{"id":3264,"date":"2016-03-04T10:05:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T16:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2016-03-04T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T16:04:13","slug":"3264","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/3264\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2016 Notes from Superintendent, Dr. Darrell Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NotesFrom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1899 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/NotesFrom.jpg\" alt=\"NotesFrom\" width=\"450\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is hard to believe there are only three months left in the 2015\u201316 school year. A lot has happened since school began on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Students and staff continue to achieve great things, both academically and personally.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you will join me in telling others Birdville ISD\u2019s focus is excellence, integrity and service. The District has created the social media campaign <strong>#WeAreBirdvilleISD <\/strong>for the purpose of sharing the pride of BISD.<\/p>\n<p>Listed below are a few of the points of pride that illustrate why <strong>#WeAreBirdvilleISD<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BISD has three National Merit Finalists, 13 National Merit Commended Scholars and one National Hispanic Scholar for the 2015\u201316 school year.<\/li>\n<li>BISD was named a finalist for the $5 million Raise Your Hand Texas Blended Learning Initiative.<\/li>\n<li>Sixteen BISD high school band and choir members were selected as Texas All-State musicians.<\/li>\n<li>Smithfield Middle School was named to the 2016 Texas Schools to Watch<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> program by the Texas Middle School Association.<\/li>\n<li>The Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning\u2019s (BCTAL) robotics team recently advanced to the Regional competition.<\/li>\n<li>Two Birdville ISD eighth-grade social studies teachers were accepted to attend a week of learning at George Washington\u2019s Mount Vernon home.<\/li>\n<li>Birdville ISD\u2019s Audio\/Video Production Department announced that Birdville High School senior Ian Chapoy\u2019s short film \u201cThe Ambition Song\u201d was accepted into the Texas High School Shorts Program at the 2016 South by Southwest Film Festival.<\/li>\n<li>Hafsa Syed from North Ridge Middle School won BISD\u2019s 2016 Spelling Bee. Adriana Fackender from Holiday Heights Elementary was the runner-up.<\/li>\n<li>Richland Elementary\u2019s choir was the only BISD choir invited to perform with the North Texas Children\u2019s Choir at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas.<\/li>\n<li>Six BISD aspiring middle school and high school playwrights were named winners of the Stage West Theatre\u2019s Neighborhood Play Contest.<\/li>\n<li>Binion and Smithfield elementary schools tied for first place in BISD\u2019s 2016 Battle of the Books competition.<\/li>\n<li>BISD celebrated with a groundbreaking for the new North Richland Middle School campus on Jan. 15. Thank you BISD voters for your support of the 2014 Bond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This list might seem long, but it doesn\u2019t begin to touch on all of the accolades I could share about our students, staff and community.<\/p>\n<p>I want to invite you to join me in showing your BISD pride by posting your pictures on social media with a sign or caption containing the hashtag <strong>#WeAreBirdvilleISD<\/strong>. Show the world why they should want to be part of the great things happening in Birdville ISD.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3265 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/WABISD5.jpg\" alt=\"WABISD5\" width=\"450\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/WABISD5.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/WABISD5-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/WABISD5-518x227.jpg 518w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/WABISD5-82x36.jpg 82w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/WABISD5-600x263.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/WABISD5-550x241.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to believe there are only three months left in the 2015\u201316 school year. A lot has happened since school began on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Students and staff continue to achieve great things, both academically and personally. I hope you will join me in telling others Birdville ISD\u2019s focus is excellence, integrity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104,131,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bisdshines","category-wearebirdvilleisd","category-dr-brown-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s76FL9-3264","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3267,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}