Mid Oregon Credit Union Donates to Weekend Backpack Food Program
Each weekend and on long school breaks, nearly 150 Crook County School District students would go home without enough food for the weekend. Thankfully, the Weekend Backpack Program helps by providing child-friendly meals they can prepare themselves. Mid Oregon Credit Union Prineville branch employees spent a recent holiday at Ray’s Food Place, shopping and collecting […]
Thanks for the input
Smaller classes. Student behavior support. School safety. Communication. Art. Those are the main themes that emerged from the Community Input Sessions the Crook County School District hosted Monday. Thank you, community members, parents, and staff members, who attended. We appreciate your valuable feedback. These themes will be considered as part of the Student Success Act […]
Brothers Students Share ‘I Am From’ Poems at Board Meeting
“I am from a small ranch in the middle of nowhere.” “I am from a little hunting town.” “I am from a dusty dirt road in Brothers.” After being inspired by a poetry contest on OPB, the Brothers Elementary students each wrote an individual poem which reflects their lives out on ranches in Brothers and […]
Facebook Grants $200,000 for CTE
CCHS hosted a Career and Technical Education Expansion Celebration this morning and announced a $200,000 grant from Facebook to expand our Career and Technical Education programs at CCHS and Pioneer! The grant will fund equipment such as butcher-block tables and a pizza oven for the culinary and hospitality pathway; a welding machine and metal-cutting chop […]
Transportation Crew Keeps us Moving
We have a great transportation crew! Here are some fun facts: They transport 937 students each school day. They drive 405,586 miles each academic year, transporting students to and from school, and an additional 11,965 miles in the summer. They put in 30,873 miles for academic trips and 54,903 miles for non-academic trips annually. Our […]
Lessons in Percussion
If you’ve heard some drumming coming from the Barnes Butte area, you’re not imagining things. Kindergartners through fifth graders have been getting lessons in West African hand drumming. Barnes Butte Elementary Music Teacher Phil White heard about a percussionist in Bend and invited Dale Largent to be an artist in residence at BBE. Mr. Largent […]
Make Kindness Normal
Make kindness normal. Be a good listener. Compliment people. These are some of the lessons CharacterStrong speaker Esteban Gast taught middle and high school students this week. He shared his story of being born in Puerto Rico and moving to Chicago in second grade – not knowing how to speak English. One classmate’s kindness made […]
Kiwanis Summer School Completes Sixth Year
The 43 students studied reading and math and also gained skills that helped them to listen, learn and accomplish their academic tasks Aimed at preventing the “summer slide,” Kiwanis Summer School achieved that goal for a sixth straight year. “After viewing the results from our Kiwanis Summer School classrooms, it is apparent that the vast […]
A ‘super’ teacher
Crook County School District Superintendent teaches a Human Development class at CCHS “What’s your favorite thing that begins with the letter W?” The teen reads aloud the question from her Chat Pack card. “Honestly, it’s water. I have a serious obsession with water,” she told her classmates. “That’s a healthy thing,” her teacher responded. “Your […]
Fifth Graders Release Monarchs
Barnes Butte Elementary fifth graders have been raising Monarch butterflies. On Friday morning, the students tagged the butterflies and then released them in front of Barnes Butte Elementary, setting them free to migrate to California.
