Dalton High School Newsletter
October 6th, 2024
Each October, National Principals Month recognizes the essential role that principals play in making a school great. Principals are among the hardest working, yet often least recognized individuals in education. Principals set the academic tone for their schools, and it is their vision, dedication, and determination that provide the mobilizing force for achieving student success.
Dalton High School's principal, Dr. Lee Collins says, "I never set out to be a principal. All I wanted to do was grow up and be a teacher and a coach. Besides my mom and my grandparents, my heroes were always teachers. I just wanted to make an impact. At some point, I felt like I could make a bigger impact by supporting teachers and students as an administrator. I felt like teachers deserved a high level of respect, and I hoped to demonstrate that. I got the good fortune to be able to come to Dalton High School. I’ve got the best job in the world with the best young people and the best staff. I’m very grateful."
Congratulations Coach Jonathan Adams!
Dalton High School is proud to announce that Head Boys Basketball Coach Jonathan Adams has been selected to coach at the USA Basketball Men’s Junior National Team October Minicamp. Coach Adams will continue his role at Dalton High while taking advantage of this prestigious opportunity to work with some of the nation’s top high school basketball players from October 11-13, 2024, at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Earlier this September, USA Basketball announced that 83 athletes are expected to attend the minicamp, representing high school graduating classes from 2025 to 2028. Athletes and coaches were chosen by the USA Basketball Men’s Developmental National Team Committee, a group dedicated to nurturing elite basketball talent. This selection enhances Coach Adams' standing as a leader both on and off the court, while he continues to lead Dalton High’s basketball program.
Coach Adams will be joining an elite group of high school coaches from across the nation to coach the 83 athletes on the roster include 46 players with prior experience in USA Basketball national teams, training camps, or minicamps. Notable participants include athletes from the 2024 USA Men’s U18 National Team, which won the gold medal at the FIBA U18 Men’s AmeriCup in Buenos Aires. Additionally, several athletes from the USA Men’s U17 National Team, who helped secure the gold medal at the 2024 FIBA U17 Men’s World Cup, will also be in attendance.
Way to Go Melissa Lambert!
In the vibrant art classroom at Dalton High School, where students are encouraged to explore their creative potential, art teacher Melissa Lambert has been guiding and inspiring young artists for years. This fall, however, Lambert’s own creative talents are on full display as her artwork is showcased at Kennesaw State University’s Zuckerman Museum of Art.
Lambert has been selected as to participate in the Third Biennial Exhibition for Art Educators, titled Playful Encounters, which runs through October 4. The exhibition highlights the personal artwork of pre-K to 12th-grade art educators from the metro Atlanta area, giving the public a rare chance to view the artistic work of those who usually operate behind the scenes, guiding the creativity of others.
The Playful Encounters exhibition invites viewers to experience a variety of artistic styles and approaches, offering insight into the personal expression of educators who typically focus on developing the artistic voices of their students.
For more information on the exhibition and featured artists, please visit the Zuckerman Museum of Art’s website at museum.kennesaw.edu.
Mrs. Gibson's Enriched Algebra Class
Mrs. Gibson's class was engaged in a variety of learning activities to learn about linear inequalities. The lesson was a review/exploration of linear inequalities and systems of linear inequalities. The students had three tasks to complete. They were free to work at their own pace. The first task was a set of stations created by our instructional coach that reviewed all topics from Unit 2. Stations included matching a linear inequality to its graph, matching a system of linear inequalities to its graph, and deciding whether a point was in the solution set for a single inequality or a system of inequalities. There were also stations that involved students choosing an answer to a multiple-choice question and then justifying why the other three choices were incorrect. The second task was to create their own word problem for systems of inequalities. They brainstormed the scenario, chose the numbers, graphed the inequalities separately and together as a system, and chose two solutions to justify. Their third task was a set of open-middle questions in which they had to choose numbers to create inequalities that satisfied given constraints.
Mrs. Buckner's IB Biology Class
The digestive system or any human body system can be tricky to understand. In IB Biology Mrs. Buckner is required to teach various aspects of body systems. She is always looking to make activities interesting and hands on. To begin the unit on the digestive system, Mrs. Buckner had students make a refried bean sandwich. They had to use various materials and their own creativity to make the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small, and large intestines. Various liquids were used to simulate amylase in the mouth, bile in the small intestine, and hydrochloric acid in the stomach. This was a messy but fun activity that she feels helped her students understand and get excited about the digestive system.
Coach Aiken's Geometry Class
Coach Aikens class was engaged with an interactive activity using manipulatives to understand polynomials. Coach Aikens says "We used manipulatives with different colors that allowed for the students in geometry to take two binomials and multiply them together. Using the different colors allowed for the students to see the colors matched for like terms and what to do when a variable and coefficient were multiplied together. We used the dry erase tables to allow for the students to show their work and move the parts of the polynomials as needed. This allowed the students to truly understand what colors match and how they are like terms and what happens when using the foil method to multiply binomials to form one polynomial."