Category: Education

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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Members of Athens High School’s chapter of the Technology Student Association brought home plenty of hardware from the three-day TSA State Competition held recently in Fort Worth. “This was the third year our students had a TSA chapter, and they brought home more awards than previous years,” said chapter sponsor and AHS teacher Julie Patterson. “It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to build a program from the ground up, and these students are doing just that.” Pictured are (standing, from left) Alfredo Miranda, Reagan Gore, Carlos Miranda, Armando Ceballos, Andrew Rodriguez, David Rodriguez, Tucker Hall, Matthew Collins, Toby Rhodes, Ashton Vasquez, Antonio Miranda, (kneeling, from left) Anna Howard, Kathryn Martinez, Jacky Rodriguez, Sydney Roberson, Haylee Wells, (seated, from left) Jasmine Martinez, Kathy Tellez, Gianella Castaneda and Stephanie Miranda. (Julie Patterson photo)

By Toni Garrard Clay/AISD Communications Coordinator

Athens High School has another trophy to put in the display case after enjoying success this year in UIL academic competition.

The school hosted the UIL District 18-4A Academic Meet on March 21 and finished as District Runners-Up with 16 students qualifying for regionals. The speech and math teams were standouts with first-place finishes, and the journalism, literary criticism and social studies teams each took second.

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