Round Rock ISD is excited to announce all students will be able to keep their District-issued Chromebook over the summer. Having access to a Chromebook device promotes consistency and equitable access to online learning opportunities for all students.
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Jiae Kim is the principal of Cedar Ridge High School. She leads a school of 275 staff members and 2,694 students. Kim is the District’s only Asian American principal.
May observes Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. In recognition of AAPI Month, Kim shares how her Korean culture influenced her journey from an emerging bilingual teenager at McNeil High School to an educator and then administrator at Round Rock ISD’s Spicewood Elementary School and now Cedar Ridge High School.
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Round Rock ISD Art Educator Carolyn Scalan couldn’t get the devastation her students experienced off her mind. An artist herself, she turned to the healing power of art to help her students cope with their feelings. Scalan created an Amazon wish list full of art supplies and sent an ask for donations out over her social media channels. A week later, dozens of Amazon boxes containing supplies arrived at her home every day for over a week. Scalan estimates that she received over $2,500 worth of donated supplies.
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Intersecting visual art and math, Voigt second-graders learned about the area of a rectangle and created original works of faux stained glass. Students progressed in understanding a rectangle, the sides of a rectangle, and then the inside of a rectangle, the area. Using cellophane, they explored tangrams, measured the area, divided it into equal parts or square units, and used their materials as tangram pieces to construct an image like stained glass.
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In its second year as a campus club and first year as a competitive team, Ridgeview Middle School’s Esports team currently ranks fourth in its league. Fourth place qualifies the team to compete in the Spring playoffs. Esports is short for electronic sports, which is competitive, organized video gaming. The team’s 30 members, including sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, compete nationally in organized gameplay tournaments against other students their age.
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Libraries provide services that connect people to information and people to people. They preserve history, grant us access to worlds beyond our own, and are a refuge for students seeking help with homework or simply a quiet place for reflection. Libraries level the playing field.
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Education and Training students in Round Rock ISD’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) program at Cedar Ridge, Round Rock, and Stony Point high schools will be instructors for the Future Leaders summer camp.
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Stony Point High School junior Amber Sorenson’s twirling skills have earned her champion titles at state, regional, and UIL competitions. And after a nationwide contest in May 2021, Twirling to Fight Cancer, a nonprofit organization that partners with the Susan G. Komen Nevada Foundation, named Amber the Twirling to Fight Cancer High School Ambassador.
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The instructional materials on public display are for Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) related to health education for grades K through 5, grades 6 through 8, Health I, and Health II under consideration for adoption by the District. Teacher materials related to TEKS for physical education will also be displayed.
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Members of Cedar Valley Middle School’s National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) are making wishes come true for two children with life-threatening illnesses. In its sixth year, the school’s NJHS fundraises to grant a child’s wish by organizing a Walk 4 Wishes Carnival. It’s a service-learning project with Kids for Wish Kids, part of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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Round Rock ISD women and women worldwide from all cultures who serve and have served in education significantly impact the evolution of the next generation. The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of the services and support available in our public schools. Women in public schools provide children stability, confidence, personal growth, goal-setting, productivity, social skills, wellness, and nutrition and can take students as far as they want to go.
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From Monday, Feb. 21 through Friday, Feb. 25, the primary parent/guardian on file, students, and staff will receive an email from Round Rock ISD to link to your school’s 2022 survey. The survey is mobile-friendly and short. It can take less than five minutes to complete.
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Round Rock High School’s Model United Nations (UN) team, ROCKMUN, brought home seven awards from Model United Nations San Antonio (MUNSA), the nation’s largest student-run model UN conference.
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The Jollyville Elementary School fifth-grade robotics team known as Jaguar Pride took first-place in Robot Design at the First Lego League Robotics Competition. Jaguar Pride bested 29 other teams comprised of students from fourth to eight-grade. The team’s first-place win qualifies them to advance to the Regional Competition in April.
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Cedar Ridge, McNeil, Round Rock, and Westwood high schools offer wrestling for boys and girls. Interested students can join the wrestling team or enroll in a wrestling class as an elective. Students from our high schools have placed at State, and Round Rock ISD teams routinely compete in regionals, place in tournaments, and win District titles.
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Black American health and wellness pioneers have helped change the course of healthcare access and medical advances in the United States. Their influential black voices contribute to the quality of care received in doctor’s offices, schools, hospitals, and clinics. In the context of the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, Black Health and Wellness is an amplified topic and theme of 2022’s Black History Month.
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Online registration for Round Rock ISD families to enroll kindergarteners for the 2022-2023 school year opens on Monday, March 7. Round Rock ISD has 35 top-rated elementary schools that educate, support, and serve Central Texas students in Round Rock, portions of Cedar Park, and the City of Austin.
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With only $20 in his wallet and a car, Noah formed his nonprofit organization, HelpingHands. Noah wants to grow HelpingHands and seeks a mentor to help him acquire the IRS 501(c)(3) designation. “I believe I was put here to help people,” he said. “Doing drives makes me feel like I am doing what I was put here to do.”
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Round Rock High School is the only high school in the Central Texas area to offer students a competitive gymnastics program. There are 44 gymnasts on its 2021-2022 team roster. The team trains as a class during the school day, practices after-school, and travels the state, competing in meets against other Texas high school teams.
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First-graders at Redbud Elementary School collected and donated 800 pairs of socks and 100 toiletry care packages to help community members in need. The donation drive was a class service-learning project.
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