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Students showcase STEAM projects; foundation reports $81,000 in scholarships; district highlights safety exercises and phone‑policy results
Summary
Middle school STEAM students demonstrated classroom projects and multilingual materials; the district foundation reported $81,000 in scholarships and new grant support; and student services described an interagency active‑shooter tabletop plus data showing the junior high cell phone pilot cut phone referrals roughly in half.
Middle school STEAM students presented classroom projects to the Board of Education, demonstrating sight‑word tools designed to support nonverbal students and those needing fine‑ or gross‑motor assistance. Teacher Braxton Dreher explained the class created multiple sight‑word tools and noted students voluntarily translated some materials into Spanish so non‑English families could use them.
"So today, what we're showing you are what are called sight words," Dreher told the board as students circulated to show examples.
Austin Truex,…
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