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NO SCHOOL - Friday, April 10 |
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These STARS winners were nominated by their schools and will be honored at the Excellence in Education Foundation Banquet on April 17, the REA/Board of Trustees Banquet on May 14, Superintendent’s Convocation in August, and at RISD/Rangers Night.
Congratulations to all the winners, who represent some of this year’s best teachers in a district filled with excellent educators. |
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Richardson High School Teacher Named an HEB State Finalist |
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RHS Physics teacher and former RISD STARS winner Dr. George Hademenos was named this week as a state finalist in the HEB Excellence in Education Awards Program.
“Dr. H” was named in the Rising Star Category, which honors exceptionally promising teachers with less than 10 years of experience. As a finalist, he was awarded a check for $1,000 during a surprise visit to his classroom and RHS will receive another $1,000.
He will now compete with other finalists around Texas to be named a Grand Prize winner in his category in May in Austin.
The HEB Excellence in Education Award program is the largest and most prestigious program of its kind in Texas, and seeks to spotlight best practices and celebrate the work of our state’s educators.
For more information, please read the press release or visit www.heb.com/education. |
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JJ Pearce Lady Mustangs soccer team plays for UIL State Championship on Saturday! |
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Parkhill Teacher's Grant to Create Literacy Library combines passions |
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Being able to write well pays off. Just ask Parkhill Junior High English teacher Abbey Rosenbaum, also a certified Abydos Learning International trainer. Because of a heartfelt letter she wrote while applying for the annual Abydos Reese/Corder Grant, she now has $1000 to start a Literacy Library at the Texas Mentor Network. With 400 colleagues applauding, a dozen of whom were fellow Parkhill teachers, including her principal Judy Marcum, she received her grant during the annual Abydos Conference last month.
With the desire to better serve her students and because RISD is a training district, Abbey was able to apply and begin Abydos training three years ago. Abydos is a project that began in New Jersey in 1977. Now headquartered in Spring Texas and servicing districts throughout the state, training focuses on staying true to the basics of writing and reading as processes, and emphasizes that writing can be taught in a systematic hands-on way and use authentic strategies and authentic student writing. The philosophy is making a positive difference on the TAKS throughout Texas. |
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Abbey studied for nine months, reading research books, writing lesson plans, and learning different ways of bringing working ideas into the classroom. As a Certified Trainer now also able to train other teachers, Abbey says of Abydos, "This is not a program because programs try to fix something. It's a philosophy of teaching, a whole way of teaching kids to write. We don't give them worksheets to do but instead focus on brain development and actual classroom teaching."
For more information on Abydos Learning International, visit www.abydoslearning.org. For more information on the Texas Mentor Network, visit www.thementornetwork.com. >Top |
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Richardson High School culinary students Faith Glennie and Mollie Guerra recently won first place in an Iron-Chef-style cooking competition sponsored by the Greater Dallas Restaurant Association. The First Annual GDRA FSPrep (Foodservice Preparation) Culinary Challenge was held in Frisco, and teams of two were presented with a batch of ingredients and two hours to create an entrée, vegetable, starch, salad, and dessert. Students did not know in advance what ingredients they’d have to work with, and could not use recipes. They were judged by professional chefs on knife skills, chicken fabrication, vegetable cookery, starch cookery, presentation, sanitation and organization.
Because of their win, Faith and Mollie were invited to appear this week on Channel 4’s Good Day show, where they prepared a cheese & egg gourmet strata.
Congratulations to these aspiring chefs and their exceptional instructor, Karen Hill.
For more information, please visit www.gdra.org or visit Fox's Good Day show here. >Top |
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Over the past 14 years, the J.J. Pearce Student Council has orchestrated annual community-wide service projects. Each year their drives run for a few weeks in the middle of the winter, but planning begins long before. Following much research, this year’s student council chose to work with Heifer International and began making preparations in May of 2008.
Heifer International is an organization that uses donations to purchase animals for needy families in other countries as well as in parts of the U.S. They also train the recipients how to care for the animal and ask that they pass on the gift. For example, a cow purchased for a family in Romania will give 7 gallons of milk a day and will produce a calf each year. A flock of chicks will give eggs each day to be eaten or sold and honey produced from a hive of bees can change an entire village, giving them money for clothes and education.
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The Student Council officers began by naming their project “Feeding Families Forever” with a goal of collecting an "Ark of Animals." The officers then created informational flyers and disseminated them to the entire Pearce community, including six feeder elementary schools and several local businesses.
Student council representatives engaged each fourth-period class at Pearce to support this worthy effort, and officers enlisted support from Bukhair Elementary sixth-graders to create motivational artwork. Officers then arranged a fundraising competition among classes, and also among PHS’s six feeder elementary schools (won by Bukhair).
In all, more than $20,0000 was raised and presented to Heifer International last month, four times the initial goal.
The entire Pearce community enjoyed working on this project and was delighted to support such an exceptional cause. >Top |
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LIberty Junior high orchestra Excels at uil |
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The Liberty Junior High Orchestra was recently awarded a Sweepstake trophy in the annual UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Competition.
All six judges rated the orchestra's performance with a First Division designation.
Congratulations to the Liberty Orchestra and director David Cook. >Top |
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Richardson chamber of commerce sponsors "chip & Dip Week for rISD Teachers |
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To show their appreciation for RISD teachers the Richardson Chamber of Commerce recently provided chips and dips as a treat for all RISD schools. Each RISD school was sponsored by a local business, organization or individual.
*All entities listed with an asterisk have contributed for two consecutive years.
The following businesses and individuals contributed: 4 Women Shopping*; Amerprise Financial*; Assurnet Insurance Agency; Atmos Energy and Cisco Systems; Bank of Texas*;
Bell Insurance*; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas*; Bry-Jo Roofing and Remodeling*; Colliers International; Commissioner Maurine Dickey; Congressman Sam Johnson*; Constable Ben Adamcik; Crowne Plaza Suites; Crull Fitness and Elite Therapy Solutions; Dallas Baptist University Frisco; Dr. Arnie Stokol, Optometrist*; Ebby Halliday- Campbell Rd. Office*; First Community Bank*; Fujitsu*; George McKearin, Attorney*; Highland Springs*; Insource Group;
Judge Sandra Ellis*; Legacy Texas Bank*;Leukemia Lymphoma Society; Louie L. Kilgore Insurance Agency - Farmers Insurance; Mulvihill Asset Management*; Pavillion Bank; Restland Memorial Park & Funeral Home*; Richardson City Council - Bob Townsend*; Richardson City Council - Gary Slagel*; Richardson City Council - Mayor Steve Mitchell*; Richardson City Council - Pris Hayes & Ebby Halliday*; Richardson City Council-Dennis Stewart*;
Richardson East Rotary*; Richardson Living, Richardson Magazine*; Richardson Regional Medical Center*; Richardson Rotary*; Ron Patterson Insurance; Texas State Senator John Carona*; Texas State Representative Carol Kent; Subway, Richland College*; Texans Credit Union*; Texas Instruments Incorporated*; Texas State Representative Allen Vaught; Texas State Representative Angie Chen Button; Tom Thumb Coit and Campbell*; UT Dallas & Uteach Program*; ViewPoint Bank - Garland; ViewPoint Bank - Lake Highlands Banking Center; ViewPoint Bank - Richardson; ViewPoint Bank - West Richardson ; and VisionBank Texas. >Top |
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FINE ARTS
Lake Highlands Freshman Center Choir Concert, Majestic Theater in Dallas, Thursday, April 9, 3:00 p.m.
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
 Softball – THURSDAY, APRIL 9
PHS vs. Highland Park @ Highland Park High School, 4:30 p.m. (V)
Softball – FRIDAY, APRIL 10
LHHS vs. BHS @ LHHS Softball Field, 5:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m. (JV, V)
RHS vs. Skyline @ RHS Softball Field, 7:00 p.m. (V)
Baseball – THURSDAY, APRIL 9
BHS vs. Creekview @ Creekview, 4:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. (JV, V)
PHS vs. Royse City @ Pearce baseball field, 4:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. (JV, V)
Soccer Playoffs – SATURDAY, APRIL 11
PHS Girls @ Georgetown, STATE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
Golf – THURSDAY, APRIL 9
Pearce girls @ Waterview District, 8:00 a.m. (JV, V) >Top |
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Country-Western Dance Off
One day only, the Berkner Ramblers will be hosting the 4th annual country-western DANCE OFF! The Ramblers will battle against Lake Highlands Wranglers, Pearce Stampede and Richardson Desperados in an event not to be missed. There will be dance and stunt competitions throughout the show! Saturday April 25th at noon in the Berkner Auditorium - tickets available in advance or at the door. >Top |
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SCHOOL TIMES NOW! ARCHIVE |
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Did you miss an issue of School Times Now!? Click here to view the archives. >Top |
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