Month: September 2017
Cheerleading, the sport The sport of cheerleading has changed over the last couple of decades, moving away from its origins as a support system for basketball and football to competition so athletically challenging that some teams exist as competition-only squads. AISD schools compete nationally against other squads but primary duties are still to stalk the…
Read More about Martin’s High Cheer Clinic Starts Girls Early.Lets Paint! Who doesn’t like to paint? Of course, there are dog people and cat people. Lamar High School’s Kayla L. is an elephant person. She’s loved them since sixth or seventh grade. If she wasn’t dragging her parents to the Fort Worth Zoo to see them up close and personal, she was reading about…
Read More about The Art of Painting Parking Spaces.Cougar Pride The Cougar PRIDE show at Crow Elementary is always showing, from the teachers who welcome students each morning to parents dropping them off. But that pride is in overdrive during the school’s annual kick-off pep rally. It’s a pep rally for the entire school and everyone in it, said Principal Jamie MacDougall, and…
Read More about Cougar Pride at Crow Elementary.When Bowie High School counselors organized Bowie High’s Super Saturday, a morning jam packed with information for college-minded juniors and seniors, they made sure certain basics were covered: how to prepare for entrance exams like the ACT, the importance of essay writing for scholarships and how to apply for financial aid. They even had former…
Read More about Bowie High’s Super Saturday.