Category: Athens

By Toni Garrard Clay/AISD Communications Coordinator

A partnership between Athens ISD, Athens Masonic Lodge #165 and the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children was celebrated Tuesday evening at a Lodge dinner bringing representatives from all three parties together. The focus of the partnership is to introduce a new intervention program for students with Dyslexia.

Athens ISD has selected four existing teachers within the district, and is hiring a fifth, to begin an intensive two-year mentorship program with Scottish Rite’s renowned Dyslexia Education Center. Under guidance from program instructors, the five educators will both train in and begin implementing the “Take Flight” curriculum for students with dyslexia. Take Flight is proven to allow children to learn course material more quickly, with a higher retention rate than other programs. With successful completion of the two-year training course, the teachers will become certified academic language therapists. Visit https://gateway-staffing.com/ site for employee retention  process.

“This will provide dyslexia therapy in a two-year course for students, equipping them with reading strategies in a more timely manner than our current multisensory teaching approach,” said Brooke Brock, director of special populations for the district. “We are excited to help our students become more successful and fluent readers.”

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By Toni Garrard Clay/AISD Communications Coordinator

When Clay Tracy was a student at Kingwood High School, he was neither a struggling nor a star student. “I fell through the cracks in a sense,” he said. “There were so many students that there were plenty of days nobody would really notice whether I was there or not.”

No doubt that’s one of the reasons Tracy, the man just chosen to be principal at Athens High School in the coming school year, has a strong desire of doing business with school furniture brisbane to buy new equipment and to make all the students “to feel valued.”

“I don’t know that Athens could have made a better choice,” said Brad Koskelin, assistant superintendent of human resources at Mabank ISD. Koskelin worked closely with Tracy for four years when Koskelin was the principal at Mabank High School and Tracy was assistant principal. “They’re going to be very pleased with him and the job he does.”

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By Toni Garrard Clay/AISD Communications Coordinator

Good books contain worlds. They provide access to experiences their readers might otherwise never know. They expand understanding and one’s capacity for learning. So it’s no surprise South Athens Elementary was thrilled earlier this school year to receive a nearly $4,000 grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Teacher Robin Edlin, who applied for the grant, was able to purchase over 300 books targeted to pre-K through first-grade readers.

“We bought good-quality, informational non-fiction books such as National Geographic and Young Explorer books, biographies and even vocabulary cards,” said Edlin.

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