A delegation from Malakoff Elementary School were in Washington D.C. yesterday to be honored for the campus receiving Blue Ribbon status. (Courtesy photo)
You can learn more about this honor here.
Category: Education
AISD November Teachers of the Month
Athens ISD’s November Teachers of the Month are (from left) Sandy Howard, Bel Air; Sarah Williams, South Athens; Erica Rodriguez, Central Athens; Aimee Burks, Athens Middle School; Kenna Turner, Athens High School; and Julie Whitley, AHS Career & Technology. The AISD Operations Center Employee of the Month (far right) is Jinnifer Pauley. (Toni Garrard Clay/AISD)
Veterans Day events at Athens ISD
AISD press release
Veterans Day is Wednesday, and Athens ISD has been at the center of veteran awareness since posting the viral video “Zoey’s Reunion” to their Facebook page on Friday. With more than 20,000 views and counting as of Monday, the video (a surprise reunion between a kindergartner and her sailor father during an assembly) has touched the hearts of people far outside Henderson County.
“It was a lovely moment, and we were honored by the Barr family for the opportunity to witness it,” said Toni Garrard Clay, AISD communications specialist. “It also came at a perfect time, being only a few days ahead of Veterans Day.”
TVCC Phi Theta Kappa inducts members
Trinity Valley Community College’s Iota Alpha chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the national honor society for two-year colleges, inducted 52 members in a ceremony held Sunday, October 25 in the Student Union Building on the Athens Campus.
Inductees were Dayana Castillo, Christopher Collins, Emery Cooper, Jeremiah Foster, Caryn Jackson, Margaret Simmons, Samantha Smith and Lauren Takata of Athens; Adriana Gutierrez, Rachel Johnson, Erika Parker and Sarah Stinson of Canton, Colton Daniel of Cayuga, Katherine Jenkins of Combine, Kayla Diaz of Cypress, Mayah Cruz of Dallas, Thomas Hanley of Eustace, Matthew Granvold of Forney, Felisha Hickman of Fruitvale, Makayla David of Grand Saline, Lauren Brown and Heather Hoag of Grapeland; Kerensa Cottrell of Gun Barrel City, Christina Miller of Kemp, Syquoria Moore of Lancaster, Debra Shepherd of Larue, Ryan Donovan and Jamie Knight of Mabank, Debra Brown and Sydney Harris of Malakoff; Sarah Furlong of Murchison, Sarah Belt, Theophila Deamisi, Phuong Do, Amy Kelley and Kelsey Owens of Palestine; Madison Fuller of Rockwall, Paolo Aguilar, Evangelina Bulkley, Molly Cole, Austin Harris, Preston Harris, Ariel McLemee, Kaitlyn Pruitt, Keilan Rodgers, Guadalupe Tovar, Delfina Valdelamar, Jesse Valdelamar, Jonathan Valdelamar, Ramiro Velazquez and Kimberly Wilhite of Terrell and Shelby Rotenberry of Wills Point.
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, is the largest honor society in higher education with 1,275 chapters on college campuses in all 50 of the United States, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, Peru, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the British Virgin Islands, the United Arab Emirates, and U.S. territorial possessions. More than 3 million students have been inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately 134,000 students inducted annually.
Cross Roads Book Fair scheduled
Cross Roads Elementary will host a Scholastic Book Fair Monday, Nov. 9 through Friday, Nov. 13 from 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. Funds raised will help purchase books for the Elementary – Junior High Library. Families, faculty, and the community are invited to attend this fun reading event that helps inspire children to become lifelong readers.
The Book Fair will feature a day for Breakfast or Lunch with a Loved One on Nov. 11 from 7:15 a.m. to 8 a.m. for breakfast or 10:45 a.m. to noon for lunch (at your student’s lunch time).
There will also be a Veterans Day Program on that day.