School Notebook Weekly Updates for ECISD Students
St Johns Episcopal greets a.m. ages years to grade. Week highlights include kindergarten Gingerbread Man math lessons 1 3. Bonham Junior High holds seventh graders 8 00 in Main Foyer and eighth ninth graders schedule in Gym A. Volleyball Ninth grade at Ector 4 05. Girl's Athletic Booster Club meeting 6 00. Ninth grade preseason volleyball tournament at Ector Friday and Saturday. Bowie Junior High first day, Crockett game, Westside band concert Odessa High, more volleyball events.
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St. John’s Episcopal
Bonham Junior High
Ector
Bowie Junior High
Crockett
Westside
Odessa High School
School Notebook resumes in Odessa weekly listing
Odessa parents are reminded that School Notebook resumes this week in the Schools section. All local elementary and secondary schools are invited to submit items for the listing with a submission deadline of 4 p.m. on Thursdays.
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Odessa
Seminar sums up: Math problems are here to stay
Randy Charles, a math education researcher, told about 500 teachers at the Summer TAAS Institute on South Padre Island that problem solving remains essential and is growing in importance. He stressed integrating reading and math to boost TAAS test success.
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South Padre Island
Randy Charles
Addison Wesley
San Jose State University
San Jose
Charles
Holiday Inn
Sun Spree
Priscilla Munoz
Scott Foresman
First-Day Jitters Across School Levels
The start of the school year brings mixed feelings from students and parents. Principals Martha Mitchell and Buddy Hale note stress for kindergartners and sophomores, with many beginners anxious about new routines, campus size, and fitting in.
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Martha Mitchell
Blackshear Elementary
Buddy Hale
Permian High School
Teresa Pex Kindergartners
Back-to-school nerves easing through campus familiarization
Sewell and school officials advise students and parents to tour facilities meet staff and peers and learn schedules before classes begin. UT P sides freshmen orientation Tuesday and Wednesday as Aug. 26 opening day approaches.
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Josie Mediano
Odessa High School
Mediano
Sewell
ATPB
Hale
Grade manipulation rocks Galveston diocese high school
The Galveston Houston Diocese faces a probe after a May graduation where students met the minimum 70 percent threshold amid suspected grade changes at O Connell High School. Principal Thomas Ducote was not renewed in June. Spokesman Ron Regan pledged a fact gathering to uncover what happened.
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Galveston
Galveston-Houston
Galveston County Daily News
Joseph Fiorenza
Thomas Ducote
O’connell High School
Fiorenza
Billy Russell
Catherine Russell
Billy
Ron Regan
Ducote
Russell
Tough Love group helps Plano parents discipline teens
In Plano, Erica Chin and Robert Sanchez spar with different teen issues. Robert, 16, is jailed at Texas Youth Commission San Thai unit for arson and may stay until early next year. Erica, also 16, loves law and has no legal trouble. Their mothers, Marty Sanchez and Sheila Chin, belong to Tough Love International Piano chapter, guiding about 35 parents meeting at 7 p.m. to push behavior change.
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PLANO
Erica Chin
Robert Sanchez
Robert
Erica
Texas Youth Commission
San Thai
Marty Sanchez
Sheila Chin
Piano
Tough Love International
Johnnycake's Run Through the Woods
An illustrated tale follows a speedy Johnnycake racing from a playful boy and his grandparents through the woods. The cake outpaces a well-digger mother bear a wily wolf and a sly fox as it dashes toward the heart of the forest, uncatchable and boastful of its speed.
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Johnnycake
Igis
Johnn
Stefan Senna
Mother Bear
Sly Fox
Fox
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Eric Freeman
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van Grady
Susan Serrano
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Neil Howieson
Jillian Gilliland
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