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Three Award-Winning Children’s Authors and Illustrators Visit with the Academy
Feb 18, 2021

Three award-winning children's authors, Raúl the Third, Lynda Mullaly Hunt, and Sara Varon, visited virtually with Appalachian State University’s A...

App State’s Academy at Middle Fork reports significant progress
Sep 17, 2019

Data on first-year student achievement released by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) indicate significant progres...

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Aspiring Eagle Scout enhances Academy at Middle Fork grounds
Apr 30, 2019

Thanks to an aspiring Eagle Scout, the students, faculty and staff at Appalachian State University Academy at Middle Fork have an outdoor sp...

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Academy at Middle Fork, App State’s lab school, helps elementary schoolers and App State students
Apr 16, 2019

Academy at Middle Fork, the App State state-mandated lab school, is nearing the end of its first year in which elementary students have boosted their ...

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Author visits Middle Fork Academy, talks to kids about new book
Apr 2, 2019

Award-winning children’s author Derrick Barnes stopped by the Appalachian State University Academy at Middle Fork this week to read to the students ...

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Academy at Middle Fork Update: January 2019
Jan 17, 2019

Students and staff at the Appalachian State University Academy at Middle Fork spent the week before winter break building school culture and reconnect...

Mountaineer Readers Celebrated at Appalachian Football Game on September 29. Photo by Heather Brandon

Mountaineer Readers Celebrated at Appalachian Football Game on September 29
Oct 30, 2018

Mountaineer Readers were recognized for their reading achievements during Appalachian State University’s Education Day football game on Saturday, Se...

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Appalachian’s Chancellor Everts engages with students, shares books at Middle Fork Academy
Sep 21, 2018

Appalachian State University Chancellor Sheri Everts engaged with the university’s youngest students to date when she visited the Appalachian State ...

At the Appalachian State University Academy at Middle Fork, Appalachian Chancellor Sheri Everts prepares to read a story with students in the third grade classroom of teacher Heather Wham. Students photographed are: Clarise Serrano-Hernandez and Yarel Candela-Lucero. Photo by Marie Freeman

ASU starts Middle Fork lab school in Winston-Salem
Sep 21, 2018

Appalachian State University is in its fourth week of school at a state-mandated laboratory school it launched in Winston-Salem this year.The Academy ...

Chancellor Sheri Everts reads to Academy third-graders Larise Serrano Hernandez (left) and Yarel Candela-Lucero on Thursday.

From ‘our big school in the mountains,’ App State chancellor visits Middle Fork Academy students, staff
Sep 4, 2018

For a short time Thursday afternoon, Appalachian State University Chancellor Sheri Everts returned to a familiar scene: a K-12 classroom.Everts stoppe...