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park elementary receives don?t quit!
fitness
center park elementary
school
has been selected to receive a don?t quit!
fitness
center. the
school
was selected as one of the state?s most outstanding
school
s for demonstrating leadership in getting and keeping their
students
fit. the national foundation for governors?
fitness
councils program, run by
fitness
tv entrepreneur jake steinfeld, will make its way into all 50 states in the coming years. each
fitness
center is financed through public/private partnerships with companies like the coca-cola company and nike, and does not rely on taxpayer dollars or state funding. tuffstuff
fitness
international provides all of the
fitness
equipment, and the center will be unveiled this fall. connect / e d u c at i o n runnels production of the unsinkable molly brown the runnels
school
is beginning the year with a fantastic musical, the unsinkable molly brown , an alumni and friends summer production. runnels
school
will present the celebrated show friday, september 8 and saturday, september 9 at 7 p.m. and sunday, september 10 at 2 p.m. in the gladys hague runnels theatre. based on the life of american mountain girl turned socialite margaret brown, who also survived the sinking of the titanic, the show opened on broadway in 1960 and was made into a popular movie starring debbie reynolds in 1964. tickets are $12 online and $15 at the door. ? runnels.org
students
share their flood memories margaret boudreaux, a fifth grade teacher at episcopal
school
in baton rouge and her
students
are sharing their stories of resilience through tragedy with over one million
students
across the united states in the september issue of storyworks ?an acclaimed national language arts classroom magazine by scholastic. margaret uses storyworks in her classroom for the narrative nonfiction contained within its pages, and she wrote to lauren tarshis, an editor and author, about louisiana?s great flood in 2016. inspired by margaret?s letter, lauren traveled to louisiana to speak with margaret, her
students
, and their family members to hear their stories firsthand, which will now be read by
students
across the country. br lutheran
school
?s changing of the guard baton rouge lutheran
school
(brls) is welcoming a new principal this year?its first in nearly 30 years and only the fourth in the
school
?s history. principal harmon butler brings 23 years of experience serving
school
s in california, texas, and michigan. ?i?m truly blessed and humbled at the opportunity to be a part of the leadership of this remarkable christian organization,? principal harmon butler shares. 2 6 b r p a r e n t s . c o m | s e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 7
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