The past and future of Hall High School
The past and future of Hall High School HALL HIGH SCHOOL Brian Chilson
When Hall High School opened in 1957, it was part of a plan to forestall broad integration of the Little Rock School District. It was three years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, and the same year that would see the desegregation crisis unfold at Little Rock Central High.
Anticipating change under Brown, Superintendent Virgil Blossom and the School Board opened the all-black Horace Mann High School in what was mostly black East Little Rock in 1956. Hall was built a couple of blocks west of University, in what was then an affluent white neighborhood in West Little Rock.
LRSD board discusses future of Hall, millage extension
LRSD board discusses future of Hall, millage extension
Two Little Rock high schools with low enrollment should be given time to develop,
Little Rock School District Superintendent Mike Poore told the
LRSD School Board on Thursday. LRSD staff also urged the board to consider going back to Little Rock voters to approve a millage extension as soon as early June.
Enrollment
Little Rock West High School of Innovation and
Hall STEAM Magnet for at least three years. He also advocated for adding a virtual school component to West, and suggested that Hall and nearby K-8 Forest Heights STEM Academy partner as a K-12. Poore also mentioned a “unique staffing model … in ways that Little Rock has never seen” at Hall to make it as cost-efficient as possible. If the board made a commitment to move forward with the vision for West and Hall, money from the business community in support of the Ford Next Generation Learning model
Little Rock School District trying to limit the spread of COVID-19 with weekly testing
LRSD teachers now have access to weekly COVID-19 testing. It s an effort to keep the virus out of the classroom. Author: Ashley Godwin (THV11) Updated: 10:10 PM CST January 15, 2021
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas Arkansas schools are all trying to limit the spread of COVID-19.
The Little Rock School District is doing weekly testing for teachers to protect students and staff, and hopefully prevent an outbreak.
One of those testing centers is at Pinnacle View Middle School.
Teachers will get an email with where the weekly COVID-19 testing site will be and an option to sign up.
Setting the Curve: College of Education’s Integration of Technology Prepares Graduates for New Challenges
KristiAnna Mathes ’19, teacher at Julia Lee Moore Elementary in Conway, engages her first-grade students with online learning resources her district implements for students, teachers and parents. Mathes’ time as a University of Central Arkansas College of Education student helped ready her for the teaching challenges that arrived with the COVID-19 pandemic.
In spring 2020, when travel, work settings and schools experienced major shifts in operation due to COVID-19, KristiAnna Mathes ’19 took her kindergarten class on a field trip to the San Diego Zoo a virtual field trip, that is.