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Please welcome Shannon Funk to USD #489! She will be teaching PE and Social Studies at Hays High!!
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Please welcome Morgan Leiker to USD #489! She will be at Roosevelt Elementary working as a Para in the Special Education Department!!
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We are making movies!! Well...actually just compiling insight for our staff on safety and preparing to start a school year during a pandemic!
Featuring: Jason Kennedy, Ellis Co Health Services Director and Dr. Heather Harris.
Director: Dan Balman
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Welcome Jaicee Walker to USD #489! She will be a Para in the Special Education Dept of HMS!!
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Please welcome David Buller to USD #489! He will be working in the IT Department.
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Please welcome Payton Scheer to USD #489!
She will be teaching 4th grade at Lincoln Elementary!!
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Please welcome Donna Scott-Allenbaugh to USD #489!
She will be working at Hays High in the Nutrition Department!
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Please welcome Peyton Morlan to USD #489!
She will be an ELA teacher at Hays Middle School!
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Our district calendar was approved by the BOE!
You can access it on the district website:
https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/848065/Calendar_08-26-20.pdf
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We will be live streaming the BOE meeting tonight.
Tune in to the district Facebook page at 6:30 pm.
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Please welcome Jeanne Geist to USD #489!
She will be the Administrative Assistant at The Learning Center!
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Please welcome Maggie Westhoff to USD #489!
Maggie will be teaching at Roosevelt Elementary this year!
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Please welcome Christen Greving to USD #489!
She will be a Special Education Teacher at HMS!!
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Please welcome Anne Dinkel to USD #489!
She will be teaching at O'Loughlin Elementary!!
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Please welcome Martha Becker to USD #489!
She will be a Special Education Teacher at Early Childhood Connections!
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This week starts our New Staff Campaign!!
You will be seeing pictures of our new staff here at USD #489!!
Please welcome them..we are excited they are here and we are excited to share them with you!
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Backpacks!! Backpacks!! Backpacks!
The amazing folks at First Call for Help have lots of backpacks filled with school supplies to give out TODAY!
Any student in Ellis County....go get a backpack!
Location: First Presbyterian Church at 2900 Hall Street
Time: Until 1:00 pm TODAY only!
Our community is amazing...thank the volunteers!
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One last photo from The Learning Center's graduation...
Pictured is Rhiannon Cummin. She won our Outstanding Senior Scholarship endowed by and named the Aiden and Gabriela Schmidt Award. Rhiannon was selected as USD #489 Best of the Best in March 2019.
She completed 37 concurrent credit hours before starting in the LPN program in Aug 2020 at NCK Tech. She has supported herself since the age of 17. She lives in Russel and drove back and forth 5 days a week to attend TLC.
She earned both her CNA and her CMA while a student at TLC. She has worked 60 hours per week in two residential care homes since on campus classes were suspended in March 2020. Her Best of the Best bio was picked up by a nationwide internet channel called CNA Heroes. Rhiannon's story became a feature on one of the episodes.
Rhiannon is the recipient of the Dane G Hansen Career and Tech Ed Scholarship. She is a bright and shining star.
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Even more photos from The Learning Center graduation!!
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The Learning Center has hit a milestone...read on to learn all the details from our very own Sondra Hickert.
On June 1, 2020, The Learning Center of Ellis County celebrated its 20th anniversary of operation in this region. In those 20 years, we have had close to 500 graduates and have helped to graduate a several thousand across Kansas.
The Learning Center was part of the Rural Grant and was organized under the guidance of Former Assistant Superintendent for Special Services, Mark Hauptman. Former Superintendent, Fred Kaufman made the decision that The Learning Center would be district owned rather than operated by an Educational Service Center, as was common at the time. Mark Hauptman and Fred Kaufman chose Anita Schlegel as the first administrator of TLC. Her foundational principles still live on at TLC every day. The USD #489 BOE and district administration has been truly supportive of TLC the last two decades.
On Saturday, Aug 1st, TLC set a record with 44 graduates for the 2019-20 school year. With over 100 in attendance at the outside ceremony, The Learning Center celebrated a first in 20 years.
The Class of 2020 had 2 Dane G Hansen winners, 4 certificate completions through NCK Technical College and numerous other academic scholarships through FHSU.
What a joy it was to celebrate them on Saturday. Thank you to all who attended. Huge thanks to Mark Rome who set up the chairs and tables for the event.
