Thanks to the Angel Shoe Project, 30 students from Guthridge and Parsons Middle School shopped for new shoes at the Shoe Dept. Friday, The project, coordinated by the Presbyterian Church, accepts community donations to help purchase the new shoes for students in need.
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A man helps a boy find the right size shoes.
A girl checks out a pair of shoes.
School staff help students with finding shoes.
A little girl looks at shoes.
A staff member helps a little girl to try on shoes.
Passtor Jennifer Dawson talks to a boy about a pair of shoes he likes.
Kurt Friess helps a boy with trying on shoes.
A girl tries on a pair of short boots and smiles.
One girl tries on a pair of shoes while another looks in a box at her shoes.
Shoe Dept. Employees ring up the 30 pairs of shoes.
District maintenance personnel tackled the job of leaf clean up at Parsons High School Friday morning, and this Cyclone Rake, working as a giant vacuum hose to suck up big piles of leaves, makes the job go much faster.
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A district maintenance man operates a giant vacum hose to suck up piles of leaves.
Parsons Middle School volunteered to decorate a tree for the Stella Wells Auction this year. Tech students made all of the Viking-themed ornaments for the tree on 3-D printers, including the chain garland. Keep watch. They will be selling similar ornaments soon as a fundraiser.
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Mr. Campmier, his family, and Mrs. Nolting stand beside the completed tree. and M
Mr. Campmier and Mrs. Nolting place a football helmet on top of the tree.
A blue Viking ornament is shown.
Two ornaments are displayed, a Viking Head and one saying Vikings Christmas 2023.
Mrs. Nolting, Mr. campmier and his wife decorate the tree.
A lady Viking ornament is shown hanging on the tree.
A Vikin helmet ornament hangs beside a Viking baseball cap.
Ornaments are displayed.
Linda Proehl stops by to check out the ornaments made by students.
Mr. Campmier and his wife decorate the tree.
Parsons High School hosted a clinic for all students chosen to participate in the SEKMEA District Orchestra in Pittsburg Dec. 2 at the Bicknell Family Center For the Arts. Students used the entire day to practice together in preparation for this honorary performance.
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Burke leads the orchestra.
Burke speaks to the orchestra.
students play cellos.
Students practice violin
Burke demonstrates how to perform a particular part.
Students practice violin
cellos and basses play.
Lauren Burke speaks to students about the piece.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Pumpkins of different sizes pictured with the words happy Thanksgiving from Parsons USD 503
How much do our students love school? This much!
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Writing about if I were a turkey
Mr. Campmier, his student Ethan Brown and principal Mr. Gordon were interviewed Wednesday by KSN and KOAM TV about Mr. Campmier saving Ethan's life last week. This is just another great example of what wonderful, amazing staff Parsons USD 503 has in all of its schools!
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Mr. Campmier looks on as his student has a mic placed on his short by Da'Yon Dunlap from KSN.
Mr. Campmier and Ethan Brown get set up with microphones for their interviews.
Camerpersons from KSN and KOAm interview Mr. Campmier.
Camera persons from KSN and KOAM interview Mr. Gordon.
As one of about a dozen jobs on their schedule Wednesday, USD 503 maintenance personnel ran electric to a specific wall in the technology lab at Parsons Middle School, and installed mounting brackets, allowing them to install wide screen TVs.
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Kurt Forbes puts a bracket on electrical conduit he ran to provide electriciy to a TV in a classroom.
Three maintenance men work on putting mounting brackets on a widescreen TV
Two maintenance men mount the a TV on the wall.
As a part of career exploration opportunities provided through Parsons High School working collaboratively with business and industry, juniors and seniors had the chance Tuesday to tour Tank Connection, learn what it does, how it does it, and job opportunities available there.
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Students learn about step by step processes of parts being prepared and cut.
Students stand outside beside a load of tank parts that is ready to ship to Georgia.
Students learn about other jobs available at Tank Connection.
Students learn about the importance of the parts and shipping department
students learn about various process parts go through as they are being made.
Students lean about a part of a tank a man is welding.
Students stand outside and hear about the welding department and differnt requirements of the job.
Student hear about how differnt parts of the tanks are made.
Students hear how the steel beams on racks in front of them help provide sturdiness to tanks.
An employee leading the tour talks to students about what they will be seeing.
Teachers shared their knowledge and expertise with other teachers during short classes offered Monday during Differentiated Professional Development. Teachers had the chance to choose the topics of interest to them, from using AI and other technology to teaching strategies.
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Rob Lane, from Ameritime LLC tals to teachers about investments.
Ronnie Williams from Greenbush talks to teachers about the use of AI in education.
Dr. Shelley Martin teaches about advanced degrees.
Melissa Peak teaches a class.
two teachers provide information on a smart board.
a teacher teaches on a topic of interest.
Kelly Bedore and Robyn Thomas talk about how to adapt to diverse learnbers in difficult situations
Amber Jones gives a refresher on first aid.
Tracey Elliot talks about the magic of transparent stickies.
Differentiated Professional Development is a special time set aside once a year for teachers to learn from other teachers those things that work and make a difference in their classrooms. Teachers have a chance to choose from almost 60 sessions, each on a different topic.
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Cody Holmes teaches about Pear Deck.
Jessica LaForege teaches about mindful movement.
Chris Ball teaches about coaching strategies
Robin McCleary talks about impacting student growth with background knowledge.
Kristina Mayhue talks about diverse learners.
Diana Quirin teaches about stress, trauma and the brain.
Allie Jones teaches about Canva.
A guest speakeer talks to coaches about using managers.
Teachers had a chance to choose from almost 60 sessions, each on a different topic, that was taught by admin, teachers and guest speakers. Differentiated Professional Development is a special time once a year for teachers to learn from one another things to help them improve.
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Michele Piva teaches on vocabulary instruction.
Tyler Thomson and Rob Barcus talk about effective discipline referrals.
Ronnie Williams talks to teachers about using AI.
Brittiney Beery and Joe Campmier talk about 3-D printing.
a teacher helps another teacher with a program.
Mr. Pegues teaches about using Panorama Data.
Mr. Krull and tyler Gordon talk about utilizing brain breaks.
A teacher talks to other teachers.
No teacher enters a classroom fully equipped. A good portion they learn as they go from mentors. Monday, teachers had a chance to learn from teachers and other professionals in education, during Differentiated Professional Development. Teachers could choose from nearly 60 topics.
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Jennifer Taylor with Greenbush teaches about understanbding stress and behavior.
Whitney Spencer teaches a class about different kinds of readers.
Olivia Nolting teachers a class on coaching strategies.
Ralita Cheeks from Greenbush talks about teaching to diverse populations.
HSerri Spare and Officer Mark Raney talk about domestic violence and date violence.
Kurt Friess teaches about classroom management.
Colton Richards prepares to talk about calming techniques for students.
Marcie Ryan shows a clip from Oprah Winfrey before talking about brain states matter.
a teacher talks to other teachers.
Kerri Hall teaches about ESOL strategies.
Guthridge students lined the street in front of their school holding signs, cheering and waving to support the Parsons Vikings Football Team as they headed to their regional play off game in Prairie View.
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guthridge students hold up a soign that says Go Vikes.
Students hold up signs supporting individual players.
Guthridge students and staff cheer as the football team passes by on the bus.
Mrs. Good's class holds up signs they made to supporty Viking football players.
students hold up signs they made.
The vehicles carrying the Viking football team passes by Guthridge students.
Football players point at signs students made and wave at kids.
A staff member and a student hold up a sign.
Football players wave at kids from the bus windows.
students hold up signs they made.
We have such great teachers in our district! Here are just a few of the great people who share all of the awesome things that happen in their classrooms with parents, grandparents, friends and neighbors on the district social media pages. This month we gave away 10 pizzas and 15 drinks to teachers who participated in the social media posting challenge. #GoPKVikings
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Mrs. Anderson
Mrs. Keal
Mrs. Brimm
Mrs. Armstrong
Watch the Candidate Forum live tonight at 6:00: https://livestream.com/parsonskansas/events/10966073
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Candidate Forum
No School on Friday, October 27th 2023.
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No School 10.27.23
All students will be dismissed at noon today.
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Early Dismissal
Be sure to visit the Public Safety Fair tomorrow from 10am to 4pm at the Parsons Conference Center.
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Public Safety Fair
October is National Principals Month and to honor USD 503 principals Superintendent Lori Ray cooked breakfast for them to enjoy before their administrators' meeting Tuesday. (Not pictured are Shelley Gardner and Tyler Thompson.) Take a minute to tell your principals Thank You!
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USD 503 principals sit in the district conference room with the superintendent and assistant superintendent.
Tyler Gordon spoons some breakfast casserole onto his plate.
Barney Pontious checks out some homemade gravy in a crock pot.