Week of November 7

On Friday, November 11, Rattler Nation honored all current and former members of the Armed Services. Our country’s greatness is built on the foundation of the courage and sacrifice displayed by our veterans. Thank you!

Special shoutout to the San Marcos High School JROTC program! They visited every SMCISD campus and participated in all Veteran's Day activities this week.

In partnership with Texas State University, SMCISD hosted a Teacher Residency Learning Tour on November 10 at Crockett and De Zavala elementary campuses.

Texas State faculty, Texas State students considering residency, area school districts considering residency, and district administration observed classes while current or former Residents were teaching their lessons. Following the classroom observations, attendees participated in a panel discussion with Residents, Cooperating Teachers, Principals, and Site Coordinators.

On Tuesday, November 8, Sixth grade students from Miller Middle School and Goodnight Middle School visited Rio Vista Park. During this outdoor field trip they had the opportunity to kayak, hike, journey into the world of archeology and participate in a water testing science lesson!

On Tuesday, November 8, 5th grade Rattlers as well as San Marcos High School girls attended the 2022 Counter-life Herstories Conference at Texas State University. Thank you to the conference for highlighting the success stories of each presenter and allowing our students to experience this conference.

Counterstories give voice to marginalized people groups to counter the majoritarian perspective about their experiences (Closson, 2010), life histories are individuals’ retrospective accounts about their life stories (Watson & Watson-Franke, 1985), and herstories represent “the rewriting or respeaking of history” from a woman’s perspective (Mills, 1992). Counter-Life Herstories offer a powerful approach to reveal hidden truths about Black and Hispanic women’s computing educational trajectories and to provide a holistic view of their educational experiences in the broader socio-political context of U.S. computing education (Ashford-Hanserd, 2020a; Ashford, 2016; Cole & Knowles, 2001).

The Texas State University Football Program hand delivered game day tickets to every Rattler in SMCISD on Tuesday, November 8.

We as a district have a fantastic opportunity to partner with Texas State Athletics and attend their football season finale on November 26th at Bobcat Stadium. The Bobcats will be hosting Louisiana at 4 pm and have provided each of your children with complimentary tickets that they received at school! Any additional tickets that may be needed can be purchased for only $5 by using the promo code SMCISD at txst.com/tickets. Enter the promo code in the box that says ‘Enter Promo Code’.

Please see the attached flier for complete details as there is plenty of fun for all as they have the Coca-Cola Kids Fun Zone in the south endzone featuring bounce houses and a petting zoo, a TXST/SMCISD mini football give away, and a free postgame concert by The Spazmatics. All families are invited on the field after the game.

This week, six San Marcos High School student-athletes signed their National Letter of Intent to compete and study at the collegiate level. Thank you to the parents, educators and coaching staff within our community who have supported these Rattlers throughout their journey in SMCISD. San Marcos CISD is so proud of each and every one of you and we wish you all the best in your future endeavors.

Christi "CJ" Castilla – University of Central Arkansas Softball

Sunray Estrada – Florida National University Baseball

Gavin Gomez – Tarleton State University Baseball

Kaden Gumbs – Texas State University Basketball

Major Pellien – Coastal Bend College Baseball

Tito Santos – Corpus Christi A&M Baseball

Students in Ms. Hardy's AP US Government class at San Marcos High School assisted San Marcos and Hays County residents exercise their right to vote on Election Day. The 17 students served as election clerks at six voting locations within Hays County.

San Marcos High School came in 3rd overall at the UIL Academic meet held at Navarro ISD on Saturday, November 12.

Results

Constantine Reyes (9th grade) place 9th in 9th/10th- grade mathematics & 7th in 9th/10th-grade science.

Benjamin Keller (10th grade) placed 4th in novice number sense, 2nd in 9th/10th-grade science, 2nd in 9th/10th-grade mathematics

Youssef Omar (10th grade) place 9th in novice number sense, 1st in 9th/10th-grade science and won the high chemistry overall grades, and 1st in mathematics!

The San Marcos High School CTE Construction program of study have officially installed the front, back, and side wall frames on the first ever tiny house in SMCISD! During the next couple of weeks they will work on roof rafters. This is a major milestone and achievement for our construction students and CTE Construction program of study and we are so excited to see the final product.