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Chronicle’s STAR Awards impressive and talented, like the student-athletes themselves

Posted on May 21st, 2020 by

Chronicle’s STAR Awards impressive and talented, like the student-athletes themselves

I want to share a very special thank you to the Citrus County Chronicle for honoring our Citrus County high school student-athletes in their annual STARS Student Athletic Recognition Awards Ceremony. Please follow this link (https://youtu.be/OHVjpq4U9Ak) to watch this exceptionally produced event.

During this unique time of COVID-19 our students and community depend on advanced thoughtful individuals and entities to step-up for our students.  Thank you, Chronicle Publisher, Gerry Mulligan, for his commitment to this special event. Thank you to the many sponsors who make the awards and scholarships possible and a special thanks to all those behind the scenes who ensured that this annual event was as successful and grand as if it were in-person.

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CHS Student-artist virtually perform ‘For Just a Little While’

Posted on May 8th, 2020 by

CHS Student-artist virtually perform ‘For Just a Little While’

“For Just a Little While” by Sally Albrecht and Jay Althouse. Today would have been the Citrus High School Spring Concert where these talented individuals would have performed and we would have celebrated their musical accomplishments and honored the graduating Seniors. During this tough emotional time, these student-artists thought they still needed to give a proper farewell to the Seniors in the music department who have been apart of the Cane family. Thank you to CHS music director John Edel for another impressive virtual arrangement.
The link to the YouTube video of this virtual choir performance is listed below: https://youtu.be/tPtRXKcTrwU

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Governor Ron DeSantis​ seeks your input on Re-Opening Florida including Education

Posted on April 25th, 2020 by

Governor Ron DeSantis​ seeks your input on Re-Opening Florida including Education

Please take the time to share with the Governor’s Task Force your thoughts.

Re-Open Florida Task Force Launches Public Comment Submission Portal— Floridians may submit feedback on any topic related to the re-opening of Florida’s economy, including the impacts to education. Access the portal here:‬ https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=59c1681fac504b6ab8da108d52501c92

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Thank you, businesses, for employing our students- please encourage them to also do their school work

Posted on April 17th, 2020 by

Thank you, businesses, for employing our students- please encourage them to also do their school work

…employers you can serve as bonus mentors, educational supporters, and encouragers in these students’ lives.

I want to thank our many businesses that employed our students before the COVID-19 crisis and thank those that have employed our students during this pandemic. Oftentimes these students have been on the frontlines, providing many essential services and have provided businesses with a much- needed workforce.

Remote/virtual learning has often given students and their employers’ additional opportunities to work times during what would have been the students’ school day.

Businesses, supervisors, managers, please encourage your student employees to promptly do their schoolwork to ensure they finish this semester successfully.  This is especially important for our Class of 2020 seniors. Teachers and schools are being flexible with students, but students are still in school and responsible for completing their work.  As their employers, you can serve as bonus mentors, educational supporters, and encouragers in these students’ lives.

We are so proud of our students and the hard work they are doing both at these businesses and especially in their studies.

Thank you, businesses, supervisors, and managers for all you are doing for our students, schools, and community.  As the African proverb goes, “It takes a village”, and in Citrus County we have the BEST village!

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MSS shares marine science content for educators

Posted on April 15th, 2020 by

Marine Science Station shares educational learning content for educators

Today the amazing education team of Earn Olsen, Josh O’Leary and Sheryl Janecek at our Citrus County School’s Marine Science Station shared with county teachers some excellent MSS content, along with additional other science resources to provide some extra special learning.  The MSS team also unveiled the new Marine Science Station YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMHraqFgDwdAwfu_tWJKhTg.

At this time of remote learning, in addition to our district teachers, many families find themselves as home teachers and I thought you might appreciate learning more about these great MSS resources.

MSS Supervisor Earnie Olsen:

Hello from the Citrus County School District’s Marine Science Station!  I know not all of you who are reading this actually bring your students to the Marine Science Station as part of your course curriculum, but I wanted to quickly share this information to as many Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Science Teachers, and High School Science Teachers (and other interested people) who may find the following information useful

Just like all of you, we greatly miss seeing our visiting students and fellow teachers.  We especially miss seeing the middle and high school student and teachers who were scheduled to visit the Marine Science Station during the current school closure.  My staff and I have taken this time to engage not only in social distancing, but also in a variety of facility, aquarium, equipment, and boat maintenance projects that will allow us to make future visits to the Marine Science Station as good as, or better, than before.  We’ve also created some brief educational video segments as well as stock video footage of our ecosystem explorations from over the years.  Within the descriptions of many of these videos you will see links for further reading and research.  You can access these videos via our brand new Marine Science Station YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMHraqFgDwdAwfu_tWJKhTg  You can also access the Marine Science Station on Facebook for other information and content at https://www.facebook.com/marinesciencestation/

If there’s any educational content related to watersheds, aquifers, springs, coastal rivers, estuaries, salt marshes, mangrove swamps, seagrass meadows, or other marine environments that you’d like us to research and share with you and your students, then please let me know.  CLICK HERE for a pdf document that has a list of Virtual Opportunities for Marine Science Educators that’s been compiled by the Florida Marine Science Educators Association (www.fmsea.org).  I hope you find these resources useful.

On behalf of the staff at the Marine Science Station, we are grateful for all of your hard work to ensure our kids are staying connected and engaged in learning.  My staff and I are looking forward to better days ahead and to seeing folks out here again soon.  Until then, we hope you stay safe and well.

Sincerely,
Earnie Olsen
MSS Supervisor

 

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We will miss you, Cicely Thomas

Posted on April 11th, 2020 by
Cicely Thomas

October 22, 2004, CSES Students Awards, Cicely Thomas, principal of Citrus Springs Elementary Schools, and kindergarten student, Ethan Kennedy.

We will miss you, Cicely Thomas

Mrs. Thomas: “…you as parents are your child’s first teacher”

Another of Citrus County’s special former educators and leaders passed away. My wife and I had the chance to know Cicely Thomas when she was our oldest children’s first principal at Citrus Springs Elementary.  I will always remember the way the kind and loving way she interacted with her students, parents, and staff.  I recall the first student awards event where Mrs. Thomas shared with all the parents, “…you are so important to your student’s life, you as parents are your child’s first teacher”.  She empowered us as parents to remember the important role we as parents have on our students’ academic life.  She would refer to the collaborative “partnership” we as parents and educators have as on our students’ education. Perhaps at this social-distancing time, those words mean more now than ever as parents find themselves on the frontline of remote learning at home.

Thank you, Mrs. Thomas, for loving our children, caring for our schools, and leading with your heart.  Our prayers go out to Mrs. Thomas’s husband, Tommy Thomas, their sons, and the entire family.

For more on Cicely Thomas’s life click HERE

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