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Headline Stories for 9/11/06
Superintendent's Corner
As
we begin this week and the second month of the 2006-07 school year,
it’s hard to think back to the tragic events of 9 –11 – 01. In
fact, many of the students entering kindergarten this year were born
that year and entered the world at a time when conflicts appeared to
take up a major section of the news we read and listened to in the
evening.
Westwood High School Student and Teacher Help Rebuild New Orleans “One Stroke at a Time”
Westwood High School Teacher Vickie Puff and 9th grade student Curtis Williams traveled this past July with a group of volunteers to New Orleans to help clean up and paint residences damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Mrs. Puff became involved in helping rebuild New Orleans last December when she and her sister, Beverly Blassingame, took relief supplies to New Orleans.
Representatives of the U.S. Department of Education came to Snowden School Tuesday, September 5 for a surprise ceremony recognizing Myra Govea de Arce as the American Star of Teaching recipient for the state of Tennessee.
Students “Caught Being Good”
The students of Shannon Elementary were excited to find out about the new “Shannon Shoppe” in a recent assembly. All teachers and staff at Shannon will award coupons in varying point amounts to students who are “caught being good.”
The National Civil Rights Museum, WKNO, and Rhodes College invite Memphis City Schools students to participate in the Eyes on the Prize: Bridging the Gap in the 21st Century student oral history project. This competition is being held in conjunction with the rebroadcast of Eyes on the Prize, which will air on WKNO beginning October 2.
