KZOR Media Meeting for November and December 2016.



Jefferson students who have spent the past three months benefiting from after-school programs funded by a federal grant put on a display of what they've learned for parents on Thursday night.  Click on the picture for highlights.


Performing in a schoolwide assembly on Tuesday, Southern Heights students displayed some of the skills they've learned in after-school programs that include dancing, flute lessons and video editing instruction.  
Click on the photo for highlights.



SPUR TV students from the 21st CCLC Southern Heights site visited the KNMJC T-Bird Radio 100.9 FM Studio this fall. This field trip was part of of connecting their studies in TV production in their out-of-school time in elementary school to a college and career track at the New Mexico Junior College.  
Click on the picture above for SPUR TV's Fall Project Portfolio.










One of our community sub-contractors, Mick Cavanaugh, started working with the team at the 21st CCLC Center for the Arts Site.  They broke out the paint and created some mural panels they will complete by the end of the month with an "Energy Complex Theme".

Arnold Cardon works with Will Rogers fourth-grader Hannah Crawford on how to hold her fingers for a D chord during an after-school session Thursday at the Hobbs Boys and Girls Club.  Thanks to a 21st century learning grant, elementary and middle school students from all over town are getting a chance to branch out into new areas of learning.  Click on the photo for some highlights of the elementary school programs.

Students from Southern Heights Elementary were on stage Saturday at the Center for the Arts during Fiesta De Septembre for a 21st CCLC Family Event.

Students from College Lane, Jefferson, Southern Heights and Taylor were on stage Saturday at Tydings Auditorium for a Missoula Children's Theatre performance of Peter and Wendy.  Click on the photo for highlights.

Heizer students ended their school day on Friday with an assembly featuring a mariachi band. The musical ensemble is in town for this weekend's Hispanic Heritage celebration. The festivities continue from 3-5 p.m. Saturday at Center for the Arts, 122 W. Broadway, where Southern Heights folklorico dancers will be featured.


College Lane fifth-grader Emily Stuard won the role of Peter Pan following Monday afternoon's auditions for the Missoula Children's Theatre production of Peter and Wendy. Students from College Lane, Jefferson, Southern Heights and Taylor auditioned yesterday and now will spend the next week memorizing lines prior to Saturday's 3 p.m. performance at Tydings Auditorium. Click on the photo for tryout highlights.


Students from Coronado, Edison, Mills and Sanger were featured performers in a space-age and imaginatively-costumed version of Gulliver's Travels on Saturday. Click on the picture for photo highlights.

 
Hobbs students are staying busy with after-school enrichment activities - including using engineering skills to build roller coasters -  thanks to a 21st-century learning grant that teams schools with community partners. For a look at this week's wide variety of activities at four HMS schools, Expressions Dance Academy, the Hobbs Teen Center and Center for the Arts, click on the photo.



Brevin McCool launches a rocket Monday night at Houston's Middle School's football field. McCool and more than 40 other students built the rockets during the first session of an after-school program financed by a federal grant. Students at all three middle schools and most elementary schools are benefitting from the enhanced learning sessions which feature everything from art and music instruction to robotics and math.

New Mexico's Youth Art Month continues in Hobbs with MCT's "Gulliver's Travels". Another successful 21st CCLC Family Event.  Click on the picture for the full performance.

Source (solarsystem.nasa.gov)

Back when I thought I knew everything, I was in my first years as an art teacher at a private school in Florida.  One night, I decided to drive an hour east to see a night launch on the space coast.  I parked in Titusville across the Intracoastal Waterway from the launch site at Cape Canaveral.  There was a crowd gathering all adjusting their eyes to the darkness as they found a seat on the large rocks and set their gaze in the distance where there were small flashing lights from the launch area.  Even though we could not see that far, there were clearly people from NASA at the top of their fields of study going through their final checklists.  This event would be the first shuttle mission lead by a female commander, Eileen Collins.  Being an historical launch as well as the fact that other launch dates had been scrubbed recently made the anticipation evident.  Then there was the launch itself.  We all heard booming in the distance as the ground shook.  Then the night sky for an instant turned to daylight from the blast.  As the shuttle disappeared into the darkness towards its mission, the sound of applause and whistles of the people of the rocks was all that was left to be heard. In the 21st Century there are few things that really amaze us anymore.  Everything is at our finger tips.  But there is something about how a night launch could turn night to day even if if it was for a second in time that still inspires the mission in all of us.   With our 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant (21st CCLC), we have a program launch fast approaching.  Our talented site coordinators, chosen from the top teachers in the district, have assembled some impressive teams and crafted some creative plans to make their 21st CCLC site the best in the state.  All of their hard work behind the scenes this summer was far from the notice of their students and parents.  In the middle of this down economy in the oil patch remains this dedication of these creative builders burning the midnight oil preparing for a successful launch of a brand new district-wide program. I have no doubt this new program will have many large and small successes as a team of around 100 stakeholders who are dedicated to finding new ways to bring STEM and arts infusion into the 21st CCLC Afterschool Program.   Before a launch there are always people watching in the distance uncertain and anxious for a successful launch, like I was... sitting there across the shore on the rocks seventeen years ago before the night launch.  Some days I wonder who we are inspiring a generation from now to find their own team of people to launch something that can bring daylight to dark times. We look forward to a great 2016-2017 in the 21st CCLC Program. Tyson Ledgerwood Elementary Fine Arts Coordinator Hobbs Municipal Schools

Click on the picture above for an overview of the 21st CCLC Program.

KZOR Media Meeting about the 21st CCLC Program Launch

Elementary Fine Arts Coordinator Tyson Ledgerwood outlines details of a federal grant during Tuesday's school board meeting. The grant was awarded to HMS and community partners last week and will finance nearly $5 million in activities ranging from music instruction to parenting techniques over the next four years. Programs will be offered at the Hobbs Teen Center, Boys and Girls Club, Center for the Arts and HMS elementary and middle schools and will impact hundreds of students.  Click on the picture of the presentation for the program design.

Click on the KZOR link to listen to the Media Meeting about the District Wide Art Show Exhibit Series and 21st CCLC Program Launch.