School Notebook families share ECISD event calendar
ECISD schools list weekly activities from Carver Center to Ireland Elementary. Events include early registration, tutorials, CIT and SPAC meetings, field trips to Midland International Airport, book days, choir rehearsals, science and family nights, spring portraits, Jump Rope for Heart, and various scouting meetings. various campuses report daily tutoring, craft and reading programs, and parent workshops through the week.
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ECISD
Carver Early Education Center
Math Task Force
Midland International
Family Education Center
Blackshear
Fifi Murphy
Star Assembly
Blanton
Blanton’s
LRC
Burleson
Rosson
Gonzales
Ireland
PTA
Million Dollar Gift Transforms Tyler Elementary Fund Drive
Tyler officials celebrate a $1.1 million pledge to Birdwell Elementary in honor of its 50th anniversary. Stockbroker Brian Burch, at his wife Mary’s urging, assembled alumni donors, enabling new classrooms a computer lab and arts spaces. Funds include outright gifts and matching grants, prompting a new donation policy.
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Tyler
Brian Burch
Birdwell
Mary
Parent-Teachers Association
Burch
Rosemary Mizzles
Dallas
Mizzles
Tyler Independent School
PACE After School Club Aids Pease Elementary Students
Pease Elementary runs the PACE program after school with 60 students in Reading and Homework clubs to boost independent study and reduce undone homework. Fourth to sixth grade Junior Volunteers In Public Schools help peers in math reading and spelling three days a week.
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PACE
Dawn Curlee
Curlee
Saul Carrillo
Parent-Teacher Association
PTA
Carlee
Deshawna Williams
Carley Uzzell
Pease Elementary School
Mikayla Bars
Kiwanis Terrific Kid award sparks student distress in North Carolina
In Raleigh and Black Mountain, the Kiwanis Terrific Kids program faces backlash as parents complain the criteria are vague and arbitrary. Patrick Korth tearfully rejected his end of year recognition, illustrating how some feel labeled as terrific harms self esteem.
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Raleigh
N.C
Patrick Korth
Blacktain Primary
Kiwanis Club
Patrick
Kathy
Black Mountain
Appalachian
Ing
Mary Jean Herzog
Western Carolina University
Emily Blanchard-Reid
Renard and Wolf Find Food in a Locked Church
Renard the fox, hungry and clever, stumbles on a priest’s winter food stash. After stealing cakes, he lures Wolf with more, and they dig a tunnel to the church altar where bread, cheese, fruit, and cider tempt them. The pair share in a risky feast, while Renard doubts his gluttonous plan.
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Renard
Wolf
Renard the Fox
Fox
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