Marcy Hess, Pleasant Lea Middle School Spanish teacher, and her husband, Chris Hess, took 14 students and parents from PLMS and Bernard Campbell Middle School to Costa Rica on an EF Educational Tour.
Greater KC Suburban Conference changes admission prices for high school athletic events
The Lee’s Summit Educational Foundation recently launched its annual fund drive to help promote excellence in education in the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District.
When the members of the Downtown Lee’s Summit Rotary Club were made aware of the opportunity to obtain free library books for local school children and non-profits, they immediately jumped into action.
Jenna Crawford and William Moore
Norman and Sherry Reed, Pomona, Kan., and Dr. Jeff and Mindi Crawford, California, Mo., announce the engagement of their daughter, Jenna Courtenay Crawford to William Lee Moore, son of Jeff and Candy Miller, Joplin.
Pleasant Lea Middle School teacher Keith Albert is pictured at the Golden Gate Bridge, just before beginning his coast-to-coast bicycle trip. Albert cycled 3,537 miles on the trip from San Francisco to Virginia Beach.
Keith Albert, a teacher at Pleasant Lea Middle School, recently completed a 3,537-mile, coast-to-coast, once in a lifetime, bicycle trip.
Lee’s Summit R-7 School District students taking the ACT college-entrance test scored well above state and national averages, according to results recently released from the 2009-10 school year.
Thousands of Lee’s Summit R-7 School District students had the opportunity to participate in special activities designed to help students make a successful transition into the new school year.
Linda Mathews
Linda Mathews was named the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District Learning for Life Award winner for August. She is a secretary at Prairie View Elementary.
R-7 families invited to visit website featuring student-related flyers
The Lee’s Summit R-7 School District is currently in the fifth year of implementation of the district’s latest five-year strategic plan. Known as the Comprehensive School Improvement Plan, this guide covers 2006 through 2011.
Susanne Mitko, a social studies teacher at Bernard Campbell Middle School and Missouri’s 2009-10 Teacher of the Year, is among five state Teachers of the Year featured in the September issue of Better Homes and Gardens.
Lee’s Summit R-7 schools are continuing to benefit from a district-wide recycling program, initiated in spring 2009. Known as One Earth, One Chance, the effort is a partnership through Deffenbaugh Recycling that includes educational materials for staff and students.
MCC-Longview student Gary Cochran helps a new student at registration at the Longview new student orientation program last Friday. More than 100 students registered for the Friday session.
They are easy to spot around campus. Tight clusters of recently graduated high school students wide eyed with packets of information and parents not far behind asking questions.
the LSW JROTC color guard stands at the Change of Command ceremony at Lake City Army Ammunition Plant.
Fifteen Lee’s Summit West High School Air Force Junior ROTC cadets recently participated in the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant Change of Command Ceremony, July 27.
