Friday Highlights 8.2.19

Important Dates

Sales Tax Holiday - August 3-4

New Employee Orientation - August 5
Back-to-School Convocation - August 6
(For Additional Dates - see LRSD Calendar or LRSD.org)

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Highlights/Events

2019 LRSD Virtual Convocation

School and department staff are recommended to watch the Convocation on site at your respective buildings as a team via Facebook.  Names will be drawn at intervals during the Convocation.  If your name is called, you must be present at your work site to win, and you will have a limited time to let us know via posting to Facebook that you are watching.  Your supervisor/principal must verify your location and attendance.  For ALL posts, please include the hashtag #LRSDPowerofUS #LRSDConvocation2019 #LRSDLTFFE2019

The school site or department with the most participation will win lunch at the end of the school year.

2 Cash Prizes for $250

2 Cash Prizes for $500 

Grand Prize - $1,000

Whitlow Still in the Running to Become 

Arkansas's Top Teacher

2019 LRSD TOY Jeff Whitlow (Roberts) learned this week that he made it to the top 4 who are still in contention for 2020 Arkansas Teacher of the Year.  Wouldn't it be cool to have back-to-back winners from LRSD?  His predecessor, Stacey McAdoo (Central), was named the 2019 ATOY.  Keeping our fingers crossed for you, Mr. Whitlow!

Great News for Pinnacle View 9th Grade Academy

 Laying the Foundation for Excellence - Pinnacle View's 9th Grade Academy was just awarded "School of Innovation" status by ADE!  Want to get your student connected?  Call Dr. Jay Pickering for a tour - 447-8500!

Leading and Learning 

"Lei-ing" the Foundation for Excellence

With its Hawaiian theme, the 2019 LRSD Leadership Institute provided administrators with opportunities for professional development and a little fun along the way.  More great photos on LRSD's Facebook page.  #LRSDLTFFE2019

LRSD's Child Nutrition Team Prepping for New School Year

I Got the Music In Me

LRSD's talented music students participated in workshops with partner in education, Art Porter Music Education, Inc. this week. The workshops include musical training and public speaking and are held in conjunction with the non-profit's annual A Work of ART scholarship fundraiser.  Gabriel Wade, 2019 Parkview grad, was named one of this year's recipient's.  Gabriel is a gifted multi-instrumentalist, known for his skills on piano and trumpet.  Congrats, Gabe!  (BTW, Gabe will join fellow workshop participants, Minors in Music, for a free concert tonight at Hotel Frederica on Capitol Avenue.)

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In the Community....

This Weekend:

From Our Friends at the Downtown Partnership

River Market District  

AUG 2: Little Rock Night Market, Little Rock Night Market, Little Rock River Market, 400 President Clinton Avenue, 5:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. Learn more. 

AUG 6: BingoFlix: Plan 9 from Outer Space, CALS, Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Avenue, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Learn more.

 

AUG 8: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, CALS, Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Avenue, 7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Learn more.

AUG 10: Trae Crowder Live! with Drew Morgan and Corey Ryan Forrester, CALS, Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Avenue, 8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Learn more.

AUG 15: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, CALS, Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Avenue, 7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Learn more.

From CALS

NEWS RELEASE   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  August 2, 2019 Baseball in Rural Arkansas Featured in Library Lineup Roberts Library events highlight state sports history, environmental public art LITTLE ROCK, AR – The Central Arkansas Library System’s (CALS) Bobby L. Roberts Library of Arkansas History & Art has concerts, films, and more scheduled throughout the month of August.  All activities take place at the library’s downtown campus, Library Square, 100 Rock Street, and are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. To view the Roberts Library’s full calendar of events, visit www.robertslibrary.org. Legacies & Lunch: Jim Yeager: Baseball in Rural Arkansas Wednesday, August 7 • Noon CALS Main Library, Darragh Center Focusing on preserving fascinating but often forgotten stories, Jim Yeager’s new book, Backroads and Ballplayers, features more than fifty chapters on the lives of professional baseball players from rural Arkansas. A semi-retired educator who spent more than forty years as a coach, teacher, guidance counselor, and educational technology specialist, Yeager is the former women’s basketball coach at Arkansas Tech University.  He has a BS and MS in history and education from the University of Central Arkansas. Yeager is a native of Ozark and currently resides in Russellville. Presented by CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. 2nd Friday Art Night Friday, August 9 • 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. The Galleries at Library Square The Galleries’ 2nd Friday Art Night event includes a discussion of the Drain Smart program, two exhibitions, and live music by Jazz ‘R’ Us (jazz-pop trio). Drain Smart is an engaging public-education/environmental program that uses art to communicate the function and importance of local storm drains. It gives artists the opportunity to express themselves via semi-permanent public art in a series of a small-scale outdoor storm drain murals. The art also serves to educate the public on local water quality protection. Norm Berner of the Friends of Fourche Creek organization will talk about the Drain Smart program. There will be a pop-up exhibition with eighteen paintings that were replicated on storm drains around the city. More information about Drain Smart is available at www.drain-smart.org. On view now: Melissa Cowper-Smith: Natural Treatment, 2018–2019 This series of pigment prints on handmade paper offers a visual chronicle of Cowper-Smith’s interviews with herbalists in the Ozark and Central River Valley regions of Arkansas and their complex relationships to healing, illness, and belief. On display in the Loft Gallery through September 28. Arkansas Society of Printmakers: Big Impression Prints The exhibition features prints by members of the Arkansas Society of Printmakers (ASP). This show celebrates the impact large-scale imagery has upon the viewer—making a big impression. On display in the West Gallery through October 26. Finding Family Facts    A free monthly genealogy course taught by Rhonda Stewart, CALS local history and genealogy expert.  Presented by CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. Two sessions: Thursday, August 8 • 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. CALS Thompson Library, 38 Rahling Circle Monday, August 12 • 3:30–5:00 p.m.   CALS Bobby L. Roberts Library of Arkansas History & Art, Room 204  For more information, contact the Roberts Library at 320-5700. www.cals.org