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PREP SPORTS: ‘The community will always have your back’: Cold Springs’ Josh Winfrey reflects on Eagle years
BREMEN, Ala. — Cold Springs’ senior Josh Winfrey played multiple sports in high school and had a great career. He talked about one of his favorite memories, plus some of his favorite awards. He had a blast playing with so many great players and learned some important things from a couple of them. “My favorite memory playing sports is winning area last baseball season. We were the first team in thirty years at Cold Springs to win area. My favorite awards during my time playing sports were being All-County four times in three different sports,” Winfrey said. “During my career, I...
Minor High School Assistant Principal Falante Perry dies, Jefferson County Schools says
Minor High School Assistant Principal Falante Perry died Monday, Jefferson County Schools confirmed Tuesday. Information on Perry’s age and cause of death was not immediately available. Kalvin Eaton, principal of Minor High School in Adamsville, remembered Perry for his generosity, kindness, humor and compassion. “Mr. Perry would go out...
Mortimer Jordan promotes Heath Lauderdale to head football coach
Mortimer Jordan High School has named Heath Lauderdale as its new head football coach, according to a news release from the Jefferson County School District. Lauderdale has been the Blue Devils’ assistant head coach for the past two seasons and was in charge of the program’s strength and conditioning program.
This week in HS Sports: For Sumiton Christian’s Yancey Young, the setback won’t be as great as the comeback
This is an opinion piece. Sumiton Christian coach Ricky Bowen credits senior Yancey Young with the saying that inspired his team’s run to this year’s Class 1A state baseball championship. “I think it was Yancey who said a setback is never as great as a comeback,” Bowen said....
Corner bounces back to sweep American Christian, win first Class 4A baseball title
Brendan Conner did his part to make sure Corner claimed its first state baseball title Thursday night. The UAB signee homered in Game 2 and shut down the American Christian offense on the mound in the third game as the Yellow Jackets swept their way to the Class 4A state title at Jim Case Stadium in Jacksonville.
One Alabama school district’s uncommon approach to boosting math scores: ‘Confidence in the room’
Corner Middle School math teacher Zach Weldon had planned for the chaos of 24 students racing to play each other in rock paper scissors. The eighth-grade classroom buzzed with noise and activity. “Two and a half minutes left,” Weldon said. Weldon’s students tried to calculate angles. Those who answered...
Trisha Powell Crain: What I learned by visiting math class
I’m pretty excited about something - wanna guess? No, it’s not the legislative session ending (though it did get pretty rough there at the end). It’s math! I’m excited about math! In particular, I’m excited about Jefferson County Schools’ effort to put building-based math coaches in their middle schools. It sounds wonky - but as an education reporter who loves to dig in and find what is working to improve achievement, this is the kind of story I love to write.
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