AVERY COUNTY – The Avery County Board of Education held its scheduled monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 8, featuring special presentations by Banner Elk, Freedom Trail and Crossnore elementary schools,
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Editorâs Note: The following is the first in a multi-story series on Avery County Schools Superintendent Dr. Dan Brigmanâs experiences through his first school year in the district. This first installment highlights accomplishments while facing and meeting challenges the district envisions both currently and in the future.
NEWLAND â It would be a gross understatement to say that the past 14 months have been a difficult period in communities worldwide. As society has had to face the realities of a global pandemic that has enveloped virtually aspect of day-to-day living since its onset in March 2020, every walk of life in its own way has embraced the college basketball tournament adage of âsurvive and advance,â with the goal of emerging on the other side of COVID-19 and returning to as close a semblance of normalcy as possible.
Once again Special Olympics of North Carolina (SONC) is organizing the athletes of the state for another 10-week exercise program. Again each athlete has received their new packet but with some upgrades: a 10-week playbook (instead of two five-week ones), a calorie-counting jump rope and a cooling towel. And like last Fall, the exercise program for the week will be available online each Tuesday evening at 6 p.m.
But there are a few differences this Spring. The schools have been invited to join and theyâll be tutored through an online activity directed by SONC coaches. The online program for the elementary schools will be available from 10:30 to 11 a.m. every Tuesday, while the Middle/High School program will be at the same time, but on Thursdays. Teachers from each participating class will lead the exercises and keep track of results in the trackers provided within the playbook.