In today's column I am including excerpts from the speech that I delivered onSaturday, May 28 at the commencement ceremony for the Class of 2022:When thinking about my remarks to you today, I thought back to a recent seminar Iattended. Participants were asked during introductions to tell what their "walk up"song would be if they were a major league...

We were recently notified that South Ripley has been awarded a $50,000 DigitalLearning Grant from the Indiana Department of Education. We are one of 51 schooldistricts across the state to receive this competitive grant.We plan to use this money to provide additional state-of-the-art digital tools to helpwith educating the students in our intensive ...

The 2022 Indiana Legislative Session recently wrapped up and there was somelanguage regarding eLearning Days that was added to a bill that ended up passinginto law. The new law states that schools may not use more than three eLearningDays in a school year unless the eLearning Days contain "synchronous learning" forat least 50% of the day. The term ...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government passed legislation that provided three rounds of federal dollars to schools across the country to help mitigate the negative impacts of the pandemic. Both The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, and the American Rescue Plan (ARP), put dollars into the Elementary an...

In today's column I am going to touch on a variety of topics to provide an update on some of the many things that are happening at South Ripley. STEM Certification Application: South Ripley Elementary School recently submitted its application to the Indiana Department of Education to become a STEM Certified School. SRES scored 74 out of a possible ...

Over the past several years it has become customary for varsity basketball teams to play in tournaments over the winter break. These tournaments provide an opportunity to compete against teams outside of your local area, help teams prepare for post-season play, and break up the monotony of practices over break. What typically gets left out of these...