School & Family Magazine Newstand Sherman ISD Dec/Jan 2017-18 | Page 16

A BEARCAT COME BACK: WHEN
THE BEARCATS WE BUILD COME
BACK TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
By: Holly Kapp
Chad Stoker, Sherman High School graduate and lifelong Bearcat, talks with students at Dillingham
Intermediate, where he is an assistant principal.
In Building Bearcats, Sherman
ISD hopes to build up students
who not only give back to their
community in their time at
SISD schools, but also who go
above and beyond in kindness,
ambition, and service, before
and after graduation. So,
when a student spends their
early academic career in SISD
schools, and then comes back
to serve those very schools,
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“Our goal as educators
is to ensure our
students have the
necessary skills for
college and future
careers.”
the notion of Building Bearcats has
come full circle.
“I had opportunities in other
districts,” Chad Stoker, Assistant
Principal of Dillingham Intermediate
School said. “But going back to your
hometown and making an impact,
resonated with me.”
Stoker spent his entire K-12
education in Sherman schools. He
attended Dillingham Intermediate,