🗣Parents & Guardians! 🕵️♀️Be on the lookout for a text invite to rooms on the new district app on Monday 8/19. 📲A sample text is shown above, download the app and then sign into rooms using the phone number connected to your students.
✨Welcome to our new teachers Mr. & Mrs. Durham!✨
🏈Mr. Durham will be teaching PE at Yearling Middle School!
🍎Mrs. Durham will be teaching 2nd Grade at Everglades Elementary School!
🤩We are beyond excited to have this dynamic duo on our team!
📸SAY CHEESE📸
✨Let us see your "first day of school" photos!
📌Tag #okeeschools or drop them in the comments!
🎒 Ready for the new school year? Make sure you know your child's bus route by visiting https://www.infofinderi.com/ifi/?cid=OCS2HQDQXRJ7. Let’s start this year on time and in style! 🚌✨
🎉 Welcome to Ms. Jones a new ESE Teacher at Everglades Elementary!
Applications are open for Florida’s FREE literacy program, New Worlds Reading! New
Worlds Reading mails free books and reading activities to Florida VPK students who are
not yet meeting age-appropriate standards according to FAST Star Early Literacy and K-5
students who are not yet reading on grade level in public and charter schools. Books are
selected in collaboration with the Florida Department of Education, and are available in
English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and braille.
✨New Assistant Principal Alert✨
Congratulations to Mr. Whiteside! He will be the new Assistant Principal at South Elementary.
✨Come see us at the Back to School Expo Saturday!
✔ The event is hosted by Our Village Okeechobee, will be held at Osceola Middle School from 8am to 12pm.
⌚ Start Times
📅 Early Release Dates
🏛 Open House
✨ Teacher Featuring spotlighting The Freshman Campus and local Alge-Bro Mr. Suarez!
🎉Our next teacher feature comes from the Okeechobee Freshman Campus!
🍎Mrs. Mulvey teaches English and is an important part of the Freshman Campus Team.
Find your "why" today: www.okeecareers.com
🍎📚We are currently accepting applications for Teacher Apprentice for the upcoming school year!
Find out more:
https://bloomboard.com/program/okeechobee/
Schedule a meeting:
https://calendly.com/teachingcareer/candidatemeeting
✅ Don't miss out on an opportunity to join our team this school year!
✨ New Assistant Principal Alert ✨
✨Let's Congratulate Tesa Warthen on her new position as Assistant Principal of Everglades Elementary School!
🥳Mrs. Warthen most recently held the position of Instructional Coach at Okeechobee Achievement Academy.
💙Welcome to Everglades Elementary School Mrs. Warthen!
🍍Our Finance Department is hosting an employee health, wellness, and financial event and is looking for vendors!
🎉Want an opportunity to speak to District Employees about your business and services? Contact Megan at 863.462.5000 Ext 1031.
✏📌Mark your calendar for these upcoming recruiting events!
🎉We are excited to meet you and chat about a career in education.
✔ Check out our open jobs here www.okeecareers.com
✨ New Principal Alert ✨
✨Let's Congratulate RaeAnn Whiteside on her new position as Principal of Everglades Elementary School!
🥳Mrs. Whiteside is currently the Assistant Principal at Everglades Elementary and was previously the Reading Coach at Central Elementary School!
Congratulations on your promotion, Mrs. Whiteside!
✨ New Assistant Principal Alert ✨
✨Let's Congratulate Ashley Drazick on her new position as Assistant Principal of Seminole Elementary School!
🥳Mrs. Drazick joins us from Martin County, where she served in numerous instructional positions prior to earning her advanced degree in Educational Leadership!
Welcome to Seminole Elementary School and Okeechobee County, Mrs. Drazick!
✨ New Supervisor Alert ✨
✨Let's congratulate Jerri Tope on her new position as Supervisor of Transportation!
🥳Mrs. Tope is the current Transportation Training Specialist and was previously a bus operator in the Transportation Department!
🏖🌞 Happy First Day of Summer!
🙌🙌 A huge THANK YOU to everyone working on our summer learning teams!
