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IN THE ZONE: SPARC PROGRAMS IN UWGA OPPORTUNITY ZONES Issue # 1

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Ensuring a bright future for Meadowcreek High School youth (pg. 2) March 2016

IT ONLY TAKES A SPARC TO IGNITE THE FLAME OF CHANGE… GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA

SPARC’s new Kids Academy

by Joy Monroe

In January, 2016, SPARC launched the SPARC not only recognize them all, but can read Meet Demarion
Kids Academy at the behest of Herman and about 20 of the words on his sight word list!!!
Kittle, the management company of Bradford Because of his improvement, he was also A column break is inserted before and after each column
Gwinnett Apartment Homes, where SPARC’s Student of the Week at Beaver Ridge that acts as a sidebar. To insert a column break, press
office is located. It is an afterschool program Elementary School! Ctrl+Shift+Enter. Or, on the Page Layout tab, in the
located inside the Community Center of the Page Setup group, click Breaks, and then click Column.
Bradford Gwinnett Apartment Home DeMarcus
Community in Norcross, GA. It meets every Page #
day after school, Monday—Friday, 3pm— He is a 5 year old Kindergarten student. When
6pm and serves students in grades K-5. he started at the SPARC Kids Academy in
January, he could not read. We started working
SPARC partners with Meadowcreek High with him on his sight words, expecting him to
School and Greater Atlanta Christian School learn a few words per week. To our great and
to staff the Academy. High School students wonderful surprise, it is the middle of March
come in after school and work with Academy and DeMarcus can already read all 100 of his
Kids on homework and academic enrichment sight words! We are now working on reading
exercises. sentences and getting ready to tackle Math!

Do you like working with children? SPARC has Meet DeMarcus
several opportunities for you to get engaged
with our Kids Academy! To view column breaks, section breaks, and other
formatting marks, on the Home tab, in the Paragraph
Demarion group, click the pargraph mark icon.

Demarion is a five year old Kindergarten Page #
student. He started at the SPARC Kids
Academy in January not recognizing the
letters of the alphabet. Now Demarion can

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INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION
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INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION
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text boxes for easy placement
relative to images.

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The sidebars in this template use simple, single-row
tables for the gray-shaded headings and thermometer
charts shown below for easy alignment.

Future Rocket Scientist This placeholder article provides the Measure In setting to Percentage. You
following tips: can then set the percentage to up to one
Adding content into a column to create a sidebar is no decimal point in accuracy.
different from adding text. As noted earlier in this  Creating “thermometer charts” using
template, apply the styles provided for headings, tables, as shown at left. Setting up multipage articles
sidebar text, and even pictures to align them quickly and
easily.  Setting up multipage articles. Word is designed to allow text to
 Wrapping text around images automatically flow from one page to the
FAST FACTS  Adding article titles and bylines next. So, when you want an article to
continue on the next page, just keep typing.
68% Creating the sidebar
thermometer charts In the case of this placeholder article, it is
Learn about these “thermometer charts” in the article at separated into two placeholder content
right. When you work in Word 2010 (or PowerPoint controls (one on this page and another that
2010), you have the full power of Excel 2010 starts at the top of the following page) just so
42% charts (provided that Excel is installed on that you can still see the layout of the
your computer). Insert a chart in Word from following page while you begin adding your
Cras ut blandit diam. Suspendis quis urna semper the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group. own text on this page. As mentioned on the
aliquam. Charts are easy to create and use and first page of this template, remember that it
automatically coordinate with your active might look like the
FOR MORE INFORMATION document theme. layout is skewed
when you replace a
Abico eum, ille et, conventio obruo duis However, notice in the sidebar at left that the long piece of
ullamcorper ut, neo demoveo. Vel reprobo: “thermometer charts” were created using placeholder text by
single-row Word tables. This is because they starting to type your
HEADING 5 automatically fit the tight space without own, but it is not. As
having to remove any chart elements. And you add your
Contact Info you might be surprised to learn that it’s easy content, the layout
to make them essentially mathematically that follows will
accurate. move down
automatically and
To use a table as a thermometer chart, do back into position.
the following:
To remove the
4. On the Insert tab, in the Tables group, second placeholder
click Table and then drag across the grid control that starts immediately following this
to select the first two cells in the first one, just select it and then press any key. You
row. Click to insert a two-cell, one-row can then continue typing from this page and
table. your text will automatically flow onto the
next.
5. Click in the table and then, on the Table
Tools Layout tab, in the Table group,
click Properties.

6. On the Columns tab of the Table
Properties dialog box, change the

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