LISD E-Newsletter

October 23, 2020 

Admin Alley

This week Lackland ISD joined school districts nationwide in observing National School Bus Safety Week.  School Bus Safety Week is a public education program that is observed the third full week of October each year. The theme for this year’s campaign was “Red Lights Mean STOP!”

This annual observance is a great opportunity for us to reflect on the importance of school bus safety and recognize our bus drivers and bus aides for the amazing job they do every school day safely transporting our students to and from school.  Driving a bus full of children is not an easy task on a normal day.  This year’s pandemic has created many new challenges for our bus drivers.  Our transportation team has expertly responded to these new challenges and continued to provide outstanding service.

Please join us in celebrating our wonderful transportation staff and extending a big THANK YOU for a job well done.

Pictured left to right: Juan Alvarez, Mary Pastrano, Rosalie Perez, Greg Torre, Veronica Valderas, Rebecca Macal, Crystal Gamboa, Yolanda Sanchez, Brittany Lopez, Larry Reliford

Around the District

Please Participate in the Lackland ISD and Texas Education Agency (TEA) Survey of the Lackland ISD Special Education Program.  The survey closes on December 11, 2020.

Good Afternoon,

The Division of Review and Support at the Texas Education Agency (TEA) strives to improve special education services for Texas local education agencies (LEAs). The monitoring process is intended to help school districts continuously improve services and facilitate positive student outcomes. As a
stakeholder involved in special education, your feedback is important to inform our process development.

State monitoring activities include investigating, reporting and correcting federal or state noncompliance of special education policies and procedures. Monitoring activities may include a district self-assessment, an on-site visit or other activities by the TEA. Your district participated the special education the Differentiated Monitoring and Support process. Please provide feedback through this 10-20-minute survey. This information is vital to our ability to
provide information to LEAs concerning their monitoring results.

The purpose of this survey is to gather information and revise support for all districts in Texas. Any comments or concerns specific to your district should be sent directly to your school district personnel as specific concerns will not be forwarded from TEA to districts.

Confidentiality of Data
Your responses will only be reviewed internally to assist TEA with the monitoring process. The information you share is confidential to the extent permitted by law. Responses to the survey may be subject to public information requests in accordance with the Public Information Act. Texas
Government Code, Chapter 552. 

Participation or Withdrawal
Your participation in this study is voluntary. You may decline to answer any question and you have the right to withdraw from participation at any time.

Click on the link below to complete the survey:
Stakeholder Survey
If you have any questions, comments or concerns, or would like more information on resources listed
within the survey, please contact the Texas Education Agency Review and Support division at
reviewandsupport@tea.texas.gov.
Thank you.
Division of Review and Support
Texas Education Agency
reviewandsupport@tea.texas.gov
512-463-9414

Red Ribbon Week is to increase public awareness of drug abuse and to promote a healthy, drug-free lifestyle.

Each day throughout that week children & staff will support the Red Ribbon initiative through various activities and theme days.

Weekly newsletter:

 

https://www.smore.com/3mv4q

 

Juazzelyn Barrera, MEd, LPC Intern, CSC|Military Student Transition Consultant

Military Child Education Coalition 

[p]  210.338.0604 | 210.357.5113

 

Stacey Happenings

Here is the padlet:

 

https://lacklandisd.padlet.org/durone1/7657v6l1irv10e55

Several members of the Stacey High School Choir participated in Region Choir auditions recently.  These students had to submit recordings of their audition songs, which were then judged virtually.  Participating singers were Parker Archibald, Hailey Barentine, Kevin Brown, Jocelyn Hopkins, Helena Sawvel and Saniya Willis.  Jocelyn Hopkins earned a spot in the Region Choir as 9th chair Soprano.  She will advance to the Pre-Area auditions to be recorded in November.  Good luck, Jocelyn!

This past Saturday the Stacey Eagles Cross Country team competed at the FEAST Cross Country Meet here in San Antonio. This meet gave our runners an opportunity to run against some of the top runners in the area. Greg Bollinger led the boys with new personal record time of 16:38 in the 5K, good enough for a 6th place finish. Lauren Sawvel led the girls, who all improved this week, with a time of 15:11. It was a great race for everyone.

On Wednesday, the Junior High team closed out their season at the Cole Cross Country Invitational in Sequin. Aleq Countryman (3rd Place) and Jack Sorensen (6th Place) ran personal bests this year with times of 14:11 and 14:22, respectively. In the girls’ race, all three runners (Ashlee Ludwigsen, Mikaela Diaz, and Addison Gajkowski) ran great races. Mikaela and Addison ran personal bests and all three runners showed great improvement over the season.

This is a community service project Mrs. Perez's middle school Teen Leadership classes participated in. We made doggie blankets for ACS, Animal Care Services. They will be delivered on Friday to them.

Ms. Gray’s English III class is doing a unit on Identity and one of the assignments was to write “Where I’m From” poems.  The following are some of the beautiful results:

 

Where I’m From 

by Michaela Edging

 

I am from books,

from paint and pencils.

I am from the woods of Maine that always felt like a fantasy.

I am from the waterfalls,

the lilies,

I am from traveling and exploring,

From my mother and my father and more.

I am from the humor

and puns.

From “Because I said so’s” and “I love you’s.”

I am from no religion.

Because I have not figured that part out yet.

I'm from Virginia, Tennessee,

steak and ice cream.

From the day my dad asked my mom to marry him, the “yes” from my mother,

and my grandmother, who jumped around the table with excitement after finding out I existed.  

I am from the stories and tales that my family tells me.

I am from the summer camp where my mother got married to my father, the Grand Canyon where my dad held me over the edge, Lion King style.

I am from the house I have yet to live in. The Japanese restaurant that me and my grandmother love.

I am from everywhere and nowhere, and I would never change that.

 

****

 

I Am From Poem

by Shannah Flores

 

I am from an island, so small, it could be swallowed whole

I am from the hot summer days and rainy summer nights

I am all the kids playing outside in the rain

I am from the hibiscus tree that struck its roots into the ground and embraced us with its

beautiful flowers

I am from El Morro, I am each kite flown

I am from the beaches and the pearly white sand

I am the iguanas, perched on the palm trees in silence

I am from Maria, Irma, and Dorian

I am each person protesting against out corrupt government

I am all of the beauty and all of the wickedness

I am all of the pain and all of the joy

I am the island’s pride

I am from La Isla del Encanto

 

More to come......

Spotlight on Texas:  5 Amazing, but TRUE, Facts about Texas

 

1.  Texans are fond of saying:  "If you know beans about chili, then you know chili has no beans."  Texans put beef and tomatoes in their chili and leave the beans for the burritos.

 

2.  Aviatrices, Unite!!!:  Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, was an air base for female pilots in World War II.  From 1943 to 1944, the base contained the only military flight school for women in the world.

 

3.  Blast Off!!!:  Space Center Houston, the Visitors' Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center, is home to the Blast Off Theater, which allows visitors to experience a simulated space launch---with billowing smoke!!!

 

4.  Grand Old Flags:  The flags of France, Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America, and the United States have all flown over Texas at least once since 1685.

 

5.  SO MANY COWS!!!:  Texas has 14 million cattle.  To give you an idea of exactly what that means, 46 states have fewer people than Texas has cows!!!! 

The use of peanuts dates back centuries! 

 

Peanut butter, on the other hand,  has been around since the late 19th century.  Marceullus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, obtained a patent for a method of producing peanut butter from roasted peanuts, using heated surfaces in 1884.  The cooled product had a butter-like consistency.  Mr. Edson mixed sugar into the gooey paste to  harden its consistency.  A businessman from St. Louis named George Bayle produced and sold peanut butter in the form of a snack food in 1894.

 

John Harvey Kellogg (yes! of Kellogg cereals fame) was issued a patent for peanut butter production in 1898.  Kellogg's Western Health Reform Institute served peanut butter to patients because they needed a food that contained a lot of protein, and could be eaten without a lot of chewing.  At first, peanut butter was a food for wealthy people, as it came to be used in expensive health care institutes.

 

As the US National Peanut Board confirms, "Contrary to popular belief, George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter." Carver did publish his document about peanuts, entitled "How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it For Human Consumption" in 1916.  Many methods of preparation of peanut butter had been developed or patented by various pharmacists, doctors, and food scientists working in the United States and Canada. 

 

January 24 is  observed National Peanut Butter Day in the United States.

Elementary Happenings

Congratulations Fire Safety Poster Winners

Students in Mrs. Guerrero’s class participated in Mrs. Duron’s Family & Community Service Class project & wrote heart warming letters to the senior residents of Blue Skies East. They were very excited to do this and help them feel supported & not alone. They did an amazing job! 😍

Ms. Kramer and Ms. Perez’s 4th grade class wrote letters to the elderly!! 

Pumpkin fun in Pre-K

Hula Hoopers

Jump Ropers

Kinder in Theatre

Showing their Monster Moves...

Mrs. Alvarez hierarchical inclusion lesson with student Jaxon Hummel.

PTSO Spot light 

Good Information

Lackland ISD has incredible Homework Help and Tutoring resources through our Local Public Libraries! 

Both the JBSA Lackland Library and the San Antonio Public Library have great Homework Help resources for grades Kinder–College, and for Parents!

For JBSA Lackland Library, go to https://sites.google.com/view/jbsalibrarieskidsathome
To get a JBSA Lackland Library Card – give them a call at 210-671-3610 from 11AM-4PM Monday-Friday and they can set it up over the phone.
SAPL’s Back to School Website: https://guides.mysapl.org/backtoschool
To get a SAPL Library Card: https://mysapl.ent.sirsi.net/
 

If you have questions or need help, feel free to reach out to your LISD Librarian!

 

SAPL Homework Help

 

JBSA Library Homework help at home

 

Tutor.com for Parents

*Military One Source

 

*Steven A Cohen Military Family Life Clinic at Endeavors

 

*The Ecumenical Center for Education, Counseling and Health

Tuesday, October 27, 2020
9:00 a.m.--12:00 p.m.
Empowering yourself in the G/T
Identification Process and Services
Referring your child for Gifted and Talented services
can sometimes be overwhelming! What are your rights?
What is it that a District is wanting to know about
your child and what exactly are G/T services through
the lends of TEA? Join us for a session where we will
demystify the process of identification for your child
and talk about what opportunities exist in G/T services
and how to advocate for your child.
Session ID# 67241
Webinar ID: 71181

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