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The Mules Booster Club has selected Poplar Bluff High School Cross-Country standout Katie Sliger and Soccer star Jose Reyes as Athletes of the Month for November. Reyes, a senior, ended the Mules Soccer season with 359 saves, eight penalty kick saves and 10 shutouts. He was selected as goalie for the All-Regional, the All-Conference and All-District first team, and the All-State second team. Freshman Sliger was a Sectional qualifier and earned the sixth place All-District honor. Her personal record for the 5K is 20 minutes and 52 seconds. She maintains a 10.857 grade point average.

Photo: High school science teacher Vic Clark demonstrates surface tension “magic,” to the amazement of students.   POPLAR BLUFF - Parents were given the opportunity last week to learn about Techbooks that are being utilized by Poplar Bluff Junior and Senior High students as part of the digital transformation. An estimated 200 people participated in Family Night hosted by Discovery Education on Tuesday, Nov. 4, at Poplar Bluff High School. Educators collaborated to demonstrate what a blended classroom looks like, combining hands-on activities with technology in the subjects of science and social students.  

Poplar Bluff High School senior Darian Sales won a PlayStation Vita on Thursday, Oct. 30, for being named Ambassador of the Week in the national Graduate for Mas program, sponsored by the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens. Sales won the challenge by encouraging classmates to take the online pledge to graduate and also by participating in online activities that are college and career based, according to PBHS guidance counselor Tamara Day. As of the end of last week, Poplar Bluff Schools was No. 2 out of 1,200 schools in the United States—just below a district out of Huntington Beach, Calif.—for having had over 30 percent of high school students sign the pledge.

Our kids are off and running in this 2014-15 school year. Regardless of what grade your child is in, it’s never too early to start exploring the possibilities available to them post high school and how to navigate that road to college. Getting them to that day where they wave goodbye to you from their over-stuffed car as it’s pulling out of your driveway takes forethought and a considerable amount of focused planning.   For expert advice on this subject I contacted Sandie Price, a parent and educator with a master’s in early childhood education and a master’s in school counseling. Price worked as a High School Guidance Counselor in the Poplar Bluff R-1 School District from 1984 to 2013.

Pictured with Tamara Day [right], Donna Laseter—the mother of PBHS junior Isaac—was recently elected to succeed Dr. Larry Kimbrow as AAG president.   Applications will soon be sent out to Poplar Bluff High School faculty so they can submit mini-grant requests to the Academic Assistance Group (AAG), which will select what field trips, equipment and other projects to fund during its next board meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, in conference room 101 at Senior High. Established in 1990, according to school records, the AAG is the ‘booster club’ for all academic departments and functions at PBHS. Its mission is to supplement the instructional needs of teachers that may not have been included in applicable budgets, or educational opportunities