LISD E-Newsletter

April 24, 2020

Table of Contents:

1. Admin Alley

2. Around the District

3. Stacey Happenings

4. Elementary Happenings

5. PTSO Spotlight

6. Good Information

7. Random Shots

Upcoming Events:

*Distance online learning

Stay safe! We Miss you!

Admin Alley

View Lackland ISD Board Meeting on Zoom

The Lackland Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 in person. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we will also stream the meeting live on Zoom. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 11:30 am. The public will have the opportunity to make comments via Zoom during the “Public Comments” section of the meeting. The Board President may limit the time patrons are allowed to speak. Please utilize the following information to view the meeting:

Topic: Lackland ISD April 28, 2020 Regular Board Meeting

Time: Apr 28, 2020 11:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/97746699644?pwd=eGw1UVVWazgyN0hjQytEWWY4TzBYQT09

Meeting ID: 977 4669 9644

Password: 0wFWMw

Lackland ISD Closed for the Remainder of the

School Year!

By order of Texas Governor Greg Abbot, all Texas schools have been ordered closed for the remainder of the school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We will continue to provide high-quality online instruction via online resources, and we will continue to provide both breakfast and lunch meals through the last day of school for students which is Friday, May 22, 2020.

We are working with our principals to ensure the academic needs of our students are met to the best of our ability. We are considering the possibilities for end of year activities to include our senior graduation. We will send more information once those decisions have been made.

Please continue to be safe and take care of yourselves.

Respectfully,

Dr. Burnie L. Roper

Superintendent

Around the District

The Stacey educators and counseling staff came together (virtually) to create a video demonstrating to their learners just how much they miss them.

https://lacklandisd.instructuremedia.com/embed/b66501b1-c9ff-450c-b73c-7d3779c859ae

LISD parents, the weekly resources are ready for you! This week we are celebrating Purple Up, Lackland ISD Virtual Distance Style! Plus we are continuing to provide tools to help parents and students with self-care and balance, stress management, senior tips, scholarship opportunities, frequent worry, and all the digital resources coming your way. Our LISD Military Student Transition Consultant is sharing a weekly newsletter to keep families up to date and better equipped with relevant tools during this time we are social distancing. Pay special attention to the FREE College Admissions During COVID 19 Webinar offer TODAY 4/22 11am CST.

Kamilah Antoine, M.Ed.

Military Student Transition Consultant
Lackland Independent School District

O: 210.357.5113 • C: 210.201.4035

antoine.k@lacklandisd.net

Check out the weekly newsletter here:

http://tinyurl.com/MSTCnews4

Each year, April is set aside as a military child appreciation month, officially known as the Month of the Military Child. With its start in the mid-1980s, the Pentagon and other military support organizations and agencies use the month to recognize military kids for their sacrifice and bravery on the home front.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Lackland ISD teachers and staff have successfully pivoted to using digital platforms for distance learning. We truly appreciate the efforts of educators in our district and throughout the state of Texas. Please join us in appreciation of their work.

Parents continue to be essential partners in our work to support the academic and social programs of our students. Parent perusals are provided to share strategies and resources to sustain our work together.

New Parent Portal Login: https://txeis20.txeis.net/ParentPortal/login?distid=015913

Stacey Happenings

We recently surprised our Valedictorian, Sara Kinney and Salutatorian, Conner O’Malley with visits to their homes this past week. We are very proud of both students on their academic achievement.

Sara is actively involved at Stacey Jr/Sr High School as the Editor of the Yearbook, Finalist in the Jr. Dual Financial Literacy Competition, Cyber Patriot Team Captain, Student Council Member, UIL Academic Competitor (Journalism), and Drama Club Technical Crew Member. Sara plans to attend the University of Texas in Austin and major in Journalism.

Conner is an accomplished runner and was named to the Cross County Coaches Association of Texas Academic All-State Team, Stacey Tennis Team, Cyber Patriot Team Captain, Student 2 Student Member, Harvard Prize Book Winner, UIL Academic Competitor (Computer Science), State Solo Competition on Trombone, All Region and Area Jazz Band, All Region and Area Concert Band, and is an Eagle Scout. Conner plans to attend Emory Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL.

8th grade Skills for Living students finish up their clothing unit at home. They hand sewed an egg and learned how to sew on a button and embroider. Students also up-cycled an old t-shirt into an apron.

https://tinyurl.com/y8jbmk94

Seventh Grade/Texas History: The Great Depression

The Great Depression, which began in 1929 and lasted about ten years, originated in the United States but reached all over the world Different countries experienced different levels of severity. The United States and Europe were hit the hardest, while Japan and Latin America experienced the Depression much more mildly.

For this lesson assignment, students were tasked with the challenge of sharing this moment in time through haiku poetry. Haiku is a Japanese poetry form that follows a specific format: The rhyme scheme comprises 17 syllables in all. There are three lines to create in the rhyme scheme, following in a 5-7-5 syllable format. Students were tasked with creating not one, not two, but three poems from the lessons:

Lesson 1: Texas and Hard Times

Lesson 2: A New Deal

Lesson 3: Politics in the 1930s

Sophia Mendez, a student in Mrs. Torre's A1/Texas History Class, create the following haiku poetry set.

Texas and Hard Times:

Stock market crashed hard

Great Depression caused chaos

Then the Dust Bowl came

A New Deal

The New Deal Rises

Roosevelt changed the game plan

Alphabet firm led

Politics in the 1930s

Rights were hard to earn

Scandalous office runners

Segregated schools

6th Grade/Southern Africa: Social Studies with Mrs. Torre

Key Facts about Southern Africa:

*Great Zimbabwe was the capital of a wealthy, powerful kingdom established by the indigenous (native) people called the Shona in what is now Zimbabwe and Mozambique. It flourished between A.D. 900 and 1400.

**The Mutapa Empire of the Shona followed the Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe but was gradually taken over by the Portuguese during the 1500s and 1600s.

***The Portuguese and other Europeans began establishing trading posts in Southern Africa around 1500. Colonies came later. The Dutch established Cape Colony on the southern tip of what is now South Africa in 1652.

****The Dutch were known as "Boers", which means "farmers".

*****Nelson Mandela was a black South African who fought against racial discrimination in his country and imprisoned for many years before being elected the first black president of South Africa.

Who says history is dull, dry, and boring!?! These events created huge changes all throughout the region.

No History? KNOW HISTORY!!!

The yearbooks will arrive in mid-May. Distribution details have yet to be determined. Contact Sara @ kinney.sara@lacklandisd.org or yearbook adviser Mr. Russell Keller @ keller.r@lacklandisd.net for more information.

Elementary Happenings

After listening to A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman, Ms. Heineman’s Pre/K class used their creativity and fine motor skills to make their own rainbows!