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Source: Poplar Bluff Schools The Lake Road Elementary 4th grade will perform at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 15, in the gym. There will also be an art show displaying the 4th grade students’ artwork they have created since the beginning of the year. Students, families, and friends from all grade levels are invited to attend. Students will sing the following selections:  This Holiday, Christmas Jubilation, Beautiful Christmas, Turn Off That Nose, and Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Dates for future programs and art shows are: 2nd grade –  Tuesday, March 8 1st grade –  Tuesday, May 3 Details for this and more are in the School's newsletter:  Download (PDF)

Source: Poplar Bluff Schools A student wrote a heartfelt essay about her school janitor and won $500 plus an all-expense paid trip for the pair to attend the Missouri High School Football Championship in St. Louis. Poplar Bluff High School junior Katie Huskey and long-time custodian Jan Ethridge enjoyed the Fort Osage versus Chaminade game together on Saturday, Nov. 28, receiving on-the-field recognition and a behind-the-scenes tour of Edward Jones Dome. Huskey said she chose Ethridge in the Missouri National Education Association-sponsored writing contest, Teacher Words Matter, because of the custodian’s welcoming smile and positive influence on the lives of cohorts of high schoolers. “It’s not big things that matter. She inspires us to do little things every day,” Huskey

Source: Poplar Bluff Schools Two Poplar Bluff Graduation Center students earned scholarships and eight were awarded certificates of completion by Mayor Betty Absheer through the Greater Poplar Bluff Area Chamber of Commerce’s Gateway 2 Jobs program on Thursday, Nov. 19. “I’ve had wonderful mentors in my life who taught me that education can help me move from one level to another,” said G2J co-founder Sharon Kissinger of Kissinger & Kirkman Investment Centre. Earlier the financial consultant told the students about her struggles raising two children as a teenager. Nicole Eason, a junior, was nominated to receive the second annual G2J scholarship from the Three Rivers College Endowment Trust, announced Student Loan Management Specialist Karen Beers. New this year, Kissinger took her passion

Source: Poplar Bluff Schools The Poplar Bluff Kindergarten Center received regional recognition for its successful implementation of a statewide initiative through which at risk students are taught to track their own progress in the classroom. Literacy Consultant Carol Reimann of the Southeast Regional Professional Development Center in Cape Girardeau, whose tenure in education spans 48 years, selected the Kindergarten Center as one of two schools in the region for its effective teaching practices in the Missouri Collaborative Work program on Friday, Nov. 20. “Time is such a precious commodity in the education business,” said reading interventionist Debbie Harper, who is a member of a four-person team of kindergarten teachers leading the effort. “We have so much to accomplish, this initiative

Source: Poplar Bluff Schools The Patrons of the Arts Society has a mission of delivering high-quality theater to the Tinnin Fine Arts Center on the Three Rivers College campus at a discounted rate. Now the society has gone a step further, bringing the live performances directly to the school systems within the community college’s service area. The Repertory Imaginary Theatre Company performed “The Elves and the Shoemaker”—underwritten by the Daily American Republic—on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the Poplar Bluff Kindergarten Center. “Exposing young people to art and culture has a big impact on their development,” said R-I Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum Patty Robertson, expressing gratitude to the society. “Students need a strong academic foundation, but they also need to be