"We want them to feel productive," Nelson said.īritton, a refrigerator technician who unlike his wife, a teacher, can take the odd day off work, said the program promotes a safe and positive learning environment, not just for the children of the participants, but all the other children, and it allows dads to get to know each other. These are the 'Lightyear' scenes drawing ire from anti-LGBTQ critics.How it started, how it's going: Shipley's Do-Nuts goes from Houston mom-and-pop to national chain.Kylie Jenner, daughter Stormi hang out at Houston Museum of Natural Science.Surveillance footage shows Uvalde police didn't attempt to open classrooms during massacre, report says.'Swimming pool it is': Large shark reeled in 100 yards away from shore at Texas beach.Texas man brandishes pool noodle to fend off emu in viral TikToks.Rare 'Back to the Future' VHS sells for $75,000 at Texas auction house.program, a national father involvement initiative of the National Center for Fathering. Nottingham Country, a school of 600 pupils in kindergarten through fifth grade, is one of two schools in the district to have the Watch D.O.G.S. "My goal was to increase parent involvement and staff involvement step-by-step to make it the best school it can be." "So many moms volunteer, but we needed to see dads, and we're seeing them now," Nelson said.
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Some 94 dads and significant males turned out for the program's October launch, and many have signed on to volunteer for the program, which entails spending at least one full day during the school year on campus to act as an "extra pair of eyes and ears." As well as spending time with their own child in the classroom, they greet students as they come to school, patrol hallways and outdoors, watch the playground, hang out at lunch and do traffic patrol at the end of the day. (which stands for Dads of Great Students) program at the school. "There's been a tremendous turnout of dads," said Britton, who with Paige Nelson, a fifth-grade language arts teacher, helped start the Watch D.O.G.S. “As outlined in the Katy ISD COVID-19 Mitigation Plan, with the temporary closure of in-person instruction, all extracurricular and student programs will be temporarily suspended during a campus closure,” a letter issued by KISD to parents of Nottingham Country students said.Since a new program that focuses on encouraging dads and positive male role models to volunteer in schools was launched, Britton has been joined by dozens of dads who have pledged to give at least one day of their time to help out at Nottingham Country, 20500 Kingsland Blvd. A total of 544 cases have occurred among all campuses since Aug. Among those, 166 cases are face-to-face students, 10 are Katy Virtual Academy students and 54 are ill staff members. Notthingham Country is located in unincorporated Harris County.ĭistrictwide, KISD reports 230 active cases of COVID-19 at this time. District representatives did not respond to questions regarding whether Nottingham Country’s closure was also prompted by a county-level decision. The announcement follows the closure of Seven Lakes High School last week which was shut down after the district received a Corrective Action Advisement letter from Fort Bend County’s Health and Human Services Department. There are no cases reported among students attending classes through the Katy Virtual Academy program. in the Katy area currently has five cases among staff and 17 cases among students receiving face-to-face instruction. “We encourage our parents to continually monitor their students for symptoms of COVID-19 prior to returning them to campus on November 10 and to complete the self-reporting tool on the District website should you receive a positive test result,” Stroud said in the announcement.Įxtracurricular activities at the campus have also been temporarily suspended, a statement from the district said.Īccording to KISD’s COVID-19 dashboard, the campus at 20500 Kingsland Blvd. Nottingham Country Elementary School Principal Tracy Stroud announced via campus newsletter that the campus will be temporarily suspending in-person instruction in accordance with Katy ISD’s COVID-19 guidelines.
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