ROCKWALL, TX – March 18, 2021 – Five Dr. Gene Burton College & Career DECA students are State Finalists and three will advance to compete at the DECA Virtual International Career Development Conference (ICDC). DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, business, finance, hospitality and management. International qualifiers will compete against DECA […]
ROCKWALL, TX – March 18, 2021 – University of Mount Union biochemistry student Aurelia Incristi ’22, of Rockwall, TX was recently selected for the 2021 Livestrong Cancer Institutes’ Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). SURF is a 10-week summer fellowship held at The University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School, where students from across the […]
ROCKWALL, TX – March 18, 2021 – Sherry and Paul Hamm Elementary, Sharon Shannon Elementary, and Virginia Reinhardt Elementary recently earned an award based on student participation in a 21 Day Challenge. Each year Rockwall ISD elementary schools participate in the Kids Teaching Kids 21 Day Challenge, sponsored by Medical City Children’s Hospital, the United […]
ROCKWALL, TX – March 17, 2021 — The Rockwall ISD Board of Trustees approved maintaining the Texas Education Agency safety requirement of student, teacher, and staff mask-wearing for the remainder of the 2020-2021 school year. District leadership presented information related to on-going changes from the Texas Education Agency concerning COVID mitigation. In addition, Student Services […]
ROCKWALL, TX – March 16, 2021 — Grace Hartman Elementary recently partnered with Raise Craze to complete a kindness-focused fundraising campaign. During the fundraiser, in-person and virtual students showed their appreciation to donors by completing acts of kindness for others. By the end of the campaign, students completed over 235 acts of kindness and raised […]
ROCKWALL, TX – March 5, 2021 — More than 1,300 students were named to the Fall 2020 Dean’s List at Abilene Christian University. To qualify for the Dean’s Honor Roll, students must be registered for 12 or more credit hours and earn a GPA of 3.6 or higher. The following local students made the list: […]
ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX – March 3, 2021 – Jones Elementary has used the CHAMPS method for the past few years for improving classroom behavior. CHAMPS’s goal is to improve classroom behavior and establish clear classroom behavior expectations with logical and fair responses to misbehavior. Each teacher clearly explains the expected behavior during different scenarios in class […]
ROCKWALL, TX – March 3, 2021 – Stevenson Elementary 6th Grade SAGE students Maddie Kern and Stevana Kerns recently collected more than 200 food items for a school project to donate to children in the hospital. There were several steps they had to follow to complete their project. They first had to seek approval from […]
ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX – March 3, 2021 – Four Rockwall High School art students recently advanced to the State level VASE art competition. Congratulations to Orion Groark, Aleah Holt, Hannah Smith and Emily Tran. This will be Hannah Smith’s third consecutive trip. Six Rockwall-Heath High School art students recently advanced to the State level VASE competition. Congratulations […]
ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX – March 3, 2021 – During the month of February, Rockwall ISD Culinary students competed in the Region 3 Culinary FCCLA Competition. Heather Zertuche, Jirapa De Meyer Heepkaew and Audrey Borek placed 1st in the Food Innovation competition. Madeline Mueller placed 1st in Sports Nutrition, Roberto Avila placed 2nd in Cupcake Presentation and Ryker Hayes […]