District-wide summer registration begins on Tuesday, July 31, but with one very big change for students at Odessa High School and Permian High School. In an effort to streamline the process and begin the transition to a fully on-line registration system, OHS and PHS will require summer registration for NEW STUDENTS ONLY. New students are those who were not attending an ECISD school at the end of last school year.

RETURNING students will be automatically registered at their home high school campus and will complete the registration process during the first couple of days of the school year in August. Returning students are those who were enrolled at OHS or PHS or in 9^th grade at any ECISD junior high at the end of the last school year.

The details of this new process are available on the ECISD website, here.

Yvette Ramirez (left) registers her daughter Abril Zubia (right) at Carver EEC, while older brother Adriel waits patiently. Carver aide Rocio Leon helps with the process.

Three of ECISD's Gifted/Talented teachers and two of the members of the District's Advanced Academics Department attended one of the world's foremost conferences for gifted education, thanks to a grant funded by the Education Foundation.

Heather Bland and Eliseo Gomez, GT teachers at Reagan; Sylvia Garcia, GT teacher at Blackshear Magnet; and Omega Loera and Cindy Roman from the AAS Department recently returned from Confratute 2012, the international conference and institute on educating gifted and talented children and youth.

Now in its 35^th consecutive year, Confratute is sponsored by the Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Connecticut. It is renowned because of the converging of prominent leaders in the field upon a single site for one week to interact and consult with teachers, administrators and parents eager to learn about exceptionally able youngsters - who they are, how they learn differently from other children, and what parents and school personnel need to do to help them develop their creative abilities and talents.

This year's conference was attended by more than 500 educators from 48 states and U.S. territories, Canada, Indonesia, New Zealand, Senegal, Jordan, Malaysia, and several European nations.
 

Pictured are: Bottom row: Cindy Roman, Dr. Sandra Kaplan who designed the GT framework used in ECISD and Omega Loera; Middle Row: Heather Bland and Sylvia Garcia; Top Row: Eliseo Gomez.

Season tickets for high school football teams went on sale on Monday, July 16, at the ECISD Downtown ticket office. The windows are open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. through August 2. The registered owners of 2011 season tickets have the option to buy the same seats for the 2012 season but they must do so by August 2. There is more information available on the ECISD Athletics web page ECISD Athletics webpage or you can contact the office at 456-9059.  

Some 80 students from Permian High School and Odessa High School earned their grades and their chance to take part in Summer Graduation 2012 on June 29. The ceremony was held in the auditorium at Ector Junior High.

Jackie Salcido and Timothy Romo gave the student addresses during summer graduation.

OHS grad Natali Aguero proudly poses for pictures with her aunt and cousin after the ceremony.