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Rochelle Kaiser – Homosassa Beacon
John Weed, the new principal at Rock Crusher Elementary School, plans to work over the summer on planning and organizing. He will be ready to hit the ground running when his students return.
John Weed believes he has only one chance to make a first impression and he only has one opportunity to do it right. As the new principal at Rock Crusher Elementary School, he’s already made many great first impressions.
In February of this year Weed, then assistant principal, took over as principal at Rock Crusher Elementary School when Nancy Simon, principal, left and will become the principal at the new Citrus Springs Elementary School opening this fall.
Not much has changed at the school since he took over. Weed and his staff also believe, if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. “Ultimately the focus is on the kids,” said Weed.
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CITRUS COUNTY (Bay News 9) — A Citrus County teacher’s letter writing assignment is bringing her students past to their present.
About 12 years ago Rock Crusher Elementary third grade teacher Shonda Johnson gave her class an assignment: write a letter to yourself setting three goals.
Johnson would later mail the letter back to the former students before they graduated high school.
Laura Gatling, now 21, was in the first class of third graders who wrote letters to themselves.
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Photo by Brian LaPeter / Chronicle
Pupils in Theresa Young?s fifth-grade class at Rock Crusher Elementary School create a pumpkin Friday in the likeness of storybook character Ida B, from the book of the same name by Katherine Hannigan. From left are: Austin, Julian, Amanda, and Cody.
By Keri Lynn McHale
It takes craft and creativity to turn pumpkins into people.
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