Displaying LINC Initiatives about: Hickman Mills
The stars came out, dressed for LINC’s Prom Night at Ervin Elementary School in Hickman Mills. Shining dresses and silky suits — on many kids and parents — helped spread the partying vibe as deejay music, balloons and shimmering streamers filled out the scene across the school’s gym floor.
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“This is what a community is about,” Hickman Mills Superintendent Yaw Obeng said. “In building collaboration with our district, it leads to parent engagement, vendors engagement, and, eventually, student success.”
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For the second time in two years, the growing North Kansas City School District is asking voters to approve no-tax-increase ballot measures. NKC’s bond issue and levy transfer highlight election day April 5 along with a host of important school board races across most of LINC’s partner districts.
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Ina P. Montgomery, creator of Urban TEC, is still the tempest who – after a white suburban Kansas City guidance counselor told her she probably wasn’t college material – declared with great Black pride that she’d storm the world in business for herself right out of high school.
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As yet another refreshing sign we’re emerging from Covid’s winter, the annual Hickman Mills Family Summit is planning to return as an in-person event March 5.
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A PRiME Center study from Saint Louis University raises up high-poverty schools in Missouri that are among the best in showing growth in state test performance.
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With grace and hard-won joy, the annual Lights On Afterschool events returned with their resilient communities in celebration of the power of community schools .
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If our Lights On Afterschool festivities were Times Square on New Year’s Eve, the ball has dropped. The cats are out of the bag. The book tour has finished to rave reviews. It’s been quite a show.
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In just a sampling of the shows going on in LINC’s Caring Communities (there’s more to come), we’ve seen Mad Science, pizza parties, dancing grandmas and other creative costumes, raucous fitness fun as well as some joy of reading.
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Pizza parties, Mad Science, bountiful home-grown meals, give-away books, cupcakes and some whip and nae-nae fitness dancing . . . LINC’s Lights On Afterschool is under way with many more community events to come during the week of Oct. 25–30.
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Look out, because one of the purposeful effects of ArtsTech’s Youth Health Ambassador’s training in Kansas City is the fire it’s lighting in its graduates like Ruskin High School students Jayleona Mayfield and Shymerra Butler.
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A food service crisis up and down the supply chain has districts scrambling after new resources and paring down menu options to meet the critical task of feeding students. “School is the only place where some of our kids get a hot meal.”
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The promise of a new year, new friends, new games and educational adventures unfolded across some 40 LINC Caring Communities before- and after-school programs Monday in the Kansas City, Hickman Mills, Center, North Kansas City and Grandview school districts.
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There’s a serious side to summer after-school programs now. There’s increased attention to academic skills coming out of the pandemic. And an awareness of children’s social and emotional well-being after so much separation and so many families still hurting. But this is still summer. And LINC’s not going to let kids down now.
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I believe we all know who truly has to make this happen – and it’s not us. As a place-holder name, I’m calling for a new generation of “peace ambassadors.” But I expect that the young people who are going to lead us – tweens, teenagers and 20-somethings – will give this campaign their own name. Their own power.
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Terrell was tall and strong, a football player at Ruskin High School. He played basketball for LINC’s team at Symington, and was a drummer on LINC’s raucous drum line at Smith-Hale. “It’s disheartening, all this potential,” his LINC site coordinator said. “He touched so many people. We all were rooting for him.”
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Bond issues, levies and the earnings tax won big, but many school board races ran tight. See how the final, unofficial totals came out in the April 6 election for our partner school districts.
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The Hickman Mills Family Summit went virtual with success. And the best part: It’s still there, online, ready to serve any family looking for help or ideas from dozens of community resources, and job opportunities, and school pages.
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The letter in June that told Lazanay Wandick the government was cutting off her pandemic unemployment benefits was not even the worst of the news. Far from it. See how the “Justice in the Schools” program aided her and other Hickman Mills families.
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Don’t worry. Things you love about the Hickman Mills Family Summit will be right there at your finger tips as the show goes on virtually March 6. Including the wealth of prizes.
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