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We thank the Copperheads, the golf tournament’s leadership and staff, for their ongoing support of Academy Prep students for the past decade! Transitions Optical provided eye exams for all Academy Prep students and glasses for over 50 of our students. A special thanks to Dex Imaging and the Sembler family for supporting our Transitions Championship Birdies for Charity Match! THANK YOU, TRANSITIONS CHAMPIONSHIP! See Thank You (Click
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Highlight
on APT Partnerships Prodigy Cultural Arts Collaborating with both Academy Prep campuses, Prodigy Cultural Arts is APT’s featured partnership for the quarter. We want to recognize their daily efforts and contribution to our art curriculum. Prodigy arranges for professional artists to teach courses in wide range of artistic methods. We currently have two teachers, Ms. Julia and Mr. Elio working with 5th and 7th grade students. Next semester, Prodigy will add dance, guitar and additional art instruction for our 6th graders. |
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 Ms. Fobbs, Prodigy Ybor site coordinator, and her staff honored APT for our excellence in After School programming with a tree planting on October 21. We want to thank Prodigy for their countless hours of dedication to our students. If you would like to know more about their programs, visit them at www.prodigyarts.org. |
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Do You Know These 7Th Grade
Vocabulary Words? Boys in Ms. Fuller's English Class study vocabulary by participating in an action-packed process. Teams of two perform dramatic vignettes that define words such as appease, conventional, judicious, milieu, gallantry and calamitous. |
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At the end of each duo, their classmates determine the vocabulary
work their actions reveal.
Can you guess which words the boys were performing? |
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 Seeking
Volunteer Coaches For The Golf Academy"Life Through Golf" Academy Prep Center of Tampa is seeking volunteer coaches to assist in a golf curriculum during physical education and Saturday outings to golf courses. Because the staff and students are so enthusiastic about golf, the school has also organized a club during the extra-curricular activity time on Wednesdays and Fridays. Individuals or teams interested in assisting can volunteer to teach basic golf techniques as well as the important life skills essential to golf, sports, and life. Our students' lives are changed through an education that is far from tradition. Each student receives four years of tuition-free, college-preparatory education in 5th through 8th grades. Students attend up to 11 hours a day, 6 days a week, 11 months each year. The school provides a demanding academic curriculum and a multitude of enrichment activities along with emotional support and social guidance. Students benefit from an additional eight years of graduate support that guides them continually through their high school and college careers. Academy Prep Center for Education was formed ten years ago, starting its first school in south St. Petersburg. The Ybor Center opened in 2003. The Golf Academy is supported by the Westchase Golf Club, the PGA Swing into Golf Initiative, The First Tee of Tampa, and The Lightning Foundation. If you are interested in volunteering for golf or other activities at Academy Prep, please call Chris Humboldt, the Development/Volunteer Coordinator, at 813.248.5600 or email her at chumboldt@academyprep.org.
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Fit
Families for Life and Reindeer Run |
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2008
Fall Family Picnic  We
had another fun and event-filled Fall Family Picnic. As always, our
parents make, bake, and out do themselves with food and treats for
all. Besides the terrific turnout of parents, students, families and
friends, we had fantastic faculty-run games and activities.The teachers, parents, and students (boys vs. girls) played an intense volleyball game – led by Mrs. Gard. The boys won! In the teachers vs. faculty football game, the teachers were again victorious. Berkeley High School students ran a tremendous book drive for our families. We want to thank our parents for their help at the picnic and every day at Academy Prep. Enjoy photos from the day! Click Here ( 
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| Focus
on Success - 7th Graders Turn Their Destiny into Reality
This unique program concludes with a “Creating Destiny” session in which the students project their lives fifteen years into the future while attending an alumni party. At the gathering, students describe their occupation, talk about the challenges they have overcome, and share their experiences with each other since they graduated from Academy Prep. Thanks to Charlie Poe and Jonathan Field for inspiring our students
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Assignments by Academy Prep Center of Tampa Students
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Judges Wow 8th Graders – 8th Graders Wow Judges!  |
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While moving forward on planning ideas for a mock trial and teaching students mediation skills, Tim Sullivan facilitated the first session - a "Judges Showcase". An incredible array of distinguished federal and state court judges
shared their wisdom and knowledge with the class for a 90 minute
session.
The Judges shared critical lessons and concepts regarding the workings of the judicial system. They told stories of how average, unsuspecting people can become caught up in criminal behavior, particularly where drug trafficking is involved. Drug issues relate to the most serious and pervasive crimes facing all of our courts-criminal, civil and family. They stressed the importance of community education and taking the time to give insights into the judicial system especially how it permeates our society in a positive way.
Students asked questions such as:
Academy Prep students had many reactions, including these: It was interesting to see a person that is just below the United States Supreme Court - to meet a woman that is stepping up to the plate to make a difference. I learned that you may think laws and rules don't affect other professions, but the law affects everything we do. The session inspired me to work harder to achieve my goals. I could see their work as a vocation - how the judges love to share their knowledge. I appreciate them spending their time with my classmates and me.
The judges shared with APCT students how very impressed they were with the difficult questions asked; the students' willingness to jump in and debate together matters of law; their actual knowledge of the law and courts; and their respectful approach. One judge shared, "In ten years of making presentations to grade school and middle school students, this is the first time I was not asked what my salary is. I am very impressed with your interest and respect of our work."
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| Academy Prep Center of Tampa’s First Graduating Class Outperforms Florida’s 8th Graders! Based on results from the nationally-normed Stanford10 and Secondary School Admissions Tests, Academy Prep Center of Tampa’s 2007 graduating 8th graders are outperforming Florida’s public school 8th graders in Reading and Mathematics. In Reading, the average national percentile rank (NPR) for APCT’s 8th graders is 71, while the NPR for all public school 8th graders in Florida is 67. In Mathematics, the average NPR for APCT’s 8th graders is 81, while the NPR for all public school 8th graders in Florida is 74.
What makes these results even more impressive is the obvious progress made by APCT’s students as they spend more time at APT. Even though the 5th grade Academy Prep students enter at grade level, they are still over a year behind their typical public peers at that point. Lincoln Tamayo, Head of School, is not surprised by these results. “Our students confirm our belief in the power of the human spirit to overcome obstacles. Led by outstanding staff and community leaders with help from our families and volunteers, our students belie the common misconception that inner-city children are too burdened to succeed academically. The American Dream is vivid for Academy Prep’s student body.”  Hats Off! To Our 2007 Graduates! Click Picture for a larger version
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Tameka
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Academy
Prep is Chosen for Computer Mentor Group’s Annual Computer Mentors Group has embarked on a collaborative effort with Microsoft Corporation to provide free computers Academy Prep students who attend its annual "Back-to-School Computer Giveaway." Volunteers and staff will distribute about 100 computer systems between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday, September 15th, at the Computer Mentors office at 2802 E. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in East Tampa. Each of the computers will include a monitor, keyboard, mouse and modem, and installed with the latest Microsoft software including Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, and Microsoft Student 2007. "We can’t think of a better way of pushing forward our mission to provide computers, training, information access and life skill development, than to adopt these students at Academy Prep," said Ralph Smith executive director of Computer Mentors. "We are confident that these acts of kindness will encourage and better prepare these students for the economic, educational and social opportunities that await them." "It’s the great support that we received from Microsoft Corporation and Hobbs Family Foundation that has allowed us to bless this school with such a generous gift," Smith said. Also new to the giveaway this year is the Florida Consortium of Information and Telecommunications Executives (CITE). These supporters of Academy Prep are one of the most widely recognized employee resource groups within Verizon Communications. CITE Florida and Microsoft volunteers will be present to on giveaway day to assist the families on an as-need basis for additional instruction. Thank you
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Once
again, Academy Prep is a home-town youth non-profit
supported by the Transitions PGA Golf Tournament.
Over 65 students, families, and staff volunteered for
the Pro Am with students as team standard bearers as
well as hosting the 17th hole caddy duties.
Pulling together a dynamic health collaborative, The Tampa
Bay Lightning Foundation and BlueCross BlueShield
of Florida designed and funded an 18-week course for the
sixth grade boys and girls that complemented their fall running
program initiated by The Lightning Foundation. The Children's
Board of Hillsborough County also contributed funds for
the course. Kicking off with a student knowledge assessment, students
gobbled up both the healthy snacks and
the healthy living know-how shared by an incredible group of partner
volunteers and staff.
This
is the third year of our Focus on Success program. Through the volunteer
efforts of our community partners, Charlie Poe and Jonathan Field,
7th grade students have explored goal setting, values and belief
identification, decision-making, communication skills, and time
and financial management. 
We
want to thank a new partner, Ogden and Sullivan P.A., Civil Trial
Lawyers, for designing and facilitating Law
Matters - a career development series for our 8th grade
class.
Initially,
Mr. Sullivan proposed to the judges a series of questions which
were the result of a previous brainstorming session with the students.
Subsequently, the judges broke into small groups to have more detailed,
face to face conversations with students. Each small group had the
opportunity to visit with two judges.
Reflections
were made on: why and how they became lawyers and judges, the difficulty
of making decisions under Florida law with respect to the death
penalty, recommendations for making the judicial system better,
and reiterating their commitment of service to our state and country.
Students
React:
Judges
React Too:
We
are very grateful to the Judges, Tim Sullivan and Randy Ogden for
this special presentation in our Law Matters sessions. THANK YOU!
Tameka
Evans started at Academy Prep as an AmeriCorps volunteer teacher,
went to reserve training for a year, and returned to APCT as the
girl’s math teacher.
The
museum will showcase student created museum architectural models
at a Student Fair in October. APCT is thrilled to have the Tampa
Museum of Art as a new community partner.
