Since the city of Seabrook is, as of 2 p.m. Feb. 22, still under a boil water advisory, students at Bay Elementary School and Seabrook Intermediate School will need to await further guidance about whether school is happening in person Feb. 23.
The courses are taught as part of FISD’s dual-credit partnership with College of the Mainland. COM paid FISD about $1,600 in the fall semester for COM’s embedded faculty teaching EMSP 1501, which is part of a two-course EMT sequence, per board documents.
The district is expanding its offerings to provide more robust, individualized programming for students on their journeys to college, career and military readiness, FISD leaders
“[Authentic learning] is learning you do by experiencing it, learning you can put your hands on,” FISD Superintendent Thad Roher said in the press release. “The simulated ambulance [will] bring a whole new dynamic to the launch of our EMT program, [providing] not just learning you can put your hands on, but learning you can literally put your whole body into.”
Officials from CHI St. Luke’s Health and UTMB Health said community members must remain vigilant as case counts climb but that they expect the current surge to peak by early February.
Nature conservation nonprofit Galveston Bay Foundation recently acquired 106 acres of land on Dollar Bay as part of its continued effort to protect coastal habitat, according to a Dec. 17 media release.
The newly-conserved property is directly adjacent to a planned marsh restoration site, according to the release. Preservation of the property also protects a land buffer for the wetland restoration area, helping to conserve native prairie habitat and coastal wetlands.
Galveston Bay Foundation partnered with landowners Byron and Holly Davis, who initially planned to develop the Texas City land, and communicated the property’s value for conservation.
“Once we understood the uniqueness of the property, we began to imagine a new vision for the land, a vision that will be shared for many generations under the leadership and conservancy of The Galveston Bay Foundation,” Byron Davis said.
Clear Creek ISD’s board of trustees held a workshop Dec. 7 to discuss how district leaders were progressing with specific superintendent targets, all meant to encourage students and staff to “achieve, contribute and lead with integrity.”
The targets approved by the board Sept. 28 largely address how the superintendent can work with district leaders to fuel the growth and maintenance of high-achieving, service-oriented students and staff.
At one of his final board meetings before his Dec. 31 departure from CCISD, Superintendent Greg Smith said the pandemic required reimagining customs, from procedures for the first day of school to graduation festivities, but the remote nature of some activities led to their unprecedented success.