Spring Hill ISD
District Newsletter - August 2024
A Message From The Superintendent
A new school year means new beginnings, new adventures, new friendships, and new challenges. The slate is clean and anything can happen!
~ Denise Witmer
Dear School Community,
The 2024-2025 school year is off to an awesome start! Our students and staff are hard at work in our classrooms and in numerous extracurricular activities. I am very excited to see what the fall semester brings to our exceptional school community!
We are extremely grateful for the opportunity to serve our students and families in Spring Hill ISD. As a District, we want the very best for our students. In order for students to achieve their full potential, they need to have great school attendance.
Research Shows that Attendance Matters:
Students with great attendance achieve at higher levels than students with poor attendance.
By 6th grade, chronic absenteeism becomes a leading indicator of students dropping out of high school.
Missing just two days a month means a student misses 10% of the school year.
Good attendance and punctuality are important life skills.
School success starts with great attendance!
We are looking forward to a strong community partnership this school year as we strive to provide excellent educational opportunities for all students in Spring Hill ISD.
Always Panther Proud!
Sincerely,
Penny Fleet
Spring Hill High School Celebrates AP Capstone Diploma Recipients
At Spring Hill High School, four students have earned the AP Capstone Diploma, and seven students have earned the AP Seminar and Research Certificate during the 2023-2024 school year. The AP Capstone program helps students develop the critical thinking, research, collaboration, and presentation skills that are crucial for academic success.
The students awarded the AP Capstone Diploma by earning scores of 3 or higher in AP Seminar, AP Research, and on four additional AP Exams are Blaire Bodenheimer, Addison Childers, Shanessa Mudoh, and Kaitland Smith.
The students awarded the AP Seminar and Research Certificate for earning scores of 3 or higher in AP Seminar and AP Research are Caden Castleberry, Keaton Croom, Jackson Diggins, Aidyn Edney, Abhi Patel, Bryce Socoteanu, and Lillian Young.
Spring Hill Students Named College Board National Recognition Program Awardees
Students at Spring Hill High School have earned recognition from the College Board’s National Recognition Programs for academic achievements in school and outstanding performance on College Board assessments.
Awardees at Spring Hill High School are Sebastien Suero - National Hispanic Recognition Award, and Ananiah Selassie - National First-Generation Recognition Award.
The National Recognition Programs honor the strong academic achievements of underrepresented students. Students who may be eligible have excelled on the PSAT/NMSQT or PSAT 10 or earned a score of 3 or higher on two or more AP Exams, have a GPA of 3.3 or higher, and are first-generation, African American, Hispanic or Latino, Indigenous or Native, and/or attend school in a rural area or small town.
“We’re excited our students have earned this recognition,” said Principal Melinda Tidwell. “We are very proud of them for their achievements in the classroom and on College Board assessments.”
Spring Hill Intermediate Recognized on ERP Honor Roll
Spring Hill Intermediate has been recognized on the Educational Results Partnership (ERP) 2023 Honor Roll list of top-performing schools in Texas!
Honor Roll schools represent those that were comprehensively higher performing on the STAAR Reading Language Arts and Math Assessments, for all cohorts of student populations served, and that are improving outcomes for historically underserved student populations. To make the Honor Roll, a school must have comprehensively performed above the mean at least 80 percent of the time for all cohorts of students served and for all grade levels served.
Spring Hill Intermediate is among the top 12 percent of public schools in the state to receive this honor.
Susan Curtis, Spring Hill High School AP Language and Composition teacher, recently facilitated a Socratic Seminar in her classes over their summer reading assignment, Reclaiming Conversation, The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle. In this group discussion activity students worked together to understand the ideas, issues, and values presented in the text.
Lydia Cummins, Spring Hill High School Forensic Science teacher, recently taught her students about Crime Scene Photography. During the unit students study the process of photographing and logging crime scene photos. They also create their own crime scene and take over-all, mid-range and close-up photos, as well as close-up photos with evidence placard markers with a scale.
