Month: November 2025

WGH students send safety message with ODOT’s Paint the Plow Contest

Voting for the this year’s Ohio Department of Transportation’s Paint a Plow contest has started and students in Kristen Newbrough’s  Senior Studio class have gotten in on the seasonal safety campaign.

The class came up with the the theme “Don’t Crowd the Plow” and painted their design on the plow provided by ODOT.

The Warren G. Harding entry for the Ohio Department of Transportation’s Paint a Plow contest is a real “scream!” Teacher and her

ODOT delivered snowplows to several area schools, including Harding, in for students to paint.

The Paint the Plow program allows local schools and non-profit organizations to paint an ODOT snowplow blade with messages of snow and ice safety, state, school, or community pride, or patriotism, according to ODOT’s website.

For more information, visit ODOT’s Paint the Plow Program.

To view the plows and support your favorite design, visit Facebook.com/ODOTD4. Voting started Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, and continues through Friday, Dec. 5 at 3 p.m. Each Facebook “like” counts as one vote — the plow with the most likes win!

Six WGH students to be recognized at the annual Twenty Under 20 Awards Dinner Dec. 3

Six Warren G. Harding High School students are among twenty of the most impressive young leaders in Trumbull County.

This year, three Harding seniors and three of the high school’s juniors have been selected for the 2025 Class of Twenty Under 20.

Now in its 13th year, the program, co-sponsored by the Tribune Chronicle, AVI Foodsystems and Akron Children’s Mahoning Valley, honors 20 high-achieving individuals younger than 20 for their leadership skills through volunteerism, extracurricular activities and academic achievements.

WGH had the most nominations this year. One finalist, Jane Faulk, is a repeat nominee. In all, 65 students form school districts across Trumbull County were nominated this year.

The students, whose volunteer activities run the gamut from church groups to Akron Children’s and food pantries, were nominated by family members, teachers, club advisers and school guidance counselors.

Many of them have 4.0 grade point averages, have taken college credit courses and are on track to graduate at the top of their classes.

The winners were selected based on a calculation of 50% leadership and 25% each academic achievement and extracurricular activities.

Harding’s nominees this year are:

• Michael Anastasiadis, a senior;

• Micaiah Capers, a junior;

• Ameera Coleman, a senior;

• Faulk, a junior;

• Vincenzo Laprocina, a senior; and

• Gianna Magazine, a junior.

The top five winners will be selected to split $1,000 to be donated to the local charity of their choice. One overall winner will be picked from among the five. Those winners will be announced during a dinner on Dec. 3 at DiVieste’s.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: National speaker, author talks to WCS educators about meeting the needs of all students and improving literacy

International literacy leader Pati Montgomery spent some time in Warren meeting with school teachers and administrators about leadership and literacy.

Montgomery was the keynote during Warren City Schools’ Nov. 4, 2025, waiver day professional learning sessions.

She has been recognized by the International Dyslexia Association, ARC, and ExcelEd for her outstanding leadership in the area of literacy.

She is a national speaker in the area of leadership and literacy, specifically on the systems and structures that should be implemented in schools to increase literacy outcomes for students. 

She is lead author for the book, “It’s Possible, A Leadership Plan for Implementing Quality Reading Instruction and Ensuring Literacy for All.”  She is Senior Education Officer at Keys to Literacy and founded Schools Cubed, a literacy leadership coaching firm that is now part of Keys to Literacy.

Her visit to Warren City Schools was was funded through the Comprehensive Literacy Grant awarded to Warren City Schools in June 2024. Beginning with the administrators, she set the stage for building a more robust MTSS system within the schools in order to meet the needs of all students and improve literacy outcomes in Warren City Schools.

Sessions were held at Warren G. Harding High School and the WCS Student Recreation and Wellness Center.