Ector County Independent School District eNewsletter
4/20/2016
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Jordan coach mixes PE, Academics

Kids & dogs make good reading partners
 
Texas teacher group sues over evaluation system


One more snow day holiday on Monday!

 
The Power of Positive!

What started as a classroom project at Wilson & Young Medal of Honor Middle School has now gone campus wide and is picking up steam.
 
A Texas Treasure
 
That's Burnet Elementary 5th-grader Rudy Aguilar, with his teacher Katie Wilson, whose drawing was one of forty - out of 5,000 entries from all over the state - chosen as winners in The Treasures of the Texas Coast Children's Art Contest. Ten winners were chosen from each of four grade-level categories (K - 2nd, 3rd - 4th, 5th and 6th) for a total of 40 winners! All 40 winners will receive a ticket to the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi, a ticket to the Exhibit Hall at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, a ticket to the Houston Zoo, two all-day passes to Schlitterbahn Waterpark in New Braunfels, a certificate of recognition and prizes from the Texas General Land Office, and a calendar displaying the winning artwork.

Rudy's artwork, along with the other 39 winners, will appear in the 2017 Adopt-A-Beach calendar. The artwork of all winners will be on public display in the South Central Gallery of the Texas Capitol May 24th - 31st for all visitors to view and appreciate. The exhibit will be sponsored by Representative Wayne Faircloth (HD 23, Galveston).

We highly recommend you take a close up look at Rudy's picture and all of the other winning entries here. Congratulations, Rudy!
Rah-rah-rah, sis-boom-bah!
 
Proving once again there are many ways to get to college (and get some of it paid for), three Odessa High School cheerleaders signed scholarship offers to attend Wayland Baptist University, a private NAIA school in Plainview.

The OHS girls are (top to bottom) Miasha Pride, Rae Brooks, and Taylor Neal. They are seated between WBU cheer coach Samantha Templar and OHS cheer coach Shona Lewis, with their families behind them. Coach Templar said she has 15 students on her competition cheer squad (separate from the sideline cheer squad) and those girls earn scholarship money.
World Class Leader in Education
 
Tuesday night the Ector County ISD Board of Trustees announced Kristen Thomas, 4th grade reading teacher at Ross Elementary School as this month's World Class Leader in Education. Kristen joined our school district a year ago in January, so she is finishing her first full year as a teacher but she jumped right in and has become a very valuable member of the school's staff. She serves on many committees - CHAMPS, AVID, and the Leadership team.

She has high expectations for her students, and as of now has a 70% passing rate on the release STAAR in reading. She is a role model for the other teachers at Ross, and willingly shares her knowledge and strategies with teachers above and below her grade level. She focuses on what educators want students to learn, how they know students are learning, and what they do if they discover students aren't learning.

Ms. Thomas' classroom is student-centered where students are engaged in the learning process. She talks with them about their weaknesses, strengthens, and specific improvement needs. Students are motivated to meet goals because they set those goals for themselves. ECISD is happy to name Kristen Thomas as its World Class Leader in Education for April 2016!

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