Smoky Hill Education Service Center

Co-Founder of Rachel’s Challenge Shares Daughter’s Message of Compassion

It is not an easy message. It is not supposed to be. Darrell Scott, co-founder of Rachel’s Challenge, clearly shared his daughter’s message of courageous compassion to a group of about 70 on Monday, October 14, in Salina. “We don’t call it ‘Rachel’s Suggestion,’” he said. “A challenge requires something of you.” Rachel . . .

SHESC Newsletter

Keep Current on SHESC and Education News

Individual news items for members are here . The SHESC monthly newsletter is now published on our web site in PDF format. This allows readers to click on hyperlinks within the articles, e-mail SHESC staff members directly, and save a digital copy of the newsletter. Previous months' newsletters will be available too. We hope this makes the newsletter more convenient and user-friendly. To view the most recent newsletter . . .

Engage Student Interest With Two-Part Workshop About Space, NASA and Rockets

REGISTER HERE and EMAIL PAM KRAUS HERE for more information!

NEW Project-Based Learning Workshop Series

Downloadable PDF by clicking on flyer below. Visit go.smokyhill.org/PBL for more details and links to register.

Girodat Offering Practical Skills for Educators at SHESC

Years before joining Smoky Hill Education Service Center as one of its newest consultants, John Girodat was a high school principal having a difficult conversation with a teenager about to drop out of high school. “I asked him if there was anything we could have done to avoid that conversation,” Girodat said, recalling, “And he gave me one of the best insights I’ve ever heard.” He had given up . . .

Smoky Hill ESC Partners with STOPit to Confront School Safety, Bullying, Harassment, Violence

Kids are in school to learn; they shouldn’t also have to worry about how to handle a threat of violence they overhear or bullying behavior they observe. Thanks to a partnership between Smoky Hill Education Service Center and STOPit Solutions, many Kansas K-12 students will have a new, powerful tool to help make their schools a safer place. Neil Hooper, chief operating . . .