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Ogden School District announces slew of administrative changes

OGDEN — The Ogden School District has shuffled its deck of administrators, moving many around and discarding at least one, in hopes of building a winning hand to take the underperforming district into a more promising future.

Thirteen of the district’s 20 schools will see personnel changes.

Superintendant Brad Smith on Monday announced the hires for three new district positions created last month, and he named seven new principals and five new assistant principals, some new to the positions and others just moving between schools.

Sonja Stevenson (center) helps plant a vossii goldenchain tree at Shadow Valley Elementary School on Monday in Ogden. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Shadow Valley student takes home Arbor Day grand prize

OGDEN — Sonja Stevenson thinks trees are pretty terrific.

That’s why, when her sixth-grade class at Shadow Valley Elementary decided to enter the Utah Arbor Day Poster Contest on why trees are useful and terrific, she dove right in.

Now, to her surprise, Sonja was selected to win the contest’s grand prize.

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Weber State University basketball player Jordan Pfau shoots hoops with students at Shadow Valley Elementary School in Ogden on Wednesday. WSU athletes visited the school as part of Red Ribbon Week to promote healthy lifestyles.

Weber State athletes teach students drug-free lifestyle

OGDEN -- Benjamin Abney followed the basketball closely with his eyes and moved back and forth as Weber State University women's basketball players carefully demonstrated how to take a perfect shot.

He bounced nervously until his turn came, then followed the advice and made the shot. He cheered with joy as the shot went in.

The 8-year-old got to spend his recess with the Lady Wildcats as part of the Shadow Valley Elementary School PTA's "Stay Drug Free" week.

(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Shadow Valley Elementary School opened at 4911 S. 1500 East in Ogden at the beginning of the 2009 school year.

'Green' school in Shadow Valley area promotes learning about environment

OGDEN -- When ideas about building a new Ogden elementary school were being tossed about, the thought of having an environmentally friendly facility caught everyone's attention.

(KRISTIN HEINICHEN/Standard-Examiner) Teacher Becky Weeks explains to Taylor Canyon Elementary School fourth-graders how the Braille language works before her student, Paula Ward, an 11th-grader at the Utah School for the Deaf and the Blind in Ogden, uses Braille to read them “The Snowy Day” on Thursday as part of the nationwide Read for the Record Day.

Team Effort / 11th-grader reads Braille, students listen up -- all to help break world record

OGDEN -- Some Taylor Canyon Elementary students experienced two new things Thursday morning: They helped break a world record, and they were read to by a Braille reader for the first time.

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