Notable Accomplishments

Accomplishments:

• Recipient of Safe Routes to Schools Walking School Bus Grant from Iowa Department of Transportation.
• Recipient of Positive Behavior Intervention Support Award from the State of Iowa.  Whittier has been a PBIS school for 4 years and also is a Love and Logic School.
• Recipient of Gold Star Award (3rd year) from Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois-given for valuable support and achievement of impacting one of every three girls with the Girl Scout program.
• Grades 3-5; 86% of students are proficient in reading with 21% at advanced level.
• Grades 3-5; 80% of students are proficient in math with 32% at advanced level.
• Student Accomplishment: A fifth grade student recently participated in the Future Problem Solvers state competition as a scenario writer.  As she traveled to the state competition, she was approved to participate as an alternate for the state competition.  As with the global issues writers, the alternates go through the same 6 step procedure for solving a world issue problem but with students they have never met before.  During the competition this fifth grade student showed excellent work ethic and creativity to the world issue problem and led the team to placing first place amongst the alternate groups.  The day after the competition, the results came back qualifying the fifth grader as the Junior Division scenario writing to represent Iowa at the International FPS Conference.  Not only was she selected for this, but because of the hard work and creativity she displayed during the alternative competition, she was selected to be the Iowa Flag Bearer for the opening ceremonies.  This is a great honor and privilege that is rarely given to a junior division student.  The competition is set for June 7-10 at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.