Liesl Vistaunet Gleaner copy editor Former Portland Adventist Academy communications director and marketing manager By Liesl Vistaunet Committed Visits PAA Portland (Ore.) Adventist Academy (PAA) hosted Committed, an Adventist a capella singing group and winners of season two of NBC's The Sing Off, in a concert for more than 800 teachers and students from nine Adventist schools.Adventist Health spons... Leer más PAA Welcomes Back Teacher Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) welcomes back Mark Kooy to the fine arts department. He returned to PAA from a one-year educational sabbatical to learn Rhino, a 3-D imagining software program. The new software will enhance the PAA curriculum, whi... Leer más PAA Welcomes New Staff Member Portland Adventist Academy is pleased to welcome a new staff member.Jessica Glover joins the PAA staff part time to fill needs in the library, as a tutor and librarian, and in the administrative office with payroll. Glover is a credentialed teache... Leer más Portland Adventist Academy Teacher Earns Doctorate Tim Erich, Portland Adventist Academy social studies department chair, recently received his Doctor of Education degree from La Sierra University."Earning a doctorate is a test of perseverance," says Erich, who has spent the last 25 years working ... Leer más PAA Teacher Wins National Award A Portland Adventist Academy teacher recently won an Alumni Awards Foundation award for Excellence in Teaching.Mark Smith, computer teacher and computer department chairman, was presented with a gold medallion, a framed certificate and $2,000 by A... Leer más PAA Students Take Guatemala Mission Trip This spring Portland Adventist Academy students traveled to Guatemala where International Children's Care runs an orphanage to care for 90 children.The mission trip focused on constructing a sidewalk and repairing the church interior and foundatio... Leer más Portland Adventist Academy Abolitionist Movement Portland Adventist Academy students are joining the fight against human trafficking.Human trafficking is modern-day slavery that includes forced labor and sexual exploitation. It has become a serious problem in the Portland, Ore., area, often affe... Leer más Special Retreat Day Teaches Girls to Become Women of God Portland Adventist Academy recently treated junior and senior girls to a special on-campus retreat. The day was organized to inspire the ladies to become women representing true worth as daughters of God.Laura Whidden-Wetterlin, speaker and singer... Leer más Mustaches for Men's Health While the mustache is a fashion statement of the past, this school year at Portland (Ore.) Adventist Academy it made a temporary comeback in honor of a worldwide effort for men's health.The annual November event, "Movember," is a movement started ... Leer más ELL Religion Curriculum Created by Retired PAA Legend Jim Robertson, a retired Portland (Ore.) Adventist Academy teacher for 34 years, recently completed a curriculum designed specifically for students learning the English language. Through this, he is leaving a legacy to students and educators alike... Leer más Paginación Página anterior ‹‹ Página 9 Siguiente página ››
Committed Visits PAA Portland (Ore.) Adventist Academy (PAA) hosted Committed, an Adventist a capella singing group and winners of season two of NBC's The Sing Off, in a concert for more than 800 teachers and students from nine Adventist schools.Adventist Health spons... Leer más
PAA Welcomes Back Teacher Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) welcomes back Mark Kooy to the fine arts department. He returned to PAA from a one-year educational sabbatical to learn Rhino, a 3-D imagining software program. The new software will enhance the PAA curriculum, whi... Leer más
PAA Welcomes New Staff Member Portland Adventist Academy is pleased to welcome a new staff member.Jessica Glover joins the PAA staff part time to fill needs in the library, as a tutor and librarian, and in the administrative office with payroll. Glover is a credentialed teache... Leer más
Portland Adventist Academy Teacher Earns Doctorate Tim Erich, Portland Adventist Academy social studies department chair, recently received his Doctor of Education degree from La Sierra University."Earning a doctorate is a test of perseverance," says Erich, who has spent the last 25 years working ... Leer más
PAA Teacher Wins National Award A Portland Adventist Academy teacher recently won an Alumni Awards Foundation award for Excellence in Teaching.Mark Smith, computer teacher and computer department chairman, was presented with a gold medallion, a framed certificate and $2,000 by A... Leer más
PAA Students Take Guatemala Mission Trip This spring Portland Adventist Academy students traveled to Guatemala where International Children's Care runs an orphanage to care for 90 children.The mission trip focused on constructing a sidewalk and repairing the church interior and foundatio... Leer más
Portland Adventist Academy Abolitionist Movement Portland Adventist Academy students are joining the fight against human trafficking.Human trafficking is modern-day slavery that includes forced labor and sexual exploitation. It has become a serious problem in the Portland, Ore., area, often affe... Leer más
Special Retreat Day Teaches Girls to Become Women of God Portland Adventist Academy recently treated junior and senior girls to a special on-campus retreat. The day was organized to inspire the ladies to become women representing true worth as daughters of God.Laura Whidden-Wetterlin, speaker and singer... Leer más
Mustaches for Men's Health While the mustache is a fashion statement of the past, this school year at Portland (Ore.) Adventist Academy it made a temporary comeback in honor of a worldwide effort for men's health.The annual November event, "Movember," is a movement started ... Leer más
ELL Religion Curriculum Created by Retired PAA Legend Jim Robertson, a retired Portland (Ore.) Adventist Academy teacher for 34 years, recently completed a curriculum designed specifically for students learning the English language. Through this, he is leaving a legacy to students and educators alike... Leer más
