We are getting ready for our 1st Annual SLP Arts and STEAM Festival happening this Saturday from 10 AM to 3 PM around the Opelousas Courthouse square. We snapped a few photos of the setup at Java Square this morning.
(Pictured are Bree Sargent, ACA Education Director, Paige Thomas, ACA Education Manager, and Heather Wallace, SLP Gifted & Talented Students Instructor)
Grand Prairie participating in Dr. Seuss Day!
Congratulations to all!
Magnet Academy of Biomedical Sciences is now accepting applications.
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Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
Public Schools Week is Feb. 27 - Mar. 3! Join us in celebrating public schools and the dedicated educators and professionals supporting students in many ways.
There are so many ways you can make an impact:
âShare your school success story on social media
âThank your childâs teacher or principal
âServe on a school or district committee
âVolunteer at your school
#PublicSchoolProud
#PSW23
We're excited to announce that our 1st Annual St. Landry Parish Schools Student Arts and STEAM Festival will happen this Saturday, March 4, 2023, from 10 AM to 3 PM on the Opelousas Courthouse Square. We're thankful to the Acadiana Center for the Arts for making this happen. There will be school bands, student artists, our robotics teams, and so much more. This event is free and open to everyone! Please come out and support our students and bring friends!
The Special Education Advisory Council (S.E.A.C.) Meeting will be held Tuesday, February 28, 2023, at 4:15 PM at the St. Landry Pupil Appraisal Center. To view the agenda, go to https://5il.co/1pskf.
Oprah Winfrey is a media superstar. She became the first woman of color to own and produce her own TV show! Since then she has produced movies and plays, launched her own TV network, and her own magazine. She has won countless awards. She is the first African American woman billionaire. Oprah is constantly using her influence to help others. In 2013 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
Congratulations to Port Barre High School student Kolby C., who created a code for Black History Month. The company that creates the class's curriculum and online textbook featured him on their home page.
Wow, great job! #slpproud~
CLICK HERE: https://www.brbytes.org/
Congratulations Sandra!
On Jan. 20, Kamala Harris became the first Black, first South Asian American and first woman Vice President of the United States.
Harris, born in Oakland, California to an Indian mother and Jamaican father, spoke about her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, in her first speech as vice president-elect.
Guion Bluford was an astronaut for NASA. Guion was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1942. He was the first African American to go to space. He was also the first African American to return to space not once but four times! Guion was the first African American to be awarded the United States Air Force Command Pilot Astronaut Wings.
Mae C. Jemison is an American astronaut and physician who, on June 4, 1987, became the first African American woman to be admitted into NASAâs astronaut training program. On September 12, 1992, Jemison finally flew into space with six other astronauts aboard the Endeavour on mission STS47, becoming the first African American woman in space.
Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win an Oscar. She was able to carve out a place for herself in Hollywood despite rampant racism and a consignment to bit parts. She paved the way for many African American women, but not without her fair share of obstacles. Her performance as âMammyâ in Gone With the Wind (1939) won her Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars that year. However, the national movie premiere was in Atlanta. Because of Georgiaâs Jim Crow Laws, she was prohibited from attending the event. Hattie went on to star in over 300 films, was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 2006, and was the first Oscar winner to appear on a postage stamp.
Josephine Baker, one of showbizâs most iconic performers, left the United States due to the overt racism she encountered in 1937. After marrying a Frenchman, Jean Lion, she moved to Paris and renounced her U.S. citizenship. In 1940, when the Nazis began their occupation of Paris, Baker showed just how deep her loyalty to her adopted nation was, becoming a spy for the Allies. During her travels across Europe to perform, Baker would conceal messages within her costumes or her sheet music for other Allied spies. She also used her status as a desired society presence to eavesdrop at various embassy events and balls.
Born in 1867 to former slaves on a Louisiana cotton plantation, Madam Walker rose in power to become America's first female self-made millionaire. She did so through the creation of the Madam C.J. Walker Company. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, her company was a cosmetics manufacturer that specialized in beauty and haircare products for African American women.
Walker's business prowess was matched only by her philanthropy and activism. She helped establish a YMCA in the Black community of Indianapolis and contributed funds to the Tuskegee Institute.
The St. Landry Parish Math Instructional Specialists and Math and Science Supervisor were pictured in the Region IV STEM Newsletter for attending the Zearn Leadership Training!
There will be no school on Monday, February 20th, Tuesday, February 21st, and Wednesday, February 22nd in observance of the Mardi Gras holiday. Have a safe and happy Mardi Gras holiday!
Today is National School Resource Officer Appreciation Day! We thank our SROs for their dedication to our students & schools! We're extremely fortunate to have them on our campuses, building trusting relationships & maintaining order in our schools! You Rock! #slpproud
