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Tweet The dismissal of the long-time head custodian at Highlands Elementary has generated indignation in the school community, especially for the way it was carried out. Highlands PTA President Krissie Wiggins said head custodian John Johnson, a 20-year district employee with 10 years at Highlands, was escorted out of the building the same day he [...]
Tweet Highlands Elementary School is officially fit — so much so, in fact, that it’s being pointed to as a model for other schools in Kansas. Highlands this fall received the Kansas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance’s (KAHPERD) Model School Award. The honor recognizes the amount of time students spend in physical education [...]
Tweet Highlands Elementary was the highlight school at the Shawnee Mission School Board Monday and new principal Marilyn Webb focused on the school’s parents. Webb reminded the board that she had closed two district schools as principal and was glad to be at Highlands in a new building only in its third year of operation. [...]
Tweet Tonight is the annual Highlands Elementary Hawk Night Flight fun run that covers a two-mile course that winds through the Reinhardt neighborhood in Fairway, starting at Fairway Park at 62nd and Mission Road. The run starts at 6 p.m. Late registration will be open from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. The run, a yearly fundraiser, [...]
Tweet Marilyn Webb may be new to Highlands Elementary this year, but she is not a newcomer to the Shawnee Mission schools or to the job of principal. Webb has been an elementary principal in the Shawnee Mission District since 1991 and has taught in the district since 1976. She comes to Highlands from Dorothy [...]
Tweet The Highlands Elementary community is in mourning this week at news of the passing of Debra Utterback, a cornerstone of the school who served as its kindergarten teacher for the past 24 years and had long ties to the Prairie Village area. She died Thursday, April 19, at the age of 58. Friends and [...]
Tweet A group of Highlands Elementary students, parents and alums decided that instead of just kicking back on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, they’d do some good work. More than 50 people from the Highlands community gathered at Harvesters, the community food bank, on Monday and helped assemble 1,500 “BackSnacks” — backpacks full of food that [...]
Tweet So…big apologies to anyone who showed up at the Highlands PTA Bake and Lemonade sale yesterday at our urging. The event got postponed due to weather. But students, families and staff will be at the school from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. today selling goodies and raising funds for the relief efforts in Joplin, Reading and [...]
Tweet Three of the four candidates in the race for the at-large seat on the Shawnee Mission School Board will move on from the March 1 primary to the April 5 general election. But two of the four primary candidates must be eliminated. Such is the logic-problem conundrum posed by the wording of Kansas statute [...]
Tweet The Wichita Eagle earlier this week released its rankings of Kansas schools based on state assessment data, and local schools fare relatively well — though not as well as some of their counterparts in Blue Valley. SM East came in at number 40 out of the 375 Kansas high schools in the newspaper’s rankings, [...]
Tweet “Your word is ‘champion’” “Champion. Could you use it in sentence?” “Mission Valley seventh grader Anna Molteni is the champion of the Johnson County Spelling Bee.” Well — co-champion, technically. Molteni tied with Zach Winterman, a seventh grader at St. Michael the Archangel, in the county’s spelling bee last weekend, earning her a spot [...]
