Showtimes for “Grease” are Thursday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 21 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Wylie East High School, located at 3000 Wylie East Drive. Tickets are $15 for students and $20 for adults. Purchase them at the door or online at...
Expanding Community: District adding students, buildings
Community ISD continues to grow - and it’s growing fast. Superintendent Roosevelt Nivens gave a state of the district recently at the Lavon Area Chamber of Commerce. “Since I’ve been here, we’ve added 1,000 kids,” said Nivens, who joined the district in 2015 in a...
One year later: School nurses navigate pandemic
Kara Geller has experienced the COVID-19 pandemic firsthand, and she has seen how young people have reacted to the virus over the last year. Geller has been a nurse for 21 years and is in her 13th year with Wylie ISD. She is the campus nurse at Bush Elementary...
Board approves STAAR waiver
Public school students will take the STAAR test this year, and the Wylie ISD board approved a waiver at its Feb. 23 meeting to allow the process to go smoother regarding accommodating on-campus and remote learners. With the waiver, non-testing students will...
Storm forces school closings
The winter storm that shut down school in Wylie Independent School District last week did not happen just because of road conditions. Other factors came into play, said Ian Halperin, executive director of communications and community relations for the Wylie ISD....
Wylie students recognized for musical accomplishment
A dozen Wylie ISD students earned designation as Texas All-State Musicians for the 2020-21 school year, with students from both Wylie East and Wylie high schools being recognized. The honor is especially laudable given that 50,000 students started the Texas Music...
Support, mentoring key for teachers
Editor’s note: Second in a series on Wylie ISD’s recruiting and retention program. Teachers stand in front of a class and communicate lessons each day to students, but as Davis Intermediate School English/language arts teacher Susan Wood can attest, teachers...
Trustees collect praise
Wylie ISD educators, like school personnel everywhere, have faced numerous challenges in this year of COVID-19. At the regular monthly Wylie ISD board meeting on Jan. 25, Wylie ISD Superintendent David Vinson told board members how much he appreciated their support...
District seeks to attract teachers with culture of caring
Editor’s note: This story is the first in a two-part series about the Wylie Independent School District’s recruiting and retention program. Melissa Hefty doesn’t mind helping a teacher in need. Wylie ISD operates a recruiting and retention department that seeks to...