Warren Town and County News Thursday, April 11, 2013
Norwalk
Girls Tennis
The Warrior girls tennis
team started out their first
week of dual action with a
record of 1-1. Norwalk fell
in their season opener to
Boone by a match score Of
7-4. Norwalk won three of
the six singles matches and
the No. 1 doubles match.
Claiming singles wins for
Norwalk were Michaela
Pearson, Sarah Roemer
and Liz Nimmo. Pearson
teamed up with junior
Sam Roemer to win at No.
1 doubleS.
Norwalk traveled to
Saydel Thursda3 April 4,
and defeated the Eagles 9-
2, The Warriors received
singles wins from Pearson,
Sam Roemer, Sarah Roem-
er, Maddie Cornish and
Kes Smith. In doubles, the
teams of Pearson/Cornish,
Roemer/Roemer, Smith/
Nimmo and Brooke West-
phalen/Allison Stanley all
earned victories.
Boone 7, Norwalk 4
Singles
1. Pearson, N, def.
Greiner, 6-3, 6-4; 2. Ham-
mer, B, def. Sam Roemer,
6-3, 6-2; 3. Sarah Roemer,
N, def. Troe, 6-2, 6-3; 4.
Leeds, B, def. Smith, 6-0, 6-
0; 5. Behn, B, def. grenizer,
6-1, 6-0 and 6. Nimmo, N,
def. Webb, 4-6, 6-4, 1 (14).
Doubles
1. Pearson/Sam Roem-
er, N, def. Troe/Hammer,
6-3, 6-2; 2. Greiner/Webb,
B, def. Sarah Roemer/
Smith, 6-2, 6-3; 3. Leeds/
Behn, B, def. Brenizer/
Nimmo, 6-1, 6-4; 4. Moor-
man/Titman, B, def. Ober/
Westphalen, 6-1, 6-1 and 5.
Fuentes/ Welder, B, def.
Stanley/Downs, 7-5, 1-6, 1
(6).
Norwalk 9, Saydel 2
Singles
1. Pearson, N, def.
Smith, 8-1; 2. Sam Roem-
er, N, def. Gambrel, 8-4; 3.
Sarah Roemer, N, def.
Miller, 8-0; 4. Cornish, N,
def. Carter, 8-6; 5. Smith,
N, def. S. Brown, 8-2 and
6. Samples, S, def. Breniz-
er, 8-2.
Doubles
1. Pearson/Cornish, N,
def. Smith/Gambrel, 9-8
1(3); 2. Roemer/Roemer,
N, def. Carter/S. Brown, 8-
0; 3: Smith/Nimmo, N, def.
Samples/C. Brown, 8-6; 4.
Bobenhaus/Beamer, S, def.
Brenizer/Ober, 8-6 and 5.
Westphalen/Stanley, N,
def. Silver/Gustafs0n, 8-6.
The only person in
American history to be
both an admiral in the
Navy and a general in
the Army was Samuel
Powhatan Carter, who
was born in Elizabeth-
ton, Tenn., in 1819.
• GOLDEN ATTITUDE AWARDS AT EASTVIEW
The staff at Eastview recognized 8th and 9th grade students exhibiting Golden
Attitudes. The Golden ttitude Award is presented to students who contribute to
our school in a positive manner through the attitude they display and their interac-
tions with others. Help us congratulate our students[
Pictured, left to right: Alex Fee (8th), Kinzi Jarvis (9th), Chris Bowles (8th), Liah
Moeller (8th), Sara Bennett (8th), Samantha Walker (8th).
Pictured are 9th graders, left to right: Tanner Leiting, Matt Rozendaal, Joe Vivone
and Kiley Fee. Photos submitted.
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LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY I
By Jill Anderson, Principal
In reading the Marzano study which analyzed the
strongest effect size for increasing student achievement,
I felt good about the direction that Lakewood is head-
ing with focus that has been created this year. The first -
was the influence of the opportunity to learning and
the alignment of curriculum to assessments (.88). Each
month, data is analyzed within teams in order to better
serve your child. The teachers are focusing on doing
formative assessments throughout the instruction in
order to create a more prescriptive learning process for
each unit. The staff is constantly working to create a
better alignment between small groups, intervention
groups and large group instruction.
The second one was to decrease disruptive behavior
(.85). The work that our behavior 4nterventionist has
done with the teachers is to explain to the teacher the
"why" of student behavior. This has been a tremendous
help. That coupled with the PBIS student program (re-
spect, responsibility and safety) has yielded a result of
a decrease of 10% of discipline referrals over the last
three years. Simply put, the students are not in class,
they do not become smarter. I want to personally thank
the teachers for implementing their own classroom in-
centives for kids and the PTO for providing the funds
to reward good behavior.
The third is leadership. At Lakewood, we used the
"balance leadership" principles. There is second order
changes and leadership and first order. The staff is very
well aware of the initiatives that are being worked on
and how that affects their teaching and the students
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NHS Activities Director
By A1 Lammers
Population Growth Creates Change in Athletic &
Activity Program Classification
Ever}, year the Iowa High School Athletic Associa-
tion and the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union de-
termine schools classification based on BED counts sub-
mitted to the Department of Education by each respec-
tive school district in the state. The grade levels that
determine the classification a school competes in are
grades 9, 10 and 11 in which the official BED count of
those three grades are then used for classification pur-
poses the following year. Norwalk's official BED count
in those grades for this year was 604 students compared
to 584 students a year ago. That growth coupled with
smaller BED counts Of the two smallest 4A schools in
this year's classification (Western Dubuque of Epworth
and Cedar Rapids Xavier) will now change Norwalk's
classification in certain programs from a 3A school to a
4A school in which the largest 48 schools in the state are
classified. The following athletic programs will be im-
pacted by this new classification in 2013-14: Boys Golf,
Boys and Girls Cross Country, Boys Basketball, Boys and
Girls Track and Baseball. This does not affect Volley-
ball, Girls Basketball, Girls Golf and Softball because
these programs fall under the Girls Union 5 Class sys-
tem in which Norwalk is a 4A school. It will also not
impact Football, Wresting, Boys Soccer, or Girls Soc-
cer. The new BED enrollment will also impact the Jazz
Band and Show Choir programs as they also will com-
pete in 4A competition due to being a school over 600
students.
Predicting classification from year to year is a diffi-
cult and less than predictable task. The varying changes
in student enrollment from one district to another and
the variable reasons for those changes add to the diffi-
culty. The one item that the new classification does not
change, however, will be our affiliation with the Little
Hawkeye Conference. Norwalk will continue to be a
member of the LHC and will have no desire to apply to
join the CIML unless our student population growth
would replicate that of Waukee or Johnston and in the
current projections it does not appear as though that
will be the case.
The duration of a 4A classification is also difficult to
determine. This could be a one year aberration, or again
depending on other school districts' enrollment changes
as well asour own, it could be longer• Either way it is an
exciting and new challenge for Norwalk High School.
Our coaches, sponsors, athletes and participants will
look forward to embrace the challenge and to compete
and be successful no matter what the classification or
competition.
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