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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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