| Governor's
Award for Educational Excellence |
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"89
Virginia public schools have met the rigorous criteria
required to earn the Governor’s Award for Educational
Excellence. The award is the highest honor under a new
incentive program for schools and school divisions created
by the Board of Education to advance Governor Kaine’s
“competence to excellence” agenda." W.T.
Woodson High School is one of those schools. Learn more
at
www.governor.virginia.gov/MediaRelations/NewsReleases/viewRelease.cfm?id=584
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| Challenge
Index Rating |
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Newsweek
ranks
public schools using the Challenge Index Rating system
devised by Jay Matthews in which the number of Advanced
Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests
taken by all students at a school in a given year divided
by the number of graduating seniors. W.T. Woodson High
School ranked top for 2007 among community high school
in the Fairfax County Public School system and 65th in
the nation. |
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Student
Awards |
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National
Merit Scholarship Program
- "The
National Merit® Scholarship Program is an academic
competition for recognition and scholarships that began
in 1955. High school students enter the National Merit
Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®)— a test which
serves as an initial screen of approximately 1.3 million
entrants each year — and by meeting published program
entry/participation requirements." The PSAT/NMSQT®
only counts towards scholarships when the test is taken
in the Junior year. Taking the test in earlier years provides
excellent practice opportunities. |
| National
Merit Semi Finalists and Finalists - Our
W.T. Woodson National Merit Semi-Finalists scored in
the top fraction of one percent among Virginia test
takers on the PSAT test in October of 2006. Eight of
Woodson's talented students have been chosen as National
Merit Semi-Finalists, and six have been selected as
Finalists (*). Congratulations go to Class of 2008 students: |
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Samantha
Fede |
*Aileen
Mavity |
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*Mark
Goldberg |
Caroline
Meyer |
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*Elizabeth
Jarvis |
*Alexandra
Nguyen |
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*Victoria
Jarvis |
*Joseph
Rampino |
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| National
Merit Commended Students -
Once
again, a large number of Woodson seniors have been named
National Merit Commended Students. These students rank
in the top five per cent of seniors in the country based
on the October 2006 PSAT/NMSQT Test. We are proud of these
Class of 2008 students. |
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John
Atiyeh
Kristin Brantley
Lyndsey Butler
Emily Cahill
Rebecca Chen
Rae Davidson
John Dunn
Preeya Fozdar
Scinjit Gadamsetty
Allison Geller
Christine Gina
James Goode
Kris Heiby
Don-vy Kim
Joanne Ku |
David
Lapidus
Yali Lin
Colin Madsen
Cressida Mahung
Glynnis Mattheisen
Benjamin Miller
Richard Noh
Kenneth Parker
Elizabeth Reams
Mary Sollosi
Jenna Spagnolo
Janet Thomassen
Zachary Wester
Richard Xue |
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National
Achievement Program - The National Merit
Scholarship Corporation runs a merit scholarship program
for talented African-American students. Recognition
as a National Achievement Finalist means being one of
the top African-American students in the nation who
can compete for scholarships within the program, and
scholars have been recognized with scholarships. Other
students with outstanding scores are also recognized.
We are delighted to congratulate the WTW students who
ranked high on the 2006 PSAT/NMSQT Test. |
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Lyndsey
Butler
Martekuor Dodoo
Ola Iko |
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National
Hispanic Scholar - The National Hispanic
Recognition program was established by College Board in
1983 to recognize the academic achievements of Hispanic
students and to help identify their accomplishments for
post-secondary schools. Recognition comes by taking the
PSAT test as a High School Junior. Achievement in this
test coupled with further evidence of academic achievement
are used to choose National Hispanic Scholars. We are
pleased to recognize Woodson's National Hispanic Scholars,
Class of 2008: |
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John
Atiyeh , National Hispanic Scholar |
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Cressida
Mahung, National Hispanic Scholar |
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Richard
Memory, Honorable Mention |
| 2007
Youth Award - The
YOUTH Award is sponsored by the Office of the Attorney
General of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the law firm
of Troutman Sanders, LLP. This program recognizes and
rewards those special young people who take the initiative
to serve their communities and become positive role models
for their peers and younger children. Out of over 150
applicants in the Commonwealth of Virginia, only four
were chosen, one of whom is a W.T. Woodson student. W.T.
Woodson is pleased and proud to congratulate |
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Karen
Bergeron |
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| Volunteer
of the Year - Sean
Douglass was named Virginia's top high school "Volunteer
of the Year" and a State Honoree in the 2005 Prudential
Spirit of Community Awards Program. Sean will receive
a $1000 award, an engraved silver medallion and will
be honored at a series of national recognition events
in
Washington, DC. Congratulations!
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Sean
Douglass |
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School
Music Awards
- In
2007, the Virginia Music Educators Association named
W.T. Woodson High School a Blue Ribbon School. This
award goes to a school in which all misical groups,
band, chorus, and orchestra perform at superior levels.
- The
Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association
named the W.T. Woodson Band a Virginia Honor Band
for 2006-2007.
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Faculty
Awards |
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Fairfax
County Times Citizen of the Year -
2007 awardee is an often recognized WTW teacher. Get the
details at at www.fairfaxtimes.com/news/2007/dec/19/woodsons-pied-piper/ |
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Michael Ehrlich,
Choral Director |
| National
Board Certification - One of the highest
honors a teacher can receive is National Board Certification.
This recognition is based on a lengthy application process
and close scrutiny by the National Board for Professional
Teacher Standards. This certification requires 200 -
400 hours of work beyond the normal teaching workload.
These teachers are certified for teaching throughout
the United States and receive a bonus from the Commonwealth
of Virginia. Congratulations go to: |
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Cynthia
Alexander, certified in Adolescent/Young Adult English
Language Arts, 2002 |
| Elva
Card, certified in Adolescence /Young Adult in Social
Studies History, 2007. |
| Cathy
Horowitz, certified in English, 2001 |
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National
Council of Teachers of English Achievement Award -
The National Council of Teachers of English has
recognized Allie Geller for Superior Writing in the 2007
NCTE Achievement Awards for Superior Writing. She is only
one of 18 winners in the entire state of Virginia. |
| Outstanding
Service Awards for 2007 |
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Awarded
by the Adult and Community Education of FCPS |
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John
Duffy, Teacher |
| Awarded
by the Virginia Choral Directors Association |
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Michael
Ehrlich, Choral Director |
2006
VADETS Teacher of the Year Award (Virginia
Driver Education and Safety) honored one of W.T. Woodson's
own for his outstanding leadership in preparing new
driver education teachers through the FCPS staff development
program. congratulations go to |
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John
Duffy, Teacher |
| USA
Today All-USA Teacher Teams - Each
year, USA-Today honors the most outstanding teachers
in the country. On October 17, 2002, this award was
given to our W.T. Woodson |
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Choral
Director, Michael Ehrlich |
| Wolf
Trap Foundation Scholarship Program -
supports arts education that parallels Wolf Trap's performance
and education priorities... scholarships are awarded to
individual public high school teachers/classes in the
performing arts for instruction leading to student performance.
Our awardee was honored as a result of his longtime commitment
to quality performing arts education. The plan for this
2004 Wolf Trap Foundation Scholarship of $2,500 scholarship
award is to commission an original composition with input
from the Select Vocal Ensemble. All five Woodson ensembles
will perform the work in March. Congratulations and thanks
go to |
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Choral
Director, Michael Ehrlich |
| 2007
Virginia Art Educator's Award for the
Northern Region was given in November. W.T. Woodson is
pleased that they chose to recognize one of our own to
receive the Secondary Art Educator of the Year Award. |
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Donna
Head |
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| PUBLICATION
AWARDS |
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Calvacade - 2007 First Place Winner. |
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Cavalier Yearbook - 2007 Trophy
Winner, the highest possible honor! |
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Page Literary Magazine - 2007 Trophy
Winner, the highest possible honor! |
