2010 Rockwall County School Ratings – Go Rockwall ISD!
Ratings are in for Rockwall County (among others) schools and we have something to be proud of, yes we do! Thanks to all the teachers and administration!
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2008 Rockwall Citizen Survey – Episode #47
Evan and Richard discuss a 2008 Citizen Survey published by the City of Rockwall in a recent newsletter. Rockwall citizens love living here, about 95% of them stating that they are very satisfied with quality of life in Rockwall Texas.
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Rachel’s Challenge – Interview with Nancy Boyd – Episode #22
Richard Matteson interviews Nancy Boyd, Rockwall ISD’s Coordinator of Student Services to discuss the Rachel’s Challenge program. Rachel’s Challenge is a school assembly and training program at the middle and high school level that was birthed out of the Columbine tragedy in 1999. Rockwall ISD is the first district in the United States to introduce the Rachel’s Challenge Organization at the elementary level as well.
For more information contact Nancy Boyd at 972-771-0605.
Students take honors at ILPC
In only its second year of competition, Rockwall High School earned five broadcast awards at the recent Interscholastic League Press Conference held in Austin.
The media production class, taught by Jennifer Faunce, traveled to Austin on April 8 and 9 for the state I.L.P.C. convention. Students submitted video stories last semester, with winners being named at the conference.
Amanda Pyland, Doug West, Laura Holt, and Mike Luiz took the top photography award at the competition for their work on a Halloween EZ Snack special.
“We don’t have a lot of equipment,” said Faunce. “I think our students do a great job of working with what they have. We only have three cameras and five editors.
“We’re in the old art room, and we’ve set up a studio in the back. They use fill lights, and make sure that they always white-balance. They really work with their scripting, and look at what they’re trying to do before they do it.”
Pyland won an individual third place award in television graphics for her opening to this piece. It features an animated eggplant character that’s used in the beginning of each segment.
For the news broadcast portion, Stacia Warneke and Chris Woodruff took a second place award in the news feature contest for their story about RHS students lending a helping hand after Hurricane Katrina.
“They worked on that project for about three weeks,” said Faunce, “First they went and did a segment on the blood drive. Then they went and got some clips from Helping Hands doing their work. They also interviewed a student at RHS whose family was from Mississippi and had lost their house in the hurricane. They talked about the hurricane and how they ended up moving here.”
Jeremy Sloane and Michael Bravata won a second place award for their story about the 2005 RHS Homecoming in the sports feature competition. The piece featured Homecoming highlights including prom festivities and the announcing of the king and queen.
Sloane and Bravata also received an honorable mention at West Fest in November in Alpine.
“They were competing against college students at that one,” said Faunce. “So to get an honorable mention at that one means that they really fared well.”
Second place in the Promotion and Commercial category was awarded to Zack Ragsdale, Ben Harris, Ryan Craven, and Brittany Graf for their staph infection public service announcement.
The broadcast work was presented to the student body during regular video announcements. As well, the segments were carried to the whole Rockwall community via local cable television.
Source: RockwallHeraldBanner.com
Read MoreRISD plans for new elementary schools
The Rockwall Independent School District will increase its campus numbers with the addition of two new elementary schools to open in August of 2007.
The two schools will be built simultaneously and will be the 11th and 12th elementary campuses in the district.
The plans for the schools were completed last Wednesday. Subcontractors vying for work on the projects are currently picking up specs from the district. The deadline for submitting bids is May 16, with the district planning to award those bids June 7, said RISD Executive Director of Facilities Planning and Construction Jack Rambo, Ph.D.
We’re introducing a brand new compact plan,” Rambo said. “We will be using a lot of outside lighting. We’ll have monitors so that we can light the building using more natural light.
“We’re going to have what we call ‘inspired classrooms,’ with electricity and computer access coming up from the floor. This makes the classrooms easy to configure in different arrangements. They will also be totally wire-less, with a projector and screen in each classroom,” Rambo said.
Construction will begin June 12 and the work is expected to be completed in May of 2007 in time for the schools to open the following August.
One school will be located on the southwest corner of Farm to Market Roads 1141 and 552, in the area north of Rockwall.
The other school will be located on Farm to Market 549 just south of Texas 205, due east of Rockwall.
The two schools are identical in design. Each structure will have 89,000 sq. ft., housing students from pre-kindergarten to sixth grade. Each can hold a capacity of 760 students.
The new schools will also feature special rooms for specific uses.
“We took a brand new fresh look at the needs along with the folks in Curriculum,” said Rambo. “There’s a big initiative in science right now, and both of these facilities will have science labs.
At the sixth grade level we also have band. Usually the band practices in the cafeteria or stage, if a school has one. These two will have a band hall.”
Rambo said the schools will be able to have assemblies in their cafetoriums.
In addition, these schools will have a consolidated Headstart and early childhood program.
The children in those programs will have a separate wing with its own entrance. They will also have their own dining room, which is accessible to the same kitchen used for the other grades. The dining rooms will double as a multi-purpose activity room.
The schools costs $15 million, which includes all related costs. The district will begin selling bonds for the project in May.
Source: RockwallHeraldBanner.com
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