School Notebook Weekly Local Education Events Summary
This listing compiles school week activities across ECISD and area campuses including tutorials, PTA meetings, student of the month events, concerts, bake sales, and notable raises like public School Week activities. It notes TAAS practice, report card days, open houses, and early dismissals across multiple elementary and middle schools.
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Justice Ecisd Family Education Center
Austin
Reeves
CIT
PTA
March of Dimes
Music City Mall
Dram I
TAAS
Blanton
Odessa 22nd Annual Regional Spelling Bee near
Students from the Permian Basin prepare for the Odessa American regional spelling bee on March 25 at Deaderick Auditorium. More than 30 area students are expected. winner advances to the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee May 28 week. Past winner Karthik Ramanathan reached the national third round after misspelling palisade.
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Polo's
Cavazos
Gale Pond
Alamo
Girls Scouts
Goliad
Texas
Itory
Permian Basin
Deaderick Auditorum
Scripps Howard
Karthik Ramanathan
Karthik
Emma Dominguez
Blackshear
Clown Leon Coffee Faces Bulls in 27-Year Rodeo Career
Houston AP profiles Leon Coffee a rodeo clown from Blanco who has spent 27 years dodging bulls and entertaining crowds. He began in 1971 and earned pro clown status in 1973 becoming the longest tenured on the circuit. He recounts a near fatal 1986 burial of injuries and five heart stoppages that night.
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Leon Coffee
Houston
Coffee
Blanco
Third grader Jazmine Aguilar named McReader of the Month
Jazmine Aguilar, an AVID reader at Murry Fly Elementary, read over 1000 pages in under a month. She reads two hours nightly, tackling texts above grade level to improve her life prospects. She received a plaque from McDonald's McReader of the Month as part of Newspapers in Education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jazmine Aguilar
Murry Fly Elementary
Jazmine
Maria Torres
Torres
Murry Fly
McDonald's
Odessa American
NewsWest 9
Patricia Beakes- Collins
Odessa American Newspapers
Beakes-Collins
Collins
The Mikado and the Brave Maiden Adapted Tale
A Japanese tale unfolds as Myoko seeks her banished merchant father, facing Mikado’s wrath. She sails alone after failed pleas from sailors, shelters beneath a Buddha statue, and encounters a weeping priest and a Sea Serpent toll which demands a maiden. Myoko offers herself to save others.
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Myoko
Mikado
Japan
Buddha
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Mathis
Speir
Vanley
Revell
Rosson
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P.m
Burnet
Deborah
Mark Sterkel
Odessa
Rodeo Clown Leon
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the Brave Maiden
Amy Friedman
Jillian Gilliland
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