Maumelle High School

🌊 Celebrating Source Water Protection Week! Students from Maumelle and Robinson High Schools' AP Environmental Science classes got hands-on with science at Lake Maumelle—Central Arkansas’s primary drinking water source! 💧

🚰 With guidance from Central Arkansas Water’s watershed management team, students waded into the Maumelle River, collecting fish 🐟 and macroinvertebrates 🪲 using seines and kick-nets. CAW staff helped identify the specimens 🔍 and explained their ecological significance 🌱.

✨ A powerful reminder of how education 📚 and environmental stewardship 🌍 go hand in hand!

#SourceWaterProtection #LakeMaumelle #EnvironmentalScience #cleanwatermatters #centralarkansaswater

👨‍⚖️ Nearly 100 students from every PCSSD high school took an oath this morning to serve in Teen Court! 👩‍⚖️

⚖️ Teen Court empowers students to act as judges, jurors, and advocates, using restorative justice to help their peers learn from mistakes and make better choices.

🏫 PCSSD is proud to be the only district in Arkansas with a school-based Teen Court model, where students earn class credit while gaining real-world experience in justice and leadership.

📊 Studies show that teens who participate in Teen Court are less likely to reoffend compared to those in the traditional court system—proof that student leadership makes a difference! #PCSSDproud #TeenCourt #ServeAll

🍂 We are in the middle of Homecoming season! 🏈 Maumelle High School's Varsity Football Team will host Jacksonville on October 17 at 7:00 PM.

👑 This is your 2025 Homecoming Court: ✨

📸 Pictured from left to right ➡️ Ryleigh McIntosh, Macy Clark, Avery Culp, Brooklyn Sawyer, Sania Sheppard, Hallie Cook, Madison Rainey, Reihanna Chatmon, Sasha Boyd, Kendyl Forte, Israel Springs, Kendyl Walker, and Leilah Jackson.

Not pictured are Jayden Rudd and Lexi Morton.

🎉 Homecoming is more than a game—it’s a celebration of our Hornet family! From the field to the stands, let’s make it unforgettable! 🐝

REMINDER! 🎓 PCSSD puts AVID in Action ✨. At College Station Elementary, teachers brought college to our classrooms — sharing campus stories, degree opportunities, and real advice from their alma maters 🏫. Tomorrow, join the fun: wear a college or career shirt to school. 👕 #PCSSDproud #ServeAll #AVID #CollegeReady

We are proud to celebrate Chef Appreciation Week, a time to honor the chefs who bring passion, creativity, and care to every meal they prepare for our students. At PCSSD, we have a pair of chefs who transform food into celebration, comfort, connection, and community – Chartwells' Executive Chef King Joseph and Chef Sarah Montgomery, who prepare meals in our cafés & caterings for district staff; help train our kitchen staffs; conduct in-café programs with our students; and so much more. Thank you, Chef King & Chef Sarah, for all you do for the students of PCSSD!

Tomorrow, PCSSD students and staff—let’s turn the hallways into a runway of college and career readiness! Every shirt you wear tells your story of where you've been or where you want to be.
🎓 Rock your favorite college tee
💼 Suit up in your dream-job attire
📸 Snap a pic & tag us

What is AVID?
PCSSD is implementing AVID in every grade level at all elementary, middle and high schools across the district. Our AVID teams are eagerly promoting this system which increases student engagement, promotes classroom collaboration and activates deeper levels of learning in their classrooms with practical, immediately useful tools and instructional strategies. Teachers who participate in AVID professional learning begin to shift their beliefs about teaching and learning, allowing them to cultivate a growth mindset both for themselves and their students.

AVID Mission Statement

AVID’s mission is to close the opportunity gap by preparing all students for college and career readiness and success in a global society.

AVID for Elementary Schools

Putting future leaders on an early path to success in school

AVID Elementary engages young learners and provides them with the critical skills to become confident, independent thinkers who have a thirst for learning. Teachers use AVID strategies to provide students with:

• Proven ways to succeed in school

• Writing to learn, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading to learn

• Note-taking and time management skills

• Best ways to work together inside and outside of the classroom

AVID for Secondary Schools

Moving future leaders toward college success and beyond

AVID’s teaching strategies and curriculum build positive teacher-student relationships to ensure student success schoolwide. AVID Elective students:

• Proven ways to succeed in school

• Enroll in advanced courses (AP®)

• Receive academic instruction and tutorial support

• Strengthen their writing skills

• Improve study and organization skills

• Gain “college knowledge”

• Visit colleges and explore careers

The AVID Advantage

• Reduces variation in classroom instruction.

• Leverages grit and determination of students.

• Emphasizes rigorous coursework, relevance of instruction and relationships.

• Raises expectations of educators, students and their families.

• Re-energizes the staff on campus and in the district.