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WESLACO ISD honors UIL, music, art and reading champions; district named TEA Bluebonnet Beacon
Summary
Trustees stopped the agenda to recognize elementary UIL winners, a choir earning Division 1 ratings, art winners including Camila Rios (selected for the First Lady's exhibit), and Dakota Caceres, the district's top elementary reader (5,216,076 words). TEA named WESLACO ISD a Bluebonnet Beacon for K–8 math implementation.
The WESLACO ISD Board paused its regular order of business to recognize students and staff for academic and extracurricular achievements. A district presenter asked the room to applaud elementary UIL champions in events including music memory, spelling, ArtSmart and number sense and thanked parents and staff who supported the students.
The board singled out several individual honors. "She read over 5,000,000 words. That is 5,216,076 words to be exact," the presenter said of Dakota Caceres, the top elementary reader from Northbridge Elementary. The board also congratulated Camila Rios, whose artwork was selected for the First Lady of Texas' youth art month exhibition and will be displayed in the governor's office for a year.
Trustees heard that the Cleckler Held Elementary choir received Division 1 ratings and a "best in festival" distinction at the American Classic Choir Competition. Facilities and maintenance staff were acknowledged for work supporting four graduation ceremonies in a single week.
The board closed the recognitions by noting that the Texas Education Agency honored WESLACO ISD with a Bluebonnet Beacon distinction for districtwide Bluebonnet math implementation across K–8. District staff said the TEA recognition carries an opportunity to share local practice statewide and that the district will display an official Bluebonnet status badge and be featured on the TEA Bluebonnet Beacon website.
Trustees recessed the recognition segment and moved to a brief photo line for students and board members.
