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Stowe Elementary Fourth-Graders Travel to Austin on Discover Texas Field Trip

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O.H. Stowe Elementary fourth-graders travel to Austin on an Education in Action Discover Texas Field Trip

Fourth-graders from Birdville ISD’s O.H. Stowe Elementary traveled to Austin on an Education in Action Discover Texas Field Trip Dec. 14, 2018 to experience what they are learning in fourth-grade Texas History. Students visited the Texas State Capitol and the Bullock Texas State History Museum.

During the charter bus ride to Austin, students discussed why Texans are so proud of their unique heritage and participated in activities and games in preparation for their visit. In Austin the students visited the Texas State Capitol where their legislators, The Honorable Kelly Hancock, State Senator, District 9 and The Honorable Stephanie Klick, State Representative, District 91, have their office. Students saw first-hand where Texas laws are made as they toured the State Capitol including the Senate and House of Representatives chambers. At the Bullock Texas State History Museum students explored exhibits about Texas’s earliest inhabitants, the Texas Revolution, and events that created our Lone Star identity. The students’ visit to the museum concluded at the multi-sensory Texas Spirit Theater with the Star of Destiny where they saw and experienced the history of our great state including a gusher exploding from an East Texas oil derrick and the takeoff of Saturn V as seen from Mission Control at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston.

“Education in Action’s Discover Texas Field Trips are based on the understanding that the most effective way for students to learn is through experience,” stated Lacey Phillips, Discover Texas Field Trips Director. “Student activities during the Discover Texas Field Trip to Austin reinforce and supplement fourth grade Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) learning objectives with a focus on why Texans are so proud of their unique heritage.”

Education in Action’s Discover Texas Field Trips make it easy for teachers to take their third-, fourth-, or fifth-grade classrooms on organized, fun, and educational site-based learning experiences. Discover Texas Field Trip staff members handle all details, including round-trip charter bus transportation, reservations, and TEKS-based program curriculum, so participating teachers can focus on their students and making connections between the experience and what students are learning in the classroom.

In addition to Discover Texas Field Trips to Austin, San Antonio, Waco/Georgetown, Dallas, and Fort Worth, Education in Action also offers summer Lone Star Leadership Academy camps for outstanding fourth through eighth graders. During the weeklong, overnight camps, participants experience significant Texas sites in Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin/San Antonio, or Houston/Galveston with Texas educators and a focus on leadership.

Discover Texas Field Trips are presented by Education in Action, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to fostering educated and involved young people. For more information about Education in Action visit www.educationinaction.org and www.facebook.com/educationinaction.

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Holiday Concerts 12/16 – 12/22

  • Dec. 17

    Green Valley, Valley Voices Perform “North Pole Musical,” 6:30 p.m., Cafeteria

    Birdville HS, Band Concert, 7:00 p.m., Auditorium

    Haltom HS, Band Concert, 7:00 p.m., Auditorium

    Richland HS, Band Concert, 7:00 p.m., Auditorium

  • Dec. 18

    Academy at C.F. Thomas Elementary, Chorus Holiday Program, 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., & 6:30 p.m., Cafeteria

    O.H. Stowe Elementary, Fifth-grade Musical Program, 2:15 p.m. & 6:30 p.m., Cafeteria

    Haltom MS, Band Concert, 6:30 p.m., Auditorium

    Richland MS Band Concert, 7:00 p.m., Auditorium

  • Dec. 20

    Smithfield Elementary, Choir Holiday Musical, 6:30 p.m., Cafeteria

    Birdville Elementary, “Annie,” 6:00 p.m., Cafeteria

  • Dec. 21

    Walker Creek Elementary, Coyote Choir Program, 9:00 a.m., Cafeteria

    O.H. Stowe Elementary, Christmas Sing-along, 8:30 a.m., Cafeteria

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Haltom High School Receives 2018–19 AVID Revalidation

Birdville ISD celebrates Haltom High School for being revalidated Thursday, November 29, 2018 as an AVID National Demonstration School. Originally validated in 2015, Haltom has been granted another three-year validation through fall of 2021. AVID National Demonstration Schools are centers of teaching and learning that also serve as models for those interested in the AVID College Readiness System which operates with five core principles–Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading (WICOR). Instructional strategies among these areas are not just visible among the 282 Haltom High School AVID enrolled students, but schoolwide.

The Revalidation launched with a leadership team meeting focused on the impact of AVID at Haltom High School and next steps of instructional, systemic, cultural and leadership implementation. Following, classrooms across disciplines and among the AVID elective classes were observed with teachers imbedding engaging strategies. A highlight of the day included a student lunch panel with eight AVID scholars articulating the benefits of AVID. The day concluded in a celebratory reception with trustees, members of the Superintendent’s Cabinet, district leadership, community partners and photography session with all AVID scholars.

Haltom High School Leadership:  David Hamilton, principal; Brenda Jacks, AVID site coordinator; Clara Campbell and Liz Pena, assistant principals for AVID; Pamela Wright and Jessica Wallace, AVID elective teachers.

District Leadership:  Dr. Darrell G. Brown, superintendent; Dr. Elizabeth Clark, associate superintendent of curriculum and instruction; Clarence Simmons, executive director of secondary learning; Dr. Julie Hyman, director of gifted & talented and advanced academics; and Ramonda Fields, AVID district director/coordinator of advanced academics.

AVID Center Guests and Validation Team:  Dr. Mike Mozingo, Southern Region assistant director; Stacie Valdez, project manager of leadership development; and Traci Grove, CA Division program manager.

 

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Trustees Approve Administrative Transfer

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At their regular meeting, Birdville ISD’s Board of Trustees approved the administrative transfer of Michael Gerard as chancellor of BISD’s new early college high school. The early college high school will be located inside Haltom High School and will open fall 2019.

He has been an assistant principal at Richland High School since 2007. Prior to Richland (from1995–2007), he taught advanced placement, on-level and inclusion government, macroeconomics, U.S. history, world history and world geography. Gerard earned his bachelor’s degree from The University of Tennessee and master’s degree from The University of North Texas.