Dashawn Gilmore may be a pretty quiet kid, but it's not because he doesn't have much to say. No, it would be a mistake to think that. Because while Gilmore – a sophomore at Southern Lee High School – isn't a real big talker, he expresses himself plenty through a variety of artistic pursuits. He creates pottery in his ceramics class. He's written songs and stories, he draws and he's active with his school's step team. Oh, and by the time this month is over, he'll be a twice-published poet.
After putting so much effort into keeping Dr. Chris Dossenbach's Principal of the Year Award a secret, Southern Lee High Assistant Principal Molly Poston got a taste of her own medicine, in the best way possible. She entered the media center thinking that she was going to address students' behavior and walked into receiving Assistant Principal of the Year!
Andrea Sloan was so disappointed in her school's end of year test scores in 2016 that she questioned whether Lee County Schools had made a mistake in hiring her to be the principal at Tramway Elementary. But after restructuring the school to allow for teacher experts to let their leadership show through, and a whole lot of hard work put in by students, teachers and staff, Tramway Elementary, for the first time ever, won the Head of Class award.
LaKeisha Snipes doesn't like using tricks when it comes to teaching math. “'Conceptual' is my whole style of teaching,” explained Snipes, who teaches freshman math at Lee County High School and this year's Outstanding Secondary Math Teacher for Lee County. “Like with your times table, I want them to understand the math behind it, the conceptual aspect of it. I don't teach tricks, I teach the math behind it.”
Students currently enrolled in eighth grade may begin the application process for Lee Early College, Lee County Schools’ choice high school located on the campus of Central Carolina Community College (CCCC).
After her experience over the summer with Central Electric Membership Corporation, Bragg Street Academy's Daria Fedrick needed to bring the membership cooperative model back to her personal finance class for the 2018-19 school year. She'd decided going in that the easiest way to do so would be to have students selling candy to their peers, and thus was born Bragg Street's “Sugar Shack.”
The Lee County Board of Education approved — at its regularly scheduled meeting — that the half-days on October 26, 2018 and February 15, 2019 are now full instructional days for students.
Lee County High School is hosting a Fifth-Grade AIG Stem Club once a month, beginning Nov. 14, 2018 from 4-5:30 p.m. Using the design process, students will be exposed to higher level thinking, STEM concepts and cutting-edge technology. For more information and the application form, click here.
Lee County Schools is soliciting Request for Proposals (RFP) for our Section 125 Flexible Benefits Plan Administration for the plan year beginning April 1, 2019. Proposals are due on Friday, October 12, 2018. For the complete RFP, click here.
The Lee County Board of Education and the Lee County Board of Commissioners have selected the former W.B. Wicker School site, located at 900 S. Vance Street in Sanford, as the location for the county’s newest elementary school. The school is expected to open in the fall of 2019. Click here for more.
