The Department of Teaching and Learning is now on Twitter. Follow us @TeachLearnROYAL. We will be showcasing all the great teaching and learning happening in ROYAL ISD. GO FALCONS!!!!! #TeachingandLearning
Women's History Month - Juliette Gordon Low assembled 18 girls together in Savannah, Georgia, for the first-ever Girl Scout meeting. https://www.girlscouts.org/en/about-girl-scouts/our-history/juliette-gordon-low.html
Time is running out! We have a great opportunity for you to support our Royal SkillsUSA teams through the purchase of Scentsy items, but it expires in 8 days! Visit http://bit.ly/risdskills to place your order today. Thank you for supporting our Falcons!
National Reading Month - Apps are fun and motivating for kids! Visit https://www.readingrockets.org/literacyapps for a list of apps that provide practice with essential reading skills.
Women's History Month - Mary Garrett, suffragist and philanthropist, founded the Bryn Mawr School for Girls and helped fund Johns Hopkins Medical School if they would accept women students on the same standing as men. https://medicalarchives.jhmi.edu:8443/garrett/biography.htm
Were you impacted by the recent winter storm? Please see the attached flyer for assistance resources.
Reminder! Join us for Houston Food Bank distributions at the PAC entrance of Royal High School on March 8 and March 22, 4-6pm.
Sharing from City of Brookshire Police Department: Vaccination registration will open up tomorrow 3/3 at 12pm. Visit https://myaccesshealth.org/covidvaccinewaller/ to register.
Waller County Office of Emergency Management is gathering information to get our homebound seniors vaccinated. If you or your organization are aware of any homebound seniors that are in need of COVID vaccinations, please call us at 281-822-4200. Thank you.
Prairie View A&M University president Ruth Simmons to deliver Harvard commencement speech: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/02/ruth-simmons-to-deliver-address-at-harvard-celebration-of-the-class-of-2021/
βThe time is always right to do what is right.β βDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / βDo the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.β βMaya Angelou. http://bit.ly/3cEe4Mz
Reminder! SEWA International, United Way, and American Red Cross will have a food distribution on today at 10AM (Sunday, 2/28) at the United Way Waller Center (531 FM 329 South, Brookshire TX). First come, first serve. Please see attached English and Spanish flyers for details.
Words of wisdom.
Black History Month: βOne day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.β βFranklin Thomas
Reminder! Monday, March 1 is a student holiday / staff professional development day. Enjoy your weekend!
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. MLK, Jr.
SEWA International, United Way, and American Red Cross will have a food distribution on Sunday, Feb. 28 at the United Way Waller Center (531 FM 329 South, Brookshire TX 77423). First come, first serve. Please see attached English and Spanish flyers for complete details.
Allensworth is the first all-Black Californian township, founded and financed by African Americans in 1908. The town was built with the intention of establishing a self-sufficient city where African Americans could live their lives free of racial prejudice. http://bit.ly/2MLQUJt
Black History Month: The first historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) were founded before the Civil War to provide black youths with a basic education and training to become teachers or tradesmen. http://bit.ly/39DnndQ
Greetings, Falcons. On behalf of the Rodriguez/Cantu family, who recently lost their home to a fire, Royal ISD is sharing a link to their GoFundMe page for any who are interested in assisting the family: https://gofund.me/d379be1b