Lela Simmons

Backyard game stations today. @TCHowe_MS students rocked it. Full engagement today. #physed @kathPEHealth23 @IPSSchools

The first full week of school at TC Howe Middle School included locker assignments, volleyball tryouts, student announcements, and building relationships. Here’s to a fantastic year ahead! 🌟 #WeAreHornetsWeAreOne #BackToSchool

What a morning! I attended the @CAttucksIPS Alumni Jazz Brunch & met the oldest known alumnus, 103-year-old Mrs. Pryor-McGuire. An absolute honor to meet & talk w/her. She led the whole room in the School Song. Just doesn’t get any better than that! #TigerPride #IPSProud 💚💛

Thrilled to highlight how @IPSSchools is #RebuildingStronger! #TeamIPS has expanded access to our REACH program at @TCHowe_MS , offering specialized ABA support for students on the autism spectrum. @AleesiaLJohnson @LelaSimmons19

First full week of the school year at @IPS_NorthwestMS was filled with fall sports tryouts, Camptown team building activities, new math curriculum internalization and walkthroughs & student created PBIS poster displays!

The bands at the DCI All-Age World Champions are amazing! It was like listening to Olympic level marching bands.

Kicking off the weekend volunteering at the Drum Corps International All-Age 2024 World Championship @LucasOilStadium where our @IPSSchools marching band was performing.

When you walk into a room with a master teacher, you immediately know. Ms. Rhodes @JamesGarfield31 is kind, has immediately built relationships with her students and amongst them, and can run a master class in routines and procedures.

This year #RebuildingStronger has allowed all of our @IPSSchools students in 6-8th gr to get a middle school experience. @IPSLongfellow is now an #InternationalBaccalaureate school and will serve Ss in 6th gr too. It was great to see Ss learning routines, and their teachers, wk1.

@IPSPotter74 students, and teachers, were so excited on the first day! And students were already learning at our dual language school,working with cubes, counting in English and Spanish. One of my fav things about school visits is when the students teach me.

This year we have expanded our programs @IPSSchools to allow access for more students. Look at these @IPSSkillen34 students accessing Montessori materials & activities in the first week. Their hands and brains are hard at work!

We are so excited to have a massive expansion of PreK this year @IPSSchools! Our youngest students have started school and are learning, playing & socializing. We know this strong start will give them the skills needed to allow them to enter kindergarten prepared.

We are so thankful to the @IPSSchools community. The capital referendum dollars are being put to great use. Huge projects are underway in and out of our buildings. HVAC, wiring, STEM rooms, parking lots, athletic fields, and more, are all underway. Our students deserve this!

The work our partners from @skinnydoggraphx has done looks so amazing! Our schools have gotten a facelift! Look how great the front doors and main office desk look @JamesGarfield31!

Principal Billups thought about, and almost touched, the @IPS_ArlingtonMS chickens 😂 This yr our STEM students will be building a coop! 🐔 🐓

I’m not the only one so excited to be back to school and with our @IPSSchools students. Our administrators are all smiles while running around doing all the things ensuring this school yr will be the #BestYearEver!

We just had our 1st full week with our @IPSSchools students. They are baaaack!!! It’s been busy and amazing & I haven’t had the time to post. Here is a bit of catch up with some highlights. Headlines- it’s great to be back around our kids & this has been the best start of the yr!

We had a blast celebrating @JWRiley43 scholars and their achievements from the 23-24 SY at our first B.A.G awards! We celebrated perfect attendance, attendance goals met, ILEARN and IREAD success, and impeccable behavior! We celebrated 150+ scholars!! 🎉 #JoyandExcellence Go 🐝!

Finishing up a wonderful week in @IPSSchools. @IPSBees88 has built an inclusive environment for ALL of their students AND I got to witness STEM in action! Also got a chance to see the first community meeting at CFI 84 (@IPS_CFI) led by some amazing students @AleesiaLJohnson

Join us next Thursday, August 15th from 6pm-7pm for our first PTSA meeting of the 24-25 school year!