Maverickville Minitropolis at Ray H. Darr Elementary gets ready for KMAV

On Thursday, November 5, students from Ray H. Darr Elementary visited our local KINL-KEPS Radio Station to experience the World of Radio.  The students are learning about how to run a radio station since currently they are incorporating "KMAV" to their Maverickville Minitropolis.
Ray H Darr has partnered with KINL/KEPS and they have selected /"hired" Radio DJ's and News Directors for the new school radio station which will be called KMAV. The new hires took a tour of KINL/KEPS last week and were a part of the morning show.
 

 

 

 

Thank you Alejandra Godina from KINL/KEPS Radio Station and Rachel Drager, of IBC BANK MARKETING for sharing this experience with our students.

 

 

We welcome all footage from downtime to showtime!

iVision is currently running  #YourShotsMatter campaign in order to expand coverage around our school district.  This campaign is about highlighting events where iVision could not attend with videos and pictures of people who were there present at the event recording with their own devices. Any parents, students, and staff who are documenting any school event are encouraged to email us their footage to ivisionep@gmail.com or simply when they post their event to social media to include the #yourshotsmatter  ---This way we can pull them from social media and use them to highlight Your event through our channel and Youtube to the community.

With that said---We are very excited to showcase your teams accomplishments of this past month of October. In order to do that WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please ask your students, parents or anyone with footage to send them our way through #YourShotsMatter campaign.

Congrats to the EPEF Grant Recipients

Congratulations to the Eagle Pass Education Foundation (EPEF) grant recipients. The grants are part of the EPEF's annual program, in which proposals for innovative classroom programs are selected to receive funding through a competitive process.  The non-profit organization formed in 2011, recognizes educators’ efforts to fund innovation.  EPEF received double the amount of applications this year,  a testament both to its continued growth and the needs of Eagle Pass Schools.  All of the funding requests were compelling and worthy of attention, which made the selection process that much more challenging.  Those chosen represent EPEF’s best efforts to fund a broad range of innovative student experiences.

The Eagle Pass Education Foundation is run by a volunteer board working to support the EPISD by advocating for excellence in education, connecting schools and our community, and supporting students and teachers.  They are committed to making these kinds of grants and continue to increase both the numbers and funding amounts of grants as the foundation grows.   Each of the classrooms visited by the EPISD Prize Patrol can be seen on this link: https://www.facebook.com/Eagle-Pass-Independent-School-District-587739677909341/?ref=hl

A special "thank you" to all the  applicants for submitting their projects for approval. These applicants demonstrated enthusiasm in improving their students learning achievement.

 

EPISD Fall Festival Schedules

C.C. Winn Music Program makes History

 A letter from C.C. Winn Head Band Director, Mr. R. Rodriguez: 

 

For many years, students who have gone through our music program, have waited to hear our school’s name called out to qualify for Area Finals and State at our Area Marching Competition.  Every band in the state of Texas must earn a 1st division at the UIL Region Marching Competition in order to qualify for the next level of our playoffs which is UIL Area Marching Competition.  Our Sweepstakes award (1st division which were straight one’s) came on October 17, 2015 in San Antonio’s Gustafson Stadium.  We qualified to advance to UIL Area Competition in Corpus Christi, TX on Saturday, October 24, 2015.  However due to inclement weather, our competition was moved to Gregory-Portland on Wednesday, October 28, 2015.  Our C.C. Winn Band performed at 10:15 a.m.therefore we had to wait until 5:30 p.m. for all 31 bands from Region 11, 14,15, and 28 to finish performing for our Prelims session.  Every band is recognized for their participation in the Area Marching Contest at 5:30 p.m.  The top ten Finalists are then announced shortly after the conclusion of those recognitions.  Every band student, director, family member and friend hold their breath as the announcer starts announcing the ten bands who qualify to preform again for Finals, which start at 8:00 p.m.  The announcer calls out five bands before we hear our school’s name “C.C. Winn from Eagle Pass” called out in front of a packed stadium where students have to stand outside of the stadium because of the lack of sitting room.  It brought us the music staff, joy to see our students celebrate the huge accomplishment.  Many congratulatory texts, posts on social media, and phone calls were made to our students and music staff after word spread throughout our community.  Our C.C. Winn band performed at 9:00 p.m. among nine other bands.  Six out of ten were going to advance to the UIL State competition which is going to be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2015.  Our band came out in 7th place and missed advancing to UIL State Marching Competition by one point.

 

Our program accomplished more than just advancing to Area Finals which is the first in our school’s history.  This accomplishment united a community of marching band followers.  For example, many community members from C.C. Winn, Eagle Pass HS, Del Rio, San Antonio, and Austin (just to name a few) were united as they cheered our accomplishment of being selected as one of ten Area Finalists.  Many citizens were on pins and needles as they awaited our Finals performance and the results to see who was going to move on to the UIL State Marching Competition.  

 

Our music program has dedicated our accomplishment to all the former band students and band directors who went through Mr. Brian Harper, Mr. Raul Gonzalez, and Mr. Carlos Martinez.  These individuals (former students and staff) sacrificed and paved the way for our students to have the facilities and equipment we have today and for that, we give them thanks.  We would also like to thank Mr. Diaz and his administrators, our school board members, and Mr. Gonzalez, our EPISD Superintendent.  All of them have given us the love and support needed to nourish our student’s education.  We are eternally grateful of all they have done for the Arts and our respective music departments. 

 

We will continue to display our commitment and work ethic as we continue to positively represent EPISD and our Eagle Pass community as we look forward into our future.

JOIDES Resolution in your classroom LIVE

Alejandra Martinez teaches 7th grade science at Memorial Junior High. She is an extraordinary educator and has a real passion for science. This year she will be sailing aboard the drilling vessel the JOIDES Resolution as their Education and Outreach Officer this December and January.  The JOIDES does deep sea core drilling and collects sediment to learn about Earth's past, present, and future.  The drilling site we will be working at is off the coast of Madagascar. 
As Education and Outreach Officer she will be running their social media sites and hosting live ship to shore interactions with classrooms around the world. 

This year she is eager to share this experience with teachers and students at a campus level. Participants will get to see what life is like on a ship and they will get to view what scientists are doing live on the ship. A session lasts up to 45 minutes and can be tailored to your interest and grade level. In order to do this you will need to contact your administrator sign up for an interaction with Expedition 359.

Ask your campus principal about a live ship to shore interaction with the students at your school! Learn more about the JOIDES on their main webpage www.joidesresolution.org.

Spooky Storytelling at Ray H. Darr

Theater students from C.C. Winn High School visited Ray Darr Elementary on Tuesday October 27, 2015 for a “Ghoulishly Good Time!”  The Winn Theater group read Halloween storybooks for all grade levels throughout the day.  The students enjoyed hearing stories that were reenacted with drama "oozing" from each performance.  

Librarian Rosa Leticia Flores had the pleasure of hosting the Theater Arts I students along with Director Mr. Adolfo Flores Jr. at Ray H. Darr library. The Readers icluded Franky Chavarria, Ana Laura De La Garza, Mariah Longoria, Anahi Zermaeno, David Modlin, Stephanie Avila, Viviana Venegas, Victor Solis, Karenny Sepulveda, Josiah Alfaro, Zaira Sanchez, Esmeralda Ontiveros.

C.C. Winn High School performed theatric storytelling at Ray H. Darr Elementary