Braille Challenge Winner: Six Tulsa-area students won medals in the recent Regional Braille Challenge.
Contestants in the Apprentice, Freshman, and Transition categories were tested in spelling, reading comprehension, and proofreading. Sophomore, junior varsity, and varsity contestants were graded on charts and graphs, reading comprehension, and proofreading skills. They also listened to the texts and transcribed them into Braille.
Eighth-grader Stephanie Glynn won gold in the junior varsity division, and third-grader Kup Tuan won silver in the apprentice division. Both are from Tulsa and attend the Oklahoma School for the Blind.
Broken Arrow OSB junior Jayden Brown earned a bronze medal in the Apprentice Transition category.
OSB sophomore Erickson Lopez, from Owasso, won the gold medal in the freshman transition category.
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Charles Page junior Anna Suarez won gold in the varsity division. Neil Summerlin of Wagoner won the gold medal in the Apprentice category. Summerlin is his second year at OSB.
Hall of Fame induction ceremony: The Booker T. Washington High School and Rogers High School Halls of Fame will recognize the 2024 recipients this week.
Booker T. Washington will recognize the Hall of Fame inductees at a dinner Thursday night at the Greenwood Cultural Center. This year's inductees are Libby Billings, Barbara Coleman, Captra Dunn, Wendell Franklin, Tyler Lockett, Anthony Marshall, Ed McQuarters, Paulette Parker, Rev. MC Potter, and John Waldron, D.C. He is a member of the House of Representatives.
Rogers will be honored in a ceremony Friday morning in the school's auditorium, followed by a celebration Saturday night at the Warren Place Doubletree. The winners are Dave Banks, Gil Cloud, Joseph Pelton, Anna Lee Brixey Seago, Patrick Waddell, and Jean Carsten Winfrey.
506 Deadline: Families of Native American students attending Collinsville Public Schools who are not already enrolled in the district's Indian Education Program will be asked to submit a 506 form by Thursday to be included in the program's 2024-25 student population. . For more information, call 918-371-5449.
Looking for accessories: Kindergarten enrollment for 4-year-olds living in the Pretty Water School attendance area will begin on Thursday. Families can make reservations by calling 918-224-4952.
Emergency certification renewal: The Oklahoma State Board of Education approved 80 emergency teacher licenses Thursday as part of its consent agenda. Since July 1, the Board of Education has approved 4,108 emergency teaching licenses.
Tetris test: The Oklahoma State Board of Education voted 6-0 to approve five charter schools' applications for an exemption from state rules requiring certified teachers to take the Oklahoma State Testing Program.
This exemption does not exempt these sites from participating in state tests, but it does allow uncertified teachers and other school personnel to administer the tests. The charter schools that have applied for and received exemptions are KIPP Tulsa, Tulsa Legacy, Tulsa Classical Academy, KIPP Oklahoma City, and Academy of Seminole.
Open sign up: Registration for the next middle school session of Indigenous Readers, hosted by the Muscogee Nation's Access to Choices in Education program, will begin at noon Monday. This program is open to American Indian or Alaska Native students in their fifth through eighth grades who live on or attend school on the Muscogee Reservation.
Participating students will receive free copies of “Finding My Dance'' by Leah Thundercloud and “In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse'' by Joseph Marshall III.
For more information, visit bit.ly/mcnaceservices.
Stay home day: Mumford and Tulsa Classical Academy will not have classes on Monday.
Monday is a remote learning day for Coweta.
Friday is a remote learning day for Broken Arrow, Catoosa, Jenks, Keystone, Mounds and Prue.
Classes at Pretty Water and Tulsa Honor Academy are closed on Friday.
Board of Education calendar: The Jenks, Keefer, Sand Springs, Tulsa and Union city school boards are scheduled to meet Monday.
Lone Star's board of directors is scheduled to meet Tuesday.