School Notebook ECISD schedules and activities snapshot
ECISD note card lists weekly events across campuses including Carver Early Education Center field trips at 9 and 1, TAAS practice, PTA and PTA related items, enrichment clusters, and school activities. It notes elementary and junior high visits, book fairs, safety programs, and student recognition events across Burleson Cavazos Dowling De Goliad and Alamo districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ECISD
Carver Early Education Center
Ector Count
March of Dimes
Family Education Center
LRC
Bobcats
Burleson Elementary
Bowie Junior High
Dowling
Fly
Pond-Alamo
Alamo
Pene de Goliad
Supreme Court to decide schools liability standard in Lago Vista
Five years after a Lago Vista teacher Frank Waldrop faced sexual misconduct with a 14 year old in 1992, a lawsuit seeks to hold the district liable even though officials did not know of the acts. The case asks whether a district can be liable for off campus misconduct the district knew nothing about.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lago Vista
Virginia Collier
Frank Waldrop
Collier
Lago Vista Independent
U.S. Supreme Court
Waldrop
Daugh
Ters. Waldrop
Austin
Sth US. Circuit Court of Appeals
WHO program teaches safety to elementary students
The We Help Ourselves program run by the Rape Crisis Center and funded locally through the Attorney General and United Way teaches kindergarten through sixth grade students three personal safety rules: Say no, get away, and tell someone. Puppets and videos present non threatening lessons on good and bad touches and how to speak up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
We Help Ourselves
WHO
Rape Crisis Center
Attorney General's Office
United Way
McClane
Elizabeth Rabon
Reagan Elementary
Wink Independent School District
Mental Health Association of
Dallas
Louisiana adopts Iowa test to replace California exam
In New Orleans Joseph Stephens faced a tougher Iowa Test of Basic Skills replacing the California Achievement Test this spring. Educators warn scores may drop as schools shift to higher order thinking with analytic problems and real world scenarios.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Joseph Stephens
Louisiana
California
Joseph
Iowa
ITBS
Donna Contors
State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
Eva Jones
Plaquemines Parish
The Beekeeper and the Blue-Eyed Hare
A young beekeeper befriends a white hare with blue eyes on a wild moor. She visits his hive, and a wary old woman offers a fortune for the creature, but the beekeeper refuses. The hare protects him with the bees, and they become lifelong friends despite a mysterious nightly shiver and a witch’s warning.
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Burleson
Bowie Band
Burnet
Odessa American Spelling Bee
Odessa College
Carson Sands
Cavazos
Brownie Girl Scout
Supreme Court
Larry Beckner
Odessa
Kitty McClane
Blanton Elementary School
By Susan Serrano
Stu
Beekeeper
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