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One of just 15 schools in the nation to
win a 2016 National Excellence in Urban
Education Award, Spring Creek
Elementary School is also one
of just six to receive Gold Level honors for achieving
impressive academic results campuswide.
GISD redesigned its website
this summer, launching a new
inviting, mobile-friendly look with
navigation that focuses on parent
and student needs. Check it out at
www.garlandisd.net.
The Texas Association
of School Nutrition
recognized GISD with
Competing at the Educators
Rising National Conference,
recent Sachse High School
graduates Abigail
Newman and Courtney Harris
claimed first place in prekindergarten
literature with Max the Puppy Dog’s Favorite
Things About the Seasons. Incoming
Lakeview Centennial High School
freshmen Matthew Mitchell and
Gerson Rivas also took silver in
Nutrition & Wellness and Teach & Train
events at the FCCLA National Leadership
Conference.
Breakfast and
Lunch Participation
Awards, commemorating 10
percent or greater increases. Just
two districts in the state received
both distinctions.
To receive bus
transportation, students
must attend a school within their
designated eligibility area and live
two or more miles from that campus.
Transportation areas and route
information can be found at
www.garlandisd.net/content/
bus-transportation.
concerns or complaints arise, Garland ISD
ts families to follow the district’s
-solving process for effective conflict
he first step is a parent conference with the
rator then intervenes on the second level
olves one of the district’s Student Relations
972-494-8255.
on GISD featured Rachel Knagg Gasch (right).
he same campus she attended—Roach Elementary School.
august 2016