Today's Spotlight on Staff is Tonya Dobson from Alamance Virtual School. Find out what she loves about ABSS! #ABSSAskStaff
Can you "spot" ⚫️ the excitement at E.M. Holt Elementary? They are celebrating the hard work of students after 101 days of school. We're paws-itive 🐾 they're doing great things! #StudentCenteredFutureFocused
ABSS celebrates School Resource Officer Day. Thank you for all you do in our schools and community. Alamance County Sheriff's Office, Mebane PD, Graham PD, Haw River PD, Burlington PD, and Elon PD
We love our Bus Drivers. Thanks for getting students to and from school safely and building positive relationships with them. We appreciate you! #LoveTheBus
The cafeteria at Hillcrest Elementary was bustling today as guests filled the room for the "100 Days, 100 Dads" event. 💗 Parents, grandparents, uncles, family friends, and community members came out to eat lunch and chat with students to celebrate this special day. Your involvement is so important - thank you! Staff worked hard to ensure that every student had someone to talk to. There were student helpers to greet guests and Hugo the Hornet 🐝 even made an appearance. A huge thank you to Hillcrest community partners including Glen Raven, Inc. and the Alamance County Sheriff's Office for your support! #ABSSCommunity
Time for another #ABSSAskStaff Spotlight on Couples, this time from Hawfields Middle School. ❤️️ Aria is the Choral Director and Samuel is a Counselor. Sam shared, "Aria and I were both NC Teaching Fellows at Elon University from 2002-2006. We started dating in Jan. 2003 after we had a two-week long NCTF trip together. We got engaged while studying abroad in England during our Junior year, and have been together ever since! We were married a few a months after we graduated in 2006 in her hometown. We currently have four daughters together, two cats, and a dog. This year is our twentieth year together as a couple! Aria has been working at HMS for 17yrs, and I recently joined the same school at the start of last school year after teaching/counseling at two area high schools. It has been a blessing for our family for us to both work for ABSS, and we cannot thank our HMS and ABSS communities for the support, opportunities, and love that have been shared with our family!"
Seems like the perfect day to post another #ABSSAskStaff Spotlight on Couples! ❤️️🌹 Lina Hoyos is a Second Grade Teacher at Eastlawn Elementary and Jairo Roldán is a Spanish Teacher at Cummings High School. Lina said, "We met in university in Colombia, since we started off the same year. We have been together as long as we have been in education, and our journey brought us to ABSS a couple of years ago. We are truly grateful that our schools are so close to each other and we enjoy the fact that, despite not teaching the same grade levels, we are able to share ideas, experiences, and even a few laughs about our daily lives inside the classroom."
We're 100 days smarter today at Newlin Elementary. ❤️ Happy 100th Day of School! #StudentCenteredFutureFocused
Do you have a local business that offers discounts to ABSS employees? We are looking to expand our SEED (Supporting Educators Every Day) Program and would like to include you! Please fill out the application on our webpage: bit.ly/abss-seed
Community Update: The DARE Basketball Tournament scheduled this afternoon (Monday, Feb. 13) will now be held at Graham High School instead of Graham Middle.
A young member of the Lumbee tribe visited Elon Elementary today. Vedah spoke to fourth graders about her traditional regalia and why she is proud of her Native American heritage. The roses represent her great great grandmother, great grandmother, mother and herself. 🌹 Check out that pinecone patchwork! #StudentCenteredFutureFocused
Today marks the start of School Bus Appreciation Week. 🚌 Our drivers work hard to bring students to and from school each day. Thank you for your dedication to student safety! ❤️️ #LoveTheBus
Join us in congratulating the Williams High Chamber Orchestra. Students traveled today to an adjudicated orchestra festival in Guilford where they earned a superior rating (the highest possible) for their performance.
#StudentCenteredFutureFocused
There is so much to love about our Arts, World Languages, and PE programs! Jennifer Wells, Curriculum Specialist, is our highlight for today! #ABSSAskStaff
That's a big group of smiling faces! Forty students and their families were invited to breakfast this morning at Eastlawn Elementary to acknowledge their perfect attendance for the second quarter. 👏 #StudentCenteredFutureFocused
Looks like the photographer interrupted an important lunch conversation in today's Throwback Thursday photo. Wonder what they were talking about? We have a lot of photos from 1988-1996 but will try to post more from other years too! #ABSSTBT
Dr. Kristy Davis, Clifton Thomas, Nicole Lancaster, and Dr. Ilana Dixon participated in a Public Innovators Lab on Wednesday and Thursday. This was offered through Impact Alamance and its work with the Harwood Institute. These district leaders are working with community leaders to develop ways to engage the Alamance-Burlington community with our schools. #ABSSCommunity
Relationships matter! Casey Hill, Social Worker at Haw River Elementary, works hard to build those relationships at Haw River Elementary and is part of what she loves about ABSS. #ABSSAskStaff
Superintendent Dr. Dain Butler shared his vision today for the future of ABSS with community and business leaders at the Alamance Chamber of Commerce. We’re proud of the many local partnerships we have supporting our schools. #ABSSCommunity
Update: Police continue to search for the car that appeared on South Mebane's campus today. The vehicle, which was a rental, came through the car line without a child. When approached, the vehicle fled at a high rate of speed. We do not consider it a threat to the campus at this time. Due to this being an elementary school, we are acting out of an abundance of caution and police are investigating thoroughly.