Spotlight: Prep's PTO

The Tindley Prep PTO is nothing short of amazing. It, like the school it supports, is a second year organization. However, age does not completely explain what this group is doing in our school.

A short rundown of their great accomplishments include: Tindley Block Party and end of year bash, dinner at Parent University, hallway patrols at the end of the day, working our concession stand for basketball games, donating an air hockey table, donating a table tennis set, creating certificates and programs for assemblies, and spearheading the yearbook project.

They are the most dynamic parent group with which I have ever worked and I look forward to all of the things they will continue to do.

Semester House Winner: Harvard House

Congratulations to the young men of the Harvard House for being in the lead at the end if the semester in the House Challenge. They earned an end of semester fun day which included open gym, air hockey, arcade basketball, and tons of good fun.

Harvard took the lead by blasting the competition in a culture challenge and stock market challenge. The young men of Harvard were joined by the 6th grade who were celebrating their Acuity scores. 

The 6th grade beat our sister school on average in reading and mathematics this for this assessment and are poised to make great strides in preparing for college.

Spotlight: Prep Basketball Champs

Prep's 8th grade A team just became the best in Indianapolis. They beat John Marshall 82-43. Congratulations to these young men for becoming 8th grade city champs and meeting high academic expectations to even step on the court.

Make the Chain Strong!

Tindley Prep's First Year Grade

Tindley Prep has joined Tindley Accelerated in becoming an "A" school. As a first year school our students, teachers, and parents did amazing things by becoming the best school in the state if Indiana for young men. In our second year, we will continue on our journey of becoming the best school in general.

Congratulations to the entire Tindley Prep school community on becoming an "A" school!

Comcast Cable and an Interview with Dungy

Judah Officer (left) and Devin Archie (right) had an awesome opportunity to go and represent the Tindley Prep newspaper at an event aimed to bring internet to all homes in Indianapolis.

Former Colts coach Tony Dungy was in attendance and spoke about how important te internet is to inner city families to have an equal education.

The two young men actual were able to interview coach Dungy. One of them actually won a computer at the event.

Scholars Meet The Mayor To Keep Streets Safe From Snow

On November 4, 2013, the Sirs and Doctors of the leadership program met with DPW staff and the mayor to celebrate new equipment purchased by the city to keep the roads safe.

We look forward to the men and women of DPW keeping it safe and clear for us this winter.

Spotlight: Sons of Excellence Choir - 1st Performance

The Sons of Excellence Choir had their first performance Friday November 8th at the Mavris Center. They performed at the Forest Manor Gala event fundraiser. The young men did an excellent job and represented their family, country, and school well.

Watch the video of their day of preparation below. Also, find more information about Forest Manor and the work they do for the indianapolis community here. Donate to Forest Manor here.

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Pictures from Robotics Club

Tiger Cafe Provides Service at Forest Manor

Forest Manor had produce donated from the Indianapolis Fruit Company. Community members came by to get free fruits and veggies, and the boys took orders, filled their bags, documented the demographics of the purchasers, weighed the bags, and gave them their produce.

Photos by Devin Archie for the Tindley Prep Newspaper

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Thanks Dr. Saunders and the Journalism Class

Acceleration Classes: Spanish with Mr. Bork

The young men are taking time to learn how to ask for food in spanish with Mr. Bork. The acceleration classes are really helping our young men learn new and relevant skills for our new world.

Chess Club

Today was the first meeting of Chess Club. The founder of the club, J'Kai Lahmon, is looking forward to bringing a similar club to Accelerated next year.

The club's advisor, Mr. Bork, has encouraged Collegiate to start a team as well.

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The Tindley Prep scholars have been working on a newspaper in the Acceleration Classes. The first issue was published September 13, 2013. We hope you have a ton of fun reading what the scholars put in the paper.

A special thanks goes to their adviser Dr. Anita Saunders.

Inside Classrooms: Physics

In Physics the young men built air skimmers to investigate properties of aerodynamics. I wonder who had the fastest skimmer?

Prep Scholar Receives Award

Tindley Prep scholar Julian Smith received the Brother's Keeper award at the 2013 Strengthening Family Conference. Julian is an honor roll student at The Prep and is a wonderful poet and writer. Julian is also very involved in his church community, martial arts, and selflessly helps to take care of his brother with disabilities.

I salute Julian and his family. Congratulations!

Principal Jones

Tiger Cafe Gets Raised Beds to Grow

The Tiger Cafe just got better! Ronak Shah, William Bork, and the crew received raised beds from a local camp. They will use the beds to grow the food they cook. The neighborhood that Tindley Prep sits in is a notorious food desert. All extra food from the garden will be donated so people in the Meadows/Devington community. The Prep looks forward to what the Tiger Cafe will do this year.

Welcome Back 2013-2014

Prep Families

Welcome to the 2013-2014 school year. I look forward to the magnificent things we will be able to accomplish this year. We did great things for young men last year, but we cannot rest on our laurels. We must work harder and smarter to achieve the goal of college for every one of our young men.

I am happy to announce that we will continue many successful co-curricular activities this year along with new clubs for students to enjoy. Mr. Shah will be bringing back the Tiger Cafe. Mr. Bork will be returning for Chess Club. In addition to those things, we will also have GAME IT build a video game curriculum, First Lego League, and Hip-Hop Club will continue.

The Tindley Preparatory Academy would like to thank you all for choosing our family as a school home for your son. He is a son of excellence and there will be none greater.

Principal Jones

Preparation: Summer Work for Prerequisite Preparation

Hello Prep Families

In an effort to make sure students do not lose valuable skills over the summer, we have uploaded work that will help students stay sharp on a basic level over the summer. As you know, we give diagnostic and prerequisite tests at the beginning of the year. It is our hope that this work will help your student stay ready for those.

There aren't many problems included (20 items per grade level for math - 1 packet for English), but we think these are the most essential foundational skills for your young men.

See the links below for what you need for your young men.

Language Arts

• Grammar
• Mechanics

Mathematics

• 6th Grade
• 7th Grade
• 8th Grade

Principal Jones

Mr. Jones: 2013 Education Champion

2013 Education Champion: Patrick Jones II The Education Champion award recognizes an individual who has devoted his or her time, expertise and focus in supporting youth, championing education and was nominated by community members of the City of Indianapolis.

The 2013 Education Champion award, sponsored by Royal United Mortgage and presented by Peyton Manning , went to Patrick Jones II.  Patrick is the Principal of Tindley Preparatory Academy, a middle school focused on the educational, social and emotional programming developed to meet the specific needs of adolescent boys.

Original article from School on Wheels Chalk Talk

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Tiger Cafe: Urban Acres

On Wednesday, May 29, the scholars of the Tindley Prep Tiger Café took a field trip to Indy Urban Acres, a partnership between Gleaner’s Food Bank and the Indianapolis Parks and Recreation Department. Indy Urban Acres is an eight-acre urban farm and community garden on the east side of Indianapolis. All of the produce cultivated on the land is donated to local food banks and nutrition programs, and members of the neighborhood can grow crops of their own in community plots.

Students learned about growing plants, composting, beekeeping, raised beds, egglaying hens, and a variety of other facts about where their food comes from. Many were so surprised to see what their food looked like when it was growing out of the ground! They got to sample some fresh spinach and other vegetables growing on the farm. Each scholar then got to plant some bean sprouts in soil, which they could take home to start gardens of their own.

See pictures in the link below.

https://plus.google.com/photos/102103632435839434169/albums/5883802025430017841

8th Grade Class Trip 2013: Photo Album

Our 8th Graders recently went to St. Louis to visit Washington University and St. Louis University. We also made stops at Six Flags and Sweetie Pies.

See the pictures at the jump below.
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Chiefs Give Back: Financial Literacy

Tindley Prep 8th graders receiving their certificates

Three of the leaders in our school (Chief Z. Brown, Chief T. Mitchell, and Chief W. Malone) created a non-profit organization to teach young people financial responsibility at Tindley Prep. They introduced young people to bank officials and banking ideals to help them become financially responsible immediately. The program even had young men create bank accounts and issued principal funds to help young men start their journey of financial literacy.

Tindley Prep is extremely proud of these young men for their service to our community. We also look forward to seeing them bring the program back to our 8th graders next year.

See more pictures of their final meeting after the jump.

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Tindley Senior Makes Documentary about Tindley Prep

Tindley Accelerated Senior, Isaiah Treadwell, made a documentary about life at Tindley Prep.
See the video below.

Tindley Students Graduate College

Tindley graduates DaQuon Turner and James Hughes graduate college and make the chain strong. They have realized what we want for our scholars.

Chiefs and a Doctor with Governor Pence

Chief Malone, Chief Brown, Chief Mitchell, and Doctor Scott had an opportunity to witness the signing of the school safety bill created by a team headed by Pence.

The school safety bill was created as a response to the tragedies that have been taking place in schools across the country. Governor Pence believes that this bill will serve as an opportunity to provide schools with the resources needed to provide safety services.

Principal Jones noted in a conversation with Scott Elliott (Indianapolis Star) that EdPower schools have benefitted from these types of services by having William Benjamin serve as Chief of School Security.

Scholars of the Week - So Proud

I am so proud of these young men. Prep scholars, continue to make the chain strong.

Spotlight: Prep Principal Honored

Tindley Prep Principal Mr. Jones was recently honored by School on Wheels as the Education Champion of 2013. He was honored for his service to the Tindley Community and previous service in California and Nashville. See the video above of Mr. Jones being introduced by Peyton Manning.

To learn more about School on Wheels and their mission to help educate children , visit http://www.indyschoolonwheels.org/

Testimonial from Cooking Club

A Parent Testimony: 

J’Kai, probably like most boys his age, often really struggles to complete tasks independently. He needs many redirections and a lot of support to finish a complex task independently. In the past, when he’s tried to cook independently it has been a disaster. Since cooking club started, he’s been talking about it non-stop. I decided that we should give him a spotlight to showcase his new recipes when we went to a friend’s house for dinner recently. I had no idea what the recipe involved. J’Kai and I went to the grocery store, and from memory, he purchased all of the ingredients. Later that day he actually remembered that he was in charge of making the appetizer and asked if it was OK to start. I had mentally prepared to have to help him through this with a large amount of patience. However, I was in the middle of something and told him he could get started, planning to join him shortly to give him support. I checked in a few minutes later and he reported that he was doing fine, and then a little while later I started to smell something. When I asked what he was doing he said he was in the final stages of making his appetizer. When I went downstairs, my son had not only chopped all of the vegetables, but had them in the pan cooking, and was cleaning up his mess! Miracle of all miracles! He recreated the recipe completely independently after watching the recipe be cooked only once in cooking club and it was delicious! I’ve never seen him do anything like this before!

Spotlight: Chef's Society

Greetings from Tindley Prep. I am glad to announce that Tindley Prep has started its own Chef's Society and Restaurant  The group is led by the students and advised by Chef Ronak Shah. I am very proud of these fine students as they look to explore the world of cuisine and become self-sustaining individuals.

Spotlight: Chief Malone and EdPower Robotics

Chief William Malone: Driver for the Robotics Team

As many of you may know, Arlington High School is currently operated by our parent company EdPower. What you may not know is that EdPower has a robotics team based out of Arlington. The team is advised by Mr. Marlon Lllewelyn and Mr. Soso DeDe. They recently participated in their first competition at Purdue and created a rookie legend. Our own Chief William Malone was the driver for the robotics team.


Please read Mr. DeDe's recollection of day 3 of their experience below:

Day 3 (7am -6pm)

On Day 3 the second day of qualifications for the playoffs and the playoffs that evening, we would suffer some losses but even in those losses our “legend” continued. In one legendary match, we were partnered with team 829 our mentor team. They had blown a transmission and we had to help knock them onto the pyramid as they couldn't drive. In the process taking damage to our robot but working together to win. In another match our final match before the playoffs we faced the Mighty Hawaiian team again and we were determined to win. Mr. L wanted to play it safe and score our 10 points and get into the playoffs but our driver team said no and told me they wanted to play to win and defeat Hawaii. I had to disregard Mr. L’s instructions and yells to get on the pyramid – which I pretended to not hear and go with the kids as I too wanted to defeat Hawaii.  Hawaii had been scoring over 100 points shooting the Frisbee alone in each match. In this epic match up we went toe to toe with the Hawaiian alliance “initially” winning 34 to 31 at the end of regulation. It was in this match up that we solidified our status no matter how the competition went. We held Mighty Hawaii to 31 points and we nearly won. At the end of the match each robot has to climb a pyramid to get points. We were ready to climb which would have earned our team 10 points. This would have made our score 43, but we knew that the Hawaiian alliance would have two climbers so their score would be 51. One of our partner teams got stuck in their climb. Our driver drove over to their robot and spent almost a minute trying to lift them onto the pyramid. They were successful but in the process we sustained damage to our robot. As we attempted to climb ourselves we were successful except for the fact that our bumper broke off and hung down from our robot and barely touched the ground as the horn sounded and took away our 10 points. We would lose the match 51 to 43 but everyone had seen that we were not afraid of Hawaii (literally everyone was) and that we were willing to help our teammates out.

We would end the day as the number 12 ranked team heading into the playoffs. The top 8 teams in the competition had the right to choose who they wanted to be a part of their three team alliance for the playoffs.  We were the first non-top 8 team picked to be on an alliance and we joined the 8^th seeded team on their alliance. To put this in perspective our mentor team 829 and literally everyone there congratulated us, as no rookie team had ever been picked. Team 829 who has a $35,000.00 robotics budget said it took them 5 years to get picked for the playoffs.  We were so excited because honestly in the playoffs if you are outside of the top 8 you may not get picked to play in the playoffs as so many other teams found out.

In the playoffs we were seeded against the Hawaiian Alliance (which featured Hawaii the number 1 seed, Carmel the number 2 seed, and team 1747 who had the most physically powerful robot in the competition). Honestly they had the perfect alliance – two great scoring robots and an incredible defender. Our alliance had one good scoring team and two defensive robots. We came out in the playoffs and gave them everything we had only to fall in the quarterfinals. Our competition was over and we finally had a chance to sit back and think about what he had done. 

Spotlight: MathCounts

Tindley Prep scholars had an opportunity to go to the math counts competition. They had a wonderful experience and learned a lot to prepare for next year. Aaron Wallace earned the honor of being the highest scorer from Tindley Prep.

Spotlight: Photos from Mother Scholar Dance

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Mother Scholar Dance

Making the Chain Strong: Students of the Week

Congratulations to the students of the week named at the community meeting. Continue working hard and focusing in your goal of college education.

Make the chain strong Kaleb King, Keith Malone, and Dominique Bryant.

Spotlight: Tindley Prep Student Leadership

Thank you to Willie Bates II for the video.

 At Tindley Prep, we want our scholars to be more than prepared, we want them to lead. We want them to lead the charge of change and positivist in their communities and throughout the world.

Below is a summary of what the leadership program at Tindley Prep is about.

The leadership program at the Tindley Preparatory Academy was created to help young men grow the capacity to lead their peers through service, academics & honor, gentlemanly endeavors, and seeking leadership to uphold excellence. In this program, scholars at TPA will be exposed to lessons throughout the year that help them achieve leadership goals specific to their grade level. Young men will also be required to take boards once a year to test their leadership capabilities. All school level leaders will need to have attained rank in their grade to serve. For example, a student may not run for student body president or be an ambassador for the school unless they have achieved rank in their grade level. 

Spotlight: The Harlem Shake

The Harlem Shake

Tindley Prep's 7th Grade joins in on the craze with a video of their own. They decided to make the video after a hard week of preparation and studying. Enjoy!


Harlem Shake - Tindley Prep from Andrew Schaefer on Vimeo.

Making the Chain Strong: Tiler Mitchell

Indiana Code 20-8.1-3-18 states that, "Service as a page...constitutes a lawful excuse for a pupil to be absent from school." One of the Sons of Excellence, Tiler Mitchell, recently missed classes for that very reason. Tiler had the privileged of of serving State Senator Christina Hale.

Tiler said that he had a great time experiencing the House said he "appreciated that Ms. Hale's intern showed me the ropes while I was there."

Tindley Prep is proud of Mr. Mitchell and his accomplishments. Continue to make the chain strong sir!

Accelerated Sings with the Heart

Members of the Victory Association at Tindley Accelerated shake hands with Gov. Pence

Yesterday, our Tindley scholars in the Victory Association gospel choir  had an amazing opportunity to sing at Governor Mike Pence’s Black History Month Celebration. They performed in the rotunda of the State House and added music to the powerful presentations that were given.

I am extremely proud of not only their musical performance, but also their professionalism and behavior. They represented Tindley in such an amazing way. The link below is to a video with highlights of the event. Check out the video with pictures and clips of our amazing scholars!

Thanks for your support of the arts at Tindley!

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Todd Hawks

Making the Chain Strong: Principal's List

The fine young men you see below in this post have done something special. They have done something extraordinary. These young men did something their own principal wasn't able to do until graduate school. They have stood on the shoulders of giants and were able to see far enough to look over obstacles that hindered some youth along the way. These young men earned their way onto the prestigious Principal's List. The Principal's List tag means these young men earned an A in every single class they had. They earned the highest grade in the most rigorous classes. These young men are telling us right now that they are ready for the rigors of college.

I salute these exceptional young people.

From left to right: Jansen, Aaron, Jelani, Micaiah, J'Kai, Josiah, Adyson, and Trinity. 

Mother-Scholar Valentine's Dance

Mother-Scholar Valentine's Dance

Sons bring your favorite lady

(Mom. Grandmother, Aunt)

to a night of dinner, dancing and fun.

When: Saturday February 16th, 2013
5:30pm to 9:00pm

Where: Tindley Prep

4010 N. Sherman Dr. Indianapolis, IN 46226

Cost: $25.00 

($10.00 extra for a second special lady or Tindley Prep sibling)

Attire is formal to semi-formal 

(Scholars should wear suit, jacket, and tie)

Purchase Tickets at Front Office NOW through February 13th.

(Make checks payable to Tindley Prep PTO)

For more information contact James Roberts

317.506.0033

Father and Scholars Luncheon 2/14/2013 - Announcement

Father and Scholars Luncheon

Please join your scholar for lunch

Thursday February 14th, 2013

Cost: $5.00

Where: Tndley Prep Multi-Purpose Room

Lunch Times

6th Grade: 11:10am - 11:40am

7th Grade: 12:27pm - 12:58pm

8th Grade - 11:50am - 12:17pm

RSVP 317-506-0033

James Roberts, Parent Liaison

ALL ARE WELCOME

(Fathers, Grandfathers, Uncles, Brothers, and Mothers)