Press Release Summary: Delphian School Receives Humanitarian Award at the annual Applied Scholastics International Educators' Conference in St. Louis, Missouri.
Press Release Body: On July 29th 2007, at the annual Educators' Conference held on the main campus of Applied Scholastics International in St. Louis, Missouri, the Delphian School received the Applied Scholastics Humanitarian Award. Applied Scholastics International (APS Int.) is a non-profit, public-benefit organization working to provide educational assistance and technology in over 60 countries around the world. Mrs. Bennetta Slaughter, Chief Executive Officer of APS Int., presented this award to Delphian's headmistress for the school's "continued commitment and dedication to helping others." In September of 2006, Applied Scholastics International invited the Delphian School of Sheridan, Oregon, to participate in a year-long tutoring project that it was running in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The arrangement was that every two weeks during the 2006-2007 school year, the Delphian School would send a group of four high school students to help tutor 150 eighth graders in a Baton Rouge middle school to improve their literacy and numeracy. The mission of Applied Scholastics is to provide effective education services and materials that help people learn how to learn and thereby work effectively to achieve their full potential. In cities and townships around the world, Applied Scholastics helps both children and adults learn how to learn, utilizing proven learning methods, known as Study Technology, developed by author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard. Under the direction of Applied Scholastics faculty, Delphian students employed these same study methods to help improve the quality of learning for those eighth graders involved in the project. For some years, students from the Delphian School have done volunteer tutoring in elementary and middle schools in Sheridan and McMinnville, Oregon. Small groups of students have also taken part in more distant tutoring programs located in Massachusetts and Mississippi; however this is the first time that Delphian School students have been involved in a program of this magnitude. This project involved considerable cooperation from staff, students and parents alike, and over the course of the academic year, a total of 62 Delphian students took part. They began by providing a course in the study methods, and continued with personalized help in subjects that covered the full breadth of the middle school curriculum. Alex Jessup, a Delphian School senior from Texas, said of his time in Baton Rouge, "The few weeks I spent there were amazing. I became much more certain of the benefits of Study Technology, which we use here at Delphi in educating people, when I saw the results I was able to achieve with it. I also discovered I have a passion for helping others; I never thought I would get such satisfaction from a day's work." Delphian's Headmistress, Rosemary Didear, was pleased to accept the Humanitarian award on behalf of the school. "The students worked hard," she said, "and it was an opportunity for them to see that they could really make a difference in the lives of others. I know this was an experience they will take with them for the rest of their lives."
Company Name: The Delphian School
Web Site Address: http://www.delphian.org
Contact Information: Bruce Wiggins, Director of Public Relations The Delphian School 20950 SW Rock Creek Road Sheridan, Oregon 97378 800-626-6610 brucew@delphian.org
Category: Education
The Delphian School is an independent, co-educational day and boarding school offering college preparatory, English-as-a-Second-Language and summer programs for elementary through high school students. The Delphian School is licensed to use Applied Scholastics(TM) educational services (http://www.AppliedScholastics.Org).
Web Site: http://delphian.org
Contact Details: Bruce Wiggins, Director of Public Relations The Delphian School 20950 SW Rock Creek Road Sheridan, Oregon 97378 800-626-6610 brucew@delphian.org
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