LISD E-Newsletter September 16, 2022 |
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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:
*Saturday Sept. 17 Region Jazz Band Auditions Jourdanton HS / Volleyball - Girls JV & Varsity at La Pryor 11:00am & 12:00pm *Monday Sept. 19
Volleyball - Girls 7th & 8th Grade atr Johnson City 5:00 & 6:00pm *Tuesday Sept. 20 Volleyball - Girls JV & Varsity at Sabinal 5:00 & 6:00pm *Friday Sept. 23
Volleyball - Girls JV & Varsity vs. Falls City at Stacey 5:00 & 6:00pm |
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Lackland ISD Begins Strategic Planning Process
Lackland ISD is bringing key community members together to collaborate on creating a five-year strategic plan designed to improve our District. The role of committee members will be to help set the direction for the District’s plan. We have solicited the participation of parents, teachers, students, community members, and board members to help us with this important task. We have roughly 40 individuals who have agreed to serve on this committee. The following schedule has been established to facilitate the creation of this plan:
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After the plan is developed, it will be presented to the Lackland ISD Board of Trustees for final approval during a regularly scheduled meeting. |
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Parent, Family, and Community Engagement |
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Scan our QR code to Participate Volunteer and Parent Engagement Opportunities
Lackland ISD strongly desires parent participation in decision-making committees. You have an opportunity to share your voice and help us actualize our vision as The Premier leader in educational excellence. As you engage as a parent, we also invite your participation in campus and district-level committees. Below are the descriptions for these committees for your consideration. Each committee’s point of contact is listed with the committee description if you have additional questions.
Please read each description and let us know if you are interested in supporting the committee or learning more about it. School Health Advisory Council
The School Health Advisory Council (SHAC) assists the district in ensuring that local community values are reflected in the health education program. The council will address the continued implementation of a coordinated health program, including health education, physical education, health services, nutrition services, counseling, a healthy school environment, staff health promotion, and family/community involvement. This committee must have more parent representation than district staff. The SHAC meets at least four times during the school year. Two meetings occur after-school, and two meetings occur during the school day. Tentative meeting dates are October 5, December 7, February 8, and April 12.
Point of Contact: Dr. Tonya Hyde, hyde.t@lacklandisd.net District Education Improvement Council (DEIC)
The District Education Improvement Council (DEIC) is a district-level committee responsible for providing input to the annual development of the District Improvement Plan. This plan comprises the district’s goals and objectives for continuous improvement in special programs, professional development, student achievement, and student safety. This committee is also designated to provide recommendations to Texas Education Agency waiver requests and other items of local governance to be addressed by a district-level committee before Board of Trustee approval. Meeting dates are September 26, October 24, February 27, and May 1.
Point of Contact: Dr. Burnie Roper, roper.b@lacklandisd.net Campus Education Improvement Council (CEIC)
The Campus Education Improvement Council (CEIC) is a campus-level committee responsible for providing input to the annual development of the Campus Improvement Plan. This plan comprises the campus’s goals and objectives for continuous improvement in special programs, professional development, student achievement, and student safety. Points of Contact Lackland Elementary School, Mrs. Terry Leija, Leija.t@lacklandisd.net / Stacey Jr./Sr High School, Mr. Hunter Shelby, Shelby.h@lacklandisd.net
District Calendar Committee
The District Calendar Committee assists the district in the development of the school calendar. Lackland ISD’s District Calendar Committee will develop the calendar for the 2024-2025 school year for board approval. The committee also makes any necessary recommendations for the previously board-approved 2023-2024 school calendar based on new information. The District Calendar Committee meets after school during the spring semester. Following the initial meeting to design the calendar, the committee may have additional meetings to consider stakeholder feedback and finalize the calendar for the District Education Improvement Council and the Board of Trustees.
Strategic Planning Committee
Lackland ISD is bringing key community members together to collaborate on creating a five-year strategic plan designed to improve our district. The strategic planning process is intense. Parent engagement will be requested initially on September 21st or 22nd and September 28 or 29 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. with follow-up meetings on October 11, 18, and/or 27th, from 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. and additional meetings as needed. The role of committee members is to help set the direction for the district’s plan.
Point of Contact: Dr. Burnie Roper, roper.b@lacklandisd.net PTSO Lackland ISD PTSO is a Parent Teacher Student Organization. PTSO has one board who serves both the Elementary school as well as Stacey Jr/Sr High. We use all of the funds we raise to help out around the schools with many fun events as well as helping the teachers out in their classrooms.
Point of Contact: Mrs. Melissa Lanier lacklandisdpto@gmail.com |
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Much of the feedback from our school climate surveys over the past few years have highlighted the need for better communication between the district and our parents. To meet that need, we are very excited to announce that we have rolled out ParentSquare!
ParentSquare is a communication platform. Through the platform, you’ll be able to: *Receive all district, school, and classroom communication via email, text, or app *View the school and classroom calendar and RSVP for events *Easily sign up to volunteer and/or bring items
*Securely receive important documents like report cards and other student documents
For the best ParentSquare experience, we recommend that you download and install the app. The name is ParentSquare, and it can easily be found in your device’s app store. If you don’t have a device, no need to worry: the platform is capable of both text and email, and you can log on via the web as well. ParentSquare receives its contact information from the Ascender Parent Portal. Please take a moment to make sure that you have the latest contact information on file there.
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The AVID elective classes held their first family night on Sept. 8 to present what AVID is to their parents and show off the project they had been working on. What started off as a focused note-taking activity turned into an inquiry project. The essential question was, "Who was Virginia Allred Stacey, and why is our campus named after her?" It turns out that if you try and search her name on the internet, the only thing that really pops up are school related events.
Students took notes on the information they were able to find in old year books going back to the 1970's. Mrs. Palmerton, one of our librarians, was able to find a ton of primary and secondary resource artifacts that included newspaper articles, campaign flyers, scrapbooks and more. She was also able to reach out to her contacts at Trinity University and the base archivists to obtain even more artifacts for our kids to use to put pieces of their information and timelines together.
Retired Lackland Jr/Sr HS and Stacey teacher, Carol Frawley, provided the students with more pictures, her resume and articles. This was especially helpful for the students to complete some missing pieces in their timelines. Former teachers and current substitute teachers, Beverly Wann and Doug Poludniak, as well as a current custodian, Tommy Estrada, have provided their personal stories with their experience working for Mrs. Stacey that were shared with students to help in their research.
The cherry on top was their special guest, Darby Stacey. She is retired Air Force and one of the daughters of Virginia Allred Stacey. She enjoyed the students' presentation where the information gained in their research and notes was applied about her mother's accomplishments and dedication to the district. She answered questions that the students still had and was able to add her own perspective to her mother's persistence towards making the buildings we have now on the Stacey campus come into existence.
The connections made by the students from this project has led them to not only have a deeper appreciation of their school's namesake, but to plan their first community service project. Mrs. Stacey had a vision of a "Camelot" environment for all of the military connected children that passed through this district. She wanted a lot of green space with flowers to be enjoyed by all. The AVID students will be partnering up with Ms. Polis and the Garden Club to work on the flower beds already built around campus and want to eventually build more. We will also be partnering up With Mrs. Duron's Community Service class to bring back and old tradition of celebrating Mrs. Stacey's birthday in April with cupcakes for all.
Stacey students can be looking forward to some fun fact Friday announcements to share with the rest of the student body from their findings. |
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Cross Country - Coed Middle & High School - Seguin Cross Country Meet |
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The monarch butterfly is a milkweed butterfly. Other common names, depending on region, include milkweed, common tiger, wanderer, and black-veined brown butterfly. The monarch is amongst the most familiar of North American butterflies and an iconic pollinator. The monarch butterfly is not an especially effective pollinator of milkweeds.
Its wings feature an easily recognizable black, orange, and white pattern, with a wingspan of 8.9–10.2 cm, or about 3.5 inches . The viceroy butterfly is similar in color and pattern, but is markedly smaller and has an extra black stripe across each hindwing. The eastern North American monarch population is notable for its annual southward late-summer/autumn instinctive migration from the northern and central United States and southern Canada to Florida and Mexico.
During the fall migration, monarchs cover thousands of miles, with a corresponding multigenerational return north. The western North American population of monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains often migrates to sites in southern California, but has been found in overwintering Mexican sites, as well. In 2009, monarchs were reared on the International Space Station, successfully emerging from pupae located in the station's Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus.
Imagine that! Monarch butterflies in space!!!
Mrs. Pam Torre 6th Grade World Cultures and Geography 7th Grade Texas History |
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3rd grade with Ms. Mendez is awesome! Sharing positive morning messages during mindfulness time. |
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4th grade group sharing. Reading. Morning deep breathing time during mindfulness generating encouraging thoughts for ourselves and others. |
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Collecting science lab items for logging observations, data and identifying physical properties. |
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Kindergarten with Mrs. Archibald
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Lackland Elementary School,
Picture Day is Tuesday, Sep 27.
*Online ordering is available before and after Picture Day. Shipping and handling charges may apply to orders placed after Picture Day. Preview styles and order here.
*This picture will be taken using Green Screen technology. Please note that if your child wears green, they may appear to blend in with the background on unedited proofs. This will be fixed in color editing.
*Your Inter-State Studio Account is a powerful tool! In your account, you can set your email preferences, view, order, save your pictures and check your order history. Log in or create an account here.
If your child is wearing a mask on Picture Day, please remind them that it is safe to remove the mask for their portrait.
See our safety guidelines.
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Special Education Corner
It’s the intention of the Special Education Department to provide information on what special education is and the various programs available to our special education students and families. If you have concerns with your child’s development, please contact our office at 210-357-5402. |
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We are happy to share the Sept EFMP workshop brought to you by JBSA Lackland EFMP VIRTUAL CHILDREN & SEXUALITY - SEPT 29TH @1200 This session is will insight to sexuality and how it manifests itself within children with disabilities. The class will
learn about sexuality for youth, the psychological development of sexuality, approaches to understanding sexuality, education and victimization. Strategies will be discussed about education and the role it plays on
shaping youth with disabilities and their sexuality. By Dr. Steven Gonzalez
Join ZoomGov Meeting https://www.zoomgov.com/j/16141591741 Meeting ID: 161 4159 1741
Passcode: M&FRC2022 Respectfully,
Nancy Hernandez Garcia, M.S. Licensed Specialist in School Psychology Special Education Coordinator Lackland Independent School District 2460 Kenly Avenue, Bldg 8265 San Antonio, Texas 78236 (210) 357-5081 |
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Adapting to Life After COVID September 21, 2021 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
COVID-19 was not only a health crisis, it was a mental health crisis. Between working from home, losing jobs, schools being closed and the real threat of a deadly pandemic, life got very heavy. While the world will never go back to what it was, hopefully this presentation will help provide the tools to adapt to the ever changing world we find ourselves in. This session is brought to you by James Denning from The Denning Center.
Session ID 78620 Understanding Your Child's Present Levels and IEP Goals September 22, 2021 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. In this session, participants will review the required components in their child's special education Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance (PLAAFP) statements and Individualized Education Program (IEP) Goals and discuss techniques for working with school personnel to develop appropriate programming for your child.
Session ID 76431 |
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