Posted on February 25th, 2022 by
Thomas E Kennedy
How to help
Thank you, everyone, for the outpouring of support you all have shown me. It is so appreciated by my family and me.
Many of you have been reaching out asking how you can begin helping and contributing to our campaign. One of the initial ways is to make a campaign contribution. These initial contributions are a great help, and no amount is too small.
Please know there will also be other opportunities to be involved in the future. In addition, please continue to lift us up in your prayers.
FOLLOW this link to make a campaign contribution: https://thomastalks.org/donations/
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Posted on February 24th, 2022 by
Thomas E Kennedy
LPS Visit
It is always great spending time in our schools. I love touring our classrooms. During a school visit today at Lecanto Primary School they have a couple of special ways they are showing their appreciation to their teachers and staff.
One is that they cut out red hearts that are put on the doors of the teachers’ classrooms and other staff members leave random kind notes of encouragement and praise for that teacher.
The second was an idea that came from students who wanted to provide their teachers with a special breakfast to start each day. With the funding help of the LPS Parent Teach Organization (PTO) the students decorated a cart and filled it with morning snacks and goodies that the students bring around to the teachers. What a great student initiative!
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Posted on February 23rd, 2022 by
Thomas E Kennedy
The Ray Darling Upward Bound Rotary Awards
What a great morning at the quarterly Ray Darling Upward Bound Rotary Awards. So grateful to our Citrus County Rotary Clubs that a so supportive to our students and schools. This event is just one of the numerous ways they are committed to our students and a better tomorrow.
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Posted on February 22nd, 2022 by
Thomas E Kennedy
Congratulations to America’s newest Purple Heart Entity
the Citrus County Property Appraiser’s Office
I was honored today to attend a special Purple Heart Proclamation Ceremony designating the Citrus County Property Appraiser Office as a Purple Heart Entity.
I was grateful to support Cregg Dalton and the whole County Property Appraiser Office and represent Citrus County School District, America’s “first” Purple Heart school district Entity.
Special thank you to the Aaron A. Weaver Chapter 776 Military Order of the Purple Heart for this designation.
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Posted on February 21st, 2022 by
Thomas E Kennedy
Presidents’ Day
Happy Presidents’ Day a.k.a. Washington’s Birthday
Today we celebrate our United States Presidents. Presidents’ Day is an American holiday celebrated on the third Monday in February. Originally established in 1885 in recognition of President George Washington, it is still officially called “Washington’s Birthday” by the federal government. Presidents’ Day is now popularly viewed as a day to celebrate all U.S. Presidents past and present. (source: http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/presidents-day)
A book I recommend on our U.S. Presidents that is a favorite of mine is, ‘The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity’ by Nancy Gibbs. It is the inside story of the world’s most exclusive fraternity; how presidents from Hoover through Obama worked with—and sometimes, against–each other when they were in and out of power.
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Posted on February 17th, 2022 by
Thomas E Kennedy
LHS IB Theory of Knowledge Exhibition Night
Last night LHS junior and senior International Baccalaureate (IB) candidates presented their Theory of Knowledge Exhibitions. The students’ TOK exhibitions included a verbal presentation that accompanied their 1,600-word essay. Attendees then had the opportunity to ask questions of the students about their exhibitions.
These IB student TOK exhibitions were so in-depth. The IB website describes TOK as, “a thoughtful and purposeful inquiry into different ways of knowing, and into different kinds of knowledge, TOK is composed almost entirely of questions. The most central of these is ‘How do we know?’, while other questions include: What counts as evidence for X? How do we judge which is the best model of Y? What does theory Z mean in the real world?”
The LHS International Baccalaureate (IB) program is another of our Citrus School’s choice magnet programs where parents and students choose to participate in the program and apply their 8th-grade year for acceptance their high school freshman year.
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