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APRIL is a BIG month! There are so many things to share with all our Trailblazers this month. We have Autism Awareness, Poetry Awareness, Math Awareness and School Library Week this month too!! Let's not forget if you celebrate EASTER!! |
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April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day!! Do you or anyone you know fall on the autism spectrum? There isn't one way to describe what autism is, refers to a broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication. According to the CDC, autism affects 1 in 44 children. To learn more click on the link below! |
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Joy Harjo was appointed the new United States poet laureate in 2019. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1951, Harjo is a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. She is the author of several books of poetry, including An American Sunrise, which is forthcoming from W. W. Norton in 2019, and Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W. W. Norton, 2015). She is a current Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets! |
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Anchorage Joy Harjo - 1951- for Audre Lorde This city is made of stone, of blood, and fish.
There are Chugatch Mountains to the east
and whale and seal to the west.
It hasn't always been this way, because glaciers
who are ice ghosts create oceans, carve earth
and shape this city here, by the sound.
They swim backwards in time. Once a storm of boiling earth cracked open
the streets, threw open the town.
It's quiet now, but underneath the concrete
is the cooking earth, and above that, air
which is another ocean, where spirits we can't see
are dancing joking getting full
on roasted caribou, and the praying
goes on, extends out. Nora and I go walking down 4th Avenue
and know it is all happening.
On a park bench we see someone's Athabascan
grandmother, folded up, smelling like 200 years
of blood and piss, her eyes closed against some
unimagined darkness, where she is buried in an ache
in which nothing makes sense. We keep on breathing, walking, but softer now,
the clouds whirling in the air above us.
What can we say that would make us understand
better than we do already?
Except to speak of her home and claim her
as our own history, and know that our dreams
don't end here, two blocks away from the ocean
where our hearts still batter away at the muddy shore. And I think of the 6th Avenue jail, of mostly Native
and Black men, where Henry told about being shot at
eight times outside a liquor store in L.A., but when
the car sped away he was surprised he was alive,
no bullet holes, man, and eight cartridges strewn
on the sidewalk all around him. Everyone laughed at the impossibility of it,
but also the truth. Because who would believe
the fantastic and terrible story of all of our survival
those who were never meant
to survive? |
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Mary Golda Ross, First Cherokee Female Engineer |
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A HIDDEN FIGURE... At 16 years old, Mary Golda Ross started college at Northeastern State Teacher’s College. The school was in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, capital of the Cherokee Nation, located on the edge of the Ozarks. Mary started college in 1924, having lived with her grandparents in Tahlequah since she started primary school. She studied mathematics at Northeastern, which had started as the Cherokee Female Seminary in 1851, just 12 years after the forced relocation of the Cherokee people to Oklahoma from the southern Appalachians. How did Mary Golda Ross, who taught high school in her native Cherokee schools, end up as a space-travel engineer... To Learn more go to THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM link below! |
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School Library Week: April 3rd - 9th |
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An enrolled member of the Comanche Nation she worked with Comanche Nation College where she lead efforts to develop their library collection into one which integrates Comanche culture and values with core library resources. Dr. Lotsee Patterson, Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma, was born and raised in rural southwestern Oklahoma on her mother’s Indian allotment. She credits her experience growing up there and later as a teacher in a nearby rural school with developing her passion for libraries and library services in Indian country. Having educated hundreds of students in librarianship in her role as a university professor she has also worked in libraries at Riverside Indian School, Anadarko, Norman Public Schools and Oklahoma City where she was Director of Library Media Services for the school district. She is best known, however, for her work with tribal libraries. |
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Dr. Lotsee Patterson, Librarian |
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New "How to Guide..." This overview of "How to Make a Purchase Request" will, hopefully, help guide you through the ordering process. Remember that you must add your myACE Store cart and then complete your Service Verification Form (SVF). Don't forget your SCREENSHOTS... | | |
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Let's take a moment to recognize April birthdays! Azaryia Cotton Adelynn Dickie Aria Hedgpath Lauren Milligan Jaxton Starr Nicholas Taylor Cason Thorton Tyellis Way Kalea Whatley From The ACE Program!!! We hope you had a great day! |
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Math BundleDo you find you need services or tutoring in math. Well we have a Bundle for you! The Math Bundles has tutoring and services options in many areas. Such as: - A+ Math Solutions of Forth Smith - Sylvan Learning of Rogers - Sylvan Learning of Fort Smith - Kumon Math and Reading Center - Tutoring Solutions of Springdale - Tubey Services Math Kits - ACE Student Success Coach |
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Happy Easter!!! Should you and your family celebrate Easter, may it be filled with joy, new beginnings and hope this April. We hope you find everything you are searching! -From the ACE Program. |
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The ACE Program has Open Enrollment |
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The ACE Program is always accepting new applications and enrolling students. To apply, click the button below! | | |
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Now recruiting for the Parent Advisory Board! Parents on the board will meet quarterly on Zoom to discuss new educational and cultural options, areas for improvement, and upcoming events! To express your interest, fill out the Parent Feedback Form! | | |
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Book of the Month House of Purple Cedar by Tim Tingle (Choctaw) (Cinco Puntos Press, 2014)by Tim Tingle (Choctaw) (Cinco Puntos Press, 2014) "The hour has come to speak of troubled times. It is time we spoke of Skullyville." Thus begins Rose Goode's story of her growing up in Indian Territory in pre-statehood Oklahoma. Skullyville, a once-thriving Choctaw community, was destroyed by land-grabbers, culminating in the arson on New Year's Eve, 1896, of New Hope Academy for Girls. Twenty Choctaw girls died, but Rose escaped. She is blessed by the presence of her grandmother Pokoni and her grandfather Amafo, both respected elders who understand the old ways. Soon after the fire, the white sheriff beats Amafo in front of the town's people, humiliating him. Instead of asking the Choctaw community to avenge the beating, her grandfather decides to follow the path of forgiveness. And so unwinds this tale of mystery, Indian-style magical realism, and deep wisdom. This book is recommended for high school students (8-12). |
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