As the country slowly bounces back to life after COVID-19, we begin a series on resilience. This week, we hear how teens in Hammond, Indiana found their voices during a year of pandemic and protest.
DISD salutes excellence with awards, celebrations
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When it comes to finding positive and engaging pathways to success, no one does it better than Denison ISD’s award-winning teachers and students – even during a pandemic.
Before the start of the 2020-2021 school year, DISD’s teachers and curriculum coordinators brainstormed about ways they could keep students engaged, encouraged, well-adjusted and successfully learning while also keeping them socially distanced, masked and safe. Not an easy task with significant populations of both in-class and at-home learners, but in true Yellow Jacket tradition, everyone stepped up and met the year’s special challenges with plenty of time left to celebrate.
Kindness, civility and respect make DISD schools special
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Signs and banners on walls throughout Denison ISD are constant reminders that kindness is important. Teacher Amy Goggan’s framed picture at Houston Elementary appears alongside a Mark Train quote: “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” Mother Teresa’s words grace another hallway with an equally powerful message, “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” At Lamar Elementary, a hallway banner challenges students to be “the kid who can get along, the kid who is generous and happy for other people, the kid who does the right thing…the NICE kid!” Across town at Scott Middle School, hallway banners remind students and staff of what really matters in life: Kindness…Compassion…Accountability… and YOU!”
Reusable Water Bottles Donated To Lafayette School System
Healthy Blue, a subsidiary of Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Louisiana, is announcing via press release, that they are donating four thousand water bottles to several schools in the Lafayette Parish Public School System.
Healthy Blue Chief Operating Officer Dexter Trivett says Healthy Blue has been working with school systems to help them figure out the best ways that they can assist school systems, teachers and students in unprecedented times.
Filtered water stations, an idea from teachers, have been installed at several schools.
There are several advantages to having water filling stations in the high schools and five middle schools including that plastic water bottles won t need to be recycled or simply thrown away to end up in a landfill.