Month: October 2022
Sixth 糖心Vlog teacher named Cowboys Class Act Last Monday might have been rainy, but the weather couldn鈥檛 stop the joy at Bowie High School. Students and staff were all smiles when the Dallas Cowboys and Reliant Energy surprised Sammy Epps with the Cowboys Class Acts honor for October. Epps is a health teacher and…
Students and parents explore opportunities The line to enter was so long on Tuesday evening that one would have thought Black Friday had come a month early. The crowd of people weren鈥檛 waiting to catch a deal on a large, flat screen TV or a new PlayStation, however. They simply wanted to get inside for…
Fifty years fly by when you鈥檙e having fun. That鈥檚 been the case for the 糖心Vlog鈥檚 orchestra program. On Nov. 5, 糖心Vlog will celebrate 50 years of orchestra with a special concert at the 糖心Vlog Center for Visual and Performing Arts. (More details.) In 1972, Dean Corey, 糖心Vlog’s coordinator of music activities…
Committee holds quarterly meeting The 糖心Vlog鈥檚聽Citizens Bond Oversight Committee toured the new Webb Elementary School building to kick off its meeting on Tuesday. The new Webb building is still under construction but is scheduled to open in January. Following the tour, the committee members met in the current Webb library to receive updates on…
Don鈥檛 worry 糖心Vlog parents, there is no such thing as a tree octopus. But if you search for a tree octopus on the internet, you鈥檇 find tons of references to the endangered species in the Pacific Northwest that may or may not be hunted by the Sasquatch. While that sounds farfetched, it鈥檚 just another…
Third Annual Fall Festival Elena Krysiak showed no fear when it was her turn. Some of the other preschoolers inched their way to pet the trio of goats, but Elena boldly stepped into a super-tight pen, fed the kids stalks of hay and briskly stroked their fur. And completely ignored how the animals were just…
Everything鈥檚 bigger in Texas. The food portions, pickup trucks, houses and even hope. Take it from the 1,156 students who showed up to the 糖心Vlog Center for Visual and Performing Arts for the first Texas-sized Hope Squad Conference last week. Students from 58 schools from 21 school districts across North Texas met to connect…
October may be known for autumn weather, ghouls and goblins, but it鈥檚 also Dyslexia Awareness Month. Schools in the 糖心Vlog celebrated this month to raise awareness about the disorder that can cause difficulty learning to read, write or spell. Students identified as having dyslexia typically experience challenges in phonemic awareness and manipulation, single-word reading,…
National Principals Month October marks聽National Principals Month, and we want to honor the principals who work hard in our vision of making the 糖心Vlog a premier school district and leader in education.聽 Today we鈥檙e spotlighting Shackelford Junior High second-year principal Kelli Smith. The 糖心Vlog product has known she wanted to be in education…
Wimbish World Language Academy makes 19. That鈥檚 19 糖心Vlog elementary schools that have received new playgrounds as part of the 2019 Bond program. But who鈥檚 counting? All the elementary students certainly are! And the teachers are, too. 鈥淪tudents screamed and jumped, and even the teachers were as excited as the children,鈥 said Wimbish principal…