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Odessa American

Location

Odessa, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 08, 2006

Page

7

School Notebook May 8 13 Weekly School Events

All ECISD schools feature notes for parents. Week includes Teacher Appreciation Week all week, National School Nurse Day Wednesday, Paraprofessional Appreciation Day Thursday, and a Technology Exchange Day with no student classes Friday.

Austin Montessori Magnet Elementary Weekly Activities

Chronicle of events for Austin Montessori Magnet Elementary lists a packed schedule with performances, PTA meetings, field trips, and teacher appreciation events. Highlights include sixth grade orchestra, a talent show, a field trip to Monahans State Park, the Meteor Crater, and an outdoor school trip returning Friday evening.

Tammy Joy Jan Brown Sandra Stanley Larry Melton Monahans State Park Meteor Crater Lonna Edwards

School Notebook highlights weekly parent items and word list

Each week School Notebook lists items of interest to parents of local students. Information is provided by the individual schools. Word of the week definitions are from Webster's New World Dictionary Third College Edition.

Webster's New World Dictionary

Permian High School science teacher Sharon Bishop profile

Sharon Bishop teaches biology anatomy and physiology at Permian High School in Odessa. A UT Permian Basin graduate, she lives in Odessa with husband Gary and children Jennifer 26 and Josh 24. She aims to inspire students to realize their potential and become possibility thinkers through an educator profile provided by the school.

Sharon Bishop Permian High School Odessa University of Texas of the Permian Basin Gary Bishop Jennifer Josh

District Cans for Kids drives summer meals to food bank

ECISD runs a districtwide Cans for Kids drive benefiting the West Texas Food Bank to cover summer nourishment for nearly 2 million Texas students who rely on meal programs. Last year the district collected 21,419 pounds. Cameron Elementary offers buddy passes for students who bring cans. Nimitz also emphasizes a yearlong, volunteer-driven effort.

ECISD Terry Gooch West Texas Food Bank Texas Gooch WTFB U.S. Postal Service Odessa School Texas Association For School Nutrition Sharon Kunkel Cameron Elementary Stacy Jones Nimitz Jones

ECISD campus competition boosts food drive effort

Gooch praises ECISD campuses for a community service drive benefiting the West Texas Food Bank. Principals energize the competition with schools eager to outdo each other while no prizes are given. Austin Montessori Magnet School joins, with Sylvia Sanchez optimistic her students will win for charity.

Gooch Austin Montessori Sylvia Sanchez

Colleges drop last swim test at UNC in campus history

On a Friday morning UNC Chapel Hill retirees the swim test as seniors become the last class required to pass for graduation. The move reflects a broader decline in college swimming requirements from a 1977 high of 42 percent to recent decades with Ferrum Colgate and others dropping the test.

University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill UNC Meg Pomerantz Pomerantz Larry Hensley University of Northern Iowa Ferrum College Virginia Colgate Notre Dame MIT Cornell Columbia Hamilton Dartmouth Swarthmore Washington & Lee

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Austin Montessori Magnet Barbara Jordan Blackshear Elementary Paula Wilburn Bill Thrashers Nancy Hyde Ector Junior High PTA Blanton Elementary Janice Hair Ecisd's Austin Montessori Lovell Adjani Drive For West Texas Food Bank Mark Sterkel Sharon Kunkel Stacks Cameron Cindera Nealy Ector County Independent School District Nutrition Department Cindera Nealyjodessa Zavala U.S. Military Academy West Point Jim McKnight West Point Cadets
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