by Sheila Adams | May 23, 2022 | Homepage Featured, Lufkin ISD, Superintendent's Corner
Over the past few weeks and leading up to the end of school, we have celebrated and will continue to celebrate the academic achievements of our students in honor societies, the superintendent’s honor roll breakfast, and induction ceremonies for the STEM Academy and...
by Sheila Adams | Mar 21, 2022 | Homepage Featured, Lufkin ISD, Superintendent's Corner
Preschoolers have all the fun. Now parents and community members can see what it’s like to have a day in the life of a preschooler at the Pre-K Experience. The fun begins at 5:30 p.m. March 29 at Garrett Primary with animal crackers and juice boxes, sitting...
by Sheila Adams | Feb 21, 2022 | Homepage Featured, Lufkin ISD, Superintendent's Corner
There is one huge event that happens in February that shapes the course of the next two years: UIL realignment. Schools anxiously awaited their fate and their game pairings on the morning of Feb. 3. No surprise to Lufkin that we would be charting new territory and...
by Sheila Adams | Jan 18, 2022 | Homepage Featured, Lufkin ISD, Superintendent's Corner
STEM studies are here to stay. Who knew that STEM, a curriculum based on four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — began long ago with the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik? After that event, Americans were challenged to step...
by Sheila Adams | Nov 30, 2021 | Homepage Featured, Lufkin ISD, Superintendent's Corner
After-school time is an important time of the day. How that time is spent can be instrumental in a child’s educational, physical and emotional growth. We are fortunate as a district to be the recipient of the 21st Century-Texas ACE so we can offer a program after...
by andyalufkin | Oct 18, 2021 | Homepage Featured, Lufkin High School, Lufkin ISD, Superintendent's Corner
Column by LYNN TORRES/Lufkin ISD Superintendent What’s it like to walk through Central Park on a beautiful day in October? Thirty-seven Lufkin High School students in the Gifted and Talented program can tell you in full detail after returning home from their trip from...
